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Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!

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It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”

I agree that CoMaps and similar apps don’t have the feature set that signed-out Google Maps users are losing in this move by Google, so it’s not totally relevant.

I don’t agree with just calling CoMaps a navigation app in the sense of “how do I get to Point B”, though. In well-mapped areas it has business information including specifics about the shop/restaurant, opening hours, accessibility, payment methods, etc. It has points of interest that give information about a location’s history and culture, as well as ancillary information from Wikipedia/WikiData. It has information about green spaces, vehicles and bicycle parking, waterways, sports clubs and tracks/pistes, toilets and other public services, benches, water points, and a bunch more.

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Bixby’s only visual representation was a lowercase “b” in negative space on blue leaf/teardrop shape. S Voice was a microphone. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

Siri’s was a handwritten “Siri” with a green circle for the dot on the “I”; after Apple bought it, it was a microphone and then an abstract blue/purple design. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

Google Now wasn’t stand-alone and didn’t have any particular design - the button was a microphone in the Google palette. Google Assistant got an abstract set of circles in the Google palette. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

So I guess we’re just talking about Cortana, unless I’ve missed any notable ones?

(Edit: Alexa didn’t have an avatar; the logo was a lowercase “alexa” in the Amazon style with the smirking Amazon arrow. Evi had a plain circle with a dot and an arc, like a cyclopean emoji. Ivona was a headless service.)

79 symbols if you count punctuation, casing, and accents.

It’s satellite imagery, yes, but from an oblique (high off-nadir) angle. The imagery is from DigitalGlobe, who are now Maxar.

It’s Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.

And by extension, Yule and Christmas, Ēosturmōnaþ and Easter, Samhain and Hallowe’en.

Bestiary of Dragons and Giants (1987)

Exhibit A:

Sorry, we’ve already assigned you the role of eggman.

I just flicked through a full month of their posts on Bluesky, assuming I’d find some that could plausibly be seen as harassment. I found nothing other than spotlighting of public representatives who have accepted Israeli lobby money, presented factually; the rest is pretty much all endorsements of alternative US governmental candidates.

Could you spotlight a few posts that demonstrate what you’re saying?

I can tell it’s a recent photo because it’s in a healthcare center and the computer’s running Windows Vista. They’ll get the upgrade to Windows 7 in a few years.

recent upstream [GIMP] changes have moved in directions that don’t fit Artbox’s focus. […] Artbox will now remain as a stable, maintenance-only project. Updates will be limited to essential fixes or build adjustments when necessary. […] Without the need to maintain a rebase, I can simplify development and use AI-assisted refactoring to turn it into a lean, specialized digital painting application.

This doesn’t inspire much confidence in me that the project will see much regular enhancement and development.

I think the difference is the perception of whether a piece of Lego is “a Lego”; in Europe, that’s typically not the way the word is used.

I started writing a rebuttal that amused me until I noticed I’d misread your comment, and I don’t want to delete it, so despite being irrelevant to what you’ve said…

How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

Bonus photos.

To the extent that it looks like they airbrushed it in afterwards.