Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost.
FUCKKKKKKKKKK passkeys. I will resist them to the last. I don’t care what I have to do to never use that bullshit, I will do it.
Day: May 2, 2025, 8:54 PM
Pol Incon
Biological sex is not an absolute binary — but for obvious Darwinian reasons it is super-intensively bimodally distributed. Anyone who doubts either aspect of that statement is anti-empirical truth, period.
This commonplace, however, has zero to do with the moral panic over trans-persons.
— Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
It’s so fucking oddball all the clownish “scientists” who insist human sex is not essentially binary, with some very rare exceptions. It shows that even the supposedly truth-seeking really don’t care all that much about the facts when it’s politically inconvenient.
Little Sur
Highway 1 in Big Sur has been closed for 838 days. In that time China has built 3500 miles of high speed rail, and California hasn't been able to fix a quarter mile of highway. pic.twitter.com/F01lXteBEh
— Arye Lipman (@aryelipman) May 2, 2025
This is not what winning looks like.
Bad Grade
The difference between photos and videos before and after color grading.
Nope. This is highly misleading. As a few commenters point out, the “before” footage is all in Log format, which is for the purpose of allowing a higher dynamic range than a camera can capture normally. This format is not designed for human viewing.
To truly see the effect of color grading, the footage should be viewed in a standard color profile. That’d be the “before.” The after would be the (effects of) grading.
This is an invalid and incorrect comparison. Just goes to show that about 90% of the information and claims on the internet are misleading or wrong.
NSF Anyone
NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones.
The totally-preventable self-destruction continues. NSF grants were instrumental in creating the internet, most of modern computing, clean energy tech, on and on ad infinitum.
This is what happens when your enemies are in charge of your country. And again, I do not mean my political enemies. I mean that Russia and China appear to be running the place. And if they aren’t this is exactly what they’d do if they were, so what does it matter?
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