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.

I mean, at least I’m talking with my ex-wife again, so that’s less irritating than it had been.

(These are separate people.)

What are you running on a 486 these days that needs to be online? A pihole? Like, even if this is a CNC controller or vinyl cutter (if you need a dongle to run your output, this is a valid concern; not a lot of parallel ports hanging out on mobos these days), the internet is not required.

(You can say “fucking” here.)

I mean, I figured a long press and a context menu would solve the issue, but no. When my dad died last year, I had to completely remove him from my contacts (not wholly unreasonable, given that’s a bit of a useless number). I don’t want to remove this guy from my contacts because, well, life changes, we bonded over a lot of shared interests, and maybe I’ll be in NYC at some point.

You want that guy in your phone. You don’t want him to be Option 1.

I somehow fancied you a tea drinker.

I loved being a beta tester back in the days of Chicago. But I was also a teenager who hadn’t gotten into calcified workflows at the time. I don’t mind learning new things, but don’t force that on me!

Even if it is connected, you can keep running an old kernel.