Also toddlers:

Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”

Toddler: “Because I needed to.”

Me: “Why did you need to?”

Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”

Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.

The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.

Not the same collection, but there’s https://modarchive.org/ as the largest database/collection of this type of music online in their original file types.

These tracker files tend to be incredibly small, as most are effectively just text files. If you find some of these you like, for instance the OST for Uplink or Deus Ex, they take practically no space. They also serve as little slices of history, as a lot of them have little notes by the original creators in them, often from multiple decades ago.

If you want a player for these file types on Android, it looks like Drake Mod Player is the successor of XMP Player, which no longer works on modern Android.

Edit: Whoops, thought I was editing my comment, not replying to it.

Too late

Best we can get is Internet Archive of previous versions of the page if we’re lucky.

Oh 100%.

Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.

And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.

In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.

Yeah, there should at least be the option for the original tracker files.

My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?

So much for data being anonymized. They correlate individual users between multiple, completely unrelated apps.

At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.

A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.

Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.

Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.

Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:

• 1 Week: Install in the background silently and finish when the machine reboots.
• After the week, 2 Days: Warn once that the machine will automatically reboot in 48 hours.
• 12 hours before forced reboot: Pop up a warning in the corner with the countdown before reboot. Options are reboot now or warn me again in X hours. If you dismiss it without selecting, it pops up again in an hour.

If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?

That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.

If it’s a side project, then by definition I’m doing it for fun or to build certain skills, not as some sort of “product”. Personally, I don’t do “professional” work outside of my job.

But yeah, getting sidetracked is absolutely a classic trap.

At risk of sidetracking more, could you turn the monitoring you’re doing into its own project or something at least re-usable?

If not, I’d either self-host something or just continue using what you’ve made as-is.

People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.

pidgin

God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program

But I need my armpits for THE STINKING

It’s an edit of one of their real marketing slogans, “play has no limits”

To surface some important info from the link: IETF standards votes are open to anyone on the mailing list, and a number of NSA workers are voting for the first time on any of these standards in favor of weakening one particular one.

Given that it’s effectively open to the public, the creator of the linked site is urging people to sign up and vote in opposition.

It’s a quick read and all the relevant links are there for involving yourself if you wish.

Say no more say no more

They do.

However there are a large number of servers that utilize plugins to strip out Microsoft’s invasive chat monitoring where you can get banned from all online play for saying no no words, regardless of the rules of the actual server you’re on. There’s more nuance to it than that, but there are a lot of ways the Microsoft chat reporting system is being abused right now. There was even an exploit recently that allowed people to send fake chat message data back to Microsoft to get arbitrary users banned for things they never said. So Microsoft says “we’re doing this thing to address concerns about online content and predators” and major servers go “Microsoft you’re just making things worse”.

Additionally, there are “offline servers” that use mods to patch out all communication with Microsoft/Mojang/Minecraft systems, and various other pieces of code that attempt to enforce only paid players joining a server, ultimately allowing people to connect without having actually purchased the game.

While this politician is full of shit, I can understand the fervor. Especially if they have a Minecraft playing kid.

To give an example of the state of some of the most popular servers, there is one heavily customized server that allows for effectively any client-side mods to be run on it. It has one of the largest developed maps of any server ever, and effectively allows hacking. There are entire sub-sub-sub communities making mods just for this server to help streamers hide details of how the block textures are randomly rotated that could give away base locations. It’s absurd.

Anyway, someone recently did a massive coding project figuring out how they could back up the whole map as a regular user. They also did some data analytics on the map. One of the data points was amount of “5x5 obsidian pinwheels”, better known as swastikas.

Sure, it’s edgy internet assholes, but it’s definitely an image issue that Microsoft would love to have useful idiots like this guy paper over.

So your complaint, for posterity

More seriously, you pretty much got it. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.

It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.

A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”

It’s boring and overdone.