@JacobEthanWhite wow really? That's kinda surprising!

@JacobEthanWhite it is unlikely you could use a 2010 iPad to run a netflix app that actually connects to netflix

@migueldeicaza iPad Pro is a bit better, but for the price the iPad Air is outstanding 👌

@textfiles so you're saying this is doomed

@keerthiko https://t.co/2LaAumy7Vj

@keerthiko I read this is a shipping feature in next OS X? But USB-C requires iPad Pro

@stefan_3d take a look at this graph, the original iPad is even slower. So about 32x faster if you buy a 2019 iPad Air which is A12 based and a *GREAT* deal for the screen and CPU you get. https://t.co/zEbsI5GhCm

@Carnage4Life @mekkaokereke Another thing I heard that stopped me in my tracks — sometimes the kids have to financially support their parents. Not just “unexpected expense” but payments to parents to help them get by.

@thepacketrat @keerthiko why-not-both-girl.gif

@keerthiko don't do it man! Go for the new shoes! https://t.co/SSWxFNJmbe

@KristyT I replied to him “so you really did.. Wife Swap” 🤣🤣🤣😂😂

@ScottBeale I trust this sufficiently answers your question; feel free to email me for any further clarification

@ScottBeale Additionally I find the laughing squid page super ad heavy (I remember it would regularly crash iPads a few years ago, when I tried to show my son something there) so I am loathe to link there too much

@ScottBeale Also, to more directly answer your question, I like to specify my own text, I think the pull quote I selected is funnier.

@ScottBeale I pay for WP hosting, so I figure you are getting $8 a month from me for the last 5+ years? Would you like me to pay you more?

@KristyT I found out some old school yo-yo player had been on this show 10+ years ago from old forum posts.. I asked him about it on the forum and he said he’s no longer married to that person 😰

@tobermatt @betsyphd These are authentic hard working feets

@hofo @betsyphd 😱🤯

@stevesi it's only weird if you sleep with it under your pillow

@Pinboard this is the tweet equivalent of dropping a flaming bag of poop on someone's doorstep and ringing the doorbell before running away

@mikko reminder that you want a longer password, ideally 12 chars. https://t.co/9o3wFII0Iv https://t.co/WUpEQP3HPY

I gotta say that circa 2004 CGI has *noooooot* aged well

@maijasauna I need this in my belly

@johncutlefish @TheEricAnderson @stevesi Eeeeeeeeek

@TheEricAnderson @stevesi “I am a doctor, I can treat you!”
“My tooth hurts”
“Sorry, can’t do anything for ya, buddy”

@stevesi Yeah this dentist vs. doctor thing is super weird and rooted in several centuries of history.

@mabster to me it's all about the legacy of slavery .. "Who are you? We're AMERICANS" .. and literal manacles figure prominently in the movie.

@westerdal not a huge fan of the word, as I believe that particular word has been collectively poisoned over time.. so I'll open with that.

one criticism: this is far more of an allegory than a horror movie, but it is *so* brilliantly executed, and the underlying allegory is a stark, powerful one

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.'

@a7an @seesharp such an awesome brand, oƃᴉʇɹǝʌ

@tobermatt I’ve seen users like this

@neeraj @cwodtke Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller

.. that's enough for me!

@patio11 @kevinakwok I'm tellin all a-y'all it's ARBITRAAAAAGE 🎶

the last paragraph of this article is basically the Black Mirror episode "Crocodile"

@pamelafox donated $500 to two programs for special needs kids in my area.. thanks for the reminder 💌

@laurenweinstein I remember the original being somewhat campy?

Look at this cutie 😻 this is Scout (female) https://t.co/sCWJ1HgLRw

@drewtetz very parappa the rapper

@AnthonyBarranco https://t.co/BvPt1kyItT

@wmchristie I defer all that to @samsaffron who is a pro

I've gotten pushback for topic title edits along the lines of "OK, internet dad!" and I am.. kinda OK assuming the mantle of Internet Dad Who Actually Gives a Damn About Proper Topic Titles.

I'll marry this dude

@zenelectron I could *mail* it back

@kevinmontrose I once dropped an ipad (4 I think) on my big toe and had an enormous black bruise on my toenail for months. That hurt.

I loved this book so much I stole it from the library as a teenager.

