I wish I still had time for advent of code…

Oh really? I’ve been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then?

What a ridiculous take, thanks for saving me the time

Well there’s some truth in that it’s not entirely it, the price is reduced because the data they get from tracking your spending habits has a value

They’re not pushing people to these cards for fun

And especially given the thugs beat up the literal police last time, they’ll treat all attendees with the same zero tolerance they displayed with the pensioners wearing Palestine action tee shirts …

Right…?

That’s a bit sad

They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time

The chances of a true philanthropist beating out the psychopaths currently at the top of the chain, is basically nil. They will always fight dirtier.

You need to ensure a government can exert power over the largest organisations in its country. If that ever becomes an issue, the organisation might start behaving as a de facto government of its own and start treating the actual government as a vassal.

Basically we need to kick corporatist politicians out of our governments before they finish rolling out the red carpet for the end of democracy, and start chopping up and/or nationalising these proto-megacorps. If only a few control the tools that put us all out of work, we’re not getting anything close to utopia.

I’m not recommending it, I’m describing why saying it adds no security is silly.

The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn’t mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user

If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it’s still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.

Well boot sector viruses used to be all the rage in the 90s, they’re entirely impossible under secure boot

Malware rootkits were a pretty big problem about a decade ago, I understand the techniques those mostly used are more or less impossible under secure boot now too

Then we could go into all the government and adjacent industry use cases where state-sponsored targeted attacks are a real concern. Measures like filling USB ports with super glue and desoldering microphones on company laptops is not unusual in those circles, so blocking unknown bootloaders from executing is an absolute no brainer.

Saying it provides no security is just not true. Your front door isn’t only secure if someone has failed to break in

You don’t have to

If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you’re particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)

If you don’t care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub

If you don’t want to break the law but also don’t want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys

If that’s still too sketchy there’s the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)

Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.

Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they’re just happy to have users it seems

It technically does add security in that it prevents a load of attack vectors that would dodge most anti malware tools (i.e. the ones before the anti malware tool can start)

But you’re right in that the execution of the idea is unnecessarily painful for Linux

Kinda funny how much media is out there warning about the folly of allowing this kind of mega conglomeration, yet we’re still gonna just do it anyway

Especially back before online shopping existed

Pretty good, probably one of the best cities on the planet for being able to do anything that pops into your mind (as long as you’ve got the spending money ofc)

Still got the same problem it’s always had where you kinda need to commit to a plan for a given evening. If you suddenly decide you want to head somewhere else, that might take half your evening out

I live up north these days, but still go to London every month or so

A brain that needs to be tricked into falling asleep half the time

Usually it’s not even negative thoughts or anything like that, it’s just busy problem solving

Like if they’ve even got a single braincell, why would someone so obviously tell on themselves like this

Truly baffling

I say this as someone with an apple laptop:

You don’t buy Apple unless you want to commit to paying over double for accessories.

If you buy an Apple product you’re opting in to being fleeced by them for any related purchases.

It’s a premium brand at the end of the day, there are always more economical options

Yeah it’s not a particularly obscure character in some languages, so it’s not really going to affect an LLM at all, it’ll already know what to do with them. Hell you could write in MSN era fancy text using characters incorrectly and I’d not be surprised if an LLM had no issue decoding it.

Heart’s kinda in the right place, but the only outcome is going to be confusion and frustration from humans.

Edit: was curious about the assertion I made about MSN text

Seemingly no trouble

I think it’s mostly because these Devs were impacted by an actual mistake from valve recently, and then this happens during their apparent compensation for this.

Tbf though I agree this article is mostly about clicks. They say the emails went out and they sold 5k copies, so it’s not like the first time

I’ve been playing N64 games just fine on my MiSTer FPGA for like a year or so now.

I can even use my Retrode 2 to use a real cart if I want rather than my network share with a complete 1g1r set for the platform.

I know they’re a “it just works” solution, but I just don’t see the value in the Analogue stuff compared to MiSTer if you’re even remotely techy

You get hardware emulation of almost everything from before the dreamcast for about the same price as this single console