I blame the aphantasia, a lotta y'all's weirdness made a lot more sense once I learned you can just make up pictures in your head
I don't know about this one, I think Randall would be a good president. I support his policies.
🤤 Anyone else feeling oddly ready to eat all of a sudden?
Well @zuck (and @mosseri) are from Threads and, like @Mastodon, it makes sense a lot of people would first choose to follow the top leaders. I imagine the majority of those are actually legitimate users, though the Threads bubble also very quickly popped, so who knows how many are still active
I wonder if this was inspired by a recent xkcd?
At text: People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
There's always a relevant xkcd:
(actually quite a few in this case...)
We can do this the easy way, of the hard way: Either you ask nicely and I give you money, or you try to mug me, get beaten up, and then I give you money anyway.
So what'll it be?
There's a new protocol for smart home devices called Matter, that let's them work across ecosystems (so for example smart lights set up with Google Home could be controlled through Apple HomeKit via Matter). Thread is part of how Matter devices communicate with each other (instead of e.g. WiFi or Bluetooth). The new iPhones can directly use Thread instead of needing another devices to act as a bridge to "translate" the commands
A fairly niche addition, but definitely not useless. And a big plus for those into smart home stuff
Worth noting, for those that aren't going to bother reading the first line of the article, this is ABC the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not ABC the American Broadcasting Company
"What room? We're outside"