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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Given the rumours surrounding the CEO of Twitter, and how he may have pushed for his account to be prioritised because the algorithm knocked it down for being blocked so much, this feature doesn't seem like it has long for the world, unless he makes them add an exception for him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Assuming that they went out to look for it, and didn't just poke google with ("sqlite hacked my computer") until they found a phone number.

If they had gotten the phone number for a company called Super Queasy Lite and Easy/SQLitE instead of the developers, the company might well have received the calls instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's either somewhere obvious that you could have sworn that you'd already checked, or it'll turned out to be in some inscrutable place, and you'll have no idea how it got there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If it keeps up, he might be able to use it like whales use their baleen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have fallen into the trap of doing in-depth research into the car that I would buy in the near-ish future.

I've learned a lot, but keep finding reasons to skip ro the next generation up, and more reasons to go further from there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's... it? You can get knighted for being "fairly good" at your job for half a decade, and then quitting?

Yes. Knighthood is generally up to the whims of the monarch. Although to make it there, it's generally expected you have an achievement significant enough to be befitting of one.

But from what I recall, there's little stopping his majesty from conferring a knighthood onto Chief Mouser Larry for his research into the napping suitability of 10 Downing Street's furniture, if he wanted to do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Is there a Wrong Dishonourable title?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure which is fluffier. Him or the rug (?).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think that for the most part, it was a fad because people had a lot of time on their hands, with nothing to do during Lockdown.

Now that they have work and everything else going on, people don't really have that kind of time any more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What a sentence out of context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, both for health tracking and because it's handy for notifications and calendar alerts. It's also a bit of a habit for time-keeping at this point.

Although I've found fancier, newer watches to be much worse for that. I replaced my old Garmin with a Samsung Smartwatch, since the corner broke off the Garmin, and the Samsung one had a metal frame that seemed more durable. However, the software is both worse and more fiddly than the garmin, which is itself worse than the software on the Pebble (RIP) I had a long time ago.

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