We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

lol

If it’s readable and well organized, I read it. I did the vim tutorial because it was very easy to run through. Ditto for some of the Android lifecycle docs.

But there are a lot of bad docs out there.

This post has a lot of serious answers to what is essentially a “no”:

In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.

“I don’t know if this is still the case. It was quite a few years ago and I was never told which pub it was.”

I think it’s Rowan Atkinson.

Moen? I’ve replaced the showerheads in pretty much every place I’ve lived with Moen wands and they’ve been fine. I don’t recommend the magnetic attachment, but the rest are fine.

What? Taiwan doesn’t want to give up its only strategic advantage? I’m shocked.

/uj

I’m curious how long it would take to build the supply chains and fabs to make the 50% things a reality.

The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.

They are both interesting reads.

Everything that dude says passes the sniff test: it seems like it could be explained as a run of the mill criminal spamming operation. The Secret Service story doesn’t offer evidence that there’s anyone extraordinary about it.

FWIW the dude also makes a number of unsupported statements that seem to be “trust me bro, I’m a hacker”. The statements aren’t outlandish, so maybe.

No, it’s angry you didn’t give it a little jacket, now it’s very cold and angy, so it’s trying to stab you.

Know your users.

Yeah, the battery icon is ridiculous, but I find the text generally easier to read.

I haven’t experienced the too large/too small behaviour that you mentioned.

I expect cultural references that make sense.

They could have just said “I love the smell of burning fascists in the morning”.

“I love the smell of fascists in the morning…”

That doesn’t even make sense. Napalm, yes. Fascists tho?

Neat! Thanks for the link!

What is KLWP?

The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.

The princess is neither Sync nor Send.

I’ve heard it likened to the dot-com boom: yeah, we’ve got a tonne of e-commerce today, but the stars hadn’t aligned in early 2k.

Seems a bit early tbh. But I’ll take it.