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Reminder that the mnemonic for the Great Lakes has changed from HOMES to SHAME, with America right in the middle of it. You couldn’t make this up.

As I understand it, it’s supposed to be a from-the-ground-up reimplementation of NT5 / Windows 2000 with maybe a handful of later tech squeezed in. Historically, it has borrowed heavily from the WINE project, though I’m not sure of the current state of play. It would certainly make sense to have continued to do so.

It’s intended to be compatible with any and all Windows software, but the goalposts keep moving and the number of steps they are behind increases faster still. At this point it’s barely more than a passion project for the devs, though many of us really want them to succeed.

(See also Haiku, which is a reimplementation and advancement of the contemporaneous BeOS.)

I’ve occasionally tried to get ReactOS to run in a VM for the nostalgia and to see something like the screenshots, but it never seems to work for me, not that I’ve tried this new version yet.

Canadian. I know that it’s only supposed to be product labelling, not recipes, that has to be bilingual, and the inclusion of gram measurements did make me uncertain, but the sugar is what tipped the balance.

I could be wrong and it’s Canadian or I’ve missed something about another Anglophone country also putting sugar in bread.

Why the fuck does he think it matters what someone from the Trump administration says?

The US has main character syndrome. It’s hereditary from Britain, who have managed to tone it down a bit in recent years.

English language with no French, cups as measurement and extra sugar in a bread recipe all point at this being a US recipe book.

They love extra sugar in bread over there. At some point the sugar lobby got in bed with the big breadmakers and since it’s addictive, it’s now an expectation and a self-fulfilling cycle.

So yeah, US bread is closer to cake than, say, European bread.

And that milk powder isn’t helping the case much either.

Came here to say something like this, except I learned it from the (rather dark) joke “The neutron bomb was invented by an architect with no friends.”

Quora is (supposedly) where everyone went after Yahoo Answers closed 5 years ago. Prior to that, it had been (arguably) the better of the two sites with significantly better questions and answers.

I had an account on YA because I didn’t feel clever enough to have an account there. Maybe I should create one now, ha.

Quick test: Say something unkind about Kim Jong Un.

I’m English. Our king has fat sausage fingers. Your turn.

There’s a saying about Yorkshire folk, probably invented by rival Northerners, but could just as easily have been a self-deprecation:

“Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred; Strong in t’ arm and weak in t’ 'ead.”

I think we’ve found the Yorkshireman the saying was about.

Source: Am Yorkshireman.

Condolences to his family. Double if they’re as daft as he was.

Can I pay with photocopies of cash?

Defederation of various forms would appear to make this a difficult thing to do.

There was a situation the other day where a post was called out for being a repost, but it was entirely possible that the OP couldn’t see the original because their instance (let’s say “A”) had defederated the instance (“B”) where the original poster was based. And all this was (or at least could have been) in a group on a different instance entirely (“C”).

I won’t say this makes it impossible, but it’s clearly non-trivial.

US to Canada: Bend over.

Canada: No.

US: You’ll enjoy it.

Canada: Are you serious?

US: You’re unreasonable.

Canada: You’re creepy and weird.

US: Well then I’ll rob my family under the guise of robbing you and you’ll have to watch them cry. What do you think about that?!

Canada: … ~leaves the room~

US, to family: This is all Canada’s fault. Bend over.

I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.

You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.

But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.

Tangential reply: The manner in which your 1TB drive “took a crap” might be cause for concern depending on the precise nature of the failure.

If the hardware is fine, you might be able to recover files on it. This possibility is diminished if you’ve reformatted and put new files onto it, and practically nil if you did a full drive wipe beforehand (or the failure, whatever that was, did something similar.), but the possibility might have been there and may still be there.

If the hardware is not fine, you probably shouldn’t use it for anything important, if at all.

This is all clearly Ukraine’s fault. If they’d simply capitulated right back at the start of the special military exercise, honest, hard-working Russians wouldn’t have these fuel problems.

(I shouldn’t need a /s, but it’s here anyway.)

They already do that, sort of. The last I heard, people watching with an ad-blocker also blocked the mechanism that incremented the watch counter. This may or may not have been deliberate. The interesting thing is that the video appears in people’s Watch History ad-blocker or not, so there was always an easy fix sitting in plain sight.

They told creators about the watch count problem along with at least one other secret thing that they said they weren’t allowed to talk about. Charlie / Cr1TiKaL / penguinz0 said as much as he could about it a few months back.

I think the secret thing was probably “we’re working on a way to get those view counts back, but don’t tell anyone because we want to discourage people from using ad-blockers and if you tell them they’re costing people views, it might convince them to turn it off.”

Assuming true, that’s all now out of the window because they’ve “fixed” the problem.

I expect another fierce attack on ad-blockers in Q4.

For the sake of ethnic origin, white South Africans are European, but I grant you that things are getting to the point of being somewhat complicated there too.

Black for Sub-Saharan African descent, sure. Things get a bit more difficult if you want to talk about north Africans.

Start with “NOPLATE”, “NCC1701”, “XXX” and “NULL”.

There might be others that have ended up in the news as a result of human (police or programmer) error, but just those four over fifty States is a good 200 to start with.

Had AI inflation not taken hold, I think most budget builders would still be opting for DDR4, so this headline feels like a non-sequitur to me.