will require identification and photo validation

Straight from the book “How to kill your app before launch”, page 1.

data privacy at its core

Looks like they haven’t seen the obvious conflict with requiring id + photo, unless they plan on manually review every application.

After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it. Govts could just spin their own mastodon or similars for a similar effect.

Stupid name, vv, or vave would’ve been better. Besides, it’s not like they’ll register v.v as a domain, or even www.w.vv

Racionais MC and Marcelo D2 for PTBR rap, with the latter being more “hip hop with samba”

wish meta had torrented all the viruses, too, would be fun to read the news of “facebook and instagram are offline as meta suffers from cyberattack”

Tends to be as helpful as those windows saying “We are looking for a solution to your problem online”

I use Youtube. It has more stuff and most of the time, if you check the channel you can get a good feel of whether the stuff is AI - like several hour long “albums” uploaded only a few days from one another. Only applies to stuff uploaded after 2023

Huh, I’m slightly older than your dad. As for “how is a 36-year-old supposed to act?” - that depends a lot from person to person. I’m a fucking hermit who works with IT and hates corporate social media. A friend of mine from high school is still one that goes to bars and parties with his wife for both to drink, eat and listen to live music, both also often post to instagram.

Pictured: Nadella holding in his hands all the profit M$ can make in the next 30 years even if AI booms like he really really really wants it to.

artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.

Oh, you mean there is a risk it becomes the thing it already is? Boy, imagine that!

The really funny thing is how he says that “the benefits need to spread outside the tech sector”. Golly gee, I wonder why other sectors haven’t benefited yet! Could it be that it’s not worth the hype and it does not improve anything that typical computer systems are already working on, like managing electrical grids, keeping track of shipments, avionics, etc? Nah, it’s all the doomers’ fault

“Fires mobile carrier”
I don’t know why I read it half expecting it to be about some sort of military ship firing its guns

Two that come to mind are GURPS Supers and HERO^[1], both roll 3D6 and allow you to make pretty much any type of character you want with incredible detail. Character creation is also the single biggest hurdle for both systems, since you just have so many options that even using their character creator programs makes you feel like you might be missing something.

“StackOverflow is down” is the more common cause where I work

The bottleneck isn’t acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.

This is spot on. I’ve had resin printers for ~6 years now, I’m quite skilled at adding supports to models (and despise pre-supported ones). I bought the first one fully intending to print RPG minis and maybe also make my own 40k army. Printed a lot of minis, printed some on commission, sold some, including 40k, but never made an army, “my” army, I get stuck at choosing a force/faction and then making the composition. The ready made combat patrols just feel “meh”

Most importantly, I only know one 40k group and they play ~30km away from where I live. I already do that kind of trip every single day for work, so that was a huge dampener to me.

Same reason people prefer the original thing over cheap copies, even the perfect replicas. This is valid for pretty much everything: art, clothing, videogame cartridges, plastic toys, boardgames.

I’m on a number of telegram groups that shares models, there was a big nuking last year, with them going unlisted, but still active. Russians don’t give a fuck

From my stupid understanding of Korean customs and law, the judgement must’ve been like this:

Lawyer: “Your honor, my client, the tobacco companies, generate a revenue of 10 billion won and spend 5 on advertising. The NHIS can only ever spend 1 billion against us.” Judge: “Since you have more money, tobacco companies, you are more correct. NHIS, go get fucked for not being rich enough.”

The lower court said the NHIS’s payments to medical institutions were the fulfillment of its legal obligations under the National Health Insurance Act and the execution of funds collected or supported under that law — meaning the benefit payments were a duty, not a compensable loss.

It also held that the smokers themselves did not have valid claims for damages against the tobacco companies, citing difficulty in finding defects in the cigarettes and a lack of proof of individual causation between smoking and lung cancer.

But the court said epidemiological research has limits, noting that it does not, in fact, provide precise information about what caused a particular individual’s disease.

To be fair, the argument is scientifically valid, there are many things that increase the risk of cancer, so it’s hard to pinpoint “the cause”. HOWEVER, a judge deciding that “you can’t really prove it was the smoking that caused the cancer” sounds like someone “paying” for the “free gifts” he received from his tobacco friends.

By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales

TIL sheep are shitty dragons

The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment

Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

What’s the size difference when you remove the porn stuff from the torrent?

TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.

Even that is getting harder, thanks to google and micro$hit doing everything they can to lock down their respective OSs. Linux on a desktop, yadda yadda, but we’re ~12 years into the smartphone era and we still don’t fully own those electronic pieces of shit. Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

Landlord Justifier 3

Now that you mention it, the only way to be a good king in that game is by owning all the property, which is the only reliable way to get the money needed for the choices that don’t fuck the citizens. One of the biggest letdowns is not being able to kill that filthy mr industrialist