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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right-wing lunatics get elected -> things get worse -> people vote for neoliberals who promise to make everything better -> things fail to get better -> Conservatives promise to go even harder this time -> repeat forever.

There was a neat little meme going around illustrating the cycle and pointing out which part of it Canada, the UK, and the USA were in, but I can't find it right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay everybody, protest over. Time to go home. Thousands of you have travelled hundreds of miles to be here but there's no other choice. A Nazi was spotted scurrying around on the outskirts and the TV cameras found him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing's going to beat GNU Taler.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats”

Um okay, but next time think harder. No fascists, no genocide supporters, no apartheid fans, no Trumpists, no book burners, no snitches, no narcs, no skinwalkers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oops.. didn't mean to delete my comment with the edit. It was imagining that this would have the main benefits of Wayland without having to give up X, or something like that, which sounded good to me.

(edit: lwn has a comment that explains it. Sounds pretty good for those of us who enjoy font and geometry rendering from the '80s.)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A perfect chance for the NDP to do what it does best and completely miss another opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why stop there? Ouija coding takes the "science" and the "computer" out of computer science.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried mastodon? Pleroma? Misskey? Akkoma? None of them have pointlessly complicated nonsense like "NFC" or whatever but all of them let you share things with a small group of friends and have control over who can see whatever you post. There are people using fedi like that. You may find it difficult to find them, for obvious reasons. But if you and your friends want to start doing it there's nothing stopping you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Only if they do something really crazy like willingly using Microsoft Teams.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

manufacturers could add support for the new key by updating the KEK database

Oh right, the KEK database. They are literally trolling us aren't they.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Formula 1: A world leader in the clean low-carbon generation of greenwashing bullshit.

 

Yet another popular extension has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It seems that its author might have requested its removal, but if so then even in that case the longstanding Mozilla policy of telling its users absolutely nothing about what happened applies.

It happened a month ago but it took me this long to notice since the feature I like best only recently stopped working. It's the sort of thing that requires periodic updates to keep up with changes to the youtube UI.

Does anyone know of another extension that can automatically resize the youtube player to fill the browser window? Or, for that matter, the invidious one?

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I've spent most of my gaming time for the past year gradually applying more and more mods to Skyrim, and finally got around to trying Chanterelle last week.

It doesn't have much in the way of quests or npc dialogue, but everything it does have is top quality. Lots of wilderness to explore, a couple of dungeons to crawl. Somehow the landscapes feel more realistic than most of Skyrim. Recommended for those who enjoy walking around in the woods. There are many wonders to discover. Next new game I'm going to try starting there.

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It allows older versions of Skyrim to handle files with the new plugin version number. Removes any temptation I might've had to install the update any time soon.

If you reverted to 1.6.640 for example and it was still crashing (as some reported) it's probably because they snuck a new .esl file in that you didn't notice, and this mod should fix that as well.

Even if we never get another Elder Scrolls game worthy of its legacy, Skyrim modding will continue.

 

In the unending quest to extract money from the mod scene, an update has arrived. Make sure to take a backup before you next launch the game from Steam. There's already a new release of SKSE but who knows what else might be freshly broken.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

How to listen to a podcast in 2023:

  1. Find its page on Apple podcasts
  2. Repeatedly click 'show more episodes' until all are shown
  3. Select all, view selection source, save as html
  4. Extract the episode page urls with grep and sed
  5. yt-dlp to download the mp3s
  6. figure out how to identify beginning and end of ad breaks
  7. write some python code to load up the audio and strip the ads
  8. shell script to call the python and then re-encode as mp3
  9. copy to local web server
  10. listen and enjoy

Even if the podcast doesn't turn out to be any good, it already kept me entertained for a couple of hours. If there existed a convenient, safe, and anonymous way to pay $5 for the ad-free version, and if I had $5, then I'd have saved some time and the creators would've made more money out of it.

 

I've only just started my career as a bard, but playing the flute badly any time I want to is the most fun I've had in Skyrim for years. I don't know how much more there is to this mod, but I'm already sure it's among the best.

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