Whenever I'm leading a project that does anything to do with human input like names, addresses, written text I have to repeatedly drum into people that internally the code should be UTF-8 and UTC time unless there is an exceptionally good reason not to be. The weird thing is there is usually somebody from India, Iran, China or wherever where I shouldn't have to say this but I usually have to. They're so used to everything being English and assuming everything fits in a byte with unambiguous values it almost escapes them that it isn't true.

As for Slashdot, I haven't seen this site receive a major update for over a decade. The original version used to be a mess of Perl. I imagine these days it's a mess of Perl and some other stuff with some very fragile scripts that can't cope very well or consistently with different character encodings let alone being UTF-8 end to end. Using a subset of HTML as markup probably doesn't help either.

By that token every dogshit subscription service with autorenew enable can use that tagline that people are "saving". After all think of the precious seconds they're saving not requiring people to renew to something they may have forgotten they were subscribed to. And let's save people even more time by not inconveniencing them with an email about a pending renewal.

The Neo is the Apple laptop here.

Dells offering is branded XPS. It sounds like you conflated the two.

So the Neo definitely has access to Apple parts - and its been confirmed to use the same SoC that was previously just used by the iPhone line of products.

Can I set up an AI agent to orchestrate a rugpull?

I updated xtelink e-reader (it has an ESP32 in it) through Chrome and I couldn't believe how simple it was. Ordinarily I'd be downloading some dump bin and having to run some mysterious Chinese written flash software to update the device. Yet all I had to do was go to a website, grant a permission and the device got flashed in about a minute.

Not just Arduino but anything that could potentially driven from a web browser - devices for firmware updates, braille readers, point of sale, barcode readers etc.

So why go to the cinema to see that? I will just wait until it comes on streaming - their fuckery with season 3 has already lost my interest, so Im not going out of my way to see this.

I receively bought an xtelink 4 e-reader and was able to flash the thing with custom firmware directly from the browser. This safer IMO that launching some random flash software which might decide to anything when it starts.

I could see this also being very useful for people wanting to flash embedded devices from cloud based software. But it could also be used to drive braille readers, point of sale terminals and anything else that works over serial.

... until one of these competitors drops dead, ends up in a coma, or suffers a psychotic break thanks to the garbage these organizers helped put in their bodies. The lawsuits will be spectacular especially if a competitor kills, injures or harms somebody who isn't covered by a waiver.

I watched The Mandalorian season 1 and enjoyed it.

I watched The Mandalorian season 2 and ... yeah, it was good but I was mildly disappointed in the whole "you should know these characters from other Star Wars media, otherwise they are mildly uninteresting side characters that everyone else is raving about for some reason" thing.

Then .... The Mandalorian season 3 - holy fuck. You had to actually watch an entirely different season of something else first in order to pick this one up, otherwise the ending to season 2 and the start of season 3 do not join up at all. Im out. Im not bouncing between different things just to maintain a hope in hell of understanding whats going on.

I'm referring specifically to people who listen to certain artists so relentlessly the platform thinks they're super fans. Just buy the frigging albums. Not only do they support the artists with royalties but they own the content and save themselves renting it.

... maybe they should buy the content instead of renting it from a shitty service like Spotify.

Which might be great for chicken farming - cutting out the whole chicken egg laying stuff for broilers and just having racks of cloned embryos. And doesn't that sound like a far more likely intention of this technology than this moa smokescreen?

If they had an embryo of a threatened species they could transplant it into a sterilized egg of a more common species where it also has a yolk. This announcement just sounds like funding bullshit and if there is any commercial application it would be more likely for factory farming chickens.

Whenever a company dangles the prospect of resurrecting an extinct species the red flag should be raised. It's more likely they're looking for funding and their chances, funding or not, of resurrecting anything are low. But throwing an endangered / extinct species into the press release guarantees press coverage. This isn't the first time Colossal Biosciences has done this. Their schtick boils down to "think of the Moa/Dodo/Direwolf and give us money, and we pinky promise that our research won't actually be used for more banal and sinister commercial bioengineering purposes". Sure thing.