Dear Warners/DC:

Please make a Catwoman movie that is just about Catwoman climbing into windows and stealing jewels and have the tagline be

"She's not the hero Gotham needs. She's the hero Gotham deserves."

What I love about New Zealand is how we give reformed supervillains a chance to get their lives back on track and set up in a legitimate career

https://ironhoodfitness.co.nz/

Wrote her first book at age 0, was born looking like this

Oh good. Facebook gives advertisers your two factor authentication phone number.

<< They found that when a user gives Facebook a phone number for two-factor authentication or in order to receive alerts about new log-ins to a user’s account, that phone number became targetable by an advertiser within a couple of weeks. >>

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/09/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-contact-information/

https://twitter.com/Joshbal4/status/1097092949530341376

<< this is who all your failed sudos get reported to >>

Band name:

Digital Snakes In Worship

heck if I can work out what genre though

Yay, finally saw Spider-Verse.

It is a good film and was nice to watch.

It is the far future year 2020. The world is ruled by the Jupiter Cloud Alliance.

Possession of a 'hard disk' is banned.

All databases must be in-RAM only, or written to The Jupiter Cloud, a giant computing substrate based on the clouds of Jupiter.

It takes 66 minutes for anyone on Earth to send a TCP/IP packet to Jupiter and back, and that's considered acceptable latency.

On the upside, the storage capacity of the Jupiter Cloud is *really big*.

Bell Labs, 1969-70

http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html

h/t @enkiv2

Alert

!

Ok

Cat: Bug #34638 filed: food bowl keeps emptying

Me: closed as duplicate, this is by design, WONTFIX

Cat: Opening bug #34639. It is 11am. Food bowl still empty.

Me: You were fed at 8am. WONTFIX.

Cat: Fundamental disagreement with moderator. Opening dispute resolution process.

I'm so old I remember when the entire tech industry FREAKED THE HECK OUT at the idea of 'Total Information Awareness' and now it's just 'yeah, that's literally our business plan, what's wrong with it'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

What I don't get about Slack or any other 'chat as a service' system is why tech companies would willingly backdoor themselves with a surveillance system to harvest all their most private in-house discussions.

All those chat logs must be worth quite a bit to the right buyers.

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Nulls!

I just don't know what to think about them.

@clacke @chrisaldrich Oh, FINALLY! Going to the 'How-To Guides'

(which I would never normally read first because why would I want to know 'how to' do something until I know WHAT it is that this product DOES...?)

THIS TEXT NEEDS TO BE RIGHT ON THE FRONT PAGE!!!

Not so sure about this new Amazon Alexa update

via https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/989556918397095937

In my pre-teens I used to dream about escaping into a world of pure software. Because we could 'do everything over, and do it right'. Make a world without pain, fear, death. This was without even reading any of the cyberpunk writers.

But now I know that we wouldn't do it right. Because we had the chance, and we didn't.

What we put into computers is what's in our heads and our hearts, and those contain... things we need to work on.

My brother @pdcull has been going through his papers and we found that 1982 was the year he first started studying computing.

1982 was a good year.

I was ten. I met the Commodore PET (CBM, to be precise) and the PDP 11/10 with MUBAS (Multiuser Basic) that year.

The world of pixels and bits was magical to me, and in a way still is. The ultimate Lego set.

Its just what we've built on top of it - and especially the trillion-dollar culture of greed and psychological abuse - that makes me sad.

<<<<2011: Torshin, then a Russian senator, is introduced to NRA President David Keene through G. Kline Preston IV, a lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee, who had been doing business in Russia for years. Preston later tells the Washington Post, “The value system of Southern Christians and the value system of Russians are very much in line.”>>

yeah, that's the money quote right there, I think