I'm happy to see Tiger winning masters now, because man that was a profoundly sad longread.

@Pinboard shit dawg, I'm currently saving up money that I'm gonna need to spend on politics in spring 2020. Not even joking.

@thegautam @shendric @Carnage4Life Discourse isn't in any way a geek targeted product. Glamour germany uses it for example, and that's about as non-geek as you can get.

@textfiles well, sort of. The permanence layer is kind of on top of everything else, or it _should_ be, anyway, for the web. I'm still sad that early great iPhone games (like Rolando) are basically gone forever, for example.

@lucianoadrian Watch the Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You. https://t.co/YawHOUqBt2

@textfiles you're 100% right!

@textfiles well, there is a caveat here. For stuff that isn't daily chat, for actual *projects*, you want persistence and permanence. But maybe not my off-the-cuff rando thoughts on Item of The Day 2013

@iamrakasi @Carnage4Life @shendric The terrible thing about the current situation is we have the *illusion* of credible competition, which is kinda the worst of all worlds 😭

@Carnage4Life @shendric this is something that directly affects my livelihood! You get paid a salary no matter what, my man! But when Google algorithmically rolls over on you and suddenly your traffic drops 50%.. Hell I WISH THERE WAS meaningful search competition!

@shendric @Carnage4Life but y'know.. not a monopoly or anything.. just sooo much healthy competition in search out there y'all ✌

@shendric @Carnage4Life here's the same time period, same report, for https://t.co/miaK4vMSeK (the parent website, NOT the forum). I am not joking when I say, I have *literally never looked at this before today*. https://t.co/xTZJCxrGT8

@shendric @Carnage4Life I've literally never looked at the analytics data for https://t.co/xtRYvz7geU because I know exactly what it will tell me -- utter Google dominance. But just for you guys, I looked, just now. And guess what it told me? https://t.co/cLiRJzbrsc

@shendric @Carnage4Life actually 90% is a bit low; it's more like 99%, if you break out just search referrals. Checking top referrers to boingboing forums for example.. it's straight Google down the line

@shendric @Carnage4Life that said, I don't really have strong feelings about it, other than there is no *actual* competition in search. The % of traffic from search was 90% Google at both Stack Overflow and at Discourse.. that hasn't changed since 2009 https://t.co/GY19ibUQp1

@shendric @Carnage4Life there's almost no other way to explain why they'd fund Mozilla, and there's no way they *need* to pay Apple to be the default search engine. "my goodness, look at all this *competition*! Why we're barely making it out here in the tough wastelands of search!"

@shendric @Carnage4Life he also works for Bing.. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Google definitely wants people NOT to see them as a monopoly, that's for sure. And that has a lot of $$ value.

@Carnage4Life I think it's a large hedge against being called a monopoly, rather than a necessary business decision. Paying that cheaper than legislating their way out of the "are you a monopoly like we once thought Microsoft was..?" hole.

@Carnage4Life I said I don't think there are any credible alternatives in search -- because there aren't. Beyond that 🤷‍♂️ .. and Google has billions to burn, since they effectively underwrite Mozilla as well. Maybe it's more of a "we're not a monopoly, see" hedge?

@Carnage4Life There are no credible alternatives in search. Google I guess wants to pay this to Apple.. but they could stop any day and it’d have zero effect on their business. Guaranteed.

@onovotny @Carnage4Life same effects were well known at Stack Overflow, except there it didn’t crawl enough and, as usual, delivered effectively zero traffic. If you can’t write a top shelf crawler, that is step one in having a decent search. And crawling is actually kinda hard?

@onovotny @Carnage4Life The real smoking gun is how abysmal the Bing crawler is. We basically had to blacklist it in Discourse because the Bing spider behavior was so pathological, and was actively costing our customers money (with excessive hits that delivered basically zero traffic).

@Carnage4Life I have a hard time seeing Apple choose anything but the best here and there is only one candidate for that spot in search. So I dunno 🤷‍♂️

@onovotny @Carnage4Life I’ve tried many times and it is far worse. For people who literally don’t care as long as an obvious search produces *some* result, it might be OK, for example the crowd who type Facebook or Target into the address bar and “find” websites that way.

@Carnage4Life If Apple did not make google the search default, who else would they pick? Everything else in the search space sucks and isn’t competitive. It would be worse than Apple Maps vs Google Maps.

