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In years prior there were a lot of games and a shifting understanding of what hardware they can require. While gfx needs changed rapidly, hard drive space requirements went up steadily, predictably. As most of us have long abandoned physical media sales and use digital downloads instead, this number has stopped to be defined by the medium's capacity.

Before and now we had outliers like MMORPGs and movie-like games requiring more estate, while other games like Deep Rock Galactic needing just 4GBs, but there always was some number of gigabytes you as a consumer thought a new game would take.

Where's that sweet spot now for you?

For me, it's 60GB, or a 40-80GB range. Something less or more than that causes questions and assumptions. I have a lot of space, but I'd probably decline if some game would exceed 2x of my norm or 120GB of storage.

WASHINGTON—The ceremony called MEGA Funerals was hosted on the White House's lawn. Standing over two dug up graves, Trump and Vance exchanged epitaths to each other before calling up select leaders and influencers to speak up. Among them was Javier Milei, who came with his own shovel.

"The greatest, brightest, most tragic funerals you've ever seen.' Trump announced on his Truth Social page. 'Make Ethernity Great Again! MAGA knows no time, no time, we are over it, out of it!', he said to the crowd on site.

'We don't make things up', Vance said, 'If there's a christian spirit in you, you know the significance one's death carries. And it's in our tradition to not only have it, death, but to get up again. If the woke virus can't be put down, we can take it with us and get back.'

The announcement came out on the 12th of September when the White House posted a suspicious link to the Etherium-based crypto market platform without any further comment. There, user could be met with a thousand NFT tickets to the ceremony on the White House grounds, with date, time and a promise of a formal announcement.

It came from the Donald Trump's Truth Social account. In the previously cited post, president wrote about how he is frustrated with the reaction of his overseas colleagues. 'They didn't give a damn about our good man Charlie', it reads, 'They don't respect him. They don't respect us. The United States.'

In the following posts it was disclosed that White House would hold a funeral ceremony on Saturday, September 13th. Besides a claim that other countries' leaders are getting called at the time of writing, he also explained that a thousand more guests can attend a ceremony after buying a collectable NFT linked by the White House account. The price is set at $1000 each, and buying a hundred of them grants a participant an access to the luxury MEGA Lounge and the MEGA Afterparty.

'That would show them how WE, AMERICANS, grieve.'

The Onion contacted various leaders before the White House posted a list of guests, followed by a commentary wrotten in a style reminiscent of the President's own posts. While guests like Putin, Xi and Netanyahu received a mixture of praise and critique (none attended), european leaders like Macron, Starmer got called out for their lack of manners and didn't receive an invitation, and Zelensky got singled out being one president put after a line 'COMPLETELY NOT INVITED'. Of all of them, reporters saw only Milei, who participated both as a president and as a buyer of 521 NFT tickets, granting him access to additional leisure options during the event.

Later that day he also announced that there would be a separate sale of tickets to another event on Sunday, the 14th. Called MAGA Born American Again, it would officially celebrates the ceremony of granting new birth certificates to Trump, Vance and select paying guests. In his sporadic posting Trump pointed out that this product may be popular in some blue cities, while granting one for free to his friend and enterpreneur Elon Musk. 'The most AMERICAN man I've ever seen', he added.

Reporters on the ground saw a big golden cross sculpture prepared to be installed nearby. The top segment of the construction was made separable, as seen on photoes, so experts suppose the cross would turn into a big T somewhen through the event.

As of the time of writing, White House didn't respond to our querry about if legal and financial issues would follow a participant after 'rebirth', or if current visa holders would change their status after participating in it.

Source: I made it up

(later retracted)

edit: This is my collage, it's not serious. WSJ, as they say, got misleading reportings about something carved on the bullets refering to 'trans and antifa ideology' and later retracted it, probably it was designed this way to launch the scare wave and support nazi claims. Under articles discussing that, I saw a lot of jokes about 'uwu' being written on the casing, so I created this meme and posted it in c/lemmyshitpost ironizing over dumb misinfo without even thinking someone would think it's real.

OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University admitted Thursday they had assumed the shooter was just an ordinary gunman on campus. “When that first shot rang out, we all figured it was going to be a run-of-the-mill mass shooting” said UVU junior Michael Tompkins, who explained that when students spotted a man clad in black and carrying a rifle on a roof overlooking the crowd, they had no reason to suspect anything unusual. “It’s chilling that a person we thought was a normal, unhinged campus shooter was actually a political assassin. You see a deranged guy with a rifle on the quad every day. I suppose it was a little suspicious that he wasn’t shooting droves of students.” At press time, the FBI announced that the gunman had escaped by blending into the heavily armed crowd.

(It came out of nowhere and I don't condone this)

[feel free to send me somewhere else or tell me that it doesn't work like that]

As some fingerprinting test sites show, I put myself into a distinct minority by simple useragent info alone. But may I somehow replicate not the behavior, but the appearance of an existing huge web crawler?

My inspiration is in how crypto-crime liked and wanted more transactions on the net, because the bigger the volume and amount, the less every single transaction stand out.

Web crawlers are a frequent source of noise, so unless it overwhelms the system and gets banned (the downside of such masking is obvious), said masking may probably get you filtered off as unsignificant activity not to track at all as it's pointless.

Does it make any sense to pretend you are a robot? And if that's so, how to do just that correctly? I'm proficient at failing captchas but I am the opposite on subjects about web tech and web surveiliance.

I could have a hard time explaining all extra challenges it causes to LEGAL migrants for no reason and how this system is fucked up, but instead I'd let you imagine how the current right shift in worldwide politics affects you and what you'd do when your politicians get the same idea rolling.

Listening to another pitch about how AI can empower workers at various jobs across my industry, I was striken by the comparison in the title

3d printing, just like generative models, have it's actual niche uses, where it's obvious downsides are irrelevant and they come handy, e.g. prototyping, replacements, small-series production

Where it comes to the top-down AI promotion trend, it feels not unlike the idea of printing the whole product - a car, or a house, from the smallest details - applying the least effective method, doomed to have a worse than average outcome due to technological limitations

And screws, the thing that we nailed down long before, and that is completely incompatible with that mode of production, is a screaming, growling, shrieking example of how helpful tech can be mispurposed in the most stupid way