In a few years time, it’ll come to light how all the Tankies are members or affiliates of the GRU (probably ex Glavset - my guess is GRU absorbed Glavset after its supposed dissolution).

It’s like Joey with a thesaurus.

You can plug a DVD drive into the Steam Machine and it works.

This sounds infuriating, not just mildly infuriating.

I’ve a similar board. Long-short-short-short means no graphics adapter detected, and then that pause with one short beep I think means no keyboard detected.

Edit: ASUS have stopped putting the beep codes in their manuals for some reason so I don’t know where one is expected to find this information out. It was in my manual but that’s a much older model.

Framework upon framework, abstraction upon abstraction. In pursuit of consistency and ease of development, the art of computer programming was lost and replaced with careless consumption of resources.

Bandcamp rules. Not only can you buy music but many artists also sell merch, sheet music, art and more. It’s a great, one-stop-shop to support your favourite artists.

And if you keep a look out, Bandcamp regularly email about “Bandcamp Friday” which are defined Fridays where they waive their share of the sale meaning the artist gets the whole cut!

If this is the actual extension by Raymond Hill, it’s pretty trustworthy. They’ve been committed to keeping uBlock Origin open source, won’t sell data, and has stated they’ll never hand the project over, but simply archive the repo and let someone fork.

Ray got stung years ago when they tried to step away from uBlock (the original project, before uBlock Origin) and uBlock ended up getting taken over by the AdblockPlus lot. Ray doesn’t want to go through that again.

They’ve previously archived projects like uMatrix too, an example that they’re not looking to hand over projects to anyone again and leave it to the community to fork and maintain if they want to keep it alive without Ray.

If you’re concerned, fork the repo and maintain your own version so you can be sure it’s trustable.

I can hear the obituary getting prepared by killedbygoogle.com already.

It seems to have been a plan for a long time, given their huge shift to unified memory architectures across most of their hardware.

They’re pretty much the only vendor where you can cost-effectively deploy a foundational LLM locally.

I’d put money on it being a guerrilla marketing campaign with both companies in on it.

Λυπάμαι. Δεν μιλάω γαλλικά. ΧΑΜ-ΠΟΥΡΓ-ΚΕΡ!

Θα ήθελα ένα χάμπουργκερ, παρακαλώ.

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It’s what happens when someone with underdeveloped empathy gets caught doing something they know is wrong, resulting in emotional overload.

It’s textbook toddler tantrum.

With stunted empathy, people seeking an explanation and apology are met with increasingly greater resistance.

And like textbook, they claim to be the victim. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are lying about receiving death threats.

What’s crazy is they could have simply:

• Apologised
• Explained the intent to reduce toxicity
• Agreed there was a lack of transparency
• Refactored their existing “enable toxicity mode” feature into a clearer, toggleable blocklist feature

But no. They were caught while they were secretly trying to play internet dictator and refused to empathise with others that were hurt and shocked to find out a tool they were using was receiving undisclosed payloads to use to censor communities and individuals.

I strongly implore everyone to leave this developer alone. Jokingly asking to be added to the list etc empowers them to continue to play the victim. They do not deserve attention.

Don’t you just hold down your finger on their username and a menu pops up, with “block” being one of the options? That’s how it works for me.

.NET is arguably one of the better things to come out of Microsoft. The CLR only runs when a .NET application is running so it’s not bloat, and it’s pretty lightweight as far as a VM goes with JIT. It’s well documented, has public standards, is cross platform, and released under MIT.

I’m a Unix/Linux greybeard so I’ve no real skin in the game. But given how C# has become the defacto cross platform game development language of choice for both Godot and Unity engines, .NET deserves a little credit.

Valve technically sell at least one movie

I’m very much in that camp myself. I ducked out from consoles, having owned pretty much all of them since the Atari 2600, after the PS4. So many more amazing games on PC e.g. Song of Syx which would never work on a traditional console but is amazing on PC and even Steam Deck / Steam Controller.