I’m willing to bet the new daily active users are largely bots. I remember Facebook pulling this shit last year: bots will count as active users, presumably so they can just keep adding bots and tell shareholders their active user base is growing. It’s all such a scam.
In which country that the USA hasn’t fucked around with has this worked out? Anyone who tries either gets invaded or the opposing minority gets a lot of funding from the CIA to ruin it. Countries nationalising the means of production makes it difficult for the festering capitalism to take advantage of them, so they must be stamped out a quickly as possible
Clickspring is awesome. Half the time I have no idea what he’s talking about, but it’s so soothing to watch a master at work that I can’t stop watching.
I’m sure the only thing they don’t have an issue with is the name “white house”.
Challenger exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. And after that, Pan Am 103 exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
Is this what alpha feels like? Are we all feeling alpha yet?
I was just wondering if anyone else saw that movie in their formative years and instantly got irrationally freaked out by this image.
Oh cool. Thanks, I’ll check it out.
In a similar vain, I enjoy rewatching Chernobyl and thinking “what if this happened in the USA instead?” I just can’t imagine the government and people mobilising that quickly. Everything would have to wait for tender responses, companies would price-gouge for their efforts, people wouldn’t take “you will do it because it needs to be done” as an answer. The catastrophe would be way worse and clean up would have taken longer.
Ahhh good old QDOS. What a piece of shit.
I was really looking forward to seeing the takedown, but unfortunately it just skipped to the end. I wanted to see the moment of realisation this pos had before getting his head caved in.
Agreed. I should have said letting the anticheat THINK it has kernel access, the same way WINE makes Windows programs think they’re on a Windows machine. I know this is an oversimplification and frankly I don’t even know what kernel-level looks like, but there has got to be a workaround that doesn’t drain resources too much.
Why? I have written a lot of custom macros and created forms to assist filling data fields in large spreadsheets. I have written macros that can open a CSV, comb through the contents and pick out the data I need to fill workbooks.
I’m not saying I’m especially tied to VB itself, I actually find it to be a pretty stupid language, but I do miss being able to write my own functions and effectly use Excel as a pre built GUI for whatever I’m trying to do. If there’s an alternative in Libre Office that I’m missing please point it out.
“Musk partisan effect”
Fucking hell, these people can euphemism their way out of anything. It’s the Musk Is A Fucking Nazi effect. Just say it as it is. How is this guy still allowed to be a director of a company that he is actively hurting? Are there no laws regarding fiduciary duty? Shareholders ought to be rearing him to shreds, not voting to pay him more.
That’s great and all but the two things that hold me back from going 100% Linux are kernel-level anticheat, and lack of graphics card acceleration in virtual environments. Once we have those I’ll be happy.
Visual Basic added to Libre Office would be really nice too, but I get that it’s not particularly feasible.
“I’ve totally got a story, but people doubted my premise without hearing my story, so now I’m not going to tell you”
Yeah OK mate. I forgot 12 year olds have healthcare-related stories.
Wow! Is the chair invincible too? Is the invincible in the room with us?
Wait a minute wait a minute. Do you mean to tell me that if you look after your population instead of making them miserable, then the outcome is good? But, but, where’s the ProFIt MOtiVe? Where’s in incentive? People won’t just work and make themselves a functioning part of society just to make themselves feel good! They need a whip. And chain. And constant threats of easily treatable illnesses going untreated if they don’t comply.
Unbelievable.
Apart from politics, which is always pretty up and down, my two biggest concerns for the world are
Nobody seems to know how to build things any more. Watching companies fumble around trying to build almost anything that has the same usable life as something built 60 years ago, with fewer materials and almost no computers, is infuriating.
The environment is in a MUCH worse state. I was born in the 80s and I can say anyone my age or older who tells you climate change is a myth is either lying or never went outside. I remember seeing large flocks of birds overhead several times at dusk. Now there’s almost nothing. Insect- and bird-life have largely collapsed, forests look sad and unhealthy, we are getting hot days earlier in the year and rainfall is nowhere near as consistent as it used to be. Do humans move farmland to places where rain now falls? Nope, they pump the rivers dry and make even more problems downstream. The situation is unsustainable and, with so many global leaders in the pockets of oil and gas companies, it is going to get a lot worse.
That said, I would say general quality of life, especially through medical advances has made a lot of people’s lives better.
You can’t make it any less ugly either, apparently.