Lol are these supposed to be regulations?

EndeavourOS at home, Ubuntu at work

So I’ve heard of this a bit before but never really got it. Is the idea that the cable could access all of the channels, but the box had some sort of DRM on it that prevented it from actually tuning into those channels?

There probably isn’t another IP that’s been handled as poorly in the absence of its creator as SpongeBob SquarePants. It’s clear that nobody involved with it has any sense of Hillenburg’s creative vision or style of writing.

I’ve hired for junior positions on a sysadmin team and Linux as a hobby is the number 1 thing I look for. It moves your resume to the top of the stack.

Haha my dad had a vic20 and he has told me a story almost exactly like that

Yeah this is some serious anticompetitive practices here. Teddy Roosevelt would be fuming

Unfortunately it’s owned by Amazon now so it inflates the ratings of their shows. But other than that it’s still quite good like you said for getting an overview

Report it to whom?

I started watching Twin Peaks this week. It’s been in my backlog for ages but a podcaster I like mentioned it and I decided to jump it to the front of the queue. I’ve only just finished season 1 but I like it a lot. It has a lot of the surreal vibes that David Lynch is so good at. Kyle MacLachlan character is very fun

I know years ago, there was interest in reporting/cleaning up suspiciously dead birds too. Not sure what the current direction on that is now.

What exactly makes a dead bird sus?

I’ve never been clear on what exactly the mitigation is for WNV. It’s not like you can prevent mosquitoes biting you. Often you don’t even know it’s happening. What exactly are you supposed to do?

The article says “don’t get bit” but thats basically impossible if you enjoy the outdoors, especially in more wooded areas like northern Ontario. You can’t just wear a full body bug net the whole time. I mean I guess you could but it’d be miserable.

When I was ten I wasn’t listening to albums yet. My taste in music didn’t really form until I was around 13 or 14. I grew up in that weird space where mp3 players were just starting to be a thing but my family lived in a rural area and didn’t have good access to commercial stores, so we had like the shitty mp3s that were only like 256mb of capacity. And since we grew up in the country I couldn’t go to the music store and browse CDs, so my mp3 was loaded up with whatever CDs my dad had lying around. It was a weird mix of stuff I liked and stuff from some random mix CD a friend burned for him at some point.

My first real feeling of having ownership over my taste in music was the first time I played guitar hero 3. That was around the same time I moved from country to city, and so I had better internet access as well as could go to more music stores. And also got an mp3 with effectively infinite music capacity.

Honestly I think the first album where I appreciated it as an album rather than as just random singles loaded in my shitty mp3 might be Poodle Hat by Weird Al Yankovic.

Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.

I can’t say I have any level of hype to see this, but that poster is very aesthetically pleasing to me

“These two things are both bad and are therefore equivalent” is my least favourite human logical fallacy

You’d have to be a real idiot to keep using the same phone after the police arrested you and forced you to unlock it, especially for doing crimes.

Does a book club meet up to just talk about what their favourite authors tweet about, or what new book is coming out soon in a series they like? No. They talk about what artistic choices they like and don’t like in the books they read, what emotions those books evoke, what other books they remind them of, etc.

Why not?

This podcast answers that question: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/whomst-among-us-let-the-dogs-out/