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andrew_bidlaw ,

This article makes it seem like weapon manufacturing machines are less controlled than John Deere tractors.

andrew_bidlaw ,

LOOKS INSIDE 4CHAN @ ABLEISM

‘Special needs kid’ is a surprising lack of hate-speech for anon though. It doesn’t make it okay for us since most look at it from the distance and we don’t reproduce its’ culture there. But observing these pieces knowing the context is a niche way of having fun.

This one doesn’t lose much from omitting that part though. Seems like anon didn’t come up with a worthy punchline and just dropped it here, being in a delusion that it’d make the greentext work. A fabric softener in a school setting, what?

This story could’ve taken another turn if a kid tried to fish it with an improvised hook and scaley anon was so bored and depressed about the kid’s effort so he proceeded to make some fake bites, this becoming their daily tradition. Alone in his bowl, anon finds a weird, deadly relationship with a kid, and asks itself what would happen if it’d bite for real? Would it know when it’s time to risk it, or finally go? I believe many anons questioned themselves about euthanasia and if they’d find courage to do it before they’d turn into a dead weight on their relatives’ backs and not enjoying life at all, so this could’ve started an interesting conversation even there, while overwhelming the use of a special kid character somewhere in the middle.

Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser (www.windowslatest.com)

Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....

andrew_bidlaw ,

I have a dream of that time when small MS’s changes won’t get media coverage because even tech journos will not use the latest Windows release anymore.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Authenticity only works when you don’t jump ships and stay on point. Not for billionaires, tho.

andrew_bidlaw ,

If the paper is worth it and does have an original not OCR-ed text layer, it’d better be exported as any other format. We don’t call good things a PDF file, lol. It’s clumsy, heavy, have unadjustable font size and useless empty borders, includes various limits and takes on DRM, and it’s editing is usually done via paid software. This format shall die off.

The only reason academia needs that is strict references to exact page but it’s not that hard to emulate. Upsides to that are overwhelming.

I had my couple of times properly digitalizing PDFs into e-books and text-processing formats, and it’s a pain in the ass, but if I know it’d be read by someone but me, I’m okay with putting a bit more effort into it.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Thanks. I’ve used simplier tools (besides pirated Acrobat) and wrote some scripts to optimize deDRMing and breaking passwords on them. That one ypu posted looks promising. I’d save it to toy with it in my free time.

andrew_bidlaw ,

FB2 is a known format for russian pirates, but it can and should be improved because it sucks ass in many things. FB3 was announced long ago but it hasn’t got any traction yet.

EPUB is mor/e popular, so it’s probably be the go to format for most books US and EU create, but it isn’t much better.

Other than that, even Doc\Docx is better than PDF, but I’d recomend RTF for it has less traces of M$ bullshit, and while it’s imperfect format, it’s still better.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Div? Can you unpack your thoughts on that, as I haven’t faced it yet?

I only know DJVU or deja vu format that’s usually used for raw scans.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Get ready for a sweaty techbro to explain why Least Optimized Lossless Image is the superior format.

andrew_bidlaw ,

DOC is a mess in different editions of Word too, especially if you do some complex formatting, but it’s the default format for text documents thanks to MS.

andrew_bidlaw ,

I think this action lacked some supportive commentary, a spoken idea why they did it and what does it mean. It comes of as an attention bait without a clear message. It’s also too random to associate it with climate activism without a context.

After hearing about that I thought what would become our Stonehenge if we fail miserably (Statue of Liberty, like in Planet of the Apes?), or if we get back into a new Stone Age making this circular monument both the past and the future of humankind. I would not probably care that much if they actually damage it a bit if that’s for creating a powerful symbol, adding to it’s (contemporary) significance instead of taking from it. But that’s too much to ask, it seems, all we can do is orange paint.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

Statistics check out if one in 9 planets in our solar system is canonically gay.

andrew_bidlaw ,

I found this documentary on him interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY

andrew_bidlaw ,

It didn’t end well for another idiot: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Bentley

andrew_bidlaw ,

In his popular macho photo he’s filmed (or collaged) riding a bear. Who knew it would turn another way so soon? And with Winnie, who dives into a vacant honeypot with both fists.

andrew_bidlaw ,

TIL rizz is for chaRIZZma.

andrew_bidlaw ,

And Lemmy doesn’t have a button to follow individual users or have a multireddit, for them or for some communities. On Reddit I had my porn subs collected into one tab (+Friends tab) and this didn’t show anywhere else, but there it’s only solvable by creating another account on lemmynsfw for that while banning all porn on your main acc. Following one creator without their own /c/ is a problem.

IIRC Wordpress had plugins to autorepost into other places. Maybe if Lemmy had one, it could’ve been perceived as less isolated by OC authors. For now you need to put effort to post a thing there too, for the sake of a small 1 mil userbase.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Authorization by your ID grants you a personal white IP address that we and our 734 partners would carefully use for your own good 🤗

Just like with cryptocurrencies as a crime tool, it needs to get traction so interesting transactions mix with ordinary ones. Making the list of deviating individuals (that won’t be leaked in a week, I promise) singles them out as the ones you do want to spy on. Proponents of this law are both evil and stupid.

andrew_bidlaw ,

A happy voice tells the customer to take the plugged in product with them once they want to take a bath.

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s a gamble with risks that your local chains who resells the same stuff usually shoulders for you. I’ve bought a lot of stuff here, including original electronics, up to ≈$2k a piece. Research is your first best friend, the second best friend is a camera you record unboxing with to prove to Ali you deserve a refund. I’m not into 3ds market, but if nothing alarmed you before you placed an order, it should be okay, I guess.

