I was already vaguely interested, and when I was desperate for a pandemic hobby, it was a fairly natural choice. I can recommend “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” by Samin Nosrat as a good introduction - recipes, but, more importantly, explains a bunch of basic concepts and “whys”. Then, if you can stomach youtube (ublock origin or some other adblocker + sponsorblock are basically mandatory), check out e.g. Food Wishes (Chef John, aside from a râthër wéîrd spèàking style, is good at explaining things in an accessible way), Helen Rennie, Frank Proto and others.

Trial and error is a must eventually, but starting off that way is very likely just wasting food, effort and motivation because failing at cooking can be pretty demoralizing.

Same, I guess. But then I also didn’t really expect the “AI” to be a bunch of overhyped nonsense snake oil bullshit, with tremendous practical and ethical problems… so I’ve got to say I feel pretty comfy with the stance.

Access to voting is the foundation of democracy. Sane systems try to minimize any “pressure” to not vote, for any reason, because any such pressure is very likely to hit some demographics harder than others. The Republicans in particular rather blatantly rely on weaponizing this as a way of subverting democratic principles, by making it disproportionately hard to vote if you’re working, or poor, or young, or a minority of pretty much any kind.

Therefore, anything that increases access to voting, and levels the playing field, is worse for the GOP than being able to keep up the status quo of voter suppression. Hence their extremely shrill opposition to mail, and also the (“hilarious”) claims of “fraud” - painting the picture of your democracy being subverted is a handy talking point while you’re busy subverting your democracy.

So the boring answer is that your question is sort of back-to-front: it’s not that the mail ballots are skewed as such, it’s that access to in-person voting is. Mail ballots favor the Democrats because it is their voter base that’s (in this case, anyway) being suppressed.

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You know a fad genre is well and truly dead when Forbes is reporting on it

Exactly. Vista was rushed and buggy but that’s, y’know, par for the course really. I think there was a time in the 00’s where they really wanted to be extremely optimistic about Moore’s law-style performance gains, and for some reason they thought they could aim ahead of the curve. Cue Vista actually running like dogshit even aside from outright crashes and such.

You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

Hell, they weren’t doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy “we know better” vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it’s made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

As the joke goes, “Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later”

(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

True, just thought it was funny.

The irony in this being a youtube link though

Kind of a disgusting sentiment, not gonna lie.

The tankie stuff turns out to still remain a hard sell, who could’ve imagined… (block lemmy.ml if you can, if you can’t, switch platforms and then block .ml)

One unfortunate limitation of the fediverse is that blocking undesired categories of content is harder than on reddit: when you block a subreddit, it doesn’t exist on 50 other instances. None of the fediverse stuff handles that gracefully, the “subreddit” approach was just not a good choice for this kind of thing.

That way maybe some of it will be accurate.

Gotta respect the longevity of this tweet

Also, the entire web stack, the entire history of email, Javascript - the horrors of the universe just happen

They don’t.