When a company is named ‘Palantir’ you know what you’re getting into right from the start.

I did say “historically”

The thing about stereotypes is they tend to persist for a long time, even after they are no longer true (if they even ever were)

Glasses are seen as a sign of intelligence because intelligence correlates with having a good education - and (especially historically) so does being able to afford glasses.

There’s always the option of quietly letting yourself out and posting the key through the letterbox*

*may not be an option in non-letterbox-having regions

Trivia: a small isolated territory belonging to a larger nation or entity which is entirely surrounded by another entity’s territory is an exclave.

If the 1980s means a specific decade, and the 1990s means a specific decade, what numbers mean the first 10 years of the 20th century, from 1900 to 1909?

While this ‘mistake’ is sometimes made by accident, I’m also pretty sure it’s sometimes made on purpose specifically because it really annoys 80s and 90s kids to be told they lived in the “1900s” and makes them feel ancient.

Source: am an 80s kid

Me too, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting one.

I haven’t had a VR headset since the original Oculus Rift. I’m still salty about them selling to Meta, and after I moved to Linux it turned into a paperweight anyway.

Since that point, no new headset had checked all the boxes for features, first-class Linux support, and a vendor I could actually tolerate engaging with.

The Steam Frame is doubtless going to seem very expensive in comparison, but I see that as the price I have to pay to avoid an account on a platform I don’t want and all the associated data harvesting.

I will pay that price.

Also consistent - and all very different from both Tenet, and each other:

Primer (2004) - American low-budget sci-fi darling that didn’t dumb itself down

Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) - Japanese comedy about a missing air conditioner remote

Timecrimes (2007) - Spanish mystery-thriller with twists

Without a doubt. He’s the lockpicking lawyer, after all.

But a lot of smart locks are basically locks that have all the attack vectors of normal locks, plus a bunch of extra attack vectors due to being ‘smart’.

Yeah, he’d probably say “at least they aren’t smart locks”

One cannot make sense of what is going on, for there is no sense to be made of it.

Okay, now I really want to try Chartreuse

It might have to be more than one pint

No no no no no

Japanese confectionary has two distinct lineages, wagashi which are the traditional Japanese sweets produced without sugar or chocolate, and modern confectionary which is western-influenced.

Personally I dislike wagashi (mostly) but love modern Japanese sweets, because it feels like they’ve taken famous desserts from around the world and made them just that little bit lighter and airier, which is very much to my taste.

I wish these were the biggest problems we had to deal with

I imagine lots of possible reasons.

Text-only format emphasises placing value on the news itself, not on attention-getting images.

Simple format plays well with RSS feeds.

Extreme plain design allows you to stealthily read it at work without it being obvious you aren’t working (less important today than it was in 2007)

Intentionally bucking modern design trends fits well with the demographic of the readership, who are tinkerers and nerd-types.

Keeping the design the same after all this time has become a matter of tradition and pride.

There’s no need to change something that isn’t broken.

Funny? I doubt it.

Nothing about the horror of big tech is the least bit ‘funny’

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