... and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.
This post on the fascist social media site would make a fine target for The Onion's efforts, but cannot be mistaken for the result of them.
The truth of "the opposite of a great truth is also true" does not depend on such paradoxical contrivances.
Any talk of communism is a "red" herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn't in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.
Is there any truth to the allegations? Beats me, but seeing the possibility dismissed as as a preposterous notion that can only be part of a "New Red Scare" does not decrease my estimation of the chances of it.
Town square vs a bush behind the abandoned lighthouse.
"Town square"? More like shopping mall food court. What self-respecting anarchist wouldn't go for the abandoned lighthouse instead? It can only be that they're unaware that it exists and even has working plumbing sometimes.
They're Canadian politicians. Their entire careers have been built in a world where everyone who matters believes that party loyalty is super important, or at least acts as if they believe it. They're trying to do what they think is best for the Liberal party.
It's probably related to this: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/merge_requests/63
F-droid Fennec had build problems lately due to google removing big dependencies from its android package repo or whatever, so it's well out of date for now. The latest version there has at least that one well-known security problem that was in the news a few weeks ago. I don't know why you're getting notified about it now, I have it installed and didn't see that. But if you're risk-averse then you probably shouldn't currently be using it to visit websites that might be malicious.
Recent comments over there suggest that progress is being made at last.
Believing people who say that sort of thing about the meaning of perfectly cromulent words like "fish", "bird", and "berry" is like going to the butcher shop to learn about horsemanship.
GPU has fallen off the bus.
If you're lucky, it's an nvidia driver problem. If you're not, it's a hardware problem.
One time, I accidentally said "pngtuber" in conversation with an elderly person. I decided to flee in embarrassment rather than try to explain what it meant.
truly different aliens are expensive
They don't have to be. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/3/3b/Ornithoids_2267.jpg
Well, he's not wrong that it's "super hard" to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that "new study" was pushing it a bit far.
Your particular complaints are better addressed to almighty God I suppose. So long as you don't blame linux kernel devs for them it's all the same to me.
Address your complaints to the government of the USA. Or, if you have the right to do so, cast a vote in the upcoming election there to prevent it taking a big step in the opposite direction from a world in which it might consider anything like similar sanctions against Israel.
You may be amazed to learn that there aren't many international sanctions against the USA at this time, but I imagine you could probably get into legal trouble for collaborating with Americans if you're in, I don't know, North Korea maybe.
Later in that thread:
Please accept all of our apologies for the way this was handled. A summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under is
If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.
Anyone who wishes to can query the list here: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
Today on c/linux: Guy who thinks the US Democrats are anti-capitalist vs. hardcore tankie lunatic.
Yes. What does "liberals" mean exactly?
I don't think there's any possibility of useful discussion of linux happening here so we may as well discuss that.
The tension between the various meanings of the word "liberal" is complex, and it very much depends on the context. Historically, liberalism referred to political philosophies that featured liberty — individual autonomy and freedom — as their central ideal. It was the idea that the state and other organizing powers should be generously permissive, allowing all to do as they please to the greatest extent deemed possible. Over time the word has sometimes come to instead be more closely associated with narrow kinds of liberty, such as the freedom of the ruling classes to exploit everyone else. In an American context over the course of the 20th century it came to have particular connotations of hypocrisy as reflected for example in the lyrics of that Phil Ochs song you've probably heard. These days it is sometimes even used as shorthand for what was previously called "neoliberalism." Its meanings can range even further into the unorthodox. In this thread for example, its use is more likely to convey a message along the lines of "this affront to Glorious Mother Russia has made me all pissy."
Things they should teach in primary school: 1. Never give your phone number to a web site.
Things they should teach in primary school: 1. Never give your phone number to a web site.
Yesterday I saw the CNN version of Have I Got News For You.
Yesterday I saw the CNN version of Have I Got News For You.
It's... not bad? Closer to getting it right than many previous American attempts at panel shows. The main weird American thing they do is that the panelists seem inexplicably eager to give correct answers, as if they're quite proud of themselves for having watched the news this week in advance of going on TV to talk about it.
