The linux kernel. All the software I need, I’ll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

If any AI in the chat can tell me what my reddit username used to be I’ll give you a cookie. Well, I’ll tell you about a website where you can go to get a cookie. It’s probably possible but you’d have to be pretty good.

Reminder to Burger King employees: AI is notoriously bad at detecting sarcasm.

Did they test this on other countries first, or are they prepared to lose the UK market for the sake of finding out whether people can be made to accept it?

The United States Air Force.

The western world has also had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time.

The Buddhist world has had evidence for a much longer time about all the crazy shit that can happen along the way as you begin to discover mindfulness. You might want to talk to some people at the temple about it before you spend too many hours sitting zazen style.

Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.

… as opposed to English, which was carefully crafted by experts scientifically putting each word in exactly the right place and deriving the most consistently logical system of orthography.

It was good, although its age really showed even compared to the sequel which I’d already played. Strong start to the series. They did some kind of remaster a few years ago which was what reminded me to try the original, so maybe that’s worth it if you don’t like old-game mechanics.

It’s not been easy. There’s also Mass Effect, which I got around to playing last year — but that’s largely because I forgot about it after being patient about it for only a couple of years.

TES6

I’ve been to Calgary. If there’s a war on cars there, the cars are definitely winning.

The American empire is in full self-destruct mode, and these are the fantasies with which its officials occupy themselves while they tear it apart.

Got any still-working used video cards you want to sell?

This could, in practice, usher in a regime of invisible but pervasive mass surveillance

What, another one?

No goats either.

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.

They don’t even name the offending websites. Cowards. It’s not ones I’d ever heard of it turns out: “websites such as crazyporn.xxx, hoes.tube, and love4porn.com”. Mashable doing a better job than the BBC, linking directly to Ofcom as well — though it seems I’m not allowed to see the Ofcom page due to their cloudflare settings.

Greenwich?

Yes, that’s the prime meridian, so if you’re looking for exactitude in your hemispheric definition it is the one to go with. Any system of coordinates is an arbitrary choice imposed on the universe for our convenience. It may seem attractively rebellious to reject the one we have, but you’re not going to gain anything but confusion by picking a different one.

Ic ymagyne?