https://repebble.com/

These palps are due to a reproduction process called "stamping". Sounds violent, but that's nature for you. This is an asexual process. The tabs give an advantage to the overall clutch of young, not individuals.

There's a morphologically similar trait in other Plasticae that's the result of "injection moulding". This involves the mating of two (or sometimes more) parents. This method allows for the evolution of more complex features.

Overmoulding is also possible, which produces symbiotic organisms.

This came across as part lip service, part cheeky “this should be the parent’s job, not the state”.

Maybe not?

I just got the impression that there are a _lot_ of obscure drivers that have to be carried, and are eventually removed causing annoyance. An ABI for the people who cared about that random driver might localise the maintenance burden.

Is this the direct result of a monolithic kernel? And would moving more drivers out-of-tree mitigate this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=saY10AWXLIY

https://pocketmage.org/

But after seeing Orion I'm torn. The ability to record voice notes, plus Sharp MIP display, puts it much closer to the Psion 5 which, to my mind, has never been beaten as a device.

Pitch is still missing though.

It's not on the site, and I don't care _quite_ enough to figure out how to add it.

That's the problem with built-in software that "does it all" and crowds out the market for other software. One day it might not do it all.

(VLC can do this, but not as simply as I used to be able to).

I did read the whole article and have some thoughts about it. But they are pessmistic and difficult, so I'd rather share something fun.

My on-topic thoughts are that I just spent a long weekend in good company playing music and chatting. Returning to quotidien life made me think the solution is to get as far away from computers as possible, and back to the in-person interaction that we're evolved for.

A big reason IMHO that we're susceptible to phony bullshit (whether it's knitting podcasts or broadcast propaganda) is that we're not evolved for it, and it misses many of the contextual clues present in in-person interaction for which we are evolved.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2OQtokvzCa/

(or google image search)

> But right now, the most coveted product coming out of ASML is the 1,000-piece Lego version.

I thought it might be something like service contracts or chemical refills.

Guy Deutscher’s “Through the Language Glass” is a very readable history of linguistic relativism, including the long history of this experiment. It even has some colour plates to illustrate. Recommended.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/412264/through-the-language-...

Tech-naïve people think that we can build super duper encryption systems.

The more jaded amongst us know that people can get sloppy or complacent, it's rare to see a regulatory system that truly incentivises good practice, data breaches will happen eventually, and no-one will be held accountable.

This is a big one in recent memory: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/10/babylon-heal...

But there may be hybrid options available.

Purely conjecture. Does the Google money come with some kind of funding non-compete? If not, why not open up other funding streams. If it does, that's worrying.

The argument has always been "the org structure doesn't support donations" but the org structure is just a proxy for the intentions of the org.

(edit - to allow users to fund Firefox, allowing us to better sleep at night, and to align our incentives)

Luanti + Mineclonia is absolutely excellent open source software.

I get a great sense of peace knowing that my incentives are aligned with the people who made it.

I nearly put a passive aggressive "employees" in my post, but that would mix concerns. But having drivers as "contractors", and dodging employers' responsibilities and liabilities, is really the root of this all.

Most "independent" cyclists do cycle safely.

But delivery riders for delivery platforms commonly use illegally modified e-bikes. Platforms have the GPS data. They must know.

They could make huge improvements in safety by actively preventing the use of illegally modified e-bikes that travel too fast.