Thanks for the article, super interesting to see his predictions, they weren’t that far off.

And none of those can play x86 games? It’s a similar price to a Lenovo Legion Go, with similar hardware specs (apart from the second screen).

That wasn’t just larger subs. They changed the rules for requesting a takeover of a sub, and there are hundreds of subs it affected. There are even cases of it being really dangerous, there’s a shroom hunting sub that is poorly moderated and has had life-threatening advice left up.

I believe the place it was banned, was on consoles.

I believe it does crash the system eventually as important buts start to go missing?

Yeah basically. But part of why no one has tried again is because the judge made it very clear he wasn’t going to just roll over and let them pull their BS. Including setting a bond of $600k for them to even try litigating it. Another part of it is that ISPs used to hand out IP addresses and PII in response to requests from media companies. This was found to be in breach of privacy laws and now those companies would have to apply for court orders, proving malfeasance, to get that information.

I mean yes, those numbers are fairly low because they’re designed to keep the sports sustainable in the Australian market.

Even if the cap were €100 million, that would still be a lot fairer than a free-for-all.

Potentially, but that doesn’t really matter, as you can match the signatures of the two versions and see that they are the same. You cannot fake that and have one version have different code, it’s not possible.

Scroll down and there’s a section about Australia on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club

Basically, they fucked it up so bad in Aus no one’s ever tried again.

See then you have the whole thing in the US where the local TV market, including streaming services, won’t allow you to catch a game playing at a local stadium. It’s called a blackout, I guess to encourage you to go in person. Basically those services only make sense if you don’t follow a local team, or you watch a bunch of other games each week.

Reddit from 2009 called, it wants it’s “pretending to be helpful but actually contributing nothing to the conversation” grammar complaint comment back :)

As an Australian I genuinely find European football salaries obscene and a bit disgusting tbh. Over here both of our major codes of football, NRL (rugby) and AFL (aussie rules) have had salary caps since the late 80s. It’s not something implemented per player, but instead for the total roster of a club. The point is to make the competition fairer and well, more interesting, because you don’t have all the good players concentrated into a few super clubs. In 2022 it was $13.5m for AFL clubs and $10m for NRL clubs. As well, if you breach it you generally don’t get to earn points on the ladder until the following season. If you did it in the past, won a premiership and it’s discovered, the title will be stripped.

It does still have some issues, but it is being heavily worked on and has been for 12-18 months at this point. Has taken huge strides, and if you’re in the beta channel you’ll see lots of work being done.

There is, check out the Music Assistant add-on for Home Assistant.

Could I ask what the first time was?

Did you read the article, the part where the author’s close friend died from a treatable illness? What other alternatives do you suggest?

I’ve tried enough meds in my life to know which ones work. Vyvanse is the only things that does. But if you mean it genuinely, while it’s in stock atm I’ve been skipping some days a week. I now have a 3 month supply saved up so 🤞

“Simple” for the everyday home chemist? Or “simple” for someone who is already a drug dealer…?

Cool. Yep. You aren’t wrong mate.

So I’m guessing you believe people should choose death instead, right? Or you’re going to pay for all these people’s medications?

The shortage is happening internationally. I am in Australia. I would have to pay money to see a psychiatrist again to change meds. I would need to restart a 12 month period where my GP can’t be the prescriber.

Prescription medication advertisements are illegal here too, so I think I just extra don’t appreciate unsolicited medication advice. I get you’re trying to be helpful. However, I did not ask for help.

Or, and hear me out, they know what the risks are and have assessed that they are reasonable when the alternative is death? I do disagree with them asserting they are higher-quality though, or I would at least like to see incontrovertible proof of that.

…Are you a bot? Your account is less than a day old and this comment… almost made sense. But what the heck does this mean?

…that one pile of neurons deserves for life the rights to a computation.

And you know what bloody sucks? ADHD meds are one of the few that you can not and probably should not make at home. Why? Without watching the whole video, I can tell you the medication he can’t get ahold of is Lisdexamphetamine. The precursor chemicals of which are the same as for Methamphetamine. It’s also in the same schedule as opiates. So I’d imagine that even the guy the article is about wouldn’t mess around with those publicly, and perhaps even privately as the DEA heavily monitors sales of the precursors.

I’m so fucking sick of the meds that make my brain work being out of stock :(

Ah, I see you also just got it for free on Epic 😅

The dev of this developed Caddy? Hmm… at least there’s talent behind it. I’m a little worried about creating that sort of record, but this guy seems earnest in wanting to liberate personal data.

Okay fair, my apologies. I’m not sure how you classify major city centres, but the library back in my hometown of 120k is thriving too. I actually have cards to multiple library systems, as they all have different online resources. I use my mum’s address for our hometown library card! 😂

You’re doing the “assume everyone online is American” thing. If I take a look at my public libraries here in Australia, they’re thriving. My local is in a new building about a decade old. It has a music studio that’s free to use for 12-25 year olds, it’s open 10am-8pm every day except Sunday. I’m also barely scratching the surface on what it offers, and what it’s sister libraries in nearby suburbs offer too.

