I recorded and copyrighted a WAV of myself farting once, and now I hear it everywhere. Fuck AI firms.

I bet the official CLI will get text ads... animated... with blinking text... They'll follow it up with a release of Chrome Terminal, to view them better..

She is just on someone else's payroll.

A whale, or possibly a bowl of petunias

checks lifetime jellyfin pass price ... Yup, still $0

Interesting fact: You can use an elephant's trunk as a low-resolution 3D printing nozzle

Welcome to the world of Carrier Grade NAT. 100.64.0.0/10 is reserved for this.

If you are lucky, you also have an IPv6 address. The catch is you need IPv6 on the client-side too.

A VPS or similar running wireguard and a proxy might bridge the gap.

It might also be possible to ask your provider for some port forwarding. Probably not, but check anyway.

Good luck!

If it doesn't have signatures, it isn't a treaty.

After the USSR disbanded, many former soviet & warsaw pact countries lobbied to join NATO and were eventually accepted. They had experienced russian control, and they never wanted it again.

Relations between russia and the west were relatively good for a while, until putin decided he needed an enemy for his domestic politics. He probably should have chosen china. :-P

With Finland and Sweden, russia now has 10% land border with NATO countries. That is far from encirclement, as they sometimes propagandize.

Why did these countries join now and not earlier? Well, that should be obvious. Domestic opinion changed in their democracies, and neutrality was no longer seen as viable. Once again, existing NATO members welcomed new voluntary members to their ranks. 💪

So now that russia has a longer border with NATO member countries, it must be scared, right?

Wrong, russia is reducing military personnel and equipment along the Finnish border, and sending them to Ukraine instead.

NATO is not the aggressor, but it is a military powerhouse, and only getting stronger.

You want to cut my hair for cheap? No, I am going to stab myself in the eye with the scissors. Haha, you lose.

Seriously though, tariffs can help (as part of a bigger strategy) to develop and protect important industries. You probably want a surgical approach in applying them, though.

If any of this actually happened (unlikely), I'd expect the US to start a very long slide to irrelevance.

They could do it with significantly fewer people, for themselves and even for GOG, Itch and potentially others. Their use-case is digital payments for games, which is limited in scope and risk. PCI and compliance is a PITA, but manageable.

It's accelerating trends that have already been well underway in the world, with the US leading the pack, and doubling down on its own demise (and apparently also working toward the active demise of European Democracy and Freedom) under trump and jd vance.

The analogy I always think of is: We've got shovels and we are in a big hole ... which way are we going to dig? In my experience, most people keep digging down because it seems easier now, and eventually find themselves in a deeper hole.

They rolled this update out mid-journey, and I had to scramble to swap seats with the manequin driver. Not cool, Elon.

Not. Cool.

This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the "reasonably priced" business plans for ISDN. They'd register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times...

Suddenly reunification with the mainland was on the table after years of tactfully avoiding the topic.

Whose asset is this trump character, anyway?

25 or so years ago, I learnt Esperanto (my first second language) by chatting on the Internet. I'd have two windows open - one with the IRC client, and the other with a terminal and a shell script that would grep a txt file with consistent formatting. "esp esperantoVerbPrefix/" or "esp noun," or "esp affix-" would typically return the correct result in a split second. Thanks to the simple grammar (that I had quickly memorized), I could hold conversations in near real time as a result.

I wish I could have learnt my other languages as easily.

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Some civilized countries have a process whereby partial rent can be legally withheld/deducted, incentivising them to fix it quickly. Less civilized countries require you to engage a lawyer and risk having your rental contract terminated unilaterally.

"... and we will break any mods that attempt it! Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. hah.."

The true strength is in the open interfaces and common protocols that enable competition and choice, followed by the free-to-use libraries that establish a foundation upon which we can build and iterate. This helps us to stay in control of our hardware, our data, and our destiny.

Practically speaking, there is often more value in releasing something as free software than there is to commercialising it or otherwise tightly controlling the source code... and for these smaller tools and libraries it is especially the case.

Many bigger projects (eg. linux kernel, firefox, kubernetes, apache*) help set the direction of entire industries, building new opportunities as they go, thanks to the standardization that comes from their popularity.

It's also a reason why many companies release software as open source too, especially in the early days, establishing themselves as THE leader...for a while at least (eg. Docker Inc, Hashicorp).

lol.. cleans house, only to shit in the pool. Classic trump.

News next week: $(John Deere)'s HQ relocate to Mar a Lago.

News in a fortnight: Socialist right-to-repair laws under federal review. Texas lawmaker's under investigation.