Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.

Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.

Something can be breadlike without being bread, in a similar way to how whales are fishlike without being fish.

The dictionary doesn’t dictate how words should be used; it reports how people use them. Consulting a dictionary is a way to find out how “lots of people” use a word.

Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.

It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.

A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.

Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

By “celebrate” do they mean eulogize?

What journalist wouldn’t love a giant repository of short, easily digestible, up to the minute quotes, with built in attribution?

He didn’t want a video platform, he wanted to control twitter. Once he had it he had to figure out how to make money.

There was a guy that posted on reddit about how he spent thousands of dollars on loot boxes. The way he totally wrecked his finances and his relationship with his wife was harrowing. Everytime he would get the latest and greatest item, character, whatever, they would come out with something new and he would start all over again.

Hear, hear for the examined life!

I can’t believe you’d do The Betty Hutton Show dirty like this. The nerve to think that Goldie’s Playground is better than the classic that is Goldie Goes Broke!

Be like wrecking your Ferrari

It was an uninsured McLaren F1, but yeah he’s done that too

I keep my porn in a folder labeled “taxes” and my tax documents in a folder labeled “porn”

I admire their mission. Giving the power to the video creators is great. I’m all for coops. But, as a user I find it lacking. If you want to watch anything outside of educational videos and video essays you have to go elsewhere. It doesn’t have very good content discovery. I know creators don’t like chasing an algorithm, but as a viewer I like having recommendations based on what I watch.

I bought a one year membership, because I support what they are trying to do, but I rarely watch anything on it.

It’s hard to provide something extra when all their content comes from users. They tried with redtube YouTube Red originals but those were pretty lame.

It’s telling that pastors are the first people she wants to see what people are saying. Got to keep those sinners in line.

Civility is code for “stop complaining about how we treat you”. Jesse Gender has a pretty good video about civility politics (2hrs 21mins): https://youtu.be/-1TL9id26Ec