Starcraft: Ghost

and converting them to modern languages: Basic Computer Games

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

would like to see what Cards Against Humanity could do with the supplement business …

“trust thermocline”

from Mastodon:

The EU president isn’t attending.
The US president isn’t.
China’s president isn’t.
India’s president isn’t.
France’s president isn’t.
Germany’s chancellor isn’t.
Brazil’s president isn’t.
Russia’s president isn’t.
South Africa’s president isn’t.
Canada’s PM isn’t.
Japan’s PM isn’t.
Australia’s PM isn’t.
The Netherlands PM isn’t.
But hundreds of oil company lobbyists are attending
and plenty of representatives from fossil fuel investment firms.

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

nothing says safety like a Sony rootkit

no worries, I do hate you for who you voted for

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

too true, Trump is much closer to Mussolini, weaponized incompetence writ large

BSD community seems to like snac2

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Let’s Talk About Thalidomide

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

• Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) – the background for
• Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018) – published in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017

Australia’s Carbon Capture and Storage is a straight up scam

(doesn’t help that most HVAC installers in the US are of a relatively conservative bent, no problems trash-talking heat pumps while they try to up-sell you on the latest forced-air system)