Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

There was that one opinion poll where they went around asking everyone if they approve of keeping children safe.

Oh, I didn’t know nix was a package manager that’s available in debian. I might try it some day. Fortunately it’s not necessary to install it with sh < (curl) as recommended there.

“Very good.” He’s holding up very good.

foreign piracy in the United States

For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.

“After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player’s real-time movements.”

All the lines look blurry when you’re squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

Do people actually type out :split? I didn’t even know that existed, just it’s just ^Ws to me.

A strong warning against distrohopping.

Pikers

Using exclusively Linux on the desktop has been possible since 1997, when I switched to being mostly a linux user — what people mean by “getting closer” is that it’s much closer than it used to be to being completely automatic, requiring no effort or thought whatsoever. Obviously it will never quite get there; that is not a destination that exists in the real world.

If he pours enough billions of dollars into it this could be the most epic software project disaster of all time.

They tried that. Don’t underestimate the progress already made towards building the Great Firewall of Britain. I guess the main problem was that when the blocking was optional, too many people chose to opt out.

Follow-up question: Can someone explain it in a goofy pirate accent?

Windscribe, although unless you pay an extra $2/month they time out and need to be reconfigured after one week.

Meanwhile, my totally legit probably-not-a-front-for-Chinese-spies current VPN is now blocked by citizenlab.ca. Had to use tor to get there.

they’re just manipulating the DOM

Imagine trying to explain that in court. Yes, your honour, it’s a sort of object-based model representing the document. No, it’s not really a model of an object exactly. Yes, it’s made of bits and bytes, the same kind as you would use in a computer program, but it has that in common with… no, it does not actually object to anything…

Stop being interested in pornography, teenagers. You’re causing big problems for the government.

Probably some kind of translation error. They must mean “privacy”.

That must’ve been a pretty long shower.

It’s not all bad necessarily, but that “anticheat” vendors are demanding it sure does suggest it’s being used for nefarious purposes.