Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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51·3 days agoNATO expansion
Which is not real. I am saddened you choose to believe in it.
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(via this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO …which will presumably amaze you)
If you’re actually curious and have 20 minutes, try this video: Ukraine: The Avoidable War
That pin can be found for $30 or $35 on on ebay here and here, where it is described as being from the 80s and as an “employee pin”.
I was thinking that this might have been something aimed specifically at technology buyers in US schools in the 80s or 90s, to whom Apple offered substantial institutional discounts in a (relatively successful) effort to dominate that sector. However searching the phrase “does more costs less” i found this TV spot advertising the Quadra 605 which at $1000 was the cheapest computer Apple sold when it was introduced in October 1993 (and allegedly cheaper than something else they refer to as “PC Leading Brand” 😂). That system was sold under the LC and Performa brands up to 1996, but it was only sold as a Quadra until October 1994, so, to answer OP’s question: that slogan was in use at least sometime in that year.
0·20 days ago
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-bris short for-briefand makesip’saddr,link, andneighcommands “Print only basic information in a tabular format for better readability.”)
3·1 month agoIt looks like Framework only offers entry-level Radeon GPUs.
If you want to do GPU compute in a laptop and money is no object, something from Lenovo’s Legion series of gaming laptops is probably a good choice. You can get one with an RTX 4090 in it, and the series (or many models of it, at least) appears to have reasonably good Linux support. (Disclaimer: I’ve never used one.)
Really?! I have never seen a paywall there, and I usually access it using tor browser (so, coming from a variety of countries).
0·2 months agoThey had to make it the default though. That was unavoidable.
For it to be useful at scale, sure, but reading this it sounds like Chrome’s version of it is still “experimental” and opt-in. Hopefully the backlash prevents it from being developed further.
It has come to my attention that many of the people complaining about #Firefox’s #PPA experiment don’t actually understand what PPA is, what it does, and what Firefox is trying to accomplish with it
The documentation under the “Learn more” link next to the “Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement” checkbox in Firefox preferences explains very clearly what it is and how it works. Asserting that people who read that and are indignant about it being enabled by default just… “don’t actually understand” it is absurdly insulting and basically gaslighting.
3·4 months agonp, you’re actually early
0·4 months agoThe vast majority of LANs do not do anything to prevent rogue DHCP servers.
Just to be clear, a “DHCP server” is a piece of software which can run anywhere (including a phone). Eg, if your friend’s phone has some malware and you let them use the wifi at your house, someone could be automatically doing this attack against your laptop while they’re there.
VPNs have several purposes but the big two are hiding your traffic from attackers on the local area network and concealing your location from sites that you visit.
If you’re using a VPN on wifi at a cafe and anyone else at the cafe can run a rogue DHCP server (eg, with an app on their phone) and route all of your traffic through them instead of through the VPN, I think most VPN users would say the purpose of the VPN has been defeated.
because i thought the situation described by the post was tragicomic (as was somewhat expressed by the line from it quoted in the post title)
I’m the worm in the apple car.
That worm has a name: Lowly
Your comment I replied to also doesn’t say anything about the context of the expansion, it just says it “is not real”.
But if you want some context, I encourage you to watch the 20min video i posted earlier in this thread.