I’m not optimistic on this one, since one of the features of huge corporations is that the institutional shareholders that own them appoint the person they think will deliver the best YoY growth and Earnings Per Share. For a company that’s mostly saturated its market, this means enshittification and thumbscrew-tightening on its existing customers.

Looking at how the clock in Windows defaults based on region, it seems to be mostly the Whiter of the former British colonies plus a few South American countries that use 12h (for computing, at least). The rest of the world are all 24h.

Does she refer to it as “hora militar” though?

Kleenex has not reached the stage where they’ve lost the trademark. Also everyone I know just says tissue.

If “Googling” falls into common usage to cover all web search, Alphabet lose their trademark protection…

An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all

Stuff for classroom walls

If you want to make a big poster by printing smaller sheets of printer paper, all the first page of Google results is sites that let you upload your image and then make you sign up for an account. So here’s https://bigspread.niy.ai/ instead

One thing I don’t think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app’s users on a server that isn’t even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.

Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?

I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.

Posts like this are proof positive of Dead Internet Theory, because surely no human could be this oblivious to an obvious joke

Mr Brains Pork [redacted]

The irony is that I typed JIRA in lowercase and my phone autocorrected it to JIRA

I’m amazed they had 1600 employees to begin with. I guess it takes a lot of resources to make something suck as hard as JIRA

Literally my entire point was that people are offering some strong opinions without having read the complaint, and here you are demonstrating exactly that.

As a general rule of thumb if something sounds stupid then it’s probably been reported badly with some key information missing. I’m betting the music industry press reporting will be very different from that of a site called “gamesindustry.biz”.

My suggestion is that probably their lawyers have examined the case in rather more detail than the armchair lawyers on here pontificating based on an eight-sentence summary. Incidentally, PRS are a 175,000-member artists’ rights collective that very often represent a significant portion of individual artists’ incomes, they’re not some sort of grubby billionaire-owned patent troll.

For the benefit of those here suggesting this is a spurious or vexatious lawsuit: in the UK, it’s standard for a plaintiff to be forced to pay all the respondent’s legal fees if they lose.

Either they’re all ironic [] or none of them are ironic

Textbook false dichotomy, and not how I read it at all. Setup->Punchline is the most basic joke format in existence. The whole point of a setup is you have to be on board with it before getting sideswiped by the punchline.