You do realize that prior to 2023, the Israeli government financially supported militant groups in Palestine including the Muslim brotherhood and hamas in order to undermine secular authorities in the region

Every time I visit my family in Wales Google tries to take me away from the perfectly reliable A55 and onto some ungodly assemblage of extremely narrow country roads and tenuous mountain passes. Sometimes it offers them to me but I've caught it secretly changing my precalculated route without my input. Unfortunately I've tried several alternatives (various osm apps, here wego) and the only real alternative is Waze... which is owned by Google. We are nothing but cattle to them. I think Google is trying to kill me.

If the standard of ML talks at conferences I've attended is anything to go by then a top machine learning conference is functionally a daycare for the most annoying people you've ever met

If the ban is intended to stop children from feeling pressured to dress in a way that conforms to their family's religion, why does it only target islam and not extend to other religious garments or accessories (e.g. kippah, turban, crucifix)?

The Yorkshire dales is my third favourite national park. It's fantastic, particularly if you like caves and gills

I don't actively develop websites in WordPress anymore but I do have several legacy WordPress sites still running, and I gotta say, WordPress has really lost the plot. The updated post editor is just awful, the php side of things is as much of a mess as it ever was, and it seems to be like mullenweg didn't really know what to do with wordpress.com or Tumblr for that matter.

I am not sure about fern but kzgst and veritasium were both slop long before AI existed. The former had posted a lot of flashy but poorly-researched junk videos and has been a mouthpiece of the bill and Melinda gates Foundation for some time. The latter has done the game but took money from waymo to basically make a big waymo ad.

This but unironically

As a recovering physicist, the jargon we come up with is absolutely terrible. In lieu of that we name things after people, or multiple people, or sometimes a composite name of jargon and people, which seems to me worst of all.

Trusted computing was never about security, it's a way to take ownership of computers away from users and give it to computer manufacturers and Microsoft. It's also not a good security model.

Maybe we can eat North sea oil instead

I have a Shure SM58 on a stand running though a focusrite scarlett and akg k371s. I got the the mic and interface used on eBay. I previously used a behringer xm8500 and a behringer usb audio interface which honestly gets you most of the way there in terms of audio quality. The headphones have a replaceable cable via mini XLR, which is the failure point on most wired headphones.

I've never had audio problems on Linux, these days everything uses a generic driver.