This goes back really far with Blizzard. I think it was 2000 or 2001 when they sent a cease and desist to an open source project called bnetd. It let you host your own Warcraft I/II and Starcraft games. It could also allow people to use pirated betas of Warcraft 3 in multiplayer mode on a local network. Back in this year, Counterstrike was still a mod and everyone hosted games locally using the free Half-Life server Valve provided (that could run on Linux).

Gamers should have turned away from games that didn't allow local hosting, but not enough did and here we are.

Yes, people back in the 90s withdrew cash and put everything in its own envelope. They paid bills in person and never used a check or card. You might think it's dumb, but for people with poor spending habits, it was the only way to get things under control. I heard a number of financial people on the radio recommending this.

It's now impossible. I've never needed to do this myself. I'm good at managing my money and have a lot of savings, but I know people who used the envelop method and it really kept them on track.

Bills? pff. I spent it on drugs and alcohol.

There are some people who don't want credit card or debit cards and gift cards allowed them to budget and avoid uncontrolled spending. For people concerned about privacy, it let them pay for games in cash.

I know scammers are a problem. I see the signs on the gift card rack at Publix. I haven't bought one in years for anybody. But I still feel like this is the wrong direction. It's another step in eliminating cash and moving us towards digital only currency. You will one day not be allowed to selling anything on FB/Craigslist without paying sales tax for it, even used. That's the way EU is in many countries there now. Transactions above a certain amount in cash euros are banned.

> if you decide to live like the Unabomber

Ted Kaczynski was likely created by the CIA MKUltra program:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski

This feels like a gaming advert disgusted as news story.

It runs on macOS and Linux. A lot of the core devs are on mac. They want Windows too, but don't have the devs.

I still use Librewolf for now, but I hope Ladybird makes it. I totally understand their denial of public pull requests in this environment. The LLM age has made things toxic and ain't nobody got time to groom through all the slop.

Servo is held by a shit company at this point. Fuck Firefox and let's hope for a decent Ladybird.

You have never heard about it?! It's literally been talked about everywhere in the open source world for months! I try a build every few months and it shows so much promise. We need a real alternative to Gecko (Firefox), Webkit (Safari) and Blink (Chrome) desperately. I really like listening to the Ladybird video updates. I really want this engine to succeed to be a new potential daily driver.

You will hear about it again, or at least we should all hope everyone does.

I think that statement is more about expected value .. if you teach x course and based on y students coming in, if you have a strong course, even with enrollment filter, you're still going to expect 7% failures.

That is valid against this particular argument, but the removal of ACT/SAT tests does not help any students. It's another variable that I do think contributes to the current situation and should be reversed, but not the all out reason.

All but the "probably just kill yourself" part. Kill the Epstein-class instead. Most people use to agree pedos get the wood chipper ... but it doesn't seem that way anymore.

There is plenty of Bureau of Land Management land in Nevada with a population of 0 per million acres. Build it there, where they'll need to pay employees out the ass to build and maintain it.

Box Elder County is 100% right here. Just look at how they're being treated by their elected officials, who are lying saying none of the protestors even live there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In an earlier time period, these elected offices would be removed from their homes and their families would be made to watch it burn to the ground if they ignored the will of the people like this.

Looks way better than the new God of War gameplay trailer. (There's a cube named Frank in it. The writing is terrible, even for a game).

It's interesting they're calling this one "Tomb Raider" since for a while they reserved that for the new series (Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider) and stuck with "Laura Croft: whatever" for the classic look. Of the new ones, the first one (2013) was good, but Rise was kinda the same and Shadow was so BORING.

I guess they've given up on that very and have gone back to the original Laura Coft.

The Internet Archive was compromised during their "hack" in 2024:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

There is a ton of stuff already missing. Meanwhile, "reporters" have gone out trying to dox the owner of archive today. Yes, he shouldn't have changed an archived we page in retaliation trying to dox the doxer. That was stupid. Wikipedia immediately started migrating away from archive.is links, but they're also a horribly corrupt propaganda organization as well:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

These "news" (propaganda) organizations do not care about information, accuracy or archival. They care about people bypassing paywalls. They care about people calling them out when they change headlines and rewrite the past. Everyone has seen the super-clips of every news stations repeating the exact same talking points (search for "dangerous to our democracy" super-cuts, or the super-cuts of Amazon ads disguised as news stories). This is probably because a lot of local stations are owned by a very small number of companies (like Sinclair Broadcast).

It's all bullshit. Your media isn't free. If China's media is 1984 (obviously restricted), the US/EU media is Brave New World (looks like its free when real independent outlets are never allowed to gain a real audience).

I don't know what your argument is. Thomas is allowed to be wrong sometimes, like in this case he's clearly in the wrong as the lone dissenter. Congress long advocated these powers to executive agencies. So it is constitutional. Congress could dismantle the FCC and limit its powers anytime it wants. It won't because those idiots can never agree on anything.

The fines don't stop a jury trial. The telocos can just not pay them and be taken to court; arguing their case before a jury. They know they'd lose, so this was a bullshit way to try and prevent that.