I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.

Did you know that there was no oxygen in earth’s atmosphere until a couple billion years ago, when some mischievous bacteria started pumping it out all over the place? It was called the oxygen catastrophe, and all that poisonous oxygen gas in the air is thought to have led to the evolution of many new things such as nuclear envelopes and sex. I like to remember it once in a while.

I still have a laptop with a tiny shrunken Windows partition on it in case I need it for some reason, but I’ve not actually booted it since installing debian. I can’t be bothered to figure out how to clean up the bloat, disarm the telemetry, avoid the online MS services, block the ads, dodge the bugs, wait for the updates, get used to all the various stupid ways the UI has changed since the win XP I was familiar with, et cetera.

Using Windows these days is just way too much work, I don’t know how anyone even does it.

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

Oh, I didn’t know nix was a package manager that’s available in debian. I might try it some day. Fortunately it’s not necessary to install it with sh < (curl) as recommended there.

foreign piracy in the United States

For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.

“After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player’s real-time movements.”

All the lines look blurry when you’re squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

Do people actually type out :split? I didn’t even know that existed, just it’s just ^Ws to me.

Such a truism does not really need a response.

A strong warning against distrohopping.

Pikers

1,759 mods published in the last 28 days on nexus.

I am taking a break from working on my Skyrim mod list to try getting into Baldur’s Gate 3 for a third time.

My first attempt, I picked “tactician” difficulty, didn’t make optimal choices for character build and party composition, and then quit at the end of act 2 when the fights got too hard. Then I tried honour mode, minmaxed everything, was getting by okay but quit in the middle of act two because playing that way was boring.

So now I’m playing at the default difficulty level, just relaxing and having fun like a normal person.

Using exclusively Linux on the desktop has been possible since 1997, when I switched to being mostly a linux user — what people mean by “getting closer” is that it’s much closer than it used to be to being completely automatic, requiring no effort or thought whatsoever. Obviously it will never quite get there; that is not a destination that exists in the real world.

Follow-up question: Can someone explain it in a goofy pirate accent?

Windscribe, although unless you pay an extra $2/month they time out and need to be reconfigured after one week.

they’re just manipulating the DOM

Imagine trying to explain that in court. Yes, your honour, it’s a sort of object-based model representing the document. No, it’s not really a model of an object exactly. Yes, it’s made of bits and bytes, the same kind as you would use in a computer program, but it has that in common with… no, it does not actually object to anything…

Probably some kind of translation error. They must mean “privacy”.

That must’ve been a pretty long shower.

There are many possible approaches, depending on the specifics of the game and the level of effort one’s willing to put into it. Plenty of techniques to choose from. Messing with the client-side OS kernel is one that will soon be looked back on as a ridiculous dead-end approach that wasted a lot of people’s time until we all realized it was futile, sort of like the way they used to use deliberate sector misalignments to produce disk i/o errors to prevent people copying floppy disks.