The cooker beats me every time. I usually have to turn it off and on at midnight.

About 6 months ago, I refilled the office salt pot with sugar for a laugh.

Nobody seems to have noticed yet.

Intel’s long term prospects rely on China invading Taiwan.

Some are clearly designed for just that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewall-Appliance-4xUSB2-0-OPNsense-Ethernet/dp/B0CB3M6M16?th=1

But spoiler: Everything you want is spread across about 5 services, and there’s gaps in it anyway.

Well any political choice will increase the wealth of the billionaire class in general. Any candidate that is a threat to that will be smeared to dust before they get anywhere near power.

But Musk is going for the more direct approach, and tbh I think the second Trump gets power again he’ll have no need for Musk and will treat him like the parasite he is. He’s certainly done that before.

There’s been a two pronged assault on it over the years.

Mostly from websites doing anything to spam up the results via SEO and mass produced articles about product recommendations, that are little more than the top 10 selling items of that type on Amazon along with affiliate links.

But also from within as Google morphed from a search company to an advertising company. Especially once they reached peak saturation and that all important growth must continue. I just don’t think the capitalism machine works for these tech corporations once they reach the size of Google. How do you even grow from there? Enshittification and eating yourself is the only possible outcome.

This might be the only time we’ll see somebody complain that somebody is speaking too clearly in a Chris Nolan movie.

I mean the lights dim for the entire neighbourhood when you switch it on, but it works!

Keeping untrusted clients in their own ecosystem is an interesting idea, and would let people access the game without affecting anyone in the “trusted” chain, but you will all be lumped in with the obvious cheaters with blatant speed/flying/aiming bots.

If you were playing without cheats on Linux, I’d imagine you’d stop soon after.

The best idea would be to let people run their own servers and then allow or IP ban cheaters themselves, but I guess with everything needing to make money from skins and paints or whatever the fuck Apex sells, that’s out of the question and has been since about the Xbox 360 era.

Yeah, they don’t ban immediately. They collate a huge amount of data and then do it in waves.

That way cheaters know what software got them banned, but not the exact behaviour that gave it away.

Careful what you wish for because the next step after killing physical is cloud gaming only.

Not people on Linux.

What caught me out recently was infinity minus infinity.

It does not equal zero. Instead it breaks your sorting algorithm.

OK, what about 2 monkeys?

Sure, but if a cyber attack knocks out your credit card systems in a targeted attack, chances are they’re taking your cash machines down as well.

And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more? I know I don’t. I might have a £20 note tucked in my phone case at a push.

Why is anyone going full speed in the dark? Let alone an unsafe self driving car.

As long as your default mode is sleep it’d be ok. I touch my PCs power button only when it crashes so horribly that a forced shutdown is the only way out…

Maybe because jeans wearers don’t spam up every thread about clothing with “JUST WEAR JEANS!”

Or Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft on consoles.