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  • Moose

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  • I'm yet to see a convincing, authoritative historical source on the "whale killer" factoid. Follow the trail on asesina-ballenas and Basque fishermen and you get nowhere.

  • Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987

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  • Is it time to question the yearly release cycle for phones?

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  • Mark Gurman, who's normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they're unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

  • America's youngest voters become major election liars

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  • It was a joke, but the article itself does explicitly conclude this as one of its observations:

    The findings raise big questions about the limits and future of polling, which relies on voters giving responses reflecting their real-life political behavior.

  • America's youngest voters become major election liars

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  • "Significant minority of people lie in polls, a poll reveals."

  • Mirror Mirror...

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  • Not everyone speaks English as their first language.

  • Lily Allen Makes More Money from OnlyFans Than Spotify

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  • There's a definite industry problem, but that doesn't excuse Spotify.

    Apple Music pays artists 50-100% more than Spotify do per play, and Tidal pay triple to quadruple. Even Amazon pay artists more than Spotify; only YouTube is worse.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • Good list! We differ on some of them...

    I take issue with the settings menu still relying on the old menus while having shuffled things around so I’m forced to look for settings

    This is still an issue, but I feel it's diminishing as they (annoyingly slowly) do move all of the functionality to the new app. It was much worse in Windows 10, I think.

    I can say that the start menu is horrendously slow, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to load.

    "Works on my machine" is a profoundly unhelpful answer for me to give, but I'm fortunate enough not to have experienced this. If you're looking for a workaround and don't mind a further Microsoft app, the launcher in Powertoys is pretty solid.

    Sometimes keystrokes disappear in the start menu only to magically appear some time later.

    God, I hate the search from the start menu - but I would say that it's been profoundly broken since Windows 8 and is marginally better in Windows 11.

    They made the right click menu worse and only changeable in regedit.

    100% agreed. I do think Windows 10 and earlier had a growing issue with the context menus getting unwieldy (Visual Studio is a great demo of how this can get really out of hand) but the solution Windows 11 have brought is annoying more than useful. I suspect at one point I made the registry change and forgot about it, because I'm back to a big Win10-style list.

    They made RDP credentials only saveable using CMD.

    Agreed again. That said, you're a masochist if you're not using an RDP manager like mRemoteNG! I wish Microsoft had a decent RDP app that wasn't tied into Azure.

    They removed vertical taskbars.

    I found vertical taskbars incompatible with hotdesking on desks with different monitor configurations, but I do agree this one sucks.

    how to unfuck up windows 11 so it works how you expect it to.

    I think "how you expect it to" goes to the core of my point - needing to adapt to change isn't inherently bad. But I'm not pretending Windows 11 is a wholesale improvement, and I do concede many of your arguments.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • Agree with all of those points, I just don't love the reductive notion that every change is a bad change and nothing's been for the better. In several ways it's a better OS - but as you say, they are also getting more contemptuous of the end user with things like privacy, anticompetitivity, and ads.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I'm on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn't willingly go back to Windows 10.

    I think because it's Enterprise I'm dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there's plenty to like.

    I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn't that fair an assessment.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • sigh such are mangoes [Dark Side of the Horse]

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  • Mango comes from Malay, and the man part means "mango tree" (where the gga means "fruit").

    "Mango tree, fruit! Mango tree, stop!" seems kind of biblical.

  • Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming

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  • Schmidt promises that these AI companies will make energy generation systems at least 15% more efficient or maybe even better, telling the audience that “that’s a lot of money for a utility.”

    He's not even trying to be subtle about it.

  • Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter

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  • Genocide Joe

    Where have I seen this playground terminology before? Not that I want to support Biden's policy on Israel in any way, it's despicable, but a Stein apologist using Trump's own puerile rhetoric raises an eyebrow.

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • How was there a demon of misspelling before standardized spelling?

  • Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic

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    Programming in simple 4 steps

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  • VS Code's diff tools are killer. Comparison is smarter than most, and you can edit either file as you go.

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  • "Kos" is short for Markos. But it's better to make assumptions than to spend a moment actually checking anything.