It’s ridiculous that governments don’t use customized Unix/Linux builds.

Kate Bush “Ariel”. What a disappointment that was.

Download NetNewsWire. If you need it to sync with a windows machine and/or an android device, store your feeds in Feedly or a similar service. Learn to set your RSS reader to default to “reader mode” so you see the whole story and not just the first paragraph.

Some yes. Some no. And if I’m paying for news, there’d better not be any ads at all.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/16/apple-taps-infamous-taboola-as-new-ad-seller-for-apple-news-and-stocks/

They exist to push ads. Even the premium version of Apple News has ads.

Tip: Your local public library offers the same electronic versions of magazines through an app called Hoopla. For free.

Apple News is one of the most poorly managed of all the Apple products. Whomever is in charge of it should be fired.

Doesn’t mean you’re not smart. People’s brains work differently. Some people enjoy thinking five moves ahead, or memorizing standard plays and reactions. Other people are good at math or chemistry. Talents aren’t an “all or nothing” thing.

What we do in the shadows isn’t an HBO property. Most of the other shows you listed were made years ago.

I also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.

What isn’t the norm is to serve one robots.txt to one company, and a different robots.txt to everyone else. Which is what Reddit is doing here.

Prices on all cars were crazy high, not just EVs.

No, I wouldn’t feel differently. In fact letting search engines scrape and point to your content is what leads people to your site. It’s free advertising. If you’re going to let one search engine in, you should let them all in. If you want to be public, be public. Otherwise put up a login firewall and go private.

Doesn’t seem legal that a robots.txt could pick and choose who scrapes. Seems like legally it would have to be all or nothing. Here’s hoping one of the search engines ignores it and makes it a legal case.

I’m not understanding what stops a search engine from scraping a publicly accessible website. ?

Well, good thing urbanists want to get rid of parking minimums then!

As an electric car owner:

• We need more fast chargers on Interstates. Preferably at places travelers would want to stop for thirty minutes. Places like Starbucks or McDonalds. NOT gas stations or WalMart. People just want somewhere clean they can use the rest room and grab a bite or drink while they wait for the charger to finish.
• If you are living in a house or duplex, you don’t need a 240v charger. Plugging your car into a normal outlet overnight is usually enough to add 40 miles back onto the car.
• The Tesla connector feels like the right choice. I’m glad the industry settled on it in North America. It’s much lighter and easier to handle.

Wipeout XL. Legendary soundtrack, mind bending racetracks.

Maybe don’t put all your people in the same truck.

Reminds me of the “low fat” diet craze. “We replaced all that fat with salt and sugar. Enjoy!”