If you were thinking the Conservatives wouldn't be as bad as the Liberals when it comes to regulating the Internet, think again.
Conservatives will present new legislation to protect Canadians online that preserves their civil liberties.
> > > As opposed to Bill C-63, which pushes [age verification bullshit] far into the future and behind closed doors through an opaque regulatory process, our new Conservative legislation will directly legislate [age verification bullshit] that online operators must adhere to. > >
Steam Client Blank Window in Offline Mode after September 11 Update
Your system information Steam client version (build number or date): September 11 2024 Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 40 Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No Have you checked for system u...
If you routinely start #steam in offline mode and it suddenly stopped working in the past few days (first time I ever saw such a thing), you may be able to fix it by temporarily taking it out of offline mode as described on github.
Ichiriki Ryo wins the 10th Ing Cup
Not only did Ichiriki win the finals, he won it 3-0! I love it that a Japanese top player was finally able to win the most prestigious international go title (for the first time actually), after decades of Japanese pros having a reputation of not really being a match anymore for Korean and Chinese ...
> > > Not only did Ichiriki win the finals, he won it 3-0! I love it that a Japanese top player was finally able to win the most prestigious international go title (for the first time actually), after decades of Japanese pros having a reputation of not really being a match anymore for Korean and Chinese pros. I enjoyed watching this review Michael Chen 1p AGA made about all the games in the match: That video is more than 2 hours long, but it’s not boring at all ... > >
https://github.com/Abev08/VolumeControlExtension
https://github.com/Abev08/VolumeControlExtension
That's two longstanding items on my firefox wishlist taken care of by an extension: Actual working volume controls on the built-in media player, and a volume control for other crappy web players that don't have them.
#firefox
phase 1: Don't care about diet.
phase 1: Don't care about diet. phase 2: Try to lose weight. phase 3: Don't care at all about diet. phase 4: Ascetic diet of mostly rice and peanuts. phase 5: Vitamin A deficiency. phase 6 (current): Carefully fine-tuned diet designed with nutrition calculator.
I can't explain it, that's just how it went.
I finally played VIGILANT. A brief review.
Act 1: It started with some fun little quests to introduce you to the narrative style. The fights were too hard, so I improved my character stats until I could handle them. It's not easy to know when there's no choice but to go along with whatever is suggested, and when you can do something else, but I guess I got it more or less right.
Act 2: A nice meaty dungeon crawl. My efforts to make my character stronger paid off, the difficulty was just right.
Act 3: Holy shit it's too hard suddenly. One does not level up quickly in my version of Skyrim, maybe that's why. At one point there's an option that suggests you can skip the whole thing, but I didn't take it and would guess it probably isn't so easy. I had to resort to stealth archery and I didn't bring a lot of arrows. Some horror game stuff of a kind I don't normally enjoy, but it was well-executed. It was a pretty long slog.
Act 4: Okay we're in Dark Souls now. Except the boss fights are even longer. I had a legendary weapon, shiny superhero armour, lots of magic resistance, a good healing spell, all the equipment a skyrim paladin could want, and yet even some of the non-boss fights took a lot of time and effort. Hit, dodge, run, heal, repeat. Forever. To be fair I do have the difficulty settings turned up pretty high. I wandered around lost for a very long time. Some of the battles were epic. There was only one area I had a really hard time with: There doesn't seem to be any resisting the tentacle attacks so they were pretty much instant death.
The ending was quite good and made it all seem worthwhile.
Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need
If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need is shim-signed_1.39+15.7-1_amd64.deb from bookworm-proposed-updates.
The problems on this site were created using neural nets to automatically extract positions for each rank from high-level games where the neural net thought the next move would be instinctive for a
> The problems on this site were created using neural nets to automatically extract positions for each rank from high-level games where the neural net thought the next move would be instinctive for a pro but might be educational or non-obvious for players of that rank.
Trying to get back into the game a little, and I've just noticed that https://neuralnetgoproblems.com/ is still online! Whole-board positions from real games, asks you to predict the next move. It's really good if you enjoy that sort of thing.
Well here's a linux modding tip: Turn off ESYNC and FSYNC when running DynDOLOD. If it randomly goes wrong in the middle of its hour-long run, that could be the problem.
