Oh, I’ve got more than I know what to do with. Thing is, as with all USB cables, just because it plugs in doesn’t mean it will accomplish the desired goal.

Oh, AI companies still have the budget to take things they don’t like to the Supreme Court. This will be a lot of wasted time and money, which could have been spent on, say, housing the unhoused.

I’m not a betting man, but my guess is it was bullshit from the beginning.

With the right cable! The world has long since moved onto USB-C.

Ebooks are to me like music and movies/TV shows. I pirate first, and if I like it, I go back and pay. But the critical thing to remember is that discovery is the gateway. They want to act like it’s the '90s, and you have to pay $20 for a CD to find out if anything but the one track played on the radio was any good.

Must suck that people know how to try something on for size before making a purchase. That used to be common at things called “shopping malls.”

That’s where we’ve gotten, yes. The bottom line matters more than quality. Not that Indians are terrible coders, it’s just naked offshoring.

I was once a die-hard Asus fan. Then, well, they kept fucking up. I used to have motherboards and routers from them, without feeling shortchanged.

This latest news is of scarce interest. Of course they priced ahead of the rise in memory and storage costs.

Hey, tech companies: How about you go back to making shit we actually want instead of circular financing and enshittification? It seemed to work pretty well for decades, and you built goodwill.

I remember thinking Amazon, like Tom, was my friend.

I was making porn 15 years ago. When you have an exhibitionist on your hands, well, I’m not going to extrapolate. But I’d have been pissed if anyone else touched her pulse.

Wait … this is your first recession indicator?

I’m already on solar and have a heavily tattooed, manic pixie ex-wife whom I may be visiting too frequently these days. I’m not the intended audience for this, but I can’t see how it hurts.

Given the choice, I’ll always take climate-change activism over misogyny in my porn.

Wow, is that a blast from the past.

First off, the story doesn’t back up the hed. All we know for certain is that these “hacking tools” are being offered. Apparently, some of these channels charge for entry …

Often, the group’s report says, access to Telegram channels would cost between €20 ($23) and €50 or have subscriptions starting at €5 per month.

I’m not excusing the exploitative nature of these groups, but this sounds more like grifting than hacking. I expect better from Wired. Also, we’ve known for years now that Telegram is leaky as fuck.

The whole situation is a bit baffling. “Here’s something everyone knows has been going on for a while” ain’t exactly stop-press.

All I hear from that context is “slow news day.”

We’ve already had a third and fourth time. Anyway, the baselines on just about everything have dramatically changed since the divorce. She’s now the one making six figures while I’m a dirty hippie in a van.

Pick one. You can’t have both.

I’m in my 40s. I never converted to PowerShell from the command line. I can use a Linux terminal, but I’d really rather not. I was never a pure-play coder, so I just want shit to work while also having full control when need be. Like, totally hypothetically, putting two news sources at each others’ throats to make sure my ex-wife’s water wasn’t shut off.

Anything you still need a 486 for outside of hardware edge cases is handled far better and faster by a Pi Zero W, at a fraction of the power envelope. Thing is, they won’t be running Linux in that case, given vendor lock-in.

'Twas the Bard that gave it away.