Sarcastic bitch with a wine problem
the only political group that supports Putin in Portugal are the communists.
I’m very much a leftist and this is just something I haven’t managed to wrap my mind around. How can anyone claim to be a leftist and support an extremist right wing dictator?
Surprising that Euronews is still running pro-Ukraine news considering it’s now owned by Orbánists
Ukraine hasn’t “taken over Kursk”, they made a small incursion and they’re holding parts of it, and they’re doing it to tie up Russian units on their side of the border. You seem to be assuming that Russia will never be able to dislodge the Ukrainian unit that made this incursion.
Maybe time to stop reading the news for a while, this sort of hysteria can’t be good for you.
Interesting that they released Yashin. I wonder if he got asylum from somewhere or if he’s staying in Russia? Neither NPR or The Guardian mentioned anything and I haven’t done any searching yet.
Also, I had no idea who Whelan is so I went and read his wiki page – apparently he’s a former US Marine who got arrested in Russia over charges of espionage. Based on the article I was left with the impression that the charges seem like bullshit, but his FSB buddy thing was, well… pretty weird if nothing else. Apparently he was in Russia for the wedding of a friend who’s also a former Marine, and it somehow struck me as funny that jarheads seem to like Russia
Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?
Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful
Ah surprising that Poland’s still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they’d been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland’s laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it’s very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong
That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.
Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid
usually all that was required to get the appropriate help was to say I read the manual, and I tried the XY and z that was suggested that didn’t work. What do I do now?
Oh yes this is definitely how it would ideally go, on both the part of the one asking the question and the ones answering it, but hoo boy has it not been my experience a lot of the time, although it absolutely has gotten better over the decades. Ye olde Usenet could be a bit of a shitfest for asking technical questions, and so could eg. Linux forums. I’d know this because when I ran into something like that happening and I had the spoons for it, I’d try to be a bit more constructive.
Not all that rarely, the people answering beginners’ questions with something like RTFM at best or abusive diatribe at worst thought what you’re describing is what they were doing, even when the question was completely legitimate and possibly even somewhat nontrivial to piece together from some manual or whatever guide. People have some wildly varying ideas of what constitutes basic knowledge of some subject, and many also seemed to feel that because something was hard for them to learn, it should be hard for others too. And metaphorically kicking people in the teeth (and yes that’s hyperbole) for eg. not reading some FAQ isn’t really going to help anything; people – just like any other animal really – will generally react better to a carrot than a stick.
There’s a reason why it’s still a semicommon stereotype that Linux forums are full of assholes, although thank the fucking gods things are much better nowadays. The best part about writing about this stuff is that sometimes people show up in the comments to prove me right by acting like assholes
Yeah that’s usually been the stated reason for as long as I can remember, but that absolutely wasn’t what it was in practice especially earlier on (say the 90’s). Getting help for eg a Linux problem wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience for a long time exactly because people thought they’d be “helpful” by acting like massive assholes
Rtfm is so unhelpful even when it is correct.
A lot of the culture around computing used to be just people being huge cunts to beginners so they can feel superior
I definitely get what you mean, I just have no idea if antivirus tools flag anything that looks like it modifies executables. My edit to the comment you’re replying to may not have propagated to your instance yet, so here’s what I added:
Do antivirus etc. tools just heuristically flag everything that looks like it modifies an executable? Lots of legitimate dev tools do that too, so it seems like it’d give a lot of false positives, but I haven’t used Windows in ages so 🤷
they removed the pvp battle royal stuff from it and replaced it with target shooting, lol
what
But you generally want that crack to do something to an executable. Do antivirus etc. tools just heuristically flag everything that looks like it modifies an executable? Lots of legitimate dev tools do that too, so it seems like it’d give a lot of false positives, but I haven’t used Windows in ages so 🤷
I think the point is that it’s a bit silly to classify cracks as malware
Yeah like duh it’s right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?
On pages that reader mode supports, you should see the icon on the right side of the address bar. Here’s an example from one of my tabs: 
That reads like a Cards Against Humanity black card.
“Gandhi is still trying to make Pac-Man uncontrollably guzzling cum happen”
The myopia on display here is just astounding. “Because I don’t like this game, I don’t believe anybody else likes it either and its popularity has been faked”.
All that’s missing is that you start ranting about how Horizon is a woke plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids
Clueless MBA parasites ruining shit for everybody again?
Must be a day that ends in Y