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GOG started a new campaign against DRM
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@boomzilla It must be a very slow day in the news. Though I suppose mushroom lore is much rarer in America.
Around here most people pick mushrooms at least occasionally, and therefore most people can recognise some known-edible species and know to leave any others well alone. Still somebody manages to fuck up now and then, but it totally isn't news-worthy.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
It must be a very slow day in the news.
It's from the local section of the paper, so that sort of story is kind of expected.
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Though I suppose mushroom lore is much rarer in America.
We have grocery stores instead.
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The tiny 129MB application contains Windows 95. It’s complete with apps like Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint and Minesweeper.
Amazingly, it isn’t too intensive on computer resources either. When running, Windows 95 only uses about 200MB of RAM and it hovered around 25 percent CPU usage.Meanwhile, in 1995:
Official system requirements were an Intel 80386DX CPU of any speed, 4 MB of system RAM and 50–55 MB of hard disk space depending on features selected.
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A-yi-yi-yi...
https://i.imgur.com/SXrrxHT.png
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Everybody hates the Jews.
[the People's Front of Judea are breaking into Caesar's palace. However, they become distracted by the Campaign for a Free Galilee, a rival organisation with the same plan, and a fight breaks out]
Brian: People, we should be struggling together.
PFJ member: [in a headlock] We are!
Brian: No, we should be rising up against the common enemy.
All: The Judean People's Front?!(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian)
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@sockpuppet7 splitters.
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@TimeBandit That graphic says "Return to Windows" never worked, but I kind of miss the days when you could contradict the BSOD. Like "Fuck you, you didn't just BSOD; pretend you didn't do that." It would work for me in some rare circumstances.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"When I was a child, my parents moved house a lot. I always found them eventually though"
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So many threads to choose from -
Brexit
?Poe or Noe
? Think I'll leave it here though. Just for the headline. Article itself is rather dull...
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And one where the article is worth a read..
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@PJH
Although there are some that do seem to have been made that way.
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Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
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@JBert quoted in In other news today...:
breaking and accelerating without reason
Yeah, that site does suffer a lot from ESL, I guess we'll have to ask @Luhmann if he knows a better source.
English is probably a bit further down the list than second language.
Admirable in a way.
I thought danish was a pastry.
And finnish is for when you're done talking.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
more common with EFL users than ESL ones
English as a Foreign Language as opposed to English as a Second Language?
For some people, Everything is a Foreign Language.
Evenespecially their first language.
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@djls45 Only when you're russian into things.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I thought danish was a pastry.
And finnish is for when you're done talking.Want to hear me count to ten in Indian?
<singing> One little, two little, three little....
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Once more, the lies have made it around the world before the truth even got its shoes laced up...
In a website published before r00tz Asylum, the youth section of Def Con, organizers indicated that students would attempt to hack exact duplicates of state election websites, referring to them as “replicas” or “exact clones.” (The language was scaled back after the conference to simply say “clones.”)
Instead, students were working with look-alikes created for the event that had vulnerabilities they were coached to find. Organizers provided them with cheat sheets, and adults walked the students through the challenges they would encounter.
Josh Franklin, an elections expert formerly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a speaker at Def Con, called the websites “fake.”
“When I learned that they were not using exact copies and pains hadn’t been taken to more properly replicate the underlying infrastructure, I was definitely saddened,” Franklin said.
Franklin and David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, also pointed out that while state election websites report voting results, they do not actually tabulate votes. This information is kept separately and would not be affected if hackers got into sites that display vote totals.
Braun provided ProPublica with a report that r00tz plans to circulate more widely that explains the technical underpinnings of the mock websites. They were designed to be vulnerable to a SQL injection attack, a common hack, the report says.
Franklin acknowledged that some state election reporting sites do indeed have this vulnerability, but he said that states have been aware of it for months and are in the process of protecting against it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the IT security industry:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1400177
Makes a change I suppose...
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the garment description reads: ‘We LOVE this statement jacket for festival season teamed over grey cycling shorts and add reflective boots to complete this eccentric look.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Circle K
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“This was the last day Plaintiff ever saw defendant Fleet,” according to the suit.
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@loopback0 45 pounds seems reasonable, though... the description is wacky. What do they normally sell for?
Now some fashion brand selling off-the-shelf reflective vests for like 450 pounds because of fashion, that'd be news.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
What do they normally sell for?
The one in my car's trunk (not quite like that, short sleeves and without a hoodie) sold for like 5 bucks at Aldi.
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Huh. Microsoft's starting a plan where they sell consoles the way phone companies sell phones. You pay monthly for 2 years, get access to Xbox Gold and Game Pass, and end up paying... well slightly less than people who paid up-front.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
“This was the last day Plaintiff ever saw defendant Fleet,” according to the suit.
Ameer is suing Fleet for discrimination and retaliation
Huh? I don't get the discrimination part, shouldn't he be suing for sexual harassment?
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Via B3TA:
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
'mentally challenged' rabbit farmer
Tell me about the rabbits, George.
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When your wind turbine can be blown over by wind
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
When your wind turbine can be blown over by wind
To be fair, a typhoon is not just "the wind." Lots of things get blown over in a typhoon.
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More about Riot games and their (lack of) culture.
BONUS: actually good comments underneath the article
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@coldandtired This exact joke was in Catch-22, told by Doc Daneeka. Except the timespan was shorter.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
More about Riot games and their (lack of) culture.
BONUS: actually good comments underneath the article
What a whiner.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Casteel succeeded in returning to his home, where he grabbed two cans of Bud Ice Premium, cops say.
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A police spokesperson charitably described Casteel’s devotion to his suds as “poor judgment.”Indeed.
When I was a correctional officer, every few months the schedules were such that all of the officers were present on a day. On that day, we would systematically shake down the prison, or as much of it as we had time for. All of the inmates were locked in their cells until the shake-down team got to their cell. A team was shaking down one tier systematically. So it was not a surprise - everyone except for the first cell could see the progress of the team. They got to one guy's cell and he had a barrel full of jumpsteady (homemade prison wine). So this guy had at least an hour to flush his barrel in order to avoid certain lockup. But he just couldn't bear to do it.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
And a year later:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesia-woman-irked-mosque-noise-convicted-blasphemy-57303218
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
seen by many as a test for Indonesia's religious tolerance.
It failed.
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This behavior of male-on-male aggression seemed to be a mechanism of asserting control. If you got rattled by it or responded angrily, you were seen as immature
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
What a whiner.
Why, you'd like to work in such a shit show?
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