Waiting for government intervention before acting is the same mistake we made with lead, asbestos, and PFAS. Let’s not do that again.

So… what do they propose we do, then?

Oooh! Oooh! This is an easy one.

No.

I’m so nervous for the Zelda movie.

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.

Watching Amazon and Perplexity argue about AI agents making purchases on Amazon is like watching two discount birthday party clowns angrily honk bicycle horns at each other.

Crap. I was thinking I might skip the Switch 2. But this might be my reason to get one.

I really want to see a homebrew exploit before I get one, though.

Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don’t feel like I’ve got it all figured out myself.

If you’re young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you’re older and feel like you’ve had the time needed to develop those skills and still don’t have them, it’s likely there’s something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.

I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit’s hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I’m making progress. It’s frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that’s the important part.

These people compiled Firefox and Chrome into WebAssembly.

They spent so much effort trying to figure out if they could that they never stopped to think whether they should.

It seems like the opportunity to use this image comes up nearly daily lately:

Send help.

Every time you see a Grimreaper thread, I want you all to remember…

Star Trek really ought to explore that more – assimilated non-humanoids. Spaceborne species like gormaganders, maybe changelings, 8472 could make another appearance and this time the borg can assimilate them.

There was a Star Trek: Voyager themed arcade shooter (the kind that had a lightgun that you fired at the screen) that had this guy in it. Definitely went a little off canon, but that was a good thing, I think. They called that assimilated hulk dude a “Chaotic Assimilation” and explained in some of the lore that his physiology was resistant to assimilation and he was kindof half-assimilated or some shit. That was awesome stuff.

Well, 50% is “at least 15%”.

Written by true sleezebags.

So build your own. ;)

I break this image out a lot but:

Open Source that shit. (If you want to get it to a more “done” state first, that’s fine.) The world can always use more FOSS.

Hmm? OpenMW works great on my Gentoo machine. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I’m in the middle of my first playthrough of Morrowind on OpenMW. (I mean, it crashes sometimes, but not often enough that it’s a problem. Oh, OpenJK had a progression-halting bug when I last played it on Arch, but I got around it.)

I was saying that even with as good as Wine and Proton have gotten for playing Windows games, good quality FOSS engine reimplementations are preferable to Wine/Proton, and it would be great if we could get to the point where 90% of Windows games had FOSS engine reimplementations that would a) allow people to play natively without Wine or Proton, b) remove antifeatures, c) improve the modding scene and otherwise give more insight into how the games work mechanics-wise, d) make more options for engines from which to fork and make new games, e) let me simply increase the FOSS-to-proprietary-software ratio on my personal systems, f) let folks in the community contribute to it, etc.