I just want to point out that this is not like for example Italy invading Africa. ROC was the government of mainland China before the revolution, they fled to Taiwan which used to be a part of China. Both ROC and the PRC think they are the true rulers of all of China, meaning both Taiwan and Mainland. If ROC would be militarily stronger, it would probably plan to invade the PRC.

People may or may not think that that is imperialist, but at least it should be taken into consideration.

Her chair is still radioactive.

They wrote this without googling anything.

You can self host: https://buttplug.io/

Its the formula for a linear function though, it doesn’t have curvature.

Ants running in a circle lost the pheromone trail and keep running in circles until they die.

BTW the way refunds work is that steam withholds the money for a month to pay refunds with it. The publisher has no say, they just get gross - 30% - VAT - refunds.

TIL humans are broth.

I’m not talking about slop games, I’m talking about giving single dev games a chance. Even successful single dev games make maybe 140000k which is 70k on your bank account. Having 18k more would make a massive difference for those games.

They don’t have to vet anything, just make the first 50k free.

What adapter are you using specifically, because on their website I can only find 4k30.

They could definitely lower their 30% cut for indie devs. Even just making the first 50k free would be huge (epic takes no cut for the first million).

Salt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.

You get many warnings and the domain will be on hold after expiry so you can get it back.

Get your own domain, its really cheap.

Yes absolutely. The results are actually useful, they don’t have an incentive to keep you from finding what you are searching for. There is way less copywritten content and if there is, you can just block it.

Whenever I have to go back to “free” alternatives I am shocked by how much worse it is.

I find it hard to argue that it is a lie, when it is not said which part of AWS is actually required. The systems you mention are multiple orders of magnitude smaller. It is not clear that they would be able to scale to the same size.

You would require geographically distributed data centers with good and stable connectivity between them and at least some form of globally replicated fast database. It is indeed not so easy.

In Ubuntu you used to be able to delete the UEFI firmware from the motherboard.

This is actually really interesting!

This taxable individual, Kokott explains, was found to have bought and resold through “various forums, groups, and platforms such as Facebook, Discord, and Skype” enough RuneScape gold to earn €415,484—approximately $488,000 USD—between 2021 and 2023.

They then were ordered to backpay VAT because they made above 45k. Defendant says trading virtual currencies is like trading crypto, and VAT exempt. Government says its like selling a voucher instead.

Its corner cases like this one that make taxes complicated for regular people.

I also find it hilarious that tax lawyers and accountants will have to read that court decision.

The threat model is that all communication is recorded and will be decrypted once the technology becomes available. The question then becomes for how long you want your data to be secure. If its for example 40 years, you need to chose an algorithm today that is still secure in 40 years.