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themoken

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  • Tawny Newsome Gives Update On Live-Action Star Trek Comedy – “We’re Ready!”

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  • Star Trek is just a setting at this point. Lower Decks proved you can do funny and respectful of the fans at the same time. I agree some of SNW's campiness is a bit over the top, but I'd rather a show spend time trying to do something different like a musical than be totally reliant on drama/action like Discovery (a show that was actually good on the rare occasion the cast could take a break from universe ending peril).

  • BREAKING: Death toll from US operation in Venezuela has risen to 80, according to New York Times report.

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  • This made me laugh. This is the same shit we've been doing for 100 years. "Illegal orders" aren't a thing when you use your imperial military to do imperialism. The last time we had a President that wasn't a war criminal was never.

  • An oppnonent of mine with a funny name resigned after playing Nd6.

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  • Chess is like any other multiplayer game in one regard. Anonymous match ups turn people into assholes. Resigning at the drop of a hat isn't too terrible, but it's just something you wouldn't do if you were playing a friendly game in person.

    I play Stockfish exclusively now, fuck a rating, because for the brief time I was playing real people it seemed like every other match I'd get someone yelling in the chat, asking for moves back when they blunder, or just resigning when it started going against them. Especially with time pressure it's just not worth it when you have an infinitely patient, world class chess opponent on call 24/7.

  • We live in the shittiest time line so might as well call it now.

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  • Yeah, I get the sentiment, but there is such a cult of personality around him and it's not like he's mentally competent enough to be more than a puppet anyway. Maybe losing the figurehead would splinter the fascists...

  • headless zero copy sunshine in fedora!

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  • I have this setup with Plasma, and it is probably easier to do this at the Linux level. I added this to my kernel command line: drm.edid_firmware=DP-1:edid/lg-ultra.bin video=DP-1:3840x2160@60e

    Where that EDID file I dumped from a spare monitor using a method I got here.

    Anyway, it can be tricky to pick the right device, but I can confirm Sunshine sees it and works properly, and it can be managed like a normal monitor.

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you're coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.

    Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn't work...

  • Trump’s Mystery Bruise Spreads to His Other Hand

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  • Admittedly, no, I just remember it being taken that way in 2020 when his age was an issue. Definitely possible the media misconstrued it, but regardless if he was acting in good faith in 2024 instead of out of ego, he would have declined to run.

    So much of his last year bumbling would have been totally forgivable if he never went on the debate stage, never made the Dems run Kamala without further discussion etc.

  • jesus vs mary

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  • As an STL native this is a fun Bob Cassilly fact I needed to know. Man was a treasure.

  • Trump’s Mystery Bruise Spreads to His Other Hand

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  • Eh, hard to lionize Biden for this when he also overstayed his welcome and pretended to be fit to run in '24 for as long as he could. Kamala was a meh candidate, but she certainly would have had a better chance if she'd been the head of the ticket from the get go... Or, you know, Biden actually kept his promise not to seek reelection early enough that we had a real primary.

  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • I burned a Blu-ray a few years back just to supplement some of our encrypted Google Drive backups with copies that would be more accessible in case of my demise, or physically grabbable in case of disaster. I know they won't last forever, but if Drive shut down on the same day my local copies failed at least I have an option.

    Otherwise, I haven't used physical media in years. I got the 4K LOTR set when it came out and tried to use it, but it ended up being easier to just pirate the rips like anything else.

  • What would the communist solution to climate change look like?

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  • So, basically the same thing that's happening now...

    Thing is, no economic system will eliminate people that are afraid of the truth and are obsessed with covering their own asses. Best we can do is shift culture to reward being more up front and honest but it's a pretty tall order to expect someone to happily be humiliated when they make a mistake even if there aren't lives on the line.

  • Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things"

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  • Linus' apathy may keep ten different competing security ideas from each being mainlined, but it's not impossible for them to continue and prove their worth out of tree until some sort of coherent best practices are established.

    Meanwhile, actual security issues will continue to be patched as needed and Linux remains the most analyzed and targeted kernel in the world.

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  • Reminds me of old Mad Magazine, when they'd parody something they'd draw famous faces in detail but on a much more cartoony body. Definitely a bit jarring, but I'd take it over another stick figure any day.

  • The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays

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  • To be clear, I just mean release as in B42 becoming available as default. Their long term plans are great though, I look forward to playing them in 2030 haha.

  • The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays

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  • I haven't played multiplayer, but Build 42 is really shaping up. Game is getting more survival-y in that you can make a lot more stuff from components (ore, clay etc.) and there is real wildlife/ livestock to make more food craftable from renewable post-apocalyptic sources. The lighting has been overhauled, some older areas have been revamped to be more realistic, buildings can be much taller. They even added a bit of randomness to the map with random basements. I'm really hopeful this patch gets guns right too, they've improved previously but still take way too long to become viable IMO.

    They must be pretty close to official release, it's really getting there.

  • I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it.

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  • Eh, I dunno. The opening seasons are usually weak (TOS is an exception) but looking at Encounter at Farpoint/Emissary/Caretaker and even Broken Bow they all do a pretty good job introducing the show even if the cast hasn't found its feet yet.

    Honestly, Vulcan Hello / Battle of the Binary Stars is spot on for how the rest of Discovery behaves. Pay lip service to science and exploration and, at the first opportunity, trash that and turn into an action drama.

  • Zero Trust Architecture

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  • Look on my works Sim Mayor and

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • Yeah, I got started in silicon thinking cheaper, faster, more power efficient chips would be a net benefit to the world... Then we became a social media surveillance state and AI dogshit is just the icing on the cake.

    Now I drink to forget we're boiling the oceans to ruin society. One day this capitalist hellscape will end.

  • What christmas tradition do you uphold?

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  • So traditional it's like a Norman Rockwell painting.