Well here's a linux modding tip: Turn off ESYNC and FSYNC when running DynDOLOD. If it randomly goes wrong in the middle of its hour-long run, that could be the problem.
Preliminary data suggests that daily sea surface temperatures did not set a new record high in the past few days.
First time since March 2023!
Short scene from a dream
Feeling the need to urinate, I went in to the appropriate room and found the big black cauldron that people are meant to piss in on the floor next to a fireplace. As I got going I noticed that the room wasn't empty, and that I was standing right next to a table for two where a man and his wife were trying to eat dinner. "Excuse me sir, didn't see you there" I apologized. They looked unhappy. As I continued, everyone else in the restaurant turned to look at me. As if I was the one doing something weird.
how to fix Skyrim game balance, the complicated way
Here are some mods I can recommend that directly affect game balance, feel free to suggest more. For the most part I've listed only things that directly affect the basic variables in simple ways, not including survival mode stuff, combat overhauls, perk tree changes, the paraglider, and many other things that obviously do also affect game balance but aren't only about that.
*Skyrim Skill Uncapper for SE and AE - Adjust rate of level up for each skill individually. I like level-ups to be way slower than the base game, like 10 times slower, but with skills where tedious grinding is already the only way to train them left closer to normal but contributing less to character level advancement. Enjoy being level 1 for a meaningful amount of time.
*Armor Rating Overhaul - Makes early-game armour not completely useless. Getting some should be the priority it normally is in such games. The base game armor rating algorithm seems weirdly broken, any of this mod's options is better.
*Yet Another Difficulty Mod - Adjust damage dealt/damage taken, optionally changing it automatically as you advance. In my current game it's set to start with 1.0/2.0 at level 1 and smoothly progress to 0.5/5.0 at level 30 (compared to 0.25/3.0 for default legendary mode) and so far that seems good.
*Extra Encounters Reborn - Encounter more problems when wandering around the world.
*High Level Enemies - Make those you encounter more dangerous. Many of the people and animals who live only to murder passing strangers scale to higher levels than previously possible.
*NPC Regen Nerfed - Taking away their infinite magicka supply makes things a little easier.
*Simple No Health Regen - If you don't go full survival mode, maybe at least have no health regen.
*Smart NPC Potions - They might use two or three healing potions during a fight. Also they might poison you.
*Maxsu Combat Escape - When fights are actually difficult you might want to be able to run away without that stupid ogre continuing to be angry at you forever from the far side of a mountain.
*Simply Better Movement Speeds - My current choice of movement speed mod.
*Encounter Zones Unlocked - Probably helps if you're going to have a playthrough that goes on for a while.
Squardle - Wordle squared?
Squardle is the best one. There's something of a learning curve. It looks intimidating at first. Once you get the hang of it though, it's just right.
It's given me a few minutes of word game entertainment every morning for the past year. I may not know much, but I know all the five-letter words now.
Why didn't anyone tell me that Papyrus Tweaks NG is mandatory once you have too many other mods?
Why didn't anyone tell me that Papyrus Tweaks NG is mandatory once you have too many other mods?
Too many being probably about four hundred in my case. Script lag was getting ridiculous and then it started locking up, and now suddenly with that one addition, it's smooth and solid again. With that I guess my personal version of Skyrim is pretty much done, or at least ready for play testing.
This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.
Update available! This version is very old.
> Update available! This version is very old.
Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?
SKYBLIVION Development Diary 5
Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine. Thats our goal. With our planned 2025 release date we’re showcasing gameplay systems, a part of the world map, a new city, Ayleid dungeons and much more. Despite our progress, we can’t do this alone: we hope with your support to finish the final steps in comple...
> > > Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine. Thats our goal. With our planned 2025 release date we’re showcasing gameplay systems, a part of the world map, a new city, Ayleid dungeons and much more. > >
> > > Despite our progress, we can’t do this alone: we hope with your support to finish the final steps in completing Skyblivion. Does that sound like something you can do? Then please visit our website to apply: https://www.skyblivion.com/volunteer/ > >