Donkey Kong 64 has a widescreen toggle in the options which I don't think you're using. This looks like 4:3 stretched to 16:9, you'll have a better time with real widescreen.
Rare were pretty good about this, after the first few games (Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie?) they started putting widescreen support in most of their N64 releases.
And specifically, a reference to It's the Sun Wot Won It, a headline in the Murdoch press, not-good-enough-to-be-toilet-paper tabloid rag The Sun, crowing that they had enough influence in the 1992 general election to secure a win for the Conservatives.
I couldn't find any other sources reporting on this and was interested in the context for the remarks, so I tracked down the streamed version of the hearing on the European Parliament web site. The exchange on spyware begins at 17:15:48. I have transcribed it below. I apologize for any errors; I'm unfamiliar with EU sub-organizations and jargon (e.g. is "plenary debate" right?) and the speakers are originally Finnish (Virkkunen) and Belgian (Bricmont), which may mean I've understood them incorrectly.
S. BRICMONT
I'm really happy, Madam Virkkunen, that you finally make it to our committee and thank you very much for your previous answers to the questions of the colleagues.
I would like to focus my intervention on the use of illegal spyware both in the EU and by third countries. Since 2021, there have been many revelations about illegal use of spyware in the EU, including with Pegasus and Predator. Thousands of victims have been identified in Europe and beyond. Even members of the Commission, of this house, colleague of ours have been spied upon, endangering our work. And unfortunately, new revelations continue to fall. Recently, the use of Paragon--presenting itself as the transparent version of Pegasus, and it's apparently not the case--in Italy, have been disclosed in the last weeks, adding new victims to the list and bringing rather confused, or confusing, answers from Meloni government. Unfortunately, we know that it will not stop there.
We established under the last mandate, an inquiry committee. It led to many important recommendations, both for the European Commission, for the Council, to circumvent the use of spyware and prevent illegitimate uses. And unfortunately, we see very few if no follow-up on these recommendations. And so, I also see that it disappeared from the working program of the Commission, although a communication was announced in June '24 and then end '24 and nothing more.
I think if the European Commission is really serious about tech sovereignty, democracy and security and protecting our democracies, it should consider illegal spyware as a top priority. So, can you tell us what you plan to do in these regards? Do you plan to address the European Parliament inquiry committee recommendations? Will they inspire an action plan in the coming EU security strategy? I also wonder what is or will be your political reaction and answer to the recent revelations. And finally, are you aware that there will be new revelations in the coming days? And we asked for a plenary debate in March in Strasbourg. Thank you.
H. VIRKKUNEN
Thank you very much. In fact, I was also member in this inquiry committee in the European Parliament that we had recently, and of course I am very aware of the recommendations also the committee made. But this is very serious, of course, what you were also underlining: the importance of the citizens, to make sure that illegal spyware is not used against them. And, of course, in the European Union, we want to make sure that our digital rules and our societies are very much based to privacy and safety and democracy and also fair environment. And, of course, that kind of violations, if spyware is used illegal way against our citizens, of course this is something that we can't accept.
So, this very serious topic you were underlining, and we will look now into commission side, that what will be the next step from our side in this. In the same time, when technologies they are playing very important role in our security, it's also very easy to threaten our security and unstabilize and create distrust among our citizens by using technologies illegal way in our societies. So I will come back to that and we will now looked at what will be the next steps from the commission side, 'cause like you said, there has been communication on that already, but now we have to really looked at what will be the next steps. Thank you for you for tabling this.
S. BRICMONT
If I may, there have been an announcement of a communication, if I may correct you, and nothing is coming. So we really much expect the Commission from coming at least with a communication or strategy, or even better, proposals to implement the recommendations and to put an end to those kind of illegal spyware. Thank you.
H. VIRKKUNEN
Yeah, there has been announcement on communication, but now we have to look really at what will be the next step, but that has been announced. Yeah.
More snow.
In fairness to cashiers, they're not the ones spearheading these campaigns. They're in the same boat as you except that their job security is contingent upon them presenting a donation option.
