Ian Betteridge

I have no idea who originally made this graphic, but whoever you are, you are a genius.

Remember everyone, when a job is so low paid the government has to top it up via benefits, it's a direct subsidy from taxpayers to shareholders, and from the poor to the rich.

In journalism it’s always important to get the local angle

There's a post doing the rounds which says that Meta's terms and conditions mean they plan to harvest Mastodon users' personal data to target them with ads. Unfortunately that post is misreading the T&Cs, and cherry-picks from a section which is clearly about Threads users, not "third party service users" (ie. us). Here's the full, unedited section.

Uploading this because I know everyone here will find it useful at some point.

There's a wonderful tone which the seriously Christian* take when scolding someone who thinks their very conservative views = the heart of Christianity. This is that tone.

(*That's people who take the teaching of Christ seriously, who focus on peace and tolerance, rather than BURN THE UNBELIEVERS)

Now about these options you're presenting me with...

I see Dorsey is well into his “two croissants short of a breakfast basket” stage.

One of the delights of this time of year: the tiny fledglings working out that you can go into the peanut feeder and just grab food. The little floofball at the top hasn’t got it yet

Of course a venture capitalist doesn’t believe that corruption should be punished. That would threaten his business too much.

Well that’s quite pretty

Hey, Copilot, you OK hun?

Over on Bluesky, J Edward Rando has decided that my posting something about going outside and blocking people who pass along antisemitic shit under the disguise of opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza means I am insufficiently committed to The Cause, which can only be furthered by shouting at people online.

Lord help me I’m watching “Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Easily the worst of the series. But hey Cate Blanchett.

The traditional way of testing out a new Apple Pencil.

That time in the 90s I persuaded a Japanese film crew that my friend was Richard Branson, inadvertently foreshadowing the “geek pie” incident in “Nathan Barley”.

This is just such a weird reading of this. The data is encrypted AND if you have Windows 11 Pro, also protected by Bitlocker. You would have to be parsing the sentence pretty oddly to read it as "not encrypted on Windows Home".

Maybe this is a privacy PITA, but writing breathless pieces based on press releases is just silly. Let experts pick it apart when they have their hands on it.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried

My feelings whenever I watch any Apple event.

You know, Bing, these are not the most helpful suggestions for follow on searches for my query about Lenovo Copilot+ PCs.

Whooo! I know what I’m doing this weekend