If you saw the front of goatse guy, you'd see he had a plastic bag over his head.

I am envious of you getting to experience Mass Effect for the first time. If there was a pill that could wipe my memory before replaying, I'd pop it without reading the side effect warnings.

Sure, but in the past the feds have auctioned off crypto with no shenanigans. Just thinking Occam's Razor here.
/. doesn't allow editing or deleting of comments. Wonder if I'll read this in a year and feel dumb. :)

They don't need to. "We took your money and there's nothing you can do about it."

No, the ledger will only show where it was sent to. If this crypto gets laundered through Monero or Zcash (or other anonymizing crypto), then that pretty much proves it wasn't the feds.

I'm betting it is an exit scam to avoid paying their criminal affiliates.

Seems that podcasts are the only things that use RSS anymore,

My torrent and usenet feeds disagree.

Ah yes, that is correct.

Rama was 16 km across and 50 km long iirc.

Maybe I'm sheltered, but I've never heard anyone clamouring for a phone with one fold, let alone two.

I would like nothing more than to see that self-important goof fade away back to obscurity.

I picked up an M1 MacBook Air (16 GB, 1 TB) in December and the thing is a monster, still impressed by it.

Only downside for me has been virtualization, but I've been testing Parallels (ARM) and UTM (basically a QEMU wrapper). Both work well enough and UTM can emulate all sorts of systems, but it's not the fastest. Good in a pinch.

Yeah, the lad seems to think "the internet" is the web. Wish I had mod points for hte Eternal September reference.

We have Netflix, Prime, and Criterion Channel. If there's a movie or TV show that looks good on any of these, I still download it to the NAS.

It avoids their profiling and ensures we still have it after it is inevitably pulled out of rotation, also will usually have crap like warnings and such edited out.

They'll come back and I'll be laughing.