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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Since dslreports shut down and Geist decided to devote his blog to defending Israel instead of covering this stuff, I have no idea any more how to keep track of what's going on at the CRTC with respect to all this bullshit mismanagement of the once-great TPIA system. Looks like I didn't miss much and it's still broken in the same way it has been for ten years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been "hunted for sport" by a Zoroastrian.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Okay, you got me. Half an hour reading about all the different types of clouds.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Being able to recite a Satanic mantra in French is the level of language fluency you need to be prime minister.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Oh, only a third of all Americans. Practically nobody. Way down there in the less-than-five-billion user club with nodebb and mbin. Why even go there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

No particular reason but for that sort of thing I just do su -

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Won't play due to "VPN/proxy detected" — first time I've seen that on youtube. Oh well, guess I'll have to turn to piracy and watch the whole session later. Suzuka is the best.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I like to actually log in as root on a terminal to do admin stuff, never got into sudo really. Old habits, you know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Wow, extremely not a good time to bring up that particular bullshit. I had to double-check that the date on it wasn't April 1.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a sudden unexplained jump in the number of simplified Chinese users counted in the previous survey, few of whom run linux apparently. It was probably some kind of error because their number has now gone back down. People expected it because that's not the first time it happened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The labels are there in the current version on the page. The lines are at intervals pf 10% starting at 0.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You can tell I'm not very good at thinking like Danielle Smith because I called it the "fossil fuel industry." In fact I am known to hold extremist views, such as that we should stop using oil and gas.

 

NPCs keep the outfit even after uninstalling SPID or mods that distributed those outfits.

Oh damn, THAT was the problem with SPID 7.2RC1? I'm okay with that. I'm not one to uninstall things and not expect problems. According to tonight's test results that's the version that successfully distributes outfits that get equipped (unlike the previous version) and doesn't crash (unlike the newer RC builds.) It's no longer available on nexus but you can find it on github.

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So You've Become a Russian Asset (www.bugeyedandshameless.com)
 

The TL/DR is this: The allegation that David Pugliese is a Russian asset has floated around Ottawa for about a decade — often with various degrees of evidence behind it. It was in recent years that these documents, which appear to be real and which were furnished by Kyiv, were sent to Canadian intelligence agencies and were seriously investigated. While Pugliese has proved himself to be a willing customer for Russian disinformation, and while I believe he hasn’t appropriately disclosed his relationship with the Russian embassy, the idea that he is a paid agent of the Russian government is probably false.

But recent Kremlin influence operations have blurred the lines between asset and useful idiot. They invite us to, as I said repeatedly during my statement at committee, get serious.

 

Things they should teach in primary school: 1. Never give your phone number to a web site.

 

As opposed to Bill C-63, which pushes [age verification bullshit] far into the future and behind closed doors through an opaque regulatory process, our new Conservative legislation will directly legislate [age verification bullshit] that online operators must adhere to.

 

If you routinely start #steam in offline mode and it suddenly stopped working in the past few days (first time I ever saw such a thing), you may be able to fix it by temporarily taking it out of offline mode as described on github.

 

Not only did Ichiriki win the finals, he won it 3-0! I love it that a Japanese top player was finally able to win the most prestigious international go title (for the first time actually), after decades of Japanese pros having a reputation of not really being a match anymore for Korean and Chinese pros. I enjoyed watching this review Michael Chen 1p AGA made about all the games in the match: That video is more than 2 hours long, but it’s not boring at all ...

 

phase 1: Don't care about diet. phase 2: Try to lose weight. phase 3: Don't care at all about diet. phase 4: Ascetic diet of mostly rice and peanuts. phase 5: Vitamin A deficiency. phase 6 (current): Carefully fine-tuned diet designed with nutrition calculator.

I can't explain it, that's just how it went.

 

Act 1: It started with some fun little quests to introduce you to the narrative style. The fights were too hard, so I improved my character stats until I could handle them. It's not easy to know when there's no choice but to go along with whatever is suggested, and when you can do something else, but I guess I got it more or less right.

Act 2: A nice meaty dungeon crawl. My efforts to make my character stronger paid off, the difficulty was just right.

Act 3: Holy shit it's too hard suddenly. One does not level up quickly in my version of Skyrim, maybe that's why. At one point there's an option that suggests you can skip the whole thing, but I didn't take it and would guess it probably isn't so easy. I had to resort to stealth archery and I didn't bring a lot of arrows. Some horror game stuff of a kind I don't normally enjoy, but it was well-executed. It was a pretty long slog.

Act 4: Okay we're in Dark Souls now. Except the boss fights are even longer. I had a legendary weapon, shiny superhero armour, lots of magic resistance, a good healing spell, all the equipment a skyrim paladin could want, and yet even some of the non-boss fights took a lot of time and effort. Hit, dodge, run, heal, repeat. Forever. To be fair I do have the difficulty settings turned up pretty high. I wandered around lost for a very long time. Some of the battles were epic. There was only one area I had a really hard time with: There doesn't seem to be any resisting the tentacle attacks so they were pretty much instant death.

The ending was quite good and made it all seem worthwhile.

 

Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

 

If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need is shim-signed_1.39+15.7-1_amd64.deb from bookworm-proposed-updates.

 

The problems on this site were created using neural nets to automatically extract positions for each rank from high-level games where the neural net thought the next move would be instinctive for a pro but might be educational or non-obvious for players of that rank.

Trying to get back into the game a little, and I've just noticed that https://neuralnetgoproblems.com/ is still online! Whole-board positions from real games, asks you to predict the next move. It's really good if you enjoy that sort of thing.

 

Well here's a linux modding tip: Turn off ESYNC and FSYNC when running DynDOLOD. If it randomly goes wrong in the middle of its hour-long run, that could be the problem.

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