What was that?

Without a doubt. He’s the lockpicking lawyer, after all.

But a lot of smart locks are basically locks that have all the attack vectors of normal locks, plus a bunch of extra attack vectors due to being ‘smart’.

Yeah, he’d probably say “at least they aren’t smart locks”

User reviews are a hinderance to the corporate narrative, so no more user reviews

Writeable CDs were great when you had a lot of data to archive (digital camera photos etc) but they had drawbacks too. Burnt CDs were generally not readable on other computers until they were ‘finalised’ and so they were pretty useless for things like taking files to-and-from school where you need to constantly edit and delete and change.

Fortunately, Word documents were pretty small, and so I personally managed to survive with floppy disks until I finally could get a USB flash drive. For CDs I only ever really burnt fully finalised CD-Rs which I never intended to ‘re’ write - because the rewritable aspect was too much hassle and incompatibility.

And so my feeling is very much that Zip and CD aren’t technologies I would have considered equivalent.

Zip didn’t catch on in the mainstream market but as basically a bigger floppy it did catch on in others and one was music production. Lots of equipment from that period had zip drives, because music files were that perfect combination of needing to edit and write and move around between different machines, while also being much bigger than text documents and too big for floppy.

If flash drives hadn’t started to appear on the scene I think eventually one of the ‘super floppies’ (or some other equivalent rewriteable technology) would have had to emerge, because CDs really couldn’t do the same job as a floppy.

On a side-note, old GPU box artwork was a wild genre

One cannot make sense of what is going on, for there is no sense to be made of it.

Doesn’t have an app

That sounds like a plus to me

Okay, now I really want to try Chartreuse

It might have to be more than one pint

No no no no no

Google actually doing something good for once?

Oh, right. Not being able to press back prevents you going back to google.

Japanese confectionary has two distinct lineages, wagashi which are the traditional Japanese sweets produced without sugar or chocolate, and modern confectionary which is western-influenced.

Personally I dislike wagashi (mostly) but love modern Japanese sweets, because it feels like they’ve taken famous desserts from around the world and made them just that little bit lighter and airier, which is very much to my taste.

It definitely resonated with me, and it’s one of those creations I feel deserves to be more widely known than it is.

But then again, that’s what happens when you create art. What touches one person might not reach another.

Haibane Renmei

Beautiful and thought-provoking show written by the same guy who did character design for the more famous Serial Experiments Lain.

It’s been a very long time, I really should give it a rewatch.

I wish these were the biggest problems we had to deal with

I imagine lots of possible reasons.

Text-only format emphasises placing value on the news itself, not on attention-getting images.

Simple format plays well with RSS feeds.

Extreme plain design allows you to stealthily read it at work without it being obvious you aren’t working (less important today than it was in 2007)

Intentionally bucking modern design trends fits well with the demographic of the readership, who are tinkerers and nerd-types.

Keeping the design the same after all this time has become a matter of tradition and pride.

There’s no need to change something that isn’t broken.

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Plus we all know that if EGS ever achieved market dominance, they’d enshittify in no time.

That was surely always the plan right. Lure users with good prices and free games, grow the platform, then extract profit.

But the plan didn’t work, and so after all this time they’re still stuck on “best behaviour” mode trying to lure users who aren’t coming.

Sometimes there is good stuff.

Now is not one of those times.