… Do people open docx and odt files in VIM? Fuckin why?

I’ve posted the script!

Basically it goes like this -

Imagine a stranger is standing over your shoulder with a notepad and a camera. Every couple seconds, he takes a photo of what you’re doing and writes down everything you’ve typed. Then, the man hands that information off to another person. When you ask what that person is going to do with the info, the stranger assures you that he’s a friend and your information is perfectly safe.

You don’t know what it’s being used for, and you can’t be certain that the second stranger will actually keep your information safe. What if he just tosses it into an unlocked file cabinet? Anyone can now just come along and grab your information. That could be something as simple as something you looked at on Facebook. Or, it could contain your banking login. You can’t be certain what they’re taking notes and photos of, and what they or the strangers they supposedly trust are going to do with your information…

So basically just explaining what Recall and data selling are using metaphor combined with a not insignificant amount of fear mongering. The best way I’ve found to explain 99% of computer concepts to lay people is to avoid mentioning a computer as much as possible. This varies depending on the age of the person, but most of the time I’m cleaning or setting up computers and laptops, I’m doing it for someone 50+

I do a lot of work setting up computers and laptops for people, mostly getting software they need installed and setting up ad blocking so I don’t need to come back later on and clean up a million viruses.

Lately, I’ve been offering a discount to people that allow me to get rid of windows entirely and install Linux, with the option to reinstall Windows for free later. I’ve had several people take me up on the offer, especially once I explain what Recall is to them. Only 1 has had me switch it back, and they needed to use some super niche piece of software that I just absolutely could not get running with wine no matter what I installed, and I suspect that it has something built in to make it not run on non-windows systems.

Basically, just explaining Microsoft’s security nightmare in a way that your average person can understand (and I mean a real average person, not the average person as people on Linux forums see them) has gotten over 2 dozen clients to switch over to Linux with minimal issues.

Also windows borking like 5 peoples SSDs certainly helped!

I’m always surprised that Deezer is still around. Who on earth is still using it?

Also, fuck iHeartRadio. Not for their royalties, but for buying up tons of local stations and stripping them of anything that made them even remotely worth listening to. Fuckers bought the only station in town that played any amounts of metal and turned it into yet another top 10s station

So uh… How much you want for it?

I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve already passed that for new content. I can’t search for anything nowadays without it being clearly AI written garbage, especially for guides for video games.

At least when someone on GameFAQs made some shit up it was a human being looking to troll you, not some statistical bullshit machine trying to generate page views for ad revenue

Really wish I could just use jQuery selectors in vanilla js. I don’t need the rest, I just want $ selectors

10/10 for their marketing team honestly

Thank you!

Not D&D, but Pathfinder -

My drow girl is the bastard daughter of the previous Emporer and a local prostitute. While her mother was made to disappear once my birth was discovered, the Empress was merciful to me and allowed me to live and train as a soldier, as long as I agreed to forsake any claims to any lands or titles. I accelled in training.

200 years later, she’s now the former captain of the empire’s army and former personal protector and basically older sister/ mother figure of the now-empress. Once while out in secret with the then princess, she fought off assassins that tried to kill the princess. She was successful, but took near mortal wounds in the process. Thanks to being so high ranking, she was immediately given the best care one can receive, though she was still left wounded enough that she would need time to fully recover, and was to spend a few weeks in a hospital in town.

Meanwhile, another player’s character, whose role in society is to provide mercy to those suffering, came into the same hospital. He was there to give a merciful end to someone else, but due to some sort of mix up in paperwork, he ended up killing me instead while I slept.

My character’s soul was pissed. She had survived over 200 years of combat and assassination attempts (elves) just to get killed by some low ranking priest that made a mistake. So, some entity that was holding my soul offered me a deal - agree to kill the priest who killed me and I’d be resurrected. I agreed.

She returned in her coffin in a mausoleum outside the city, already having started decaying, though it seemed to be stable. When she return****ed to the palace, they denied her entry, not believing her story due to me having been dead for 6 months. So, I decided to start investigating the priest, who had been let go once it was made clear that an honest mistake had been made. Turns out he was nearly across the continent on his mission trip, so my penniless character lived out in the woods, made friends with a bear, and waited 8 years for the priest to return.

Once he did, I sat down and forced him to talk. 8 years having passed, she found difficulty in remaining as angry as she had before, and something in her snapped. She decided to forsake the deal she had made, instead making a rash decision to instead help her murderer in his mission.

Almost immediately, she began rotting again. We start the campaign in a few weeks after having wrapped up one that went for 5 and a half years last week!

Hope that all made sense. It’s hard to summarize the like 7 pages of lore I sent my DM into a single comment.

An AWS employee, I see

Genuine question from an android and Linux user -

What did Apple do? Haven’t they historically been super pro-privacy? I remember several times they’ve refused to unlock phones for feds investigating crimes, regardless of the crime, as well as having some of the best privacy features on their phone

I’ve hosted IRC servers on a windows XP laptop that were more resilient and reliable than slack lmao

Easy - IRC worked way better and was way less miserable

I’d much rather have to use windows than shittier android ChromeOS

I’ve never quite managed to understand what the point of xHTML even was. Damn near all of the time, it was still sent as plain ole HTML

I mean, it doesn’t seem like an improvement jumping from Microsoft to Amazon. Still a massive POS company

Man, I just got my personal website running on GitHub pages last week, and I’m too broke to host it elsewhere and too lazy to host it myself

I have to know what on earth a photographic protest song would sound like. Is it just Fortunate Son with moaning?