“am I a joke to you?”

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

Zuck, the Cartman of tech

Someone needs to tell Carole Cadwallader to move her resistance headquarters out of the Nazi bar. There are a lot of people who’d subscribe to her journalism if it didn’t also involve funding the enemy.

* Yiddish has entered the conversation

A stirring example of the kinds of proletarian solidarity impossible in a capitalist society, nothing more

Even before that. By some accounts, he was already in the pockets of the KGB in 1987.

When peace finally returns, a Trans-Siberian Railway upgraded to Chinese Belt And Road high-speed standards will be an improvement.

Had the world settled on German, someone might be making a similar argument that the world dodged a bullet by choosing a language with phonetic orthography and words composed of logical building blocks rather than a mess like English

A key reason English became the preeminent language of scientific and technical communication, and thus the source of keywords in programming languages, is because German (the other candidate) fell out of favour due to the two world wars. So, were it not for Prussian militarism, our programming languages may have instead been based on German (along with most scientific literature being in German).

Suck it, Daniel Ek

Haskell would be reserved for drug offenders

The sentence should scale with the crime. Nonviolent burglars and minor frauds could be taught Python, more serious crimes could get Go, whereas the most depraved offenders could be sentenced to C++

Garbage-tier life goals

The stupid, it burns

No, use Hannah Montana Linux like a normal person

Presumably quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

There was a modern handheld with this form factor maybe 8 years ago named the Gemini. It shipped with a version of Android, though could be flashed to run a Linux, if you didn’t mind not knowing if will wake up from sleep. I still have one sitting in the back of a drawer.

We have an American commercial illustrator named Warner Sallman to blame for the canonical Jesus’ melanin deficit.