Lol this is how the intercept got a source arrested due to poor understanding of technology

This was a meme? I remember these things in Safeway in the 2000s

The EU and particularly Mexico drew a short stick here

I’m confused about baseball, basketball, and computers. Also not sure about coffee vs soda.

In the wikipedia article:

DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.[69][7][70][71][72] It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.[71][73] During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.[74][75]

“US citizen says?” There’s no he said she said here. Shit was caught on video

It will screw over the chunk of US car manufacturing that is in Canada. Ford, GM, and Chrysler production is spread across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Trump’s tariffs have made things a lot worse and this really won’t help.

The art direction in that screenshot seems to be “make everyone else look so weird Zuckerburg looks normal”

There are really only two usable search engines actually indexing the entire Internet: Google and Bing. Yandex also does but I’ve never seen it recommended for anything other than Russian language content (the company itself seems to be falling down a mineshaft at the moment). Baidu also does some although every Chinese exchange student I talked to about it (admittedly not many) advised only using it when Google is blocked. Every other engine is just wrapping Google or Bing (yes that includes Yahoo and DDG)

This is the kind of ugly truth of the search engine business. It’s a duopoly at least in part because the indicies are expensive to scrape, build, and run. You need to continuously run a large number of servers loading web pages and often running scripts. You need to be large enough to negotiate with content providers not to block you. Keep in mind paying them may bankrupt you as your margins will be thin. Google has a huge advantage here they own a good chunk of the online advertising industry and can afford to throw money around in a way a search only company wouldn’t be able to (this is why the European and Canadian link tax schemes ironically cement the existing monopolies). You need to continuously run large linear aglebra transforms on the results (PageRank is expensive). You need to store all your indicies on large expensive servers with a lot of memory as hitting disk may take too long. Results need to be fast and you will make next to nothing on each search.

The man is plainly mentally degrading in real time on TV. This is what the 25th ammendment is for if his cabinet was not full of disturbed sycophantic clowns. Or impeachment if the Senate would convict.

Stop trying to ascribe ideology to him. There isn’t enough of his brain left to have one. He belongs in memory care not the Whitehouse.

Unlikely. California has a number of national labs including Lawrence Livermore National Lab which does atom bomb work. The University of California system does at least some of the administration for at least two major weapons labs (LLNL and Los Alamos).

Finally something good out of Brexit. Still not worth it.

The four types of groceries: common groceries, rare groceries, epic groceries, legendary groceries.

When I use the CLI to launch an application it’s because it’s crashing

I never hit cloudflare turnstile or error pages the last time I loaded it while it was impacted. Right now the IP and ASN returned are not associated with cloudflare. I think they are hosting it without a CDN which means if the server gets a lot of traffic or DDOSed it will go down.

Might not be distributed. They could have just found a really slow page and loaded it in a maximally inconvenient manner. The thing is a wiki running on php and mediawiki has a lot of dynamic pages. It may also be a typo

Maybe. The lines in my local post office are always long but they do exist. I can’t come up with an easy way for the Comstock act to prohibit it being used for adult material but then again I don’t work for the “Heritage” Foundation.

Then again Congress likes it’s puritannical laws and would need to create such a service.

This kinda requires having a heavily consolidated convenience store industry with a lot of locations. Japan has both of these the US not so much. Urban sprawl, a physically larger country, and a culture of not using convenience stores as much kinda make this hard. Also said stores would likely need to register AML and KYC controls.

Instead we resumed the sale of 2000 pound bombs to Israel and found some new countries to bomb. That and the population of Gaza is still dying just after the election the bots seemed to stop caring.

The best part of this was how none of the “three Mexican countries” were Mexico.