I assume they do sometimes have feelings but it’s pretty hard to imagine how people who’d agree to work for Palantir would feel about literally anything other than being highly paid which they presumably enjoy.

Sure, but don’t forget to include the basics such as the root name servers: Verisign(A), USC-ISI, Cogent, U of Maryland, NASA Ames, ISC, Defence Information Systems Agency, US Army Research Lab, Netnod, Verisign(J), RIPE, ICANN, WIDE

Similar things could be said about things like “real” and “official.”

Sounds like a good way to hone your horoscope-writing skill.

I mean it’s better than nothing I guess but that is not what I’d call “freely available.” In addition to requiring that you use their shitty online viewer, it appears to require users to sign in to an account even to do that. It’s directly admitted on the website that they make it unusable in this way specifically because they rely on the revenue from selling real access to people who need it.

Sorry, but we can only get so much security by giving up your privacy, now we need the kind of security that can only be bought by giving up your security as well.

Microwaving is cooking. Vibe coding is to microwaving what staring at the food and pretending you have heat-ray vision is to microwaving.

Cameras in the house? That is still creepy.

I wouldn’t be willing to disable my vpn for the nyt so thanks for confirming that it wouldn’t have made a difference. It appears that they now block everyone who doesn’t let javascript freely do whatever it wants to fingerprint you or whatever. I’ll not miss them too much.

Wait… do you guys not have a favourite rock?

Sure that would be technically more correct, more tasteful, and less confusing. But some people may not know the words “port” and “starboard.” Frequent train users would become accustomed to it soon enough but you’ll always have some people from out of town whose first language is not English, and their limited vocabulary is more likely to include “left” and “right.” On a utilitarian basis we must weigh their needs in the equation when considering this problem. Then again there are also some people who can’t tell left from right either. We could paint one side of the train green and the other red, but then we might have a problem with the colourblind train users’ lobby. What’s really needed is 15 million dollars and a six-month user experience design study to decide on the best approach.

There are lots of new Skyrim mods since the last time you played it. Even if that was only last week.

Eating only carbohydrates is low carb? I don’t get it.

Alexander von Humboldt would disagree

Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would’ve come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.

What do you mean “almost”?

About 97% less salacious than you’d guess from the headline.

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