I’ve been on Torrentday for 12 years. It’s been worth my time, in fact I get most of my content there. These days I have it set up with the *arrs, it’s the main source of torrents, alongside usenet as well. Guess it all depends. General trackers can be great.

Have a similar torrent, sitting at a ratio of 142 :)

How do you mean? The lawsuits, or something else?

There’s a lot of downstream applications that do just use yt-dlp behind the scenes. I’m pretty sure that’s how Invidious’ download function works. It also supports a metric shitload more services: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md

It’s wild to me that more people don’t know about Unit 8200. Israel is up there with Russia, USA and China when it comes to state-sanctioned cyber attack capabilities.

Yeah like, lawyers and corporations are messed up, but this really feels like a new low.

It was a woman that died I believe, and it’s her husband suing. It was him that signed up for the trial though, not the wife. The death was also caused by anaphylaxis, after the couple repeatedly checked in about the allergy being accommodated and were assured it would be.

The OS can’t get to the point of loading cpu microcode without that outdated, embedded microcode. The reason it can persist is because there aren’t a lot of good ways to see what that UEFI microcode actually is once it’s installed. Plus, only the UEFI tells you that it has successfully updated itself. There is no other more authoritative system to verify that against. So the virus could just lie and say it’s gone and you would never know. Hence needing to treat it as the worst case scenario, that it never leaves.

Hey, that’s really fair, thanks for being honest :)

Except that doesn’t at all explain the wider recall of 100 million units. Not every single one of those airbags were faulty. First of all, how could we know? Testing an airbag is a potentially dangerous thing to do, let alone on an enormous scale that would require under-qualified persons to run the tests. Secondly, it’s not a 100% failure rate. If it were, it would have been picked up far sooner than it would take to sell 100 million units. If it happened just as severely no matter the unit’s age, it would have been picked up during crash-testing. What actually happened was an analysis of statistical averages that showed a far higher rate of failure than there should have been.

The similarities to me come from a comparison to Schrödinger’s cat. In the airbag example, you don’t know if the unit in front of you is going yo fail until you “open the box” by crashing. With the AMD vulnerability, you don’t know if ur motherboard has been infected by any virus/worm/etc until a “crash” or other signs of suspicious behaviour.

In both cases, the solution to the vulnerability removes that uncertainty, allowing you to use the product to it’s original full extent.

Look at it this way, imagine if this vulnerability existed in the ECU/BCU of a self-driving capable car. At any point someone could bury a piece of code so deeply you can’t ever be sure it’s gone. Would you want to drive that car?

Personally, I think I should be able to expect a company to understand their target demographic well enough to know that those “features” wouldn’t be well received. But I also personally don’t consider ads and crypto garbage to be features. I guess if you do, then it’s the perfect browser for you. However, I don’t really want to contribute to Google’s monopolisation of browser engine development anymore. Nor do I want to use a browser developed by a homophobe. So even if Brave may be slightly “better-working” I would not consider it better at all.

As well, even though I’m a Blahaj member, I’m going to take the time to point out the “Bee Nice” rule of the instance we’re currently on. It feels like you’re skirting dangerously close to violating that, considering you implied I’m a troll for calling out the prejudicial politics of the founder of a piece of software, which you didn’t at all address in your comment. I’m going to attach some resources about it here, if you care to read them at all:

1. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/04/javascript-inventor-gave-1000-to-support-californias-gay-marriage-ban/
2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gay-firefox-developers-boycott-mozilla-to-protest-ceo-hire/
3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/
4. https://tim.dreamwidth.org/1844711.html
5. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/killing-the-messenger-at-mozilla
6. https://tim.dreamwidth.org/1852118.html
7. https://community.brave.com/t/brave-needs-to-address-brendan-eich/281044

(Some of these are older, about the push for him to step down as Mozilla CEO, some are newer and urging him to leave Brave, or for people to boycott it.)

Sorry, I reread it and I understand now that you were referencing the AMD chip in a comparison. I guess I still would compare it most to the Takata airbag situation. You’re right that nothing happens on it’s own, but once you’ve “crashed the car” then it kind of is a lot like an airbag not going off. It infects your computer on a hardware level, and any future OS running off that motherboard is potentially vulnerable in a way that’s impossible to tell.

“this window only breaks if you’ve already crashed the car”

No, it’s usually more like “this thing will break and cause a car crash” or “this thing will murder everyone in the vehicle if you crash”. And companies still will not fix it. Look at the Ford Pinto, executives very literally wrote off people’s deaths as a cost of doing business, when they’d turn into fireballs during even low speed rear-end collisions. Potentially burning down the car that hit them too.

Edit: I mean, just look at the Takata airbag recall. 100 million airbags from 20 different carmakers recalled because they wouldn’t activate during a crash.