Go ahead, tell us how you really feel about the crusades. I’m not saying I disagree, but I think the church he’s leading still has a lot of reconciliation to do with its past. No better time to start than now. They need to start being honest with themselves before anyone else should bother to take them seriously.

Genocide, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing are also some words nobody likes. I wonder why people don’t like those words. Maybe they have a good reason.

Babe, wake up, the new Nazi memorabilia just dropped!

… this is going to age like unpasteurized milk in an outhouse. I hope most of them end up in landfill where they belong.

Let the global toilet paper RAM hoarding begin!

I can’t wait until they all realize they have way too much. Sign me up for the firesale, please.

I interpreted it to mean “troll your friends with it” and I just took that and ran with it, but honestly I have no idea and I might be completely wrong, that’s what I’m going to stick with though.

I’m honestly surprised it’s not the #1 most pirated movie of all time exactly for this reason.

No, that is what it would be if we were using traditional, deterministic compression and using a reversible and verifiable mapping of data. But this is the new era of memetic compression, “Pied Piper” is what everyone remembers from the show, so we compress it to “Pied Piper” to minimize the amount of memetic overhead and allow the smallest possible compression artifact. Like with “AI”, it doesn’t need to be correct, just close enough for people to think it is! /s

He probably still has stock options he needs to vest. Can’t let the bubble pop yet, there’s still money to be squeezed out of it.

wat. “hard to get anything to run”? It’s probably hard if you’re completely new to it, yeah, but Is that just because you don’t know how to use proton and wine? were you trying to pirate linux native versions? Were you using a gaming-oriented distro? And do you know how that distro is supposed to work?

Most Linux distributions you’ve heard of before like, this year, are probably boring, “stable long term support” (out of date) corporate-office-based and programmer-friendly distros and trying to run games on them is like trying to run Windows games on Windows Server Edition. It’s a nightmare, because it’s not intended for gaming, and everything is going to feel like a horrible hack because it is and it sucks don’t do that.

Use Gaming distros for gaming. Use Windows versions of games. Don’t overthink it, pretend you’re on Windows. Forget you’re on even Linux, this is Windows 12 Nobara Edition. Let Proton and Wine and Bottles and launchers like Heroic handle the dirty work of actually managing all that shit for you. There are a few things you will need to figure out how to translate the Windows-focused installation instructions the lazy pirate guys tell you into Linux-compatible installation instructions, because nobody is going to do that for you. It’s not hard, it just takes a little bit of experience and knowledge, which you probably don’t have yet. But once you do, you’re off to the races and everything runs fine. There might be a few hiccups here and there, but there are when you’re first setting up Windows too. Most of the time, with most stuff, it just fucking works. Source: trust me bro.

You might be underestimating how much damage a .22 round to can do to something, especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume. Yeah, .22s are small by bullet standards and have low stopping power, but they’re still lethal.

That said, if you’ve got a 308 handy, that’ll work reliably too. You won’t be silencing it, but feel free to blow a hole clean through one of these machines and enjoy the fireworks when its battery lights off.

There are plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She’s a pilot president now.

I know I can probably find this specific link if I go hunting for it, but I’m wondering if anyone knows of a community/tracker/source where these sort of videos and torrents tend to get posted. I’m curious about lots of political data dumps and leaks, particularly Epstein related stuff, and even conspiracy stuff sometimes, even though I’m not super into conspiracies sometimes it’s interesting, and goddamn does Youtube get tiresome for that sort of content with its ‘unaliving’ and bleeping out ‘s**cide’ and all the tedious censorship. The post mentions the data hoarder subreddit, which I’ve lurked around before but a) reddit sucks and b) I’m wondering if there are alternatives.

It might be the end of GPL-type licenses. But, at least as far as I’ve understood it, the point of copyleft was to use copyright against itself in the first place, because copyright sucks, and at the end of the day we don’t really want copyright OR copyleft. They’re both asserting “ownership” of stuff that honestly belongs in the public domain free to all humans to use (in an ideal world, that doesn’t contain evil corporations that are considered people for some reason). We already know copyleft open source has been widely abused in proprietary software. This is not new nor surprising. We gave them the richly deserved middle finger whenever we could find out they did it before, and we hate it, but it was never “the end” of open source software because making it publicly available is precisely the defiance we are ultimately aiming for and we will always do that no matter how much they steal it and make it closed source.

People making closed source software are the enemy, and our war of freedom against them continues regardless of what tactics they use to demean our efforts while they make their closed source software. We will never let them win. They think they’ve found a new way around the GPL, that’s a shame, but so be it. The arms race will continue, but open source will not go away, because the point of it has nothing to do with meekly relying on the law to allow open source to exist, that’s just a method that has been used, with some success, and allowed a lot of people to turn it into a livelihood, and it will be a terrible shame to lose that.

Those things are not the true goal of open source though. The intention of open source, is to not let proprietary, hidden software dictate the fate of humanity and we will do it for as long as we have to. We’ll do it if we’re protected by copyleft, we’ll do it if we’re not. We’ll still do it even if they make it illegal, and we’ll call it reverse engineering, hacking, and piracy if we have to. Because the information and code that humanity relies on must be free, not owned.

It always gets dark before the dawn. This system sucks and is evil. I expect its collapse to be even more evil, but I’m looking forward to building something better.

Ironic that they have their repos hiding behind Cloudflare, then.

That may have been the intention but I doubt it ever worked as effectively as they claimed it would. Besides, it will probably cost at least 1 AI data-center of carbon emissions to continuously surveil all these people with TPMS sensors, so the argument could be made that you’re actually reducing carbon pollution at this point by removing yours.

I’m going down the rabbit hole and people are forced to queue up for what I’m assuming is the equivalent of a serial key?

Not quite. A serial key is permanent, it lasts forever, although some software did try to use online and update services to identify bad serials this was trivial to block, because it’s essentially trying to backpedal a valid key into an invalid one. It only needs to be valid once, then you make sure to block anything that invalidates it afterwards (usually blocking the update servers at the DNS level), job done.

That’s different from a token. Tokens use something along the lines of at least rolling-code type security, similar to how your car keys or garage door opener keep generating new codes so someone with a scanner can’t just record the code it uses once and then have that be copied and replayed over and over again indefinitely. The trick with a token like this is that you need to keep updating it or it becomes invalid after some timeframe or number of uses. Hence the online activation. That’s required to get your next token or set of tokens.

They would be. That’s why you don’t tell them. If you’re treating your insurance company as your friend not an adversary, you probably don’t understand how their profits grow year over year.

I’ve been driving for 30 years. Do you want to guess how many times that’s happened to me?

Meanwhile, I’ve apparently been living in a totalitarian surveillance state for at least a few years now, and you know how many times that’s happened to me? I’ll give you a hint, it’s more than the number of times I’ve run over a nail causing me to drive around on low tire pressure without knowing it.

Despite our governments (well, one of our governments) the Canadian and American people still care for and look out for one another.