My work brings me in contact with people who have very good reasons to fear the government. Whistleblowers, advocates for asylum seekers, that sort of thing.

When I get a text message in a green bubble, I know that its contents were, by law, archived and retained by the phone carrier for government eyes. When I get a text message in a green bubble from someone I care about, I respond "let's meet in person and discuss how to correspond safely, don't ever message me like this again".

Seriously, the concept was invented by British Petroleum in a campaign designed to deflect attention away from the polluters. If you see the term, know you're being manipulated.

https://thred.com/change/how-t...

The court's finding concludes with a paragraph that literally begins: "the Court finds in favor of Apple on all counts". What does that tell you?

Fortnite is in steep decline. It peaked in about 2018... as a game. What Epic is trying to do is pivot Fortnite to being a social platform - almost like Second Life done better.

What? The court just said to Epic "you lost, Apple can do what it wants in its own store because it's not a monopoly, go away". You think the court should... override the court?

Or, to quote the actual document,
https://www.courtlistener.com/...

the Court finds in favor of Apple on all counts except with respect to violation of California’s Unfair Competition law (Count Ten) and only partially 666 See Dkt. No. 474 3. 180 with respect to its claim for Declaratory Relief

Yep, that's exactly what the Judge would say to show that Epic won. You just have to read between the lines *wink wink*

translation: where only approved thoughts and opinions are allowed

The thing is, Moffatt was such a Who fanboy that it made him a worse writer. He was so in love with The Doctor that The Doctor went from being a time-travelling misfit having adventures to being an immortal god literally responsible for the existence of the Universe. It just got silly.

The Doctor's Wife was pretty good but Nightmare In Silver wasn't.

Disney are backstabbing corporate vampires who'd sell their own mothers if it would make money. In other news, sky found to be blue, stay tuned

Anecdata from my professional experience:

Adding women to an all-male team improves the productivity of the team, and the more women you add, the greater the productivity until a sweet spot in the 30:70 / 70:30 range.

Adding men to an all-women team causes the men to quit.

1. Don't buy anything that runs Android, ever.
2. If you don't have a choice, don't let that Android device on the Internet, ever. Keep your Android TV "dumb" and use a set-top box like an AppleTV to do all the network and content stuff.
3. If you don't have a choice, don't give that Android device open access to the Internet, ever. Use a firewall or a DNS blackhole like pi-hole and block every packet coming or going from the TV except those that are absolutely necessary to watch the things you want to watch.

Basically privacy is now a privilege of wealth and technical literacy. If you're poor or dumb, you have no privacy.

They give you "free" products like search, email, mobile OS, TV OS in order to mine your data for ad placement.

No, they modify your behavior so that you'll act in a way that gives them more valuable data. The difference is important.

Once you have enough cows, it's far more lucrative to change the cows so they produce more milk than to design milking stations that make the cows stand in one place for longer.

Personally I don't see what the big deal is. Where I live power is essentially free (lots of solar, lots of sunshine). Hell, my last power bill was a credit from the power company because my house generated more than it used.

I mean, I have a nerd's desire for efficiency, but acting like electricity consumption is a bad thing in and of itself just seems weird.

...followed by sheepish acknowledgement that the awesome-sounding music was used without permission from the rights holder