It’d be interesting to see your report after you test it.

andrew_bidlaw ,

I wonder how long it’d take until they take down STEEP. I suppose it’s even less popular than The Crew, but I liked it that much I’d pay once more if someone would keep it alive after Ubi does the Ubi thing. Extreme sports are rarely portrayed in games, and for me it would be a huge loss even though I feel like I enjoyed every penny I spent at least thrice.

andrew_bidlaw ,

True, even without reunification (what’s for?), China gets more by economical means than it would ever has via invasion. It’s insane production capacity, belt&road schemes, education and science are a caricature of a suntzian wise guy who wins a war without a battle. Reducing themselves to a war (and probably destroying everything they are jealous of in Taiwan in the process) would be embarassingly stupid. I watch their sabblerattling as a play, but I’m yet to see any benefit from it besides upkeeping the status of those not to fuck with.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Jordan has it’s own bad blood with palestinian militias and palestinians: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

andrew_bidlaw ,

Was this labor even needed in the first place?

andrew_bidlaw ,

Not that far if a part of a population gets further disadvantaged and therefore excluded from the genetic pool, although indirectly. A choice of either no therapy or constant sedation greatly reduces their chances to find a partner in their adult life.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Intentionally placing them in that position wouldn’t be ok whatever their own reproductive plans are or would be, imho. I singled out that aspect for the sake of trying to couple it with eugenics.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Asking for another paycheck since they are so soft?

andrew_bidlaw ,

It sounds like a clever provocation, and he probably made sure it catches attention before they can silently move it under the carpet. He didn’t do any crime, he even proposed compromises to make it seem OK and followed official procedures, so they can’t (now, publicly) presecute him by law, but it offended their homophobia that much they found nothing more clever than dropping him into a mental yard instead of, like, declining his idea for some made up reason. What’s that if not a high-risk high-reward prank activism? At least, we now know that the state of Pakistan loses it’s shit over him touching that nerve.

andrew_bidlaw ,

What that may mean in practice?

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

Oh, and this time you’ve got some fun toys to play with like the Atlan, a “daunting skyscraper-sized mech capable of toppling Hell’s behemoths with titanic metal fists” and a Mecha Dragon to fly around on too.

And Doomguy has a shield (is he a coward?) and a morgenstern-hook like on Ethernal’s shotgun for more scripted actions, and probably more QTEs. And they dive deep into the ‘lore’ of Doom showing us some of his previous incarnation, so await cutscenes and tell-don’t-show about how gorgeous the Doomguy is instead of you actually being him.

Good good boomer shooter genre is here and old games are still accessible. Probably Machine Heads who remastered Quake and added their own episodes are more equipped to do real Doom games than the remains of Id.

ed: Doom: Arkham Slayer

andrew_bidlaw ,

Original Doom movie’s getting a sequel? Idk at what stage they are, but it’s probably the best they have at the moment.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Also causes the anxiety of scratching disks while using it.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s just a little different nowadays. Like the other user said, they just don’t know they have a choice or what to choose and follow whatever they know…

And what was one of the early bolsheviks’ regime strongest points? They created schools and made people literate en masse, and did it with their own curriculum. People became less suspective to ex elites and religious propaganda, and became their target audience.

Adobe, Google, MS give discounts and special programs for education because this way people get used to their products. Many local organizations that touch these casual users don’t have a real IT department and just flow with what’s given, they don’t make an informed choice like corporations. And that’s probably the place where this switch may even start to begin. A class of students who started with e.g. KDE Plasma would be used to it more than they used to Windows, same with other software. They can already do their homework and play most games. What else do they need?

The sharp corner is to find money to fund select schools to show others it’s not scary and makes it even cheaper for them in the long run, maybe some special troubleshooting team to teach them the ropes. I’ve heard from some users there and on reddit that their computer classes with a geeky teacher who installed Linux is how they’ve rolled in without a problem.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Where, like in the bunker?

andrew_bidlaw ,

I meant someone in particular if you know what I mean (;

andrew_bidlaw ,

I feel there’s a great intersection of cops and those people who still buy into Elon’s bullshit. It couldn’t be any other way.

NFS OST remade for kids

One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...

andrew_bidlaw OP ,

I know about that, but these are not clean radio-friendly versions that were published on CDs by producers, they are special versions created for these games. That’s what irked me. And with DP’s track they’ve been done noticeably choppy by either artists or EA sound designers. That’s not something very important, but that exists.

One idiotic country blurs ciggaretes in the scene and grays out the rainbow for some reason. There’s probably no limit to censorship shenanigans.

andrew_bidlaw ,

This factoid is tits.

andrew_bidlaw ,

With the clearly stated lack of evidence, I have no problem imagining russian teachers to be worthy of the ЧМО ебаное title. It’s surprising that distribution of the worst people I know is unevenly collected under that profession. I’m still wondering why.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Tarantino’s whole career wants a word.

andrew_bidlaw ,

‘We cut total productivity by dedicating some cores to AI BS and would make you pay for them’.

  • AMD, probably

The whole NPU thing reeks of stagnation.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

Audio editing is still shit. GarageBsnd is on Mac, Audacity has a stupid interface, Cakewalk is the first time I hear that name. On Linux, video editing tools are probably the only way to edit audio, and it’s obviously lacking.

edit: Now I have stuff to try, thank you guys.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Exquisite mechanical marvel

in my vagina?

It’s more likely than you think!

andrew_bidlaw ,

Shitposting IRL? Just how we never thought about that? Western mind can’t absorb the supreme North Korean tactics.

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s ‘name your own price’, so if you choose not to support the indie dev, it’s free. I’ve kinda liked that move since bandcamp.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Probably since the author is russian (?) that’s where they took it from. But it was interesting to learn that it’s a common phrase for a range of artists.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Thanks.

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