The Acts regulating browser vendors on what's reasonable behaviour and what's anticompetitive are subtly different in the UK and the EU. The UK has announced a new investigation, and here we go a bit into the differences between them and what the new UK changes might mean... and ask you to comment!
https://mastodon.social/@owa/113877607763854392
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d3e6zklxgo
"I want to see this mission woven into the very fabric of our regulators through a cultural shift from excessively focusing on risk to helping drive growth," [chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves] said.
For god's sake, Reeves. "Let us do what we like or there won't be growth", "OK then high-powered business leaders" is not a policy, it's cowardice. What good is "growth" if it all goes to a dozen American trillionaires while people here are on zero hours? Grrrrr.
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well, updating the OS has fixed Activity Monitor crashing on start, anyway, so that's presumably an improvement. Investigation continues.
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I am updating this laptop to macos 15.2, to see if that fixes (a) battery things (b) activity monitor crashing with SIGILL now that I've run the bootup diagnostics once (c) after flushing nvram and SMC didn't help
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reading Fatherland again.
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hm, I have had a thought about this macbook battery thing.
If the lid is closed (so it's suspended), and I connect power to it, I believe it might wake up according to a stackoverflow post. This is fine, because it's connected to power. But if I then disconnect the power again, still without ever having opened the lid... surely the laptop goes back to sleep again? Is it not clever enough to do that? It surely doesn't stay awake with the lid shut until the battery runs down?
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I've got a macbook. I don't use it much, and it sits on the side desk. Yesterday I charged it to 100% (which I had to click on a thing in the menu to allow; it only wanted to go to 80%) and then afterwards unplugged it and closed the lid. Today I've just opened it and it's at 1% charge. Do they not suspend properly or something? Surely it shouldn't use battery power while the lid is closed?
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Cor, @Clearleft is 20. Congratulations, all! It doesn't seem that long.
Time for the rebrand to Justifycontentstart?
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Finally got some January time to make my entry for the 36-Word RPG Jam! And so here is Octale, a short solo storytelling #RPG in thirty-six words.
https://stuartlangridge.itch.io/octale
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random maths thought: a perfect number is the sum of all its proper divisors. A tri-perfect number has its proper divisors add to twice the number (which is three times the number if you include the number itself as one of its divisors, hence "tri-".) There are 4-perfect numbers, 5-perfect, etc. I thought: is there a 0-perfect? Obviously not: divisors+self can't equal self. But a "half-perfect" number: divisors add to half the number? 2 is one (the only one?) but I can't think of a proof why.
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(admittedly how I was supposed to be spending today was dealing with the European Ironing Mountain, so I can't decide whether this is a reprieve or not.)
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Spending time I shouldn't have to fiddling with sorttable.js to avoid people hotlinking it, because none of you fuckers on the internet can be trusted. Following which I get to spend time dealing with Polygon articles about AI and my mild involvement, because none of you fuckers on the internet can be trusted. This is not how I was supposed to be spending my Saturday.
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Huh. Interesting to find out from a Polygon article that my website was down. None of you mentioned it!
https://www.polygon.com/critical-role/510326/critical-role-transcripts-ai-dnd-dungeon-master
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today's discovery: URLs aren't case-sensitive? Did they used to be and it changed? Have I always been wrong about this?
It seems to depend on the web server, but, say, netlify makes URLs case insensitive as far as I can tell. Is this the new normal now and case sensitivity in URLs is some weird relic from the past that nobody honours any more? How odd!
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Is there a maps service somewhere that lets me embed a slippy map in a webpage with an iframe, for a specific address, and is free? (Not a lat/long pair.) That is, I want to be able to do and get a slippy map. (I know how to do it with Leaflet and client-side JS, yes, but I'm trying to avoid that.)
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Random thought for a sci-fi story: if one were to run into a civilisation of roughly human physical proportions, they might measure distance in "lins", meaning "light-nanoseconds". This seems like a very sciency futuristic sort of thing to do. But one light-nanosecond is really, really close to 1 foot, which is a very conveniently-sized unit if you're about human sized!
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@friction heh. Turns out that I discovered this before (https://mastodon.social/@sil/112674037752232946) and bounced off it because there's no documentation. But hey, maybe I can muddle through; I manage it with Blender, after all.
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ok, this idea that I had a while back, about having a 2d motion graphics app which controls everything with basically CSS? It (approximately) exists, and it's called https://friction.graphics/. Nice. Good work @friction.
Less good work that there is no documentation at all! I had to watch a youtube video to work out how to add a keyframe. I suspect the documentation is "you know After Effects? Like that", but I don't know AE very well...
https://mastodon.social/@sil/113095540279923399
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Just watched an interesting Numberphile video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJtxlErlx0U) about Erdös-Woods sequences, runs of consecutive numbers where all numbers in the sequence share one or more prime factors with one or both of the endpoints. And I thought, they can't be too hard to find, so "subl Scratch/erdoswoods.py" to write a little Python program to check. And... up popped a little Python program to check, which apparently I wrote last time I watched this video, in July 2024. Heh.
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it's not all that hard, though. Admittedly he's doing this in the context of writing a big long book, but didn't they have editors in the 50s? I -- no aficionado of long division -- just spent all of five minutes doing the calculation on paper and there it is, ~10.58%.
(I don't even know how you do this division to end up with a fraction rather than a decimal. Someone who was doing maths by hand in the fifties (and presumably learned to do so in the 1910s) will have to tell me (by ouija board).)
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