You got lucky then. Late 80s and early 90s were peak Satanic panic. It ruined lots of us 90s kids.

Same here. Raised by fundamentalist catholics. Its funny you mention pumping gas though haha. I couldn’t pump gas because my cousin did once and got soaked in gas. I learned decades later its because he wasn’t supposed to pump the gas but did anyway when no one was watching and squeezed the handle as he pulled it out of the pump and sprayed it everywhere.

I couldn’t play Magic: The Gathering because you “summoned” monsters and that meant summoning demons to my mom. Same story with YuGiOh and Pokemon.

Halloween was the devils holiday and was a somber affair. I wasn’t allowed to go trick or treating until I was like 10 or 11 or something. I think I eventually wore them down.

Harry Potter was the work of Satan and was going to force me to be wiccan and eat babies or something.

I had several straight crushes in middle/high school that I wasn’t allowed to date or even really talk to.

There’s probably a lot more that I’ve finally been able to forget.

That’s not even getting into all the abuse I endured as an LGBT teen.

Walz is folksy and charming when he’s trying to be affable but he is still a shrewd politician and I bet he will eat Jimmy Dean alive.

This is reads like anti-labor propaganda. They hired hundreds more employees and subsequently paid them (presumably) decent wages which drove their expenses up. Personnel costs are pretty much always the biggest expense in (almost?) any organization.

This article smells very much like elon “fire all the engineers to increase efficiency” logic, right down to describing the employed as a cancer.

Repugnant.

Oh man I bet repugnants are fucking thrilled for a shutdown in Oct. Not only do they get to turn off the government (a big goal for them) they ALSO get to interfere with the election at the same time! Win-win for them!

He’ll appeal to the supreme court who will say that state courts can’t convict a president and that will be the end of that.

I think anyone saying it can’t possibly be stopped is delusional.

Don’t worry, Microsoft will hide it in an obscure group policy so domain admins can disallow the “feature”. That ensures that mom and pop shops who can’t afford a full time security team still get targeted by their software.

Yeah kinda! My pixel is still going strong, but I kind of feel forced to get rid of it now. I would much prefer to just flash a new ROM and get a few more years out of it. The hardware is (still) really good for the performance I expect out of my phone.

Eh. Maybe I’ll get a new phone, wipe this one and use it for traveling.

Why? C++ does wasm and I’m pretty sure the signal client is already written in C++. It definitely wouldn’t be something that could be pulled off quickly, but the ability to securely run code like this is kind of the whole point of wasm as I understand it, no?

Graphene only supports devices for as long as the manufacturer does, maybe slightly longer.

Doesn’t seem like the old CyanogenMod days where you could slap that shit on there forever.

I’m still rocking my 4a5g and honestly its great. Don’t really want to get rid of it tbh but I’ll probably pickup an 8a sometime next year. Don’t really like giving Google money but they make good phones.

Man those things took me years to figure out how to do. It was really hard for me but I finally got it! I have to focus on the image without looking at it directly, and then the image “snaps” into place and I can look at it freely almost. Really bizzare.

What is Molly?

Yeah this is what Bitwarden ended up doing. They didn’t want to be on F-Droid for very similar reasons; eventually they started hosting their own repo and its been gravey ever since. Highly recommend this option.

Not if they used WebAssembly to do all the decryption locally.

Nah probably not. They’ll hide behind that ToS and settle any claims out of court of through forced arbitration. Microsoft has an ungodly amount of legal power behind it and its very difficult to move against them legally. I’m positive they’ll be able to contain this.

I mean the reality is that this is just the path Microsoft is going down. Its not a conspiracy theory either. They spent a fuck ton of money on AI and they want their money back. So they’re going to use it until they determine it isnt making them any money. They know this is a long-term investment too, so it could take years for them to remove AI, if they ever do.

If you don’t like this, now could be a good time to consider jumping off the Microsoft train. Now is a pretty good time to Check out Linux IMO. Valve is pumping lots of money into the desktop experience, and the entire ecosystem is thriving because of it. I bet most of the applications you use have open source alternatives that are pretty easy to install if you’re open to it.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a really simple way to play around in a Linux environment, and you can install it right inside windows. If you like what you see, check out distros like Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu. You can always install something else later if you want.

I hope everyone makes it back safely and without incident. That is the best outcome here. If they don’t, I hope congress has the backbone to fucking crucify Boeing, Inc.

Congratulations, you are going home! Please do not resist.

There is no such thing as a “supercommute”. Only obscene opulence.