Absolutely. As more manufacturers leave the consumer market for the lucrative DC market, cloud gaming will become the norm as most of us won't be able to afford hardware at home.. and that makes me really sad. We'll start to see the end of homelabs and self-hosted software, as well as our gaming rigs. Nvidia and Microsoft both offer cloud gaming platforms and are both neck-deep in AI & AI hardware.

We may also see DIY chips and new innovation to bypass the hardware availability problem, but as we become more reliant on AI/LLMs I worry that we'll lose that innovation. The bubble pop cannot come soon enough.

Context is important.

“I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us, if we could just say, ‘Hey, we don’t do that here,’ and indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in charitable giving. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here, and it was one of us.

One of us = a Utah resident.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/12/read-watch-what-gov-spencer-cox/

I'm surprised how many people didn't realise this. I used to play Ingress, which was also from Niantic and similar to Pokémon Go but involved agents and hacking POIs rather than Pokémon trainers and Poké Stops.

Niantic discussed at the time that this was to support their work on the N+1 navigation problem, although I can't for the life of me find a quoatable reference for this. I played Ingress knowing that my location data was being harvested thinking it was to solve a problem.

I also wonder how many people realise Niantic Labs was started as a Google internal startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic%2C_Inc.

The peak temperature broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C.

The previous record wasn't 2C; it was 13.4C and that was beaten by 2C.

“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly,” he added.

Researchers stationed on King George Island, 160km from Esperanza, reported large areas of the landscape where bare ground was visible after the mercury rose to 4.6C on 6 June.

Even at the top of the 500-metre summit of the nearby Collins glacier, Muñoz witnesses rain melting the ice.

“There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier,” he said.

March to October is winter in Antarctica.. "this time of year" is the middle of winter. We're cooked.

Or she was one of 500,000+ tech workers that lost their job between 2022-2024.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/08/19/the-great-tech-reset-unpacking-the-layoff-surge-of-2024/

Phew. I'm about to read the article but I was worried this was something other than Copy Fail and Dirty Frag.

My home lab has never seen such an aggressive update schedule lol

I watched the press conference (admittedly at about 1am) and I don't remember hearing him say this. I'll watch it again today.

The majority of his talk was around walking back violence and not responding to hate with hate. The only thing I really faulted him on was claiming that there was only one person responsible: the shooter. This completely absolves Kirk (and his ilk) of the divisiveness the fuckwit(s) caused, and the path to fascism that they've helped build.

Some of the things he claimed Kirk said to him are odd for a guy that believes empathy is made up, but who knows how much of this was an act for Kirk vs actual beliefs. In reality, it doesn't matter - the resulting radicalised youth and increased divisiveness is the same either way.

Edit: Think I found it. Context is important.

“I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us, if we could just say, ‘Hey, we don’t do that here,’ and indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in charitable giving. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here, and it was one of us.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/12/read-watch-what-gov-spencer-cox/

I'm running into the ID verification problem too! I uninstalled the app and when I reinstalled, I couldn't find my 2FA code in Microsoft Authenticator. Now I need to submit my government ID and do the face scan stuff.

I'm very much against all the ID verification stuff as of late, for the same reason you state.. I asked a friend to give me a PDF export of my profile and I'll maybe come back when the ID verification requirement changes.

Hey, just in case you haven't heard this before - maybe book an ADD/ADHD test if some of the indicators resonate with you.

I have a diagnosed friend who also said the same thing about stimulants not having the expected effect. It's apparently common for drugs like cocaine and MDMA in people with ADHD.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cocaine-and-adhd

https://theforgerecovery.com/mdma-and-adhd-understanding-the-effects-on-neurodivergent-individuals/

https://downloadmoreram.com/

We can go dark if we want to, we can leave the light behind,

If your friends want light, and if they use light, well they're no friends of mine,

Say.. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

It's not misleading. A database of personally identifiable information being exposed on the internet is a data leak. Personally identifiable information is legally required to be protected, while an exposed database on the internet is about as far from 'protected' as you can get.

The article and title make no claim to active selling or known exploitation of the data, but to write this off as nothing would be a mistake. Are you sure that only the Cybernews team found it?

The Cybernews team discovered the exposed MongoDB instance on November 11th, 2025 and immediately notified IDMerit. The company secured the database by November 12th.

We don't know how long it was exposed for prior to it being discovered on the 11th - it might've been that day, it might've been a few months.

I use LibreELEC on a mini-PC for my home TV. LibreELEC is a Linux distribution that runs Kodi and is pretty good for a media centre straight out of the box. I use a Rii Mini K25 remote (with a dongle) to control it: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06XHF7DNQ

The downside is I can't control the TV itself with this, but this can be sorted out with a USB IR receiver (like this: https://amzn.asia/d/0hvzkP93), LIRC (https://lirc.org/) or something similar, *and a universal remote. On my to-do list lol

I have a DHCP reservation for the TV itself and it's blackholed on my network. The only reason it's connected at all is so I can monitor what it tries to do.

Edit: Also need a universal remote for the IR solution so it can talk to the PC IR receiver and the TV IR receiver separately.

That's part of the trust problem though; when I have a $10 note in my pocket, I trust that it will still be $10 when I go to pay for my coffee later that day.

If I get $10 worth of Bitcoin out of an ATM in the morning, I don't have that same faith in the afternoon. It might be $7, it might be $3, it might be $15,000. That volatility is exactly why I can't trust it as my standard currency.

Oh my god, I totally missed that. Amazing lol Thanks for that!

Would you mind elaborating on why this is your favourite? I tried to find some context for it but all I can really seem to find is the quote itself.

"An Eagle never misses" though. Tough choice.

The Wiki link covers a few exploits for the IME.

https://www.vantrinh.com/about/public-record

I can only echo what others have suggested - seek medical advice.

There is no logical ties between some of the facts you state. ie:

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus. Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for his monologue about Charlie. I watched it. The joke was mild. I later found out Grace Van Patten was Kimmel’s last guest before the suspension, and Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan was his first upon return. Then it all clicked. I was living in Los Angeles at the time, where Jimmy's show is based. Kimmel was trying to help, so the chairman (appointed by Trump) used his position to take Jimmy off the air. In other words, they used Charlie...

1. How many people on the planet have the name "Van" somewhere in their name and have appeared on TV? (IMDB gives me at least 50 but it doesn't show a total results. I'm willing to bet its >10,000)
2. How many Canadian singers are there? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_musicians)
3. How many people live in Canada? (About 41,600,000)
4. How many people live in LA? (About 3,800,000)
5. How many Canadians live in LA? (About 40,000)

These are large subsets of people to specifically link coincidences to an individual.

Nah, it's older than that, it's 1-2 episodes ago. The first episode of this season was in July, and the Master Debater episode was early August. The last one was about City Popup Store, Labubu, exploitation/manipulation of children via social media, and tariffs

Given the Master Debater episode and the events of this week, the next episode is probably going to be wild!