@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-12 15:26:03
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-07-12 18:25:06
Man, it took me a while to warm up to Costco, but it's really is one of the better corners of capitalism. They pay people fairly, sell only quality stuff, didn't disavow DEI, and aren't owned and run by hedge fund assholes.
It's amazing how nice it is not to have to evaluate every purchase. If it is there, it's usually because it has been proven to make customers happy and thus earned its shelf space.
And, no surprise, the CEO dogfoods himself.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-09-13 03:02:13
Someone made a custom case for a Framework laptop to put a mechanical keyboard into it.
It's a cute idea, but I think @… keyboards & laptops look a lot nicer 😁
https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nfc4dz/i_redesigned_the_framework_13_to_feature_a/
@pre@boing.world2025-07-13 21:53:45
Went out to see Stewart Lee doing his "Man Wulf" show at the Royal Festival hall.
Huge place. Ginormous! Easily the biggest place I've ever seen him perform.
He mocks the 60 million dollar netflix special offensive comedians doing their skits about how they're not allowed to say stuff, while actually saying the stuff they say you're not allowed to say and suffering nothing but millions of dollars for it.
There are things you're *actually* not allowed to say this month of course. But they will not say the things that can get you 14 years in jail: like pointing out the government's collaboration in a genocide and supporting those who oppose it.
The man wulf just mocks the weak instead.
And Stew does too, while by mocking the wolf inside him showing he could be them. Sort of. Only he can't, because even though it's enjoyable and funny and easy to deconstruct, it's still fundamentally inane.
Stew's voice and accents and singing and impersonations have improved considerably!
Great costume. See the show if you can.
#stewartLee #comedy #london
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-07-12 15:41:11
"Sorry, bathrooms are for customers only"
Well, you've just guaranteed that I won't be a customer later.
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2025-07-11 17:26:10
It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-12 22:24:05
'Beyoncé Bowl' Christmas Ravens-Texans halftime show wins Emmy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45959699/beyonce-bowl-emmy-award-win-christmas-day-ravens-texans
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-08-10 16:26:53
"If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable"
Schöne neue IT-Welt:
"Durch die #Sicherheitslücken haben es die Forscher geschafft, eine Root-Shell auf einem #Bose-Lautsprecher zu erhalten, und dann davon in ein
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-07 16:14:59
"""
Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-14 02:15:49
Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/hotel-mana…
