Friday, October 17
Daily News Stuff 17 October 2025
Blinkenlichts Edition
Blinkenlichts Edition
Top Story
- Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok showed what they thought of Australia's scumbag totalitarian lunatics - I mean, government - by not bothering to show up before a senate inquiry into how the companies were planning to implement they government's latest idiotic law banning children under 16 from accessing their sites. (The Nightly)
If I had been representing any of these companies I would have simply said: We're not. It's your law. You enforce it.
Tech News
- Microsoft wants you to talk to Windows 11. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm with Gigi.
- Why we're leaving serverless. (Unkey)
There is no "serverless". You're running on someone else's servers, except they're broken, so you have to run your own servers as well to fill the gaps, and the whole thing ends up far more complicated and expensive - not to mention slower - than just running your own servers in the first place.
Renting a virtual machine rather than a physical one is a viable option in many cases. Serverless... Not so much.
- If Asus' ProArt 5k and 6k monitors didn't do it for you, the company now offers an 8k model. (WCCFTech)
Price not announced, but given the prices of the 5k and 6k models ($849 and $1399 respectively), expect it to cost $3000 or so.
- The future of being trans on the internet. (The Verge)
Before you click, imagine the most annoying article possible on this subject.
It's worse than that.
- A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world. (Tech Crunch)
No they don't. Reddit has left the market open for smaller competitors, but I still don't see anyone taking its place.She offers examples like Beli, an app that lets users share their favorite restaurants with friends, or Fizz, which connects people going to the same college. Others include the astrology-bonding app Co-Star, or even Partiful, which lets people connect with friends to plan events.
They'll all be dead inside twelve months, except Co-Star, which will get hit by a comet next Tuesday.Terrell said Spill shifted its design from simply feeding users content to matching them with communities that might be of interest to them.
Did I say twelve months? I meant twelve weeks.For example, those who like watching the WNBA can join a group specifically for that.
Teasical Interlude
And then there were six... More.
Phase Saga arrives in a week. Some people seem to have a good idea of who some of the members are, but I didn't see anyone predicting a generation of six new talents.
The only one I'm sure of is the banana cat. They weren't even subtle about it.
Phase Saga arrives in a week. Some people seem to have a good idea of who some of the members are, but I didn't see anyone predicting a generation of six new talents.
The only one I'm sure of is the banana cat. They weren't even subtle about it.
Musical Interlude
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"Ms Inman Grant said in meetings with Tik Tok and Meta -- the parent company of Facebook, Threads and Instagram -- agreed with eSafety's assessment that the ban would apply to them."
I think the writer accidentally a word. But Meta should just close any offices it might have in Australia and tell them to pound sand.
I think the writer accidentally a word. But Meta should just close any offices it might have in Australia and tell them to pound sand.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 17 2025 10:56 PM (1zWbY)
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WNBA? 12 minutes.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, October 18 2025 02:59 AM (KOtXO)
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If I identify as a badly written chatbot, a) that would make me trans-human b) I have questions questions about trolling and evading restrictive speech laws c) Man, that article is seriously annoying. Javscript is off, so I apparently cannot make the content show up, and my processor starts being busy. Is it wrong to say that the managemetn of the verge should be literally set on fire?
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, October 18 2025 08:17 AM (rcPLc)
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Ah, Dream Academy. The music video supposedly had film recorded outside Pittsburgh, which puzzles me since the group is British and so is most of the locations shown.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sunday, October 19 2025 11:02 AM (ZLF73)
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Regarding Phase Connect/Phase Saga - I know people were speculating on a new gen for Hololive-EN for this year, due to the number of indie VTubers who had retired. So much for that.
Phase does seem to be the best of the smaller agencies. Sayu had mentioned earlier that she would be willing to consider Phase if they had asked, while specifically stating she would not have fit in to VShojo due to the cliquish atmosphere of the talents. Given that her comments came well before everything came out, it is telling.
Phase does seem to be the best of the smaller agencies. Sayu had mentioned earlier that she would be willing to consider Phase if they had asked, while specifically stating she would not have fit in to VShojo due to the cliquish atmosphere of the talents. Given that her comments came well before everything came out, it is telling.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sunday, October 19 2025 11:09 AM (ZLF73)
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