I don’t usually pirate content in spanish, but whenever someone asks me for it, I always go to the latest blocked domain list from the govt to find piracy sites. It’s such a nice and convenient list with all the latest sites.

I don’t even need to use a VPN, since most of the blocks are just DNS. I have my own DNS resolver using unbound at home, so none of those blocks affect me.

Or the fact that a ton of indie forums had to close or go private because of the excessive scraping.

The funniest thing about this is that Apple used the same excuse to defend parts locking. And every other company that limited the user’s right to repair and upgrade their purchased products.

It’s all BS. A company cares only about money, and they couldn’t care less about your product performing slightly less than optimally, if it ever does. Apple did it for profit, car manufacturers did it for profit, John Deere did it for profit and Raspberry Pi did it for profit.

Well, if they don’t eat, shower, take a walk or rest, never clean their clothes, do any chores or have free time, they can still sleep for ~7h after they park the truck and make sure the load is still secured.

That’s totally not slavery!

Back when I was at school, we had a teacher who noticed everyone drew penises on the walls/tables/whatever. So she started telling people to draw pussies instead, to balance it out. That was a fun teacher.

(Yes, a bunch of pussies started appearing around, but they never surpassed the penises, sadly)

Nitter is currently dead. xcancel hints at potential legal issues (yes, a second wave), and this time it looks serious because a lot of frontends are straight up dead.

Great Again?

I used Kagi a bit before reading that article, and it was definitely better than Google (tho, at this point, it’s a low bar).

I have found Qwant to be equally good. But beware, it also has AI stuff. I really wish there was a real no-nonsense search engine without any AI in it, that just worked.

Their leadership, business model and finances are sketchy, and the AI stuff being opt-in is a byproduct of their marketing. They are an AI company, and their product is an AI. Kagi Search was just a stepping stone to reach their goal.

This is a nice read on Kagi: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

The irony of Kagi, a for profit AI company, doing this

What causes accidents are not the cars and conditions you see, but the ones you don’t.

Humans aren’t machines, they make mistakes. And cars have a lot more blind spots than we realize.

That’s why we have rules. If we are predictable and follow the rules, even when we don’t see anything that could stop us from taking a shortcut, then we’re being considerably safer.

Keep in mind that, on the road, it’s not just your own safety you need to ensure. An accident can also harm other people, so the more reason to prevent them.

I never had an issue with a GTX 1660 Ti on Arch. It’s been 5 years.

Older cards (in my case, the 970 M iirc) are slightly more annoying because Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore. So you can’t just install the generic, up to date, Nvidia driver package. You have to use Nvidia’s website to find the latest driver that supported them, and then install that one through your distro’s package manager.

Afaik, Nvidia supports all cards from the 16xx series upwards in their driver, as of right now.

Idk, it costs me 3€ to get a 250g pack of ground coffee. 5€ to get a 250g pack of sustainable zapatista coffee. I can make many cups with a single pack. And yet, the price for a single espresso is usually 3€ or more in my area.

Of course the beans are always getting more expensive, but it’s still nowhere close to that price.

Actually, I think the main issue is the getting rid of them part. There’s billions of them, they’re small and they reproduce fast.

There are lots of species of mosquito, and yes, they are essential to the ecosystem. But very few species actually bite humans. Some studies have argued that not a lot would happen if you eliminated just those species.

If that doesn’t work, insulting it and telling it you’re gonna kill yourself because of its bad answers triggers a lot of warnings and filters that usually get you to a human way faster.

It’s sad we’ve reached this point.

It has a headphone jack!

I already like this phone.

A coworker put it better than I ever could:

“Microsoft is the only company which has ever managed to make a shell that takes 10 seconds to autocomplete”

And I think that’s poetry.

(Yes, I know there are many more reasons why pwsh sucks, but there’s beauty in the simplicity of this one)

Management is obsessed with the cloud and “serverless”, because it’s cheaper short-term, and they don’t have to care about eventualities like hardware breaking.

Long-term, it would be far cheaper and way more secure to host locally, especially for data storage.

But we all know long-term thinking is something that management can’t do. And of course, the PR doesn’t help at all.

At a lower efficiency than before, and a lot of stuff now won’t get blocked because of the limit in definitions.

I can’t tell you about the text, but the whole site is vibe coded. The CSS, the js, everything. Which doesn’t really inspire much confidence on the text, especially as it’s explaining how to bypass the claude detector.