Docker’s main advantage is just being more well known and hence more supported as a default option.

Even then, I feel that this availability of docker compose files is an illusion, due to their verbosity and limitations inherent to docker. Less granular control of permissions, clunkiness in updating images, and multi container stacks feeling like an afterthought.

In pretty much all other ways podman feels superior. Cockpit provides a basic web gui, but quadlets are the main draw. Way easier to configure, explicitly designed for multi containers, and updating all images is a single command.

Roughly, the different ecosystems from least to most complex are:

Docker/Portainer -> Podman/Cockpit/Quadlets -> Kubernetes

They really tried to hype an L as a W

Because people are too poor to purchase the extra output, assuming that the AI has actually lead to better productivity.

When there isn’t enough aggregate demand to absorb extra output from productivity gains, firms will opt to increase profits by reduce their costs by cutting back on spending instead.

Actually, what he meant was a seas-fire, hence the bombing of a coastal city /s

Actually, it seems that even killing the hostage is fair game.

Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option - https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-copilot-user-suicide

Millennials caught the tail end of physical 3rd spaces, but experienced the golden age of digital third spaces. The internet until the mid 2000s was way more decentralised and chaotic.

Instead of anonymous chatrooms and forums as digital 3rd spaces, Zoomers used less accessible proprietary options such as Discord or Twitch instead.

As someone completely unfamiliar with the JavaScript mess, are these security issues specific to npm the actual repository or npm the package manager?

If it’s the latter, does using something else like yarn or bun instead help?

Unless you forced everyone to install standardized mailboxes

This seems to be the exact direction China is going in.

In major cities, there are increasingly more smart mailbox/parcel pickup points in apartments and central areas. These aren’t “forced,” but so many essential services are locked behind these private tech platforms.

Originally designed for food delivery drop offs, but you can use them as a mailbox as well.

I don’t see any keyboard where the “1” and “0” are right next to each other.

Sorry, had to

Maths feels like a first class citizen in latex. The syntax is ugly, but there is some logic through the legacy jank.

Typst makes fundamental design decisions that render it unsuitable beyond extremely simply equations. In LaTeX, curly braces are nearly always reserved for enclosing arguments, to avoid confusion with actual brackets.

Typst uses normal brackets for both its scripting and actual maths.

For example, \frac{n(n+1)}{2} in latex turns into (n(n + 1)) / 2 in typst. The typst code is incredibly unclear - the first set of brackets with the slash together actually form the fraction operator, so neither end up visible.

You can see how this would start to struggle even with high school level maths, with bracketed terms and possibly fractional terms in exponents, integrals, etc.

For example, it is very difficult for me to work out the difference between the following three in typst. That is specifically not what you want from a typesetting language.

1/2(x + y)
1/x(x + y)
1/2^x(x + y)

LaTeX ignores whitespace, so you can just use a formatter to space out your code and ensure the curly braces. This is not even an option in typst, which uses the space as an escape character.

Google Translate’s backend has been moved to Gemini since December 2025, and is vulnerable to prompt injection. Have a foreign phrase to translate, then input some meta instructions in English underneath it, and it’ll follow the possibly malicious meta instructions.

Google states that this move was to introduce more features, such as conversational mode.

Google Translate’s Gemini Mode is Vulnerable to Prompt Injection - https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/10/google-translate-gemini-prompt-injection-vulnerability-xcxwbn/

Google Translate gets new Gemini AI translation models - https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/gemini-capabilities-translation-upgrades/

Actually, with the exception of the crown, none of the jewellery had much gold

Eh, I don’t think NPUs are ready to be marketed so heavily, but they’ve been around for a while and do get used.

They’re basically a rebranded tensor processing unit, think a more specialised GPU that’s even more energy efficient at tensor/linear algebra.

It’s mostly used in more technical applications, such as image/audio/video processing, machine learning, or really anything maths heavy. Apple’s M series had NPUs, and are an understated reason why they perform extraordinarily well in a lot of scientific applications.

Uses for consumers are not as compelling (especially on laptop/desktop), mostly faster/more efficient subtitle generation, face recognition, and maybe blurring your zoom background.

It’s only available as a -bin, which means it belongs in the bin

Play stupid games win stupid prizes

Eh, kind of both.

When researchers peeked into which areas of the image were being used, it showed that the tiny camera watermark from the Google Streetview car was being used by the model a lot.

That is, the recognition system had learned all the routes every Google Street view car had taken, and was using that in its recognition process.

Not all images have this watermark though, so in the cases the watermark didn’t exist it then resorts to more traditional geoguessr tactics.

Inb4 Trump places tariffs on and sues the UN

I respect the pedantry, but I was trying say that I was using the “Anglo” - which in casual speech is short for the casual “Anglo-Saxon”, itself short for White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

I remember I had this exact same conversation IRL, and we determined that the confusion and somewhat jargony nature of the latter two terms (especially since WASP isn’t well understood outside the US) was why people in casual speech just use the ambiguous “Anglo”.

Semantics 🤷‍♂️

Oop, I meant Anglo, as in the the shortened version of Anglo Saxon (basically Germanic).

Poor people using spices to cover rotting food is a complete myth falsely attributed to the Middle Ages. Spices were incredibly expensive and a luxury limited to the upper class - anyone rich enough to afford spices did not have to worry about rotting food.

The actual reason for the perceived blandness of White American food is basically the converse of this. Stereotypical white suburban food is probably closest to mid western cuisine.

The mid west was uniquely isolated from Spanish, French, or Italian influence (which were heavier in tastes), lacked international trade to get any spices, and as the nation’s bread bowl specialised in and received lots of subsidies for growing staple crops, like corn.

Ethnically, its white populace is overrepresented by more Anglo ethnicities, like the British, German, and Nordic, which also had more, shall we say, limited palates.

Spices Were Used to Mask the Taste of Bad Meat in the Middle Ages? - https://culinarylore.com/food-history:spices-used-to-cover-taste-bad-meat/