Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.

Many video games have funny moments, but Portal 2 remains on top as the most hilarious video game of all-time.

Half light is the biggest troll in the game, surpassing even Electrochemistry in how unhinged it is.

Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered “stealing an image”.

I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.

FLUX.1 and WAN were already miles beyond Stable Diffusion a year ago. While America has been pushing capitalistic goals with LLMs, China has been releasing banger model after banger model, all as open-source.

Downside is it’s China and comes with their own biases, both with image generation and politics within its text models. Fortunately, some of that can be re-trained back to normal, but the technology is moving so fast.

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with.

That implies I want to argue with somebody who is sealioning.

Linux Mint works great, but I’ve heard good things about Bazzite, too.

I agree. This time, it’s actually different. Big name streamers and YouTubers are showing their support. Not just people in the tech industry, but random channels like EmKay and PewDiePie.

Linux is better than ever. Steam is a breeze. Wine support has never been better.

Meanwhile, Windows has more nasty surprises, underhanded backstabs, and security nightmares than ever before.

I mean, they can use whatever music they want, without asking for permission or anything.

Anything is possible. Crime is legal!

Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)

Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.

Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.

Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>

People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.

The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:

The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.

Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.

Remember that most Christians have been such their entire lives. This programming is deep, and more strongly cemented than their critical thinking skills.

The same applies for Republicans. They have been Republicans all of their lives, watching Fox News since they day they were born.

Also, that kind of programming, religions, outright cults, Fox News, they all focus on discarding critical thinking skills as much as possible. Nowadays, they are targeting empathy, too.

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.

They have to. It’s a requirement, or everybody would quit in protest.

Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. “Wow, this shit is easy!”

Private tracker: “Please… can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It’s been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!”

Is it, though? Nepal just politically-violenced their way out of fascism. It wasn’t the protests that got the fascists scared. It was the violent protests that scared them into fleeing.

Rodney King, nobody gave a shit until the LA riots burned shit to the ground. French Revolution, nobody gave a shit until the rich started getting beheaded. America, nobody gave a shit until shots were fired and we declared war on the king.

Change isn’t started by convincing fascist assholes into following empathy. It’s started by getting rid of those fascist assholes. Let’s stop pushing the wrong message.

The center-left

What the fuck does the center-left have to do with WSJ? Not even the center-left read WSJ.

Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.

It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.