three digital condoms

Funnily enough, three real condoms are less effective than one.

That made me think of Jethro Tull - Aqualung

I built a new PC early October, literally 2 weeks later RAM prices went nuts… so glad I pulled the trigger when I did

You’re right, because this is a thread about the USSR doing bad things.

What if that’s what he imagines this new “ballroom” will be…

About a year or two ago there was this big change. They said we are “shifting left”. A hot new trend in the tech industry where we eliminate quality assurance teams and instead the engineers test their own code.

Yeah, that is absolutely not what Shift-left is. Shift-left is essentially an implementation of TDD, and QA is still a vital component of that. I think you are right in that management used it as a scapegoat to fire people.

However, if what you are saying in the rest of your post is accurate, you need to GTFO that company, fast. It’s only going to be a matter of time before the product craters from all the vibe-coding.

It wasn’t the palantirs themselves, it was the fact that Sauron had one and used to to twist others to his will.

All of the major gaming youtubers have made at least a couple videos featuring Linux over the last couple months, which is definitely a big change from the windows-only (except sometimes servers) content of years past.

Really, the entire Fellowship (including Boromir) are fantastic examples of healthy masculinity.

You might get some use from Jira or a similar tool…

I have ADHD. Open tabs lose context, I forget why they’re open, so they are useless. Bookmarks are categorized and that organization keeps the context apparent. I currently have 5 tabs open, and after submitting this reply, it will be four.

TOR is easy enough to set up that if you know how to install a program on your computer and run it, you’re good to go. It’s not the ideal way to run TOR, and is still somewhat insecure, but can be done in a few clicks.

Back in the early 00’s, the amount of people learning how to download pirated music safely, arrange and burn a CD with it skyrocketed. Fast forward a few years and people with no real computer skills were learning how to rip and burn DVDs.

I wouldn’t underestimate the potential of people with motivation to circumvent an oppressive system.

You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders…

right?

Three times the price? Where you get train tickets that cheap? cries in VIA Rail

having that for years now

since abaout the late 90’s to early 00’s. KDE 1 released with virtual desktops, and from what I can tell, Klipper either released with it, or a few years later

At least you’re honest… you don’t have a good sense of humour :)

Nearly every comic I’ve seen that “insults everyone mercilessly” just rehashes the same tired jokes, I consider that extremely lazy. I don’t buy into your senitivity BS, people are just tired of the same garbage “I’m not racist, I hate everyone equally” humour.

I used it as a holdover while getting diagnosed with ADHD, and you are right; it’s not exactly a pleasant experience. I didn’t get the bad nausea that other people reported, but if I ate “wrong” there’d be consequences for sure. But it did help with culling the binge-eating I had long enough to get my ADHD diagnosis and onto medication for that, which has helped my executive function improve to where I was able to stop ozempic and have not reverted back to those bad habits.

Executive function disorders are a bitch for sure.

TBF though, that is exactly why Baden-Powell created the Boy Scouts.

The dragon earned their hoard! Taking it away is Commie DEI!!!

My previous router (ASUS) crapped out at about 30 clients on 2.4GHz. New one (TP-Link Archer) is doing fine with somewhere between 30 and 40 depending on whether some clients connect to 2.4/5/6GHz, and about 50 clients total once I count wired and docker containers.