Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

The fundamental problem with them is that the concept of “owning information” is ultimately absurd.

Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.

The security advisory is not viewable

Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It’s still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It’s really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It’s possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you’re doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.

As for the hardware, well, yes, that’s a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren’t too snobby about it. There’s a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you’re only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.

Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. “Your” stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it “downloaded” due to layers of DRM.

Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it’s real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content…

That list is missing like 50 countries that the US has majorly fucked up for money/oil/power in the last half century, do they not get a pass?

As another vegan: sorry, no, it’s not accurate. And the texture/meltiness is just completely off. It is similar enough for me to enjoy it and not want real cheese anymore. However, for many people (especially americans) cheese is some holy substance, so we do need to continue improving vegan cheeses for more people to jump.

I think the meme is a cliche of “haha you are in a relationship so your partner takes up all your time and you don’t have any time for your hobbies”. Which sounds like a pretty toxic relationship tbh

I made a really cozy and usability-focused setup like 10 years ago, and since I made it with NixOS+home-manager I’m just carrying it over with me. It is going strong after three device swaps, two moves to a new country, and meeting a partner, with some minor changes (i3 -> sway, Nord theme -> custom base16-based, pulseaudio -> pipewire, etc)

Soo, they piped a probabilistic token predictor straight into a root console of a customer-facing service, and it only caused an outage twice so far? They should consider themselves lucky.

It is not used correctly. The word UFO starts with a consonant in all major English dialects, as such the correct article is “a”, as in “a UFO”. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an

There was very very little to complain about with her.

• Promising full military support to a settler colony currently committing a genocide using US weapons
• Campaigning with fucking Cheneys and pandering to fascists
• Not promising any actual support for trans people, stopping at “I will follow the law”
• Abandoning universal healthcare push
• Not being actually voted on by anyone, instead just appointed by DNC
• Most importantly: she’s a neolib, and the working class has been suffering materially due to neolib policies for the past 50 years, people want change

There is a shitton to complain about her. If you are knowingly pushing the idea she was a good candidate you’re a genocide enabler.

I would’ve voted for her if I was in the US (because the alternative is slightly worse in many ways). But, moral qualms aside, it’s crazy to just shove a status-quo establishment neoliberal and expect people who are surviving paycheck-to-paycheck due to that very ideology to be excited about it.

I really hope “morging continvoucly” becomes a meme and is used to mock microsoft forever

That doesn’t sound like a good system security-wise TBH. I’d prefer if the employee had to enter the answer successfully on their end for the system to grant them the necessary access, otherwise it feels like a big opportunity both for internal snooping and for social engineering.

Here is translation from HR speak to English:

“fast-paced” - requirements change multiple times during each sprint

“exciting” - your manager will be an idiot

It’s funny you should say that, if you look at the living standards & human development before and after, it’s pretty clear that the revolution was overall a really good thing.

UK is clearly “shoes on” on the map though, it’s marked is green.

you will get errors on your errors.

Python3: hold my beer

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: