Youngest: A mayfly, born this morning and destined to die this evening, which landed on my nose.

Oldest: A mountain with ancient bones, eroded by the aeons to a mere hill with sides of crumbling rock.

Oh you mean humans? Well, anyone between the ages of 47 and 52 I guess.

Basically all of them, but in particular, and I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned it yet, Ben Hur (1959). And lest anyone doubt that it couldn’t be made today, we have the 2016 attempt at a Ben-Hur movie as evidence that it couldn’t be done then.

Any serious answer to that is going to be pretty much book-length really.

Here’s one attempt: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/prison-research-education-action-project-instead-of-prisons

NetHack 101

If it turns out that some of the big datacentres they’re building have just a few real servers near the front and the rest of the racks are all filled with cheap space heaters, that will be a twist.

It was a while ago so they might’ve fixed it by now, but I remember the problem being that notifications didn’t always come through.

In favour of whatsapp:

• You’ve already got it installed

Against whatsapp:

• It’s one of those tech platforms owned by and run for the benefit of evil billionaires
• The source code isn’t available, so nobody really knows if it’s secure at all
• The metadata probably all just quietly flows into the Facebook data maelstrom
• It never worked properly on my android phone that doesn’t have Google services
• It differs from Signal only in ways that make it worse

Given enough time and research it won’t be too many more years before they’re ready for production use. Of course that use will probably be mass surveillance and suppression of dissent.

Yeah, I was somewhat dismayed to see Little Snitch getting so much attention on mastodon despite it not being free software. I don’t see the appeal.

OpenSnitch does the job quite well. Things in debian are mostly well-behaved, but it’s caught quite a few games running under wine that were up to no good.

Because it’s AI, haven’t you heard? Does it make sense for the business? Who cares, it’s AI. Is it financially sustainable? Dude, it’s AI though. Will there be any customers for any of it? The AI says there will be. You’ve got to understand, this is AI we’re talking about. It’s the AI revolution that will transform the world. We’ve got to bet everything on the AI, or we’ll be left out of the AI future. I asked the AI and it was very clear about that.

The type of RAM that they use is different in that it takes up even more of all the things that would otherwise be used to produce the RAM that you use.

In the good old days of Usenet you could’ve found like-minded people on alt.destroy.the.multiverse.

Philosophers have reasoned that if the universe is infinite, as it appears to some that it might be, then every permutation of all possible configurations of matter and energy will occur infinitely many times. Therefore, everything that happens now will have happened before, and will happen again.

he developed extreme megalomania, attempting to transform the empire into his own personality cult.

I don’t normally think about ancient Rome that much, but earlier today I found myself reminded of Commodus. What a coincidence.

Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

My guess would be screen time.

You guess is in the wrong ballpark. It’s unlikely that “screen time” will be found to cause cancer and kill people in painful ways years after they were exposed to it.

I’d bet on PFAS.

Quodlibet is the one with all the features.