Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@jsr It's great for a Trek nerd, because it makes me conclude that the fact everyone in the original series was sleeping in windowless interior cabins means that was a decision Kirk made when he took command.

"Nope, the workspaces should be nicer. Move all the cabins into the ship core and the labs to the periphery." ;)

@bart I honestly don't know enough US law to tell whether a distinction should be made between a first-party developing, say, Zelda in-house to only ever be a Switch game, and a company buying a third-party, making it first-party, and killing plans in progress to release on other platforms.

If there should be a difference, we can also point to Halo, which started as a MacOS prototype before Microsoft acquired Bungie and had them retarget it as an XBox exclusive.

@_Davidsmith Something I've always appreciated about Apple's approach to computing is the HIG. If I recall correctly, it dates all the way back to Wozniak including examples of good human computer interaction in some of the programming tutorial discs that came with the apple ][ series.

This I care about in your game store.

Offerings:
`[***-------]`
User interface:
`[**--------]`
Discoverability of games:
`[**--------]`
Whether I have to manually delete files in your web cache and restart my computer because your game store code sucks:
`[**********]**********`

@kornel I got to watch a hell of an Atlas-lift at Google years back.

Google used 16 bits as the unique identifier code for fields in protobuffer.

It turns out they have one titanic proto that represents the sparse-formatted data in their central log infrastructure---you can log anything you want there, as long as it matches to a field in that proto.

... I can't remember right now if the issue was that they found more than 65,000 things to log or that they'd actually made the field ID signed in the proto interpreter code and they found more than 32,000 things to log...

@isaaccp I don't know if we can lay that at the feet of coverage or the psyche of the American news consumer.

The sub story is novel. The refugee crisis is a years-old story. You tell an American you have an update on the capsized refugee boat in Europe and they'll say "Which one?"

Not even school shootings bump the needle for Americans these days.

@arstechnica I don't really think the issue is the use of a game controller.

I think the main issue is use of radio for a mission-critical application underwater, where failure means death, and there was no apparent backup to the SPOF of a radio outage.

That's a yikes from me, bro.

@merc @Popehat Oh, I don't doubt for a second it threatens a lot of jobs of people that have communications degrees.

... were I a conspiracy theorist (and I'm not!), I'd note that they're the kind of people more likely to have access to media outlets where they can write think-pieces on how AI is bad for society.

@avuko FWIW, I search "refugee boat capsized" and see a whole page of news reports from the last time there were updates, about 6 days ago, along with ongoing coverage since then (the youngest update being Al Jazeera doing a "What do we know about..." from 11 hours ago). And rescue mobilization was almost immediate (and looks to only have been called off yesterday) for a vessel with a known location; the mobilization for the submarine is a search for a vessel of unknown location.

I'm not sure what you mean.

@adikt @mattblaze Oh, he actually has. Truth Social post calling the system "BROKEN!" because they plea-deal'd $200k in back taxes and they aren't letting Trump off for... *checks notes*... 37 felony counts in the espionage act.

@jasonp I've read some interesting interpretations of his take on the technology in that movie. Mostly around the idea that the organic style is meant to represent that they're probably just on drugs.

@lauren I've never been, but judging from the pictures, they appear to have tried their hardest to make that really, really hard to accidentally fall off of.

@skymtf Nice.

One of the fun things about #typescript is that since it compiles to JavaScript, it can proactively support language features that are under discussion but not yet finalized for JS itself.

TypeScript 5.2 is adding the `using` keyword. Woot. :)

https://www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-5-2-new-keyword-using

@lauren My vague take on this kind of thing is "When a company behaves that badly, they're going to get some parts hacktivism and some parts opportunists smelling blood in the water, and maybe the difference doesn't matter."

I'm aware of some of the tactics attackers used against Google back in the day. I don't doubt they still do it, and I don't doubt that, for example, when things started to go off the rails at Twitter that the black and white hats (and every shade of grey in between) started dusting off their pen-testers and redirecting their botnets.

@urusan "It's OUR Tetris, Comrade."

@urusan It can, with enough heat and patience. Not the way it was though.

@lauren Probably the biggest buried lede here is that if you're a big user of blogger, it appears that your blog embedded images are going away. Unless I've misinterpreted what I'm seeing in my takeout.

I pushed about a third of my project blog off to a blog. I personally run off of a server. I rent using Hugo as the infrastructure... This will certainly encourage me to push the other two thirds completely off of Google infrastructure!

@Popehat In his defense, if he's gonna keep his good name, he's gotta bail now.

(... that name of course being "Trusty.")