@Carnage4Life The difference is that Google’s search is actually good, so they didn’t *need* a browser to force adoption. Still doesn’t add up.

@Carnage4Life Default search does not equal the entire web browser product though.

@Carnage4Life Chrome has a business model? 🤔

@Carnage4Life Mozilla has the craziest business model ever. It makes zero sense.

@tjhorner lol this is the greatest thing

@rkoutnik @markdalgleish @kitatchung “Responsible”

@tobermatt @maetl The idea that HN is this purely American enclave belies its own kind of systemic misunderstanding .. even in 2010 this is not what I saw in participant and visitor stats. There are some very nasty people in certain backwards areas of the world.

@RageousX No he only did the original run in NYC as far as I know

@Beschizza Zombie Prancercise!

@kemitchell The expert is @patio11

@splattne one day I will bring my crazy family to your 'hood! That's a promise 🤗

@AverageJer gotta go with Dick in a Box, though there really should be a top 10 at LEAST, top 1 is asking too much given the rich history

@fraying @mathowie 🤣 the trick is not to meet everyone, but that's hard in the current era

@fraying @mathowie My bad. But the essential argument in the source podcast was kind of a circular firing squad. If I had to drill down to root causes I'd say "empathy for everyone" doesn't work at internet scale, and millenials grok this better than older people.

@fraying @mathowie yep, people are shitty. I hate them too.

@fraying @mathowie Or, this could be the circular firing squad Barack Obama was talking about. Not disagreeing, but.. I feel like there's a competition to see who can be most "woke" where everyone ends up losing.

@deanputney I forgot I wrote about this https://t.co/t9g6UI4n9T

@eaton @lmisitzis @mathowie "fair and balanced"

@mathowie @lmisitzis I hear you, but also realize the role of media is to paint a picture of the world as they want and wish it to be, rather than as the Black Mirror of infinite abyss. I can forgive *SOME* poetic license toward this goal, because do you want to spread light.. or darkness?

@amyhoy @mathowie I'm not sure I agree, but what was on display here was full-sale "rush to make a friendly, happy ending story arc" so there was a LOT of contortionism and BIG parts of the story were left on the floor. That isn't good.

@philbeck pedantic ;)

@mathowie @lmisitzis I dunno. We have different takes on that. Hearing his voice, I didn't hear an angry threatening person, and every relationship is SO fucked up in its own private ways. It's kinda like parenting: I'll only intervene if another parent is literally drawing blood. So hard.

@mathowie @lmisitzis anyways this was SUPER thoughtful and quite complex, thanks to everyone who worked on it and thank you both for bringing it to my attention. I'm still grappling with it internally. Because I also agree that we are not wells of infinite empathy, and the internet enables infinity

@mathowie @lmisitzis I'm also looking forward to your Blood Meridian podcast where everyone is eventually outed as the giant pieces of shit they probably are 🤣 .. so inspiring Matt! I forsee dozens.. DOZENS.. of subscribers to this podcast! People hate happy endings, Matt!

@mathowie @lmisitzis yeah there is no question that the story was massaged and finessed into a perfect totally redemptive arc like you'd see in a movie, and I think that's the central criticism. But I also disagree that "all he did was quit the incel forums" is not a meaningful step.

@mathowie @lmisitzis it was real bad, but he was also 14. Is he *still* doing that kind of stuff? I think that's the relevant question.

@mathowie @lmisitzis having kids, I have come around 100% to the classic parental "you are who you hang around" argument. It's absolutely true. If you choose to spend every day with toxic people you WILL become toxic. So realizing that place was not healthy & leaving is kind of important.

@lmisitzis @mathowie so maybe the problem here is the forced-to-fit-narrative of 100% complete redemption. People suck. They may never really fix themselves, but I do think they can make better choices, and those choices can add up to something incrementally better over time.

@lmisitzis @mathowie also @mathowie you say "he makes it perfectly clear he didn’t change much" but honestly if he's not spending every day on the incel forums, and realizes that place sucks and it won't lead him anywhere useful.. that's actually kind of an important, even critical, step.

@lmisitzis @mathowie do people *really* want to hear depressing stories about "this guy who is so toxic that he's beyond redemption, and by the way there are lots of other people out there like this too... have a nice day!" Because.. that's *way* dark. Like Blood Meridian dark.