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Could you ever really trust anything online though?

It feels like every few days as well. Only no, its just the same update I told you to install already! Argh!

Oh wow is it carrot time already? I feel so far behind and it's only march!

You have to wonder why they're all keeping so quiet then. :(

I thought they had all pretty much retired! If they're still leaders then yes it really would help. I wouldn't expect much from Biden as the voters did just reject him and I imagine he is having a break for a bit. But it would be nice to see Obama stand up and say no more to this

From a NotAmerican and so don't understand things POV - why would you be expecting it from any of them? It's not their job anymore?

This has to be one of the better written (and angry) privacy policies for an app I've seen. Also a little eyeopening for what the company who once claimed they didn't want to be evil have become...
www.jwz.org/xscreensaver...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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A photo of part of the letters page of today's Guardian, with the heading "Why fantasy fiction doesn't need reclaiming for women" including (most of) one from me and one from Yvonne Williams. Mine reads: I was disappointed to read your view on romantasy fiction (Editorial, 7 February), which seemed to imply that the fantasy genre needed reclaiming for women. This does a huge disservice to the many excellent female fantasy authors – some recent, some around for decades – who have been a mainstay of the genre despite not writing romance or teen fiction. These women do not seem to get the recognition, and readership, that they deserve – despite some, such as NK Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Charlie Jane Anders, RF Kuang or Martha Wells, dominating genre awards. These authors also have to fight the continual misperception that they only write romantic or young adult fiction, which is exactly the fantasy that your article perpetuates. And this also erases all the female fantasy readers who are not (solely) here for the romantasy, and have always been here. While I am glad that romantasy has sparked more interest in fantasy fiction, made the genre more inclusive, and made fantasy publishing more lucrative (though usually for the publishers rather than most authors), perpetuating the myth that the (non-romance) genre is only for boys – and that romance is only for girls – is unfair. Sorry to have to mansplain this to you, but from what I’ve seen the writers themselves are too tired and appalled at having to continually wage the battle of the sexes to take up arms once more. Dragons are easier to defeat, it seems. James Latimer Swindon, Wiltshire

I'm in print!

The view sure is prettier here though than my normal day to day

R-lang to python for satellite imagery, or instead trying to make the right parts for thermal propulsion rockets. This seems fine. Now to go fix my power network. Again.

All week I spend my time trying to make sense of complex systems and turn them into some kind of order (fun coding). So then the weekend I spend time looking at complex systems and trying to make them build the silly parts I need for phase 4 in #satisfactory. This is entirely normal and fine yes?

I miss when their motto was "Don't be evil". I guess they really have thrown that one away

Can I just do one minus the other and hope for 0? Tomorrow I will see!

(and do ELI5 this - I don't really know what I'm doing with these things. I'd love a proper guide to read one day)

Today in software engineering fun times I have fun geospatial issues. If I have two .tif files, how can I tell if they're the same for a check in a build? I can load them into qgis and use my eyes, but that's not really going to work in an automated way! #qgis #geospatial #githubactions

That's... thats not how any of it works. Even in america.

The books are excellent! My favourite was always the second book, so really keen to see how the second series went now its all out.

Oh no! I hope they feel better soon. But also yay new shift? Have you started a new job somewhere?

Ah yes. If you add too many layers it sulks. But I guess I'm not doing huge numbers usually - just checking the output of systems!

I've never had it be that awkward :/ how rubbish!

Hmmm printing out clones of people and forcing them to do my bidding. Oxygen not included has a lot of strangeness to it!

Still love these - they were a part of my PhD research with navigation in virtual worlds and always make me smile when I see them. People just will go where they want to go

That was a while ago? Old cam games?

Well that sure was something. I'm not sure what, but something. Excellent amounts of bright lights, music and zooming around the stage.

Time for some Thomas the tank engine fanfic. I have no idea what to expect! Trains and rollerskating maybe? #starlightexpress

The most important of #Christmas decorations are out!

Sorting out the bed trap was very appreciated. Not sure what kind of monster would leave that for someone to find!