@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-22 14:05:58
Ryan Coogler's Sinners breaks the Academy Awards' nomination record with 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14, held by three films (Clayton Davis/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/sinners-oscars-nominations-record…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 15:47:03
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…
@pre@boing.world2025-12-26 23:25:43
Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-23 07:50:29
Lola thought she saw a deer fleeing into the Sunday morning sunrise. #dogsofmastodon
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-22 12:29:13
Tracking the NFL playoff picture: Updated chances to clinch open spots, win division titles https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47248728/2025-nfl-playoff-live-odds-updated-chances-clinch-bracket-projecti…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 21:15:29
Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-08 10:53:24
i feel like my general feelings re: Rigol and people swearing by their Tek are best summarized with the old "rifle is fine" copypasta. as in: if you are skilled in the art you will get things done just as well with the rigol as you will with a tek in the same cateogry that's 10 times* the price. and if you aren't, goddess bless you either way also
* referring me to US secondary markets is classist and i will not be elaborating on this observation
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-12-13 13:27:39
Good Morning #Canada
Last weekend our granddaughter visited to help decorate our tree and we watched Elf, a movie about #Christmas spirit, because we were feeling Christmassy. I think the majority of Canadians believe in the spirit of this season. We're a little bit more polite and kinder, if that's even possible, and underneath the snark, the passive aggressiveness, the ##ElbowsUp, is a pack of big cuddly beavers. You don't have to take my word for it because places like Quebec City, Banff, and Vancouver regularly end up on lists for best places to sit on Santa's knee. He lives in Canada so not a surprise. Did you know that in 2018, Canada was ranked as #1 most Christmassy country in the world. They can't put it on the internet if it isn't true.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas
https://dailyhive.com/mapped/canada-ranked-1-most-christmassy-country-in-the-world