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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It can be Occam or Ockham. It's named after William of Ockham, but it was the fashion at that time for scholars to "Latinise" their names, hence the alternative spelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's also worse because it completely undermines the point by using a horrendous fixed width typeface and dark green on black colours for the text.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How dare you question Ming-Chi Kuo 😤

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Some of them were actually pretty good artists; occasionally you'd see them do other stuff and it'd be genuinely good on an artistic level.

The whole stick man, lumpy face, primitivist thing was just an "in" aesthetic (while also being conveniently really quick to produce).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep, whole childhood a lie I'm afraid. Fish cake is usually mashed potato mixed with fish, fried (usually breaded).

Although that said, has anyone ever encountered a cod roe "fish cake"? Literally a slice of pressed roe fried up. So I guess "fish cake" covers a multitude of sins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

DDG is largely Bing search at the backend, unless I'm much mistaken. They do value-add work around privacy, but in the basic sense of "does a DDG search return good results", it's largely the same as Bing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine an engineer looking at a push-button bean to cup machine and thinking "how can I make this slightly less efficient and a lot more complicated".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Gestures vaguely at Amazon's enormous piles of money

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

It doesn’t say anything about specific software. They have to allow you to use third party stores, they don’t have to allow you to download torrent apps so that you can pirate.

Literally in the quote I posted...

The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (5 children)

but there’s nothing in the law that states they have to let you sideload whatever you choose

That's pretty much exactly what the law does say.

The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, its operating system and allow those software applications or software application stores to be accessed by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper.

There's a provision for not letting the user actively break the device, but that's it. And it's couched in terms like "if strictly necessary and proportionate" and "provided they are justified", so it's not something Apple can apply on a whim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't have a microphone or camera, or any other way of recording my conversations. Other than laundry-related data, it really doesn't know anything worth sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is actually investigating whether these are caused by ghosts. They're dirty marks on a wall behind a bench where people lean; it's not a mystery. No more a mystery than discarded chewing gum on a pavement potentially being dropped by ghosts with minty fresh breath.

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