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A. and I finished Person of Interest tonight.

( Spoiler-y things behind a cut... )

Now that I've finished it, I can dive into the wiki and the fanfic without worrying about getting spoiled. I'll probably even write some fanfic of my own — based on the parts of the show I enjoyed most and the style of fanfic I tend to write, expect my fanfic to be "season 3 forever."

At any rate, I really enjoyed the series, I simultaneously wish there had been more of it and am glad that it didn't go on so far that it wore out its welcome, and I recommend it to those of you who haven't seen it!

brithistorian

In an article in the March 2025 issue of Multilingual magazine, I learned that while there's a sizable minority in Spain who speak Catalan, very few of those people are monolingual in Catalan. Therefore, it's common for Spanish publishers to buy both the Spanish and Catalan translation rights for a book but only produce a Spanish edition. They thus get most of the Catalan readers (because most of them also read Spanish) without the expense of producing a Catalan edition and without the chance that someone else will produce a Catalan edition and cut into their sales. This strikes me as yet another of those things that's a best practice within the "rules" of capitalism while at the same time being a generally scummy thing to do.

brainwane

Over in this MetaFilter thread I've been going on and on about:

the books use the medium of prose well, including unreliable narration; how can the TV series adapt that? can it?

the bookending of the two big rescues at the start and end of All Systems Red, and how Wells describes people helping each other overcome their automatic patterns

etc.

I welcome your thoughts! I have spent like 3 hours this week talking about this stuff and would happily talk 3 more.

mindstalk

Not that long ago, I read At Day's Close about pre-modern night and darkness in European light. I also have a recurrent interesting in low-tech 'fantasy' settings. All this got me wondering what candlelight is actually like, something I haven't experienced in a long time. Happily, I found that my host has 8 pillar candles in the basement, plus some long lighters, so nothing had to be purchased. ( Read more... )

thewayne

It's moving back into the beta preview builds, which means they're hoping for a public release in coming months.

As if we need a reminder, here's some reasons as to why it's bad.

1. It will eat approximately 15% of your TOTAL disk space.
2. If you're running a solid-state disk, it will increase your disk wear. This means your disk will fail sooner than it should. This is not as problematic as your traditional spinning rust hard drive.
3. Increased CPU use, possibly laggier system. We don't know how much CPU resource it will use IRL.
4. While it is theoretically secured behind your login, we don't know how secure it is. The last time around for it, it was capturing banking information, medical info, SSNs, etc.
5. We don't know if it might be reporting things upstream to someone. Guaranteed that once it gets into the beta program, much less general release, there will be privacy and security boffins who will be watching their firewall logs for what activity it is generating.

I expect we can anticipate further privacy issues with this thing on-going. And if you're not running it, and you send sensitive or confidential information to someone who is running it, well, your information will be hoovered up by their system.

Broadly speaking, it's probably not a good idea for a lot of people. I certainly do not recommend it. The article has recommendations on how to disable it, I don't think we have solid information on how to uninstall it at this time since it is not an actual released feature yet.

https://gizmodo.com/windows-controversial-recall-is-back-heres-how-to-control-it-2000589002

brithistorian

Just discovered today that a cough and flu-like symptoms, which I've been experiencing for the past few days, are a fairly common side effect of the antiseizure med I'm on. Mere words cannot express how unthrilled I am by this. I want to post things other than my medical problems, and to read the things that you all post and leave you comments on them, but right now I have neither the time nor the energy to do so. But please, know that the desire is there: If you've done well recently, consider me as having congratulated you. Conversely, if things have gone badly for you, consider me as having commiserated. In the meantime, I'll actually be over here doing the bare minimum I have to do to make it through day-to-day life, then going to bed early. (Which in and of itself should tell you how badly I'm doing, given my oft-stated resentment of the need to sleep.)

thewayne

I am shocked, shocked I say, to find that the tariffs have been altered so soon.

China is at 125%, and they've responded in kind.

Democrats had several Republicans signed on to a bill to claw back the POTUS's ability to unilaterally enact tariffs, a power normally reserved to Congress. The only reason he's been able to is he invoked an 'emergency', granting him extraordinary powers. Pretty transparent power grab is what it is.

Now, how much money did the top 0.1% make, shorting the stock market? My investment fund is down 7% since this fiasco started, 9% since he was elected to office, though it's up a tic today.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pauses-tariffs_n_67f3ecfbe4b0afc2a9d7c2a7

brithistorian

I was posting a comment this morning and attempted to refer to someone's Threads handle using the standard @ notation, and I noticed that when I did, it showed using in the posted comment as a DW username. For example:

brithistorian. I didn't do that by using the DW account link button or the html tags. I typed "@" and then "brithistorian" with no space between. Now that I know that I can do that, it's useful, but coming as a surprise, it was rather unwelcome.

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