The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it, misusing email aliases to harass people. Even though this was likely special treatment because they sent abusive messages to the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.
You know how English is a default language, a base for many multinational conversations? Everyone refers to it? Well, Euro is the easiest to refer to because it is so widely used and stable. It’s not English. It’s like the ‘English language’ of currency.
If DLSS can reach its fifth generation AI can destroy component supply for a second year
Oh yeah, situational awareness comes first, something that doesn’t seem to come naturally to everyone. There’s a mild need for c/LostLemmings
Which is one reason why I’ve taken to referring to currency with nation included, e.g. US$, AU$, JP¥, GB£… The Euro is the only easy standard, arguably the ‘English language’ of currency
4chan is scum… But the real criminals* authorised that fine, while not fining the soon-to-be trillionaires.
Yes I know a crime is defined by the law and whatever they decide to enforce, I’m using it to refer to those who exacerbate the already dismal lives of the majority by way of the global economy and poverty, by not taxing the rich and using it constructively.
Forget Liberation, original AC Mobile is the real shit (link)
So they just fucked 50% of prospective PC customers. Wow
My phone is my remote and I only rarely forget that
I know it’s a joke but the fact is Al Qaeda was founded by people whose friends and family were bombed by the US military. There’s very little that people, who lost everything to live for in a country kept destitute by attacks from America, can do except keel over or find a way to attack back. The US government creates their nemeses through cruelty, and are ultimately the cause.
Then they somehow convince their people that some gang member in Bahrain poses an actual threat to the lifestyle of their children in fucking rural Wisconsin, and gets them to train up so they can go and murder four gang members and 48 civilians, whose family members become radicalised against America the violent untamed oppressor, and the cycle continues.
I use Freesm. Looks like ElyPL is geared for custom skins and externally hosted servers. Both is good I guess.
I own the game, I just don’t like relying on server logins to fucking play single player/locally. Freesm lets you have the whole game without a M$ account. Combine that with a self-hosted server in offline mode and I can play multiplayer with an offline profile.
Yes, and their doc pages and personal site of the same name. Here’s hoping they don’t resurface the same code under a new name
Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix
Yes* - I haven’t used Discord in a long time as its bloat simply doesn’t interest me, but for communicating with folk:
Matrix, at least for me, is great, but the most capable mobile client Element has many broken or missing features.
Classic, but not X, has:
X, but not Classic, has:
I currently dual-wield the two because neither is enough yet, and most other clients lack call functionality entirely.
XMPP, at least for me, is nearly perfect. It just works and I find the fact that desktop clients still look like AOL Messenger quite charming. However it has:
I chose higher encryption and easier adoption between Matrix and XMPP but wish there was a more fulfilling option.
This touches on one of the reasons I am inclined to pirate – the majority of the time it’s not the author or developer that you pay, it’s the distributor or streaming provider (who often takes a 30% cut), then the payment processor takes about 5%, then the publisher takes a significant and usually undisclosed portion, until finally (and this differs between media) the actual creator sees perhaps £10 of a £60 purchase. Until the vultures clear the field and stop taking hefty cuts, or if I trust the publisher, I am inclined to find a way to actually pay the developer, or not at all, because even though it takes effort to research the sources and distributors, I would much rather vote with my wallet and not accept astronomical distributor fees and anti-consumer practices.
When I was younger I found an album I really liked on Bandcamp. The monetisation model the artist used meant you could actually pay 0 for the music. As I was tight financially I took it but was extremely grateful. This can be seen as consensual piracy, because in my eyes that produce is worth a certain value that can be exchanged with money, even if the seller doesn’t say it. Anyway, Bandcamp takes a 15% cut which is low for the industry, and this particular artist was also independent, meaning they were their own publisher/record label, so when I could I honoured that ‘pay what you feel it’s worth’ approach and bought it a couple years or so later for more than a commercial album. Trust is also extremely infrequent in capitalism, and I appreciated the design.