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Jrockwar

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    Live updates: Israel begins 'limited' ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

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  • The fact that it lasted only for a week, or the fact that not even during that week could Israel keep their rockets in their pants?

  • You wouldn't download a sheep

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  • I agree with you with the fact that it's wild, very distopian sci-fi.

    However, even it this very much an ethical no-no, I'm not sure which bit is the technically illegal part.

    If he were selling normal sheep, that would be perfectly legal. Nobody would bat an eyelid, despite being similar treatment to animals.

    Is it the cloning that is illegal? If he were to clone a species on the brink of extinction to re-populate an area, would that be ethical but illegal?

    Is the problem that he's cloning without authorisation? Who decides whether we can bring new animals to life via cloning? Is there a Ministry of Clones that needs to authorise people to clone stuff?

  • Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

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  • Yes, but they're making people quit instead. They don't need to pay severance to employees who quit because of RTO.

  • Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

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  • Well then bring it on. If feels too big to fail, but if (hypothetically) Amazon were to go under, the world would be a better place.

  • GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.

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  • Sure, just like other brick and mortar stores can refuse to give you backups of a DVD you own.

    As long as the installer works offline this is just as good. It's up to you to store it in whichever format you prefer so that you don't lose it - hard drive, thumb drive, DVD...

    If you nuke your computers hard drive with the installers of your games, or you step on your blu rays with games and break them, then you lose access to them. As it's always been, no matter the format?

  • Nintendo Patent Approved in August Could Be What It Uses Against Palworld

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  • I'm not a lawyer but, I know when you file for a patent you can do that in just one country or internationally (which is significantly more expensive). Skimming through the Wikipedia article it seems to be talking about that, but first you need to have filed for the patent internationally and not in just one country.

    From what I've read about this topic, it sounds like this is a patent active in Japan only.

  • Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS

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  • Hahaha so funny and edgy lol

  • Highly enjoyable things require concentration too

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  • Or, you really enjoy a hobby but your hyperfocus makes you research the hobby instead of doing it. E.g. you like photography and your hyperfocus kicks in researching places to go take photos, or gear to buy... Or you spend hours choosing the best cycling route until it's too dark or the weather changes and you go "What happened to my beautiful afternoon??".

    My hyperfocus tends to kick in whenever the ADHD gremlin inside my brain chooses, not always when I'm doing whatever I enjoy. I wish that was always the case.

  • What eternity feels like

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  • the shutdown command was a warning not a request.

    Such wise words.

  • Here's how Android 15 blocks thieves from bypassing factory reset protection

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  • This assumes everything works fine. It's probably an edge case, but on my Nexus 6P an update somehow messed with my encryption keys, and the screen lock pattern that I'd used for over a year stopped getting recognised. I can't remember the solution but I vaguely remember having to factory reset. Whatever the solution was, it wasn't too different to what a thief would do... I was bypassing the screen lock after all.

  • Deep Discounts

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  • In most of Europe, the prices of Model 3's match pretty well those of the Polestar 2. The difference in build quality between those two is night and day. The Tesla feels like a Chrysler/Dodge Neon in comparison, with leather being the only concession whatsoever to niceness.

    The fact that in Europe somehow they're "premium" and not budget cars within their category blows my mind.

  • These repairable phones still aren't built to last

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  • Also while they're repairable and they have that going for them, Google also promises 7 years of updates, so they're not even unique on that selling point.

  • Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

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  • It's hip to like Kagi because it's not Google.

    I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can't remember which one. I wasn't exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.

  • Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

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  • Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?

    I know you've said "almost", but there's a free search engine in there where you're not the product...

  • Bigfoot Can be Vicious

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  • I think maybe he's peeing on the bush?

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  • Probably not. But that's what happens when you buy Things as a Service.

  • PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Did Not Break 700 Players On Steam On Launch Day

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  • I don't know why they keep insisting on live service with an upfront cost. The only way these games are successful is by having a fuckton of teenagers with no money to fill the lobbies and make it feel lively and worthwhile. The minute you add an initial cost, there's just not enough of a player base to support a game with microtransactions.

    I'm not a business genius, but they don't have to learn from me. There is the very clear precedent of Kill the justice league that they're choosing to ignore!

  • PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Did Not Break 700 Players On Steam On Launch Day

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  • It might be a different game, but I thought there would be flights too! Especially when they fight against the robot uprising of the year 2000.

  • Coffee and ADHD

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  • Coffee is a stimulant, which is known to help people with ADHD. In fact, ADHD drugs are also stimulants.

    The productivity effect you describe is what many ADHD folks get with coffee. The brain finds it easier to focus under stimulants so you get more productive, and even relax a bit because of quieting your inner "running commentary" that keeps you jumping from one task to another.

    However, that doesn't mean that ADHD makes you immune to caffeine or that stimulants can't have a stimulating effect on you. After 10 coffees, you'd feel jittery like the rest of mortals, and experience a caffeine crash afterwards, or find it harder to sleep at night - all of those are normal effects that caffeine has in the human body.

    The other part to what you're describing is just normal caffeine tolerance. All drugs have this to some extent, but I find that it's rather easy to build tolerance to caffeine, and its effect feels smaller and smaller gradually over time. For me, the best way to avoid this is to limit my intake on weekends and/or not have 7 double espressos on workdays (which I've done way too many times and is not a good idea). If you don't have coffee for a month, the first one after that period will really have a strong effect.

    I appreciate everyone's brain chemistry is slightly different, but for me, coffee doesn't make me very nervous or "buzz", but the biggest effect is that I focus better. If I start working in the morning and don't have a coffee, even if I feel awake, my brain will keep jumping from one task to another and struggle to maintain concentration and do anything useful. The first coffee makes that go away, it's like my brain "latches" onto tasks more easily. I can actually work on something for half an hour without going on a wild goose chase of "what is the best calendar app that also syncs notes to my phone" or whichever is the distraction of the day.

    As a bit of an experiment, I would suggest for a few weeks you pay attention to these things to understand well the effect it has on you, and treat it (i.e. dose it) as a delicious medication. 😄