@ramblingreaders I’m on the main instance which didn’t come up with anything. That may have changed since I did this search. Is there a mechanism for it to query other databases or is that a standard thing it does when searching ISBN?
@cstross I liked the diversity of servers even in the upper ranks. That means we aren't converging to federation in name only with everything happening just on mastodon.social.
@jdking92 I think there is some of her being pot committed and has to just keep debasing herself to try to get some semblance of sanity from Musk. That won't happen either but she dug her own career grave here.
@JordiGH@goatsarah It's been since the 1990s that I took these classes but I think one of the big difference with DiffEq class was the introduction of partial differential equations instead of the ordinary differential equations we had worked with before. It's possible that the names of classes have changed and "differential equations" today equals "differential calculus" of my days. But even then, and I went to a college prep school, it was only the AP math group that learned calculus. The most everyone else got was "pre-calculus"
@Suiseiseki Right, I was just bringing up Linux kernel as an example of a software project that supports very very old hardware compared to ditching devices in under five years. Some other commenters stated that Google has upped it to 7 years for newer Pixels. That is more reasonable. I'd still like to see all these big manufacturers support security updates for hardware going back 10 years.
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hankgGoogle's support for older devices makes Apple's look like the Linux kernel (that is only recently dropping ISA and took until 2012 to drop the 386 processor). My four year old Pixel no longer receives security updates even though Android 13 still does. WTH? Meanwhile a iPhone 11 that I had at the same time can still get the latest iOS. What's more the security updates for previous iOS versions supports devices going back to 2015. Google doesn't even have the excuse about OEMs etc. This is their phone, bought to run on their cellular bundled service (Google Fi), purchased through them. It is 100% vertically integrated. The only word that comes to mind to me is "pathetic". #rant#Android#Apple#CyberSecurity#AppleVsGoogle9to5google.com/2023/02/06/pixe…
@goatsarah Do they have it at all nowadays? I was surprised how much some of these American events have popped up back in Europe now but wasn't sure about RennFest.
@sarahdal Never heard of this person and looks like can forget I ever learned of his existence. Reading up on him it's fascinating that he went from "I'm not transphobic just because I wrote a transphobic character in 2008" to being such a hard-core anti-trans person that he broke up his marriage over it and got banned from Twitter even during the Musk era.
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