I quite liked Foundation although possibly because it’s the first SciFi I remember reading so there is some nostalgia at play. They made some interesting decisions in the adaptation but the techno space opera does look nice. Lee Pace’s emperor is the most interesting character of the show even if he is chewing the scenery a bit.

Nice. A friend of mine built one with ball bearings: https://youtu.be/40DkJ9vt5CI?si=2TupxpdiZkEg3nVB

What do people expect? Those servers aren’t free to run and they’re is only so much VC money to burn. That said I wouldn’t pay the various subscription levels that are currently being asked for. I pay for API use which is basically pay as you go. It also makes you think “does this task really need the non-free tier to complete?”.

I assume that is too cover the intelligence officers monitoring the Russian milbloggers.

Magic Wormhole - it’s been around awhile but it’s super useful for moving files from your internet connected server to your phone without going through multiple hops copying stuff to you local machine and finding a cable.

That’s how it starts. Before you know it you’ll be buying no-name smart bulbs from Ali Baba and investigating custom firmware for full local only control.

Very binary, much wow.

They won’t directly support it because in their view the Google Play process is a more secure way of verifying they supplied the binaries than is possible of f-droid. If reproducible builds were possible maybe there could be some mechanism to verify a given binary is built from a given commit of the source tree.

Other way around. Loyalty cards have always been about getting that sweet sweet data about customer habits.

When did this change? AIUI creators got a larger cut of YouTube premium views compared to ad share.

My Organic maps has a download screen for the maps which regularly update outside of the app itself.

I think you underestimate how much storage those tiles take up compared to the vector map data.

The data updates are handled separately in app

Won’t it? I thought you just needed to enable the apps you want. My fdroid AntennaPod is certainly usable in it.

So similar to premium bonds? Usually those are government backed though.

The phrase “no loose lottery” should be a red flag right away.

I write assembly for test cases and early setup code. I read far more assembly than I write.

Erm…yes? There is obviously a rush to integrate the latest generative AI tools in everything without thinking about the consequences of it’s failure modes.

The first album I had was Complete Madness by Madness. It’s still a banger but the vinyl is at my parents because I never owned a record player of my own.

Why do the $20 subscription when the API pricing is much cheaper, especially if you are trying different models out. I’m currently playing about with Gemini and that’s free (albeit rate limited).