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Many outside of Ukraine don’t realize that this war didn’t start in 2022 but in 2014.

Using Bluesky as the non-algorithmic example is problematic - they still need to show high user engagement numbers for their VC owners. Mastodon do not have the same problems since on the contrary a Mastodon instance owner has an economic incentive in making sure spambots and troll factory accounts get closed down asap.

All social media is overrun by troll factories with the purpose of sowing discord. I just assume all such accounts are “bots” (although often human-run).

(Yes, some try to sign up also to Mastodon et.al. - but are usually spotted)

Zelenskyy is not the one that “disagrees” with giving up land. He just points to their constitution since it’s simply not something he’s allowed to agree to do.

Not that Trump understands that a constitution can limit the powers of a president …

Exactly. It’s enough to learn that we have to give up access to all social media accounts at entry and that if they find something critical of Trump (which likely exists on 99% of all European social media timelines) that’s enough to suddenly be sent to confinement for a week or … a month.

Yeah, no. There are other places to visit.

/Vegas-loving European who has been there pleeenty of times

Always my wife when she’s also having. Otherwise we share when it’s for the kids (special needs means we can’t all eat at the same time or the same things).

It’s funny. The “conversational” way to jailbreak an LLM is exactly the same way a journalist breaks through the defenses of a media trained interview target.

Yeah that simply isn’t true. I use Secure Boot on all my Linux installs - both in the deb and rpm ecosystem system.

Really? Which would those be? So far I haven’t come upon one.

Yes. That’s how you get undetectable rootkits.

Secureboot doesn’t “fuck with Linux”. It does protect you from malware trying to install unsigned kernel modules.

Apparently that driver is unsigned, which is not the normal case nowadays.

… I get that this is a REALLY important topic to you - but the article also explains how the PS5 is much more expensive (inflation adjusted) at this point in time compared to the PS4. That’s very much part of “doing well”.

Also, that the PS4 numbers are included is no different from the PS3 before - and your claim was that Sony was losing customers at that.

Take the L.

I prefer facts to gut feelings.

Sony said its monthly active gaming users for the year ended April 1, 2025, were up 5% at 124 million users, which is the highest in PlayStation’s history.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nearly-5-years-in-ps5-sales-remain-neck-and-neck-with-ps4/

Nintendo sells lots of games on Switch. The games industry in general don’t.

Cause (people didn’t buy Xboxes) and effect (Microsoft declared consoles over).

Steam won, btw. Not Windows. The next “console war” will be Steamboxes vs Playstation 6.

It’s a play on “free as in beer …”. We’ve seen all too well that paying with our data isn’t the way to go.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/620/what-is-the-difference-between-free-as-in-beer-and-free-as-in-speech

Surely everyone understands a real painting can’t take the heat.

It’s obviously an OLED TV.

Based on my understanding from a psychologist in the family who works with diagnosing ADHD in adults:

1. “GenX et.al.” were mostly never diagnosed as kids. Those that get their diagnosis as adults because they’ve been unable to successfully “handle” their ADHD do get on stimulants, yes.

2. ADHD is a lot more difficult to cope with during school than as an adult where you can be successful in other settings that don’t require you to sit still and listen for days on days.

3. ADHD can become a lot less severe after puberty which means medication might’ve been needed as a child but no longer as an adult.

caveat: Based on my understanding - I’m not the one with the actual knowledge.

All projects should be.

Move to Codeberg (esp. if you’re European) - but please don’t forget to donate something as well. If we don’t pay for actual freedom, we won’t be able to keep it.