Not the person you asked, but for me:

• The music CD rootkit
• removing OtherOS from the PlayStation 3
• trying to push various proprietary formats like MemoryStick and MiniDisc
• DRM in ATRAC3
• etc.

Take your pick!

But are they gonna keep the pepper?

They’re working up to it with “age verification” bullshit.

Only because, up to this point, we’ve been successful at pushing back against this tyranny. But make no mistake: that is the real goal of this “age verification” bullshit.

“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”

The middle east is also southwest Asia.

Except they have to be over 35 years old. : (

I click the link to listen to the song intentionally. It’s a great song!

Furthermore, how do you go about running cables in your home?

You watch some Youtube videos about how to do it and then you follow the instructions.

It’s going to depend a lot on the construction details of your house:

• Do you have wooden framing (common in the US), masonry (common in Europe, as I understand it), or something else?
• Do you have access to an attic or basement/crawlspace?
• Do you need to run wires on exterior walls (which means dealing with insulation), or just interior ones?

For me (wooden frame construction, accessible attic and basement), I didn’t find it to be too difficult. Is it work? Yeah, of course. But it’s not that bad, and I recommend spending the effort because having proper wall plates wtih in-wall wires is way nicer than having stuff snaking along surfaces.

LOL, it lights up when the character jumps.

This is some North Korea-level shit.

Laughs in Memory: 46.84 GiB / 62.72 GiB (75%) with (probably) several hundred tabs open

There’s no real good reason that all RAM shouldn’t have been ECC since decades ago. It doesn’t actually cost much more to implement. The only reason it isn’t, as tal’s reply mentioned, is artificial price discrimination.

Also…I’m not sure that ECC is the right fix. I kind of wonder whether the fact is actually that the memory is broken, or that people are manually overclocking and running memory that would be stable at a lower rate at too high of a rate, which will cause that.

Some of it is cosmic rays, right? I think ECC is still worth it even at JEDEC speeds.

LOL, nah, Firefox isn’t that stable. If 10% of crashes were caused by bad RAM, it means 90% were still caused by something else.

(My install regularly gets a memory leak that eventually makes my system unusable, BTW. I don’t think it’s necessarily the fault of Firefox itself – more likely Javascript running in tabs, maybe interacting with an extension or something, and some of the blame goes to the kernel’s poor handling of low memory conditions – but it’s definitely not “dev humblebrag stable” for me.)

I mean DRMing and Tivoizing every new computer so that it can’t be rooted or jailbroken and Linux won’t run on it. Requiring a license from the state to have a compiler. You know, The Right to Read or Unauthorized Bread type shit.

LOL, yeah right. Next you’re gonna tell me America’s Army was a recruiting tool.

By destroying all general-purpose computing available to consumers.

Good riddance. All consoles are cancer, by their walled-garden nature.

What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.

(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)