Wait, what was the question? I just got lost in a list of lists of lists. Oh right, reposts are fine I guess as long as there aren’t too many.

Scrolling through the list makes me feel like I probably know way too much about video games.

There are very few reasons left to buy any consoles, and they decided to make it one less.

Must be confusing for Canadian tourists for whom that hand gesture means “I’m crushing your head.”

The only winners of this war are the oil companies in the rest of the world. And the arms dealers, I guess.

If the developers of EVE are involved it seems like a safe bet that yes, you will have to worry about attacks from your neighbours, from strangers, and from your closest friends sometimes.

Weird headline. Whatever you think of their arguments, the interesting part is not that they were so bold as to describe the latest plan for mass surveillance as “mass surveillance.”

Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.

Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

If it turns out that some of the big datacentres they’re building have just a few real servers near the front and the rest of the racks are all filled with cheap space heaters, that will be a twist.

he developed extreme megalomania, attempting to transform the empire into his own personality cult.

I don’t normally think about ancient Rome that much, but earlier today I found myself reminded of Commodus. What a coincidence.

“It’s absolute nonsense. It has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz. It was all based on The Sound of Music.”

Nick Mason continues to be my favourite band member.

If the problem with your old laptop is just that the fan broke, you might be better off just getting a new fan. If you’re near a big city there’s probably a repair shop that will do it.

… although I guess 15 years is a pretty old in computer years. When my laptop died recently I went with a second-hand thinkpad for $300 (edit: not as old as I thought it was, it’s from 2021.) But that was a year ago before prices for everything went crazy.

Just think of all the other things that could benefit from a “protective waiting period” to enhance your safety.

Turning off location tracking, using a web browser other than Chrome, using a mail server other than Gmail, visiting duckduckgo.com — if Google really cared about your privacy and security they’d add a 24-hour delay to all these dangerous activities.

A car is pretty much the last thing you’d want to have a network connection. I’d sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.

It comes and goes. Youtubers seemed to be reviving it recently, no doubt spurred on by some kind of superstition about what The Algorithm wanted — to the point where Youtube itself was moved to step into the fray with its “stable volume” bullshit.

It seems like it was just one wacky Gnome dev. Not, as I was too quick to believe, a Mozilla thing.

It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

They should never have stopped giving everyone the ELIZA vaccine in grade 10 computer class.

Wikipedia.