“Au Feu de Bois” - wood fired

This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

Ah yes, the Cox Communications model.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

Strange, I put the same link in one of my comments and a mod removed it.

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HAL did nothing wrong.

I like JavaScript a lot and would be excited by its use in this context.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

Not just Emmerich, but Devlin as well. I’m worried about this. They tried to reboot the movies in 2014 and pitched a TV show in 2019. They’re both on the record as being salty about SG-1, and I understand why they were salty about it but it’s well beyond them now and after all these years, they’re gonna come in totally play ball, just like that? And this while Malozzi and Wright are “consulting producers,” meaning they give money to the production to get their names on it but they will be largely ignored. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m worried.

Yeah, was gonna say - this guy is another one of the “always, in every context, thinking about gay sex” closeted Republicans. Religion does this to them, the systematic and merciless repression of sexuality causes it to become an immense burden.

Lemmy After Dark^TM

Well. Robin Williams, a (hilarious) American comedian and actor, gained much of his early fame/notoriety on a TV show called Mork and Mindy circa 1978 in which Robin played an alien named Mork.

The show was actually a spinoff of Happy Days, where the “Mork” character first appeared.

“Bjork and Bindi” is clearly a play on words that leverages this.

I barely managed to understand this and I am from this era.

Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it’s memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn’t seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I’ve never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

Cyberpunk has a city that actually feels like a real city to me.

Funniest foreign language TV show of all time, lol. I fr had to have subtitles going the whole way but I cried laughing at times. I’m so in love with Saoirse.

In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.

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