Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will push you one step further into the valley of despair, where a capitalist hellscape leads you to constantly say “Yeah, that seems about right” and to feel a small twang of loss before moving on with your day.
Yeah, it was replaced: “Do the right thing (for the shareholders)”
I just tried their site in fennec w/ NoScript and only have their main domain whitelisted. That bar appears at the bottom for me. Not sure what’s going on here.
I’m in a country where there’s no legal precedent against torrenting, so it’s somewhat safe, but it’s still better to use one anyways. You never know when the laws might change, and it’s best if there’s no record of your IP/timestamp torrenting.
Either way, there’s a risk-reward tradeoff of not using one, but the risk is much higher in the US, and if you’re made an example of, it could be life ruining. You’ll have to decide for yourself if it’s worth paying to mitigate the risk.
Just a quick clarification: /*/*/* is not a relative path. The first / references the root directory.
From the readme of the branched project:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.
While I’m personally generally pro DEI, especially in state institutions and for profit business, anyone who’s been following OSS for the last several years can see how it’s been a double edged sword that’s been abused negatively by corporate entities that stand to profit from engaging as a bad actor.
So while a “DEI free” disclaimer is certainly a red flag, it might be worth abstention of judgement.
We clearly need more nude men!
That’s just a cat thing. Some of them are intent on displaying their poopers whenever possible, especially if it’s right in your face.
Damn, I was with you until the unnecessary vegan bashing.
This one here, right?
Endorsement of or justifications for Hamas or Hezbollah, or slogans or graphics positively referring to these organizations. These are considered terrorist organizations in Germany.
I don’t think expressing understanding is either endorsement or justification. So as written, it should be fine, but since it comes down to the mods interpretation, who knows what the outcome would actually be.
tldr: it’s silicosis
So you’ve chased cheaters off from ring 0 and into hardware where you can’t follow them any further, but what did it cost you? I know a lot of people who’ve quit your games due to Vanguard privacy concerns, or they simply can’t play at all because they use Linux. And as Windows continues to enshitify, you’ll lose even more non-cheating players.
And even after all that, you still have cheaters, but now you can’t even detect them! You claim a 1% rate, but have no actual clue. So, whereas before you could have just matched them with other cheaters, and contained the problem that way, now you can’t even do that.
I’ve got to ask, was it worth it?
I’m providing my thought’s in a separate comment, so the source can stand on it’s own.
To me this doesn’t exactly read like a hit piece. If anything, it reads like commentary on well intentioned legislation that wasn’t thought out thoroughly enough, and ended up providing perverse incentives that were in many ways worse than the problem they set out to solve.
Now it wouldn’t surprise me if somebody took advantage of the situation, but it doesn’t necessarily implicate the Obama government.
The following text is reproduced from the YC comments, because I didn’t want to click through to twitter either:
Not interested in clicking twitter either but in the name of progress I went there and what I found was a pretty disgusting misuse of the platform.
Basically a “hate on Obama” hit piece. Fucking snore.
Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now?
“Thanks, Obama!”
His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making cars even bigger.
Here are all the vehicles for sale by the 3 largest US automakers. 62 vehicles, 4 sedans (6%). 20 years ago this chart would have been ~50% sedans!
What happened?
Obama administration changed auto fuel efficiency rules to tie fuel economy targets to vehicle size.
Under the new system: -The bigger the car’s footprint, the easier the MPG target was. -Light trucks (including SUVs and crossovers) had far lower requirements than passenger cars. -Crossovers were quietly reclassified as “trucks,” giving them a huge regulatory advantage.
Instead of building lighter, more efficient cars, automakers simply made everything bigger, and made more trucks and SUVs.
Notice that cars that used to be sedans are now crossovers? They do this so it counts as a light truck - they raise ground clearance, square off the rear for cargo capacity, and meet off-road approach minimums so they get qualified as a light truck. Think Subaru Legacy > Subaru Outback.
As you can see in the chart, it’s a LOT easier to meet MPG requirements if your vehicle is classified that way.
So cars got LARGER to meet fuel efficiency goals. The new Honda Civic is 20 inches longer and 4 inches wider than it used to be, about the same size as an old Accord. By making the Civic larger, Honda slightly shifted it into a more favorable regulatory category.
…and smaller cars disappeared. The Honda Fit was a great little car, but would have had to hit 67 MPG in 2026, which would be nearly impossible… so instead, Honda stopped selling them.
So, the only way to make small vehicles now is to make them EV’s (Chevy Bolt).
The Slate truck that is all the rage now is only possible because it’s an EV… otherwise its footprint would have demanded an overly onerous MPG target.
So in short - Obama era CAFE standards had the opposite of the desired impact: sedans died, vehicles ballooned in size, and America’s streets turned into an SUV parking lot.
All thanks to a policy that accidentally incentivized bloat instead of efficiency.
Don’t get me started on “cash for clunkers!”
Error prone, yes, oddly so, no.
Google is happy to keep showing you ads while you flounder about with their useless result. It’s their business to waste as much of your time as they can, but not quite so much that you use a different service.
Life… uh… finds a way.
That’s news to me, people kept telling me that a light dusting with cornstarch killed them. 🙄
Sounds like bs. Everyone has to live with the consequences of their own actions. There are different ways they can face em, but they still have to.
Even if you preempt the circumstance and build some sort of psychic containment, it’ll sit there like siloed nuclear waste.
If you just keep lying to yourself, the price is no longer being able to look truth in the eye.
and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears
Oh yeah, look at those happy cows spending most of their life in a pillory. 🙄
It’s honestly not even the worst way I’ve even seen it used.
I used to watch some League of Legends (I know, I know) streams from time to time, and there’s a meta where your mid laner, who is supposed to be a strong carry, gives up all their farm to the roaming jungler roll so they become the super-carry.
In any case this somehow got termed to be the “vegan mid” strategy. Ugh. Veganism is when you starve, apparently.