I feel like Google would tell you the same thing if asked.
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Maybe this is a me problem, but especially on the threadiverse side (Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed), how much are we really in tight-knit communities based on our servers? I'm from Fedia, but I don't really interact with Fedia people any more than I do anybody else, or even bother to take notice of where other people are from, unless they say something especially goofy. Communities in the "subreddit" sense are more likely to feel tight-knit than servers
I definitely get how allowing people to skip choosing a server is good for some types of potential fediverse users, I just don't think Gmail works as an analogy for that. When Gmail was in its invite-only era, people weren't paralyzed by choices of providers, they specifically wanted the one that was the best, and that was Gmail.
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The difference there is that Gmail was offering something (for free) that nobody else was at the time: the linear, conversation-based display of back-and-forth emails which we're all used to now, and a whole gigabyte of storage. Everybody already had an email address when Gmail arrived on the scene, but Gmail was, from a pure usability perspective, better than the rest. People wanted access to that.
For an invite-only Fediverse server to be especially attractive, it needs to have some reason why access to that server specifically is more desirable than going to any of the tens (hundreds?) of alternative servers that offer literally exactly the same thing. Unless they start adding features the others can't provide (which is close to impossible in an open-source project), what's the benefit?
Do they always spit out stuff that's too big? I put stuff that's bigger than my throat in my mouth all the time. That's what chewing is for.
I think the question at that point is "How often is there a completely new way to use the Internet socially, either inside or outside of the federated space?"
I don't think it happens very often. Blogs, messsage boards and dating sites in the '90s; microblogs, photo and video sharing in the '00s; short form video sharing in the '10s if that counts as a separate thing. There's only like seven types of social network in the three decades or so they've existed.
The article never suggests any physical violence, though. The problems he reported to CBS are a "hateful sticker", "threats online", "somebody tried to cut me off" and "three guys pointing the middle finger and [...] screaming at me". Not super cool either, but they're not physical violence. Those last two might even be legal, depending on the circumstances.
For anybody curious, since the article doesn't mention what the "hateful sticker" was, from a quick search it was: "NAZIS FUCK OFF".
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UX means "user experience". It is distinct from the UI. OP is basically saying the process of signing up to federated social media is too complicated for the average user, not because of the way it looks and how you interact with it (the UI) but because of it's not as easy to understand the concepts behind how Lemmy works.
Haha, that one ClickHole article has its own Wikipedia article:
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point - Wikipedia
I wouldn't bother taking anyone who uses "this country" unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.
Maybe they're just leaning into the Mastodon theming by talking like cavemen.
I'm no expert, but Wikipedia says half of one death cap can kill. For some reason, they don't offer an upper range for what will kill.
That doesn't mean you'll have an OK time eating it in small amounts; it will still make you violently ill and cause damage to your liver.
Before I continue, I want to stress that this is not medical advice or even a personal recommendation. Do not do what I am about to say.
In the case above, the important part is spitting it out. The toxins enter the body via the intestinal walls (which is also why symptoms are fairly delayed), so a taste and spit--and probably some rinsing and even more spitting--will mean that relatively little poison makes it any further than your mouth.
Again, I'm not an expert on mushrooms, medicine, poisons or anything else. All of this is from casual reading from the Internet. Don't eat poison.
I'm worried you haven't brainstormed enough hypotheticals where this isn't offensive. What if the teacher had their Bluetooth in and they were talking to a real terrorist? Or what if the kid's name is Terrorists? You feel pretty foolish now, don't you?
The ones in the comic don't look like death caps, but those are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related poisonings, so we'll assume artistic license.
Death caps probably would go well with pasta. Here is an article from The Atlantic with someone who has tasted one.
Britt Bunyard, the founder, publisher, and editor in chief of the mycology journal Fungi, has tasted a death cap. “Very pleasant and mushroomy,” he told me. “A nice flavor, and then you spit it out.”
“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”
It strikes me that if you're trying to be a stooge for a foreign government, you probably shouldn't tell your superiors about it..