Captain Redshirt makes sense here, I suppose.

How are you doing? Because I’m a potato.

For the gay eggs among us. SFW (according to Marcus)

Serkis admits it didn’t have the North American launch he was hoping for, sparking “outrage” over what people perceived to be its political leanings (“anti-capitalist” and “not anti-communist enough” were some of the critiques, he says) and struggling at the box office.

Wow so he lost all the people who cared about the message of the book by dilluting it and still got shat on by people peddling McCarthy era scare tactics about communism and jerk off capitalism daily.

But we wanted to debate and boy, did we get a debate in the States. It was from both left and right, and they each had their own particular reason for reviling it. It was criticized for being anti-capitalist. It was criticized for being not anti-communist enough. It seemed to do what we wanted it to do, which was cause a debate, but what it didn’t do was encourage parents to take their children to see it. It literally got something like 60 million hits on the first trailer — and of outrage. It was a very very strange outing.

In the full quote from the interview he claims “the left and right both hated it” and then only mentions critiques from the right… Is it because the ones from the left are actually… good critiques? (like shocker no shit they are)

They’re also publicly admitting to wanting to be despots.

Of course the opiate for the masses is not for theirs. They know at this point the Internet is technically an infohazard. They made it that way on purpose.

Eminem & Dre. Eminem is the one sitting down to pee. Dre has to go number two.

I sit down when I pee
There’s nothing that crazy ‘bout me
I’m just takin’ a whiz, mind your own biz
Why is everybody always staring at me?

Hey bro, I gotta go
Let me through, I gotta go number two

No can do, I’m taking a pee
Sitting on the loo, having a good long wee

Are you sitting down?

I’m sitting down

And you’re not making brown?

I’m not making brown

Are you making iced tea?

Just lemonade

But are you sitting down?

I’m sitting down!

Why don’t you stand like a regular man?
Then you can pee in the urinal can

If you really wanna know why I’m sitting strong
I just can’t stand touching my dong

Stop I can only get so eShrekt

Best advice that I forgot to include because it’s been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s advice here!

VNC server on her computer. VNC client on your computer. Make sure password is very strong since you’re opening this to the wider internet. Open a port for VNC to pass through on your moms router (and possibly your own as well), and then connect remotely.

TigerVNC seems to be available for all platforms, including Windows and Linux. TigerVNC includes a server and client. (Client is sometimes called “viewer.”)

https://tigervnc.org/

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc

Thanks for the clarification, I’m old and sometimes my memory is more fuzzy on those details. But yeah, it’s always been a license, and back then it felt more like ownership because of the honor system.

“Piracy is a service problem.” Truer words have never been spoken.

Let’s be real though, technically software has always lived and died on licensing instead of ownership.

I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced), and making backup copies of software that you owned (like copying a CD for backup purposes) was a hard fought right when the DMCA was being implemented. But even the backup only helped so much because especially in the last 20 years tech has grown at lightning speed since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. A CD backup of Office 1999 isn’t really helpful in 2026 anyway.

I’m not arguing this is how it should be. I’m just clarifying that technically this is how it has always been. We’ve never had full rights to do whatever we want with the software we buy. It’s why Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Open Source Software is so important, and why open hardware is so important by extension.

The same companies that rose to dominance using an environment with weak regulation and enforcement while also maintaining that hacker attitude of “routing around bad legislation” have now been using their dominance to make an environment of tight regulation and enforcement, now that they’re at the top. They have spent endless amounts of lobbying money to get this environment to benefit them where you’re locked in via hardware and software to the companies rules on how you use your hardware and software… because the software was never really ours, and now they’re leveraging that to make our hardware not ours either.

The only way out is through. FOSS.

OH! Then he can parody MetaFilter’s own plannedchaos Scott Adams, who lost his ability to speak for about three years.

It’s the christian conservative version of the onion, the Babylon Bee, thus the “BBN.”

Tim is going to do that voice so long it’s going to accidentally become his real voice

How will they protect that content being trained for AI models on third party piracy sites where dumps of Patreon subscriber content get published without a paywall. On those sites, there’s no protection.

Like that’s the unfortunate part about a lot of this is a lot of people pay for Patreon access and then just pirate the content out. I’m not against piracy, but I do see the nature of the piracy sites being wide open with no controls or protections from AI scraping that even with Patreon doing this, many are likely to still have their art scraped.

Texted from a giant steampunk spider robot