even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion

It definitely was. Even the Catholics will agree it was an abortion. So now both sides hate you.

Benjamein has my sympathy. No person should have to watch a commercial.

When you buy software on a DVD, you own the software, at least until you install it and agree to the clickwrap agreement that revokes your ownership.

In the olden days, we installed software by copying it off floppy disks onto our hard drives. There was no clickwrap agreement, because there was no installer. We owned that software.

GOG advertises that purchasers own the software they buy. https://www.gog.com/en/news/welcome_to_gog

Lots of open source software can be owned. You have to do something that grants you ownership in the first place, like buying it on a disc. Downloading it for free might or might not, I don’t know. But no FOSS license I know of has any clause that revokes ownership. The GPLv2 has a specific clause that says

You are not required to accept this License

so you can always choose to reject the whole GPL, and revert back to the implicit rules of commerce, “Pay money, receive thing” which confers ownership.

Did Steam shut down games people bought?

There’s no minimum wage in my state (other than federal minimum wage) but even semi-rural Taco Bell advertises $15/hr starting wage.

Mods go crazy over one weird trick: change “israel” to “zionists”.

Rule 1.3:

Title must match the article headline

The president of Algae:

chmod can do 95% of everything I’ve ever needed, just with the “user” and “other” category. Private files, public-readable files, public read-write files, programs I compile but anyone can run… all that is just in the “user” and “other” category of chmod.

It gets 99% if you add the sticky bit (used on /tmp) and the “group” category. Serial ports are owned by root:dialout, and mode 660. To get serial port access, just add the user to the dialout group. For group assignments in college, each partner pairing had their own group they could use. Group work files were mode 660 so groups could edit each others’ work, but other groups couldn’t peek.

For the last 1%, use setfacl. It does everything that explorer.exe’s security tab can do.

Images spoilered due to uncanny horror:

You kinda don’t though. They’re paying massive amounts to keep the Strait open, because of the powerful automotive and petroleum lobbies that control much of the US government.

Since this is a war of aggression on the part of the US, the US could just walk away from it. It’s very unlikely that Iran would attack in the US.

China’s energy is mostly provided by coal, and their coal consumption is increasing every year, regardless of renewables also increasing.

I remember this episode, this scene even, for how it failed step 3 of the Bechdel test so badly. Never seen a more classic example.

1. The movie has to have at least two women in it,
2. who talk to each other,
3. about something other than a man.

The fact that they’re talking about a man, and also the circumstances of the scene. Like, what even are these exercises? Were they invented by some sleazy director? Or did a sleazy director just pick them out from a list? And then pick out the outfits?

That won’t help. Innocence is no excuse against American cops.

Proton’s systems are built on proprietary software. I don’t trust them.

I can’t access that domain due to Datadome blocking. I’m on a residential ISP with no reputation problems from any source. I’m using regular Firefox on Linux.

It’s homologous with a human’s middle finger. That doesn’t make it a middle finger.

Mods, please delete this post. It violates rule 5: No AI generated content.

This is negative productivity. It worked before, and now it doesn’t.

Most places in Europe and many places in China have functioning mass transit. Most places in the US do not. The car lobby is very powerful in the US, and they work hard to make life impossible without a car.

Ok, here’s one about China’s current crimes: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/hong-kong-unexpectedly-canceled-one-of-its-biggest-lgbtq-events-china-may-be-to-blame/