Formerly known as arc@lemm.ee / server shuts down end June 25
You don’t have to be tech savvy to realise the adage “if it sounds too good to be true…”. I would have thought Americans of all people would develop armour against scams. But even a modicum of due diligence like asking relatives, or googling his situation might have protected him.
I should add that my dad is 80 and housebound and gets scam calls all the time and bats them off like flies so being old is not an excuse.
And I thought my wife was gullible for nearly falling for a cadburys hamper giveaway scam. But this several orders of gullible worse.
It is contrary to Elon Musk’s interests to build public transport. He wants it to be private and operated by him. See the robotaxi and all the bullshit with his tunnels which even at the diameter they bore could accommodate a proper mass transit system but don’t and never will.
Every operating system contributed to the bloat. Windows has Win32, OS X has Carbon / Cocoa, Linux has X11 and various widget libs that sit on top of it. So it has been a perennial nut to crack to make cross platform widgets - wxWidgets, QT, SWT/JWT/Swing on Java, XMLShell (Firefox), Electron, GTK/GTK#, winelib etc.
Throw mobile platforms into the mix and it’s an unholy mess. Lowest common denominator is HTML and so the likes of Electron “wins” even though it’s bloated and slow.
Elon is too chickenshit to sit on top of one his own rockets let alone go to Mars. He has bigged it up in the past, but he’s a coward and he’ll make some lame excuse why some other poor bastards should go on the one way trip and not him.
30 years ago the McRib was amazing. They used to take the pork patty and baste it in this stick sweet bbq glue sauce. When you ordered one, they’d fish one out of the basting dish with tongs and slap it into a dressed bun and serve it in a bag. You ate it in the bag because it was just so sloppy.
These days they just dress the thing like a burger - patty on, squirt of BBQ sauce on top of the patty. There is hardly any mess to it and it’s basically just a pork burger. The experience of eating it and the lack of sauce makes it feel so bland.
I still think the web would have been better off if certificates were signed and part of a web of trust like in GPG/PGP. It wouldn’t stop sites from using trusted CAs to increase their trust levels with browsers, but it would mean that tiny websites wouldn’t need to go through layers of mandatory bullshit and inconvenience. Also means that key signers could have meaningful business relationships rather than being some random CA that nobody has a clue about.
What amazes me is Americans doing this to themselves. Literally acting against their own best interests, putting their lives and wellbeing in the hands of companies only concerned about profit.
Fuck every company that does this. I don’t like YouTube shorts. Can I disable YouTube shorts? No. Instead I can choose to “Show less often” which means absolutely nothing since they reappear in no time. Dark patterns are called that for a reason.
There is nothing worse than playing multiplayer and having somebody who is cheating. Viable and promising games have been ruined by people cheating.
But I don’t see an easy way around the issue but these are the usual solutions:
Personally I’d prefer that multiplayer games obtain consent to install anti cheat and should certify through auditing that the anticheat software is inactive and nonintrusive when the game is not running. Perhaps operating systems could even provide hooks and hard guarantees that this is the case.
If that is true then Musk & Twitter 100% knew about it before disclosing location to other users.
Most likely they fucked up their report and they’re using the rules of the exchange to suspend trading until they fix the mistake. But Ubisoft has been running on fumes for some time now, shitting out the same 3 or 4 games over and over again so I doubt their financials are that great.
This is just more noise and bullshit like demanding to see Obama’s birth cert.
As a European I’d see his policies as left wing but not as socialist, communist or whatever. And as a person who has been to New York countless times I would see anything that improves the quality of life such as public transport, childcare, food poverty as a generally good thing. Whether Mandani manages to pull it off and doesn’t go to the dark side like every single other New York mayor remains to be seen.
Some poor bastard actually buys a Kojima game to watch the cut scenes.
I still turn my computer like that most of the time.
The worst outcome is he is seen walking and talking. If he dropped dead I doubt anybody else would feel emboldened to act the way he did.
Alex Jones is more like Julius Streicher who also sported a pathetic moustache to ingratiate himself with Hitler. Streicher was virulently antisemitic and spouted all kinds of bug eye conspiracies but even other Nazis thought he was little more than an annoying clown.
Reusing things that are reusable is definitely people don’t do enough of these days. If a box / jar / container / bottle / bag / piece of paper can enjoy a second or third life then why not do it? Too many objects are treated as “disposable”, “single use” and then they get tossed - sometimes for recycling but often straight into the general trash.
Seems a little premature until he is sworn in and delivers on his promises