It's 2026 and websites everywhere still show you a homepage in the locale of the country your IP resolves to instead of the locale you've set on your system.
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It's 2026 and websites everywhere still show you a homepage in the locale of the country your IP resolves to instead of the locale you've set on your system.
Stupid(?) idea of the day: bind a remote websocket server to a local pseudo-device so that arbitrary programs can read from/write to the WS using regular file IO.
Call me old-fashioned, but I miss the old times when the products you paid for actually worked.
The Japan Times reported In November 1950 that British and French officials were offering their broadcasting technology to help Japan launch its first television channel.
@gleam.run is officially my preferred language so far.
The tooling needs a lot of work still, but it's still young. I wish the gleam CLI would facilitate everything you currently need burrito and rustler for (building NIFs and packaging everything for final binary distribution).
It's hard to explain to my daughter she bears the name of a woman thanks to whom Nazis were defeated when they're everywhere and in power today.
"The office is more productive" they said.
Meanwhile, it's so noisy I can't focus. People in calls, loud keyboards everywhereโฆ
It's finally oatmeal season again!
China gets it.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
And why is deglobalization accompanied by fascism?
Was fascism a required force for deglobalization to happen?
Is deglobalization signaling the death of capitalism?
If so, what might it get replaced with? No system has worked this efficiently since we started bartering.
If efficiency is not the metric anymore, what is?
I want to see Winnie the Pooh beat the shit out of Mickey Mouse.
You know fascism is winning when countries start calling anti-fascism terrorism...
I just watched Bonjour Tristesse (1958). Great movie with impeccable acting, directing, scoring, everything!
I tried to watch Bonjour Tristesse (2024) right after. Why do modern movies suck so much?
The question isn't whether hell really exists, it's whether there was a life before this one where we did bad things that saw us sent here.
(test, ignore)
I guess every data are good data when your #ai just makes shit up anyway?
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
What canceled TV show deserves to be written as a books series?
Aaron Guzikowski's "Raised by Wolves", obviously. That's the most original thing I've watched in the past 20 years.
But I'd also read any continuation of Charlie Covell's "Kaos". Yay modern day Greco-Minoan gods.
Dogs of War (#1) also kind of takes you by the leash and walk you through a changing world a bit at a time.
Bear Head (#2) hits you in the face, head on, with a strange world with many open questions you have to wait to figure. I really like that order better.
To clarify: the main character of book 2 is already fully developed by end of book 1, and the few new factions are mostly just extensions of what's in book 1, too.
Starting with book 2, you start with nothing and get to know everyone little by little. Then book 1 fills their backstory.
I'm done reading Dogs of War, by @aptshadow.bsky.social.
While very good, I am glad I read its sequel (Bear Head) first, and would recommend that order: I feel the sequel would have been too telegraphed had I read it in the natural order.
Now on to the 3rd book! See you soon Bees!
Dragon only starts making sense near the end of the book, but the character is only mentioned a couple times before that so it's fine. Rex gets as much character development as the main characters, I think. Bees come out as a DisJerk, but it will be interesting to read where they come from next!
I picked the book without realizing it was a sequel. Now I'll have to go read the 1st book, I guess! Kudos for (re)introducing Rex, Dragon & Bees so nicely so that it can be read as a standalone!
I'm 75% into Bear Head right now. It's great!
Sometimes Honey kind of speaks like Jimmy. Is this on purpose? She was so ... aristocratic? at first
Listening to "On The Last Train Home", by ๆใฎใใ้ขจ.
Who hasn't had this type of encounter on their last train from Tokyo to the suburbs?
youtu.be/Jy-H33sWlmY
Poor Elon, trying to keep up with inflation, one paycheck at a time...
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
I just spent several hours trying to find a non-smoking stay in Kobe that is not dirty, with bed bugs in your sheets, when it's not a strangers' hair.
I only found two, for the week I'm staying in November.
Inbound visitors to Japan are at an all-time high.
Yet, the service industry doesn't seem to want this influx of visitors. You keep hearing about "too many tourists".
So why spend the past two decades promoting Japan as a destination, then?
