Ok, here’s one about China’s current crimes: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/hong-kong-unexpectedly-canceled-one-of-its-biggest-lgbtq-events-china-may-be-to-blame/

What countries would you consider Marxists-Leninist?

Don’t forget about present failures. In Russia, you still can’t be gay and talk openly about it.

You mean get Microsoft to take it down? And then it goes back up on a self-hosted git repo? This does not enable Bambu, Microsoft, or anyone else to sue Rossman in China.

Does Rossman have any presence in China? If not, and if the files are hosted outside China, there’s nothing China can do.

I have to use Windows 11 at work. Whenever I complain about it to any of my friends, they say, “it’s easy to work around that. You just have to…” and then they say to modify some registry key, or set up a group policy, or run a powershell command, or use some cleaning tool.

But even if it’s easy to do that, it’s not easy.

1. You have to know about the key or the cleaning tool, and there’s a different one for every problem.
2. You have to keep up to date with the new user-hostile behavior introduced to Windows every month.
3. You have to keep up to date because Microsoft removes those circumventions, because they don’t want you to be able to remove their trash.
4. You have to vet the tools, make sure they’re not malware. And continuously make sure it’s not replaced by malware in the future. There’s no central repository of Windows programs like there is for Debian or Ubuntu, so if you just web search for the tool name every time, you might click on a malvertising link in the search results instead.

LLMs and current generative AI won’t. But there will be better AI systems in the future.

And consider the scale of the datacenters they’re building: New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses. They’re installing 9GW of natural gas turbines on site. They’re planning for better AI that will be much different from the current batch.

While we all know that current AI is much worse than human work, consider that they might just use it anyway, and not care that their product is shit.

Anyone got a mirror of the post? I’m getting this error message:

Sorry, a potential security risk was detected in your submitted request. The Webmaster has been alerted.

Reference ID: 18.a104d217.1777692249.4596f77

You can proceed to www.senate.gov.

If this problem persists, please contact the Office of the Secretary Webmaster at webmaster@sec.senate.gov.

Clicking the www.senate.gov link gives the same error message.

A car warranty lasts like 2 years. I can’t afford a car less than 2 years old.

$100-$500 according to the article. No discount for the biometric data they’ll sell.

Their proof doesn’t prove anything if they control the hardware and software scanning your biometrics.

In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78.

Where can I get lithium-ion batteries for $78 per kilowatt-hour?

This affects SD cards, which are extremely common and supported by open source operating systems. This affects Compact Flash cards, which use the same protocol as PATA hard drives, just a different connector.

Counterpoint: The Crosscode soundtrack.

Forest level: accordion, guitar, only a bit of flute, no violin.

Forest level 2: accordion, choir, and xylophone.

Forest level 3: steel drums, guitar, some other kind of guitar.

Ice level: flutes, bass guitar.

Ice dungeon: french horn, synthy violin.

Lava level: (none)

Desert level: Exactly what OP said.

Desert town: Totally different from what OP said.

Beach level: guitar, flute, piano, very little steel drums, no ukulele.

There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There’s nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.

Flash had a ton of vulnerabilities. It felt like one zero-day RCE per year.

Flash never had a good FOSS implementation until years after Flash Player was discontinued.

I was very happy about the death of Flash Player, but neutral on the death of the Flash format.

In an ideal world, the free market would punish AI investors for being so foolish. In reality, they’ll probably get a bailout when the bubble pops.

Are any of those apps FOSS?

I’m glad to see Visa suffer, but I’m pretty concerned that Wero requires a proprietary phone app. There is no way to shop using Wero without this proprietary software.

8 years ago, I sat with my then-girlfriend at her parents’ house thinking of things we wanted to watch. We thought of like 20 shows and films, and each one we looked up was not on her parents’ Netflix.

Netflix’s selection has only gotten worse since then.

Nothing anyone wants is on Netflix.