FINE SANK YOU

I WISH I WERE A BIRD

Its only a proper cult when we have /c/pyongyang hosted somewhere. But I don’t wanna go down that rabbit hole.

It’s like governments representing succeeding states of long dead countries that were in a war centuries or millennia ago coming together to shake hands and take pictures.

His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.

It’s really awkward explaining this joke in other languages.

Perhaps the Silent Hill were the friends we made along the way.

Japan is unlocked after NG+. Korea (North and South) is sold separately as DLC.

(Eat (soil and leaves)) vs (Eat soil) and (leaves)?

Opening the command prompt in windows is considered ‘hacking’ these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.

It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don’t want to bother themselves with. You don’t simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.

There was a whole mess with that cruise ship docked in Japan being counted as a separate case so it didn’t boost Japan’s confirmed case numbers, probably to save face before the Olympics. Looking back now it was only mental gymnastics.

I put on my robe and wizard sombrero.

My bad. Sorry.

3rd party modifications to windows iso that basically amounts to trusting an internet stranger.

Worst thing about this is that China gets to point fingers and claim racism while all East Asians abroad are lumped in with the CCP collaborators.

The Chinese logic is that they have enough domestic market to isolate themselves and shield from international pressure, economical or political. It’s been working for them since their homegrown platforms like wechat and weibo are big enough to sustain themselves.

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

It’s both a generational shift and education issue.

I grew up remembering the early days of going online. The only pc at home was shared by family, so I knew early on that covering my tracks (erasing browser history) was important. When Chrome came out and incognito mode became a thing, I instinctively knew that it was just a shortcut for a separate browser profile that does not share the main profiles cookies and history, that it didn’t store activities on the local device. I knew that internet providers could still know what I acceded, and so on.

I can’t ask for the same kind of awareness for people that grew up with smartphones, proprietary walled gardens and apps with most of the complexities hidden beneath pretty UI.

It’s even worse when it comes to the general population - this isn’t the 90s where college students and tech minded people made up the internet users, this isn’t the early 2000s where people still had to use a desktop PC to access the web, with its components more or less open to tinker.

I’m sure corporations like this would give you free Internet if they could collect and sell all your data.

Already a thing. I see them advertised everywhere for prepaid plans and people go ‘omg Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram/TikTok for free!!1!’.

Out of the loop for this one. Is Affinity a software for graphics editing, which was regarded as an alternative to Adobe, but it now acquired by a big corp?