Why would Obama do this? 😭

They’re not public services. They’re hostile psy-ops around the world, helping destabilise other governments.

It’s high time other countries just outright blocked that cesspool, and Twitter while they’re at it.

“Call it what you like, you’re still going to need us” Code.

It’s just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn’t mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the “no code” rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.

If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won’t be too painful to add.

About 2019.

If it still works, keep using it.

I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.

Just sick of nothing being available when I want it, on another app, and having to scan several services to confirm that.

With Jellyfin it’s just there. There’s no ads. There’s no “oh hey you looked away from the credits for five seconds I’ll just play something else”.

Well everything else is in it.

Shit, Chrome supports the use of COM ports. It’s an OS within an OS.

No Chinese leather jackets for Jensen. :(

And it doesn’t help that actually running your own working mail server in 2026 is a fucking ball-ache. Especially if you don’t want every big provider to mark all your mail as spam. Email has been captured by big tech.

Even people who self host a lot of stuff usually don’t bother with it.

That’s the goal.

So remind me how much the Switch 2 retailed for while the tariffs were in place and how much it retails for now?

Ubisoft is French. Embracer Group is Swedish. Plenty of money even if they ignore the Americans or Saudis or whichever shady group owns EA now.

Who will win?

One million angry gamers, or one little bribey boy?

We shall see.

I don’t like Adobe, but you have to understand that their business is not selling software, it’s keeping people locked into their platform.

A rival being free matter not a jot when you’ve got decades of work in Adobe formats, and no end of experience with Adobe software. Especially when the company is paying for it all anyway.

It seemed popular at the time MS was pushing “Windows is a touch screen OS” phase, before remembering that there are pretty much no Windows apps that are useful with touchscreen, and the only reason they are relevant is 30 years of vital old software that businesses can’t throw away.

I think the niche it tried to open was as a drawing tablet, basically being a built in Wacom, but an iPad and Procreate do that job so much better.

I mean it doesn’t even matter that it is. It’s not a secret who the money is going to.

The important part is that it can’t be reversed by a banking authority.

The “they catch fire” argument is fucking bonkers anyway.

If there’s one thing petrol cars are famous for, it’s being filled with flammable liquids that can and do leak everywhere and combust upon collision.

You can ignore them. Same with all the disingenuous cunts who complain about wind turbines “spoiling the view” who ignore the coal and gas power stations that have littered the skyline for over a century.

Isn’t this part of the plot of the later seasons of Silicon Valley?

Two bits of security software.

Makes me wonder if there’s been a concerted effort to hack these accounts, and some automated security process has locked them out.

Remember when we armed “Syrian Rebels” and then a few years later had to go and fight a suspiciously well armed ISIS?

The moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.

2600 ping is a lot, but people have likely played with worse. Just not very well.