pies @pies@qoto.org

Any app or service that gives you a free trial and then doesn't ASK before it starts the paid subscription is effectively scamming you.

I have discovered the exact age limit for teaching counting in binary. (doing math with just 1, 0)

6th graders who are about 11 and 12 years old can do it-- 5th graders (age 10 or so) mostly can't. Math is still too new to them and though they've been adding two digit numbers for three years it's not ingrained enough for variation.

Anyway back to the drawing board.

“people appreciated it so much when you speak a few words in their language”

people: just say it in english

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

I know I’m a crazy transit person (I’m writing this on a bus). But I don’t think this person getting hit by a car while in a crosswalk is to blame because they’re looking at their phone

Be the ancient advanced alien race you want to see in the universe.

I've found a lot of conflicting and confusing reports about the #SecureBoot issue caused by a Microsoft update, so here's my relatively informed take about it.

Spoilers: this isn't an issue with GRUB, but with another less known bootloader called shim. GRUB can also be affected though. So let's talk about how the bootchain of a #Linux distro works and what happened to it. 🧵 1/11

A really stupid comic/meme with a surprising amount of scientific knowledge in it. I've been laughing about this all day.

Fun science fact I learned this morning. Every frog species can be traced back to a common ancestor in what is now Poland. Isn't that amazing? It means every frog is a tad Pole.

Vivian, Musk‘s trans daughter, has things to say about the Musk biography that portrayed her as brainwashed and a cause of trauma to her father (rather than the other way around) on Threads https://www.threads.net/@vivllainous/post/C-jgBWQxyRs/

As NZ households face a cost of electricity crisis, an Aussie mining company is set to jump on the Fast Track Approvals process to greenlight a Seabed Mining project, which would PREVENT an Offshore Wind generation industry from being established in Taranaki.
#nzpol
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Years should be like days where after 5 of them you get two of them off.

petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"

📰 'Defeating Russia Is The Best Thing We Could Do For Russia': Historian Timothy Snyder On The Ukraine War

🔗 https://www.rferl.org/a/timothy-snyder-russia-ukraine-war-victory/33067942.html

#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine

If you dash out of the waxing salon without paying for services rendered, you're a smooth criminal.

Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.

Oh hey look, a big Canadian corporation working to undermine #WorkFromHome via a cute little ad campaign for their broadband service.

Make no mistake, this is anti-worker propaganda, plain and simple.

#cdnpoli #canada