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Yeah I was gonna say, she’s 85 and has insider traded her way to a net worth of ~$250 million. No wonder she’s like yeah fuck it lol.

Half-baked bullshit. You can get around it with a VPN or a copy of Death Stranding 2

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I have a long-running theory that we’re the US’s testing ground for authoritarian nonsense. If they roll it out here and it doesn’t get too much resistance, it’ll show up in the US in the next 3-5 years.

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Yeah I have the Libre Colour and it’s great! The pen feels good, it lets you do what you want with it (eg. using Calibre to strip the DRM off your books and loading them via USB, installing KOReader etc.) and it works well with Libby for getting eBooks from the library (at least in Canada.)

Not only that, you should see my Steam backlog and 4TB external drive full of downloaded movies!

A while back I heard someone describe LLMs as a magic 8-ball with infinite answers that uses math to nudge it towards the answer you want.

On the plus side, I have removed myself as a problem for them. You’re welcome, Ubisoft!

Yeah I’ve been doing that too! Stupid Kobo store lol

Oh yeah I wasn’t even thinking about that too!

Getting an eBook reader has made me so much worse for this lol. I ended up trawling through a bunch of public domain book sites so now I’m permanently carrying around a ~700 book unread backlog.

I agree that there must be other stuff living out there, but I don’t think they’re here. My belief that I can’t prove is that the Fermi paradox has a simple but quite depressing solution: that space and time are just too big and there’s no special undiscovered way of getting around it. I’m sure there are some staggeringly unlikely situations out there somewhere where two species have evolved independently at the same time to a similar level of intelligence at a distance close enough to reach each other, but for the vast majority of intelligent life the odds are so vanishingly small that they might as well be alone.

If we’re a typical example of an intelligent species, for example, we’ve been capable of space flight for less that a century and we just about got as far as the moon, and with all the inventions that came along with becoming capable of space flight we’ve almost destroyed ourselves countless times. It’s kind of a wonder we’re still here at all, and with climate change who knows how much longer we’ll last? TBH I think the best we can hope for is to maybe get a radio signal from some ancient place that’s probably long gone, and send one back knowing we’ll probably be long gone by the time it gets there.

Oh I was just making a joke reference lol.

I’ve been saying for a while that George W. Bush was the one who sold the doors and windows to the house. Trump is just the inevitable crack head that climbed in and started living on the sofa.

As a non-American, I can say that amongst the people I know it was the re-election of Trump that really did it. The first time you could write off as an anomaly - he managed to fool enough people at just the right time or something like that, and then you guys got rid of him after a single term. Pretty bad but shit happens.

But then after that he showed everyone exactly who he was for eight years straight and then he got in again. And since then he’s really been ramping it up to insane levels of fascist nonsense and nobody’s kicked him out or even made a serious run at removing him from power yet. When I talk to people the vibe is very much “What the hell is going on over there?”

TBH I don’t know why he wasn’t over as soon as the “Grab 'em by the pussy” tape was leaked. I feel like that would have tanked most candidates.

All I see is *******

It’s actually been quite nice here in Canada lately, in the last few years we’ve been quite politically divided but once Trump started talking about annexing Canada it seemed like everyone I know came together to be like he can fuck right off lol.

Our household is still refusing to buy anything American or go anywhere near the place until (at the very least) Trump is gone and the US can demonstrate that something like this won’t happen again.

AFAIK it’s not necessarily about Linux using Microsoft keys, it’s more about Microsoft shoe-horning their bullshit into everything they possibly can, including at the hardware/firmware level.

But if secure boot happens to brick your system forever because of this expiring key thing, is that worse than a boot chain attack?