Yeah you don’t hear this kind of criticism about unlikeable characters in a lot of fiction, like say Walter Sobchack from The Big Lebowski. He is legitimately terrible, selfish, and controlling. He tries to steal the Big Lebowski’s money and then lies to his face at the end of the film saying “as if we’d ever try to steal your dirty money!” What makes Walter such a good character is because of how disarmingly real that is. He’s not a person who is actually very likeable at all, but you don’t usually get people saying they don’t like The Big Lebowski because they don’t like Walter.

I think what gets missed a lot by folks who don’t like her character is that it’s good to have a character who is flawed and that sometimes those flaws arise from what they’re going through.

She definitely has her issues, for sure. Yet it read to me that her issues arose far more from the combination of this world-changing event and losing her romantic partner in a very traumatic way. Not a lot of time has passed, at the end of the series less than three months have passed since “the joining” and Carol losing her partner. These traumatic events combined: losing the person you trusted and love the most and the whole world changing overnight with everyone thinking the event that killed your loved one is the best thing that could possibly ever happen. She has not had a lot of time to grieve and she obviously is grieving badly partially because her entire world has been turned upside down and she lost the person she loved. Carol’s partner isn’t one of the “others” waiting to be pulled out of their joined state back to normalcy, no she’s dead and gone forever.

None of this justifies her being kind of an asshole, but I think that’s the point. That she’s imperfect, she knows something is wrong, but she doesn’t have the skills to do anything about it, and she is spiraling from grief and loss of not just her loved one but her entire known way of life. She can’t even do simple things like go to a grocery store and have it bustling with individuals anymore. Every aspect of life that was normalcy and comfort has been torn from her and she’s in a bad way. This new world leaves her uncomfortable and feeling alienated. I can see myself spiraling and making selfish bad decisions in a similar situation as well, especially when only two and a half months have passed.

Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.

Rule 3789 of the Pirates Code: never keep your device fully charged.

I thought drones were just going to be a fad, but they’ve become huge, especially in terms of government and corporate surveillance. I should have realized the way it was going when America started using them militarily. American military inventions almost always end up becoming popular consumer products/applications.

Man I think all of us mistakenly thought this. The early internet had such promise.

Bisexuals: Por que no los dos?

Even better? Vasectomy.

Tor has come a long way in terms of usability, and all these freaks are constantly worried about someone infringing their free speech rights as well as the fact that there’s definitely a non-zero number of right-wing/white supremacist forums on the darknet. So to me it’s actually unsurprising that they would be posting them to darknet sites, just like it’s unsurprising the number of them that have cryptocoin wallets. Especially in law enforcement, where they gather a lot of their evidence from electronic sources these days, so they have to be a little bit more aware of how easily accessed it is than the average chud.

He’s so good in Safe Men and it’s such an underrated and unknown classic.

What about condensed milk or powdered milk? Do they count as distinct leches as well?

Year of the privacy conscious Linux Wank

Just… don’t connect them to the internet? Or if you must connect them for dumb shit like system updates, put them behind some access control where the only access they have is the server they get updates from.

This aspect of it being decentralized is so important to remember.

People sometimes give me quizzical responses when I point them to the repository for the Bypass Paywalls Clean plugin because it’s hosted on a Russian git site (gitflic.ru). The plugin was chased off the Firefox add-ons site/Chrome add-ons site, it was chased off of Gitlab, it was chased off of Github, all over DMCA takedown requests. People act like “well it must be shady because it’s not on a well known git site” and yet is hosted in a country that doesn’t respect the US copyright cabals control over media literally because that’s the only safe harbor for it. The developer even has this snippet on his description of the plugin:

PS although the add-on was removed from Mozilla’s add-on store (AMO) (because of DMCA Takedown Notice) it’s still signed and manually checked for security by Mozilla (hence the delay in signing).

Yet it’s super common for people to be absolutely suspicious of it. Including being suspicious of the traffic leaving the plugin when it’s not being used which turns out to be the plug-in checking for updates every time.

Using alternative gits is so important and is literally what allows programming and especially open source programming, to thrive.

Why not just delete the drive for the virtual machine? I don’t know, spinning up a new machine takes me less than a minute so personally I prefer a clean start with new device settings.

I am not really that familiar with this actress but…

All I have to say is that is an incredibly misleading last name for someone I don’t see tons of photos in full-on goth outfits.

False advertising, if you ask me.

How can she slap!?

*defeatedly puts away torch and pitchfork

*kicks dirt

Shucks I never get to be mad about systemd!