Shitholy states made a bunch of shitty laws around 2018 or so, in response to the standing rock protests and their like, criminalizing protest in effect.

I recall that.

Florida made it a felony to step off the sidewalk onto a road during a protest.

It’s absurd that they were able to be lumped together into a conspiracy. The people were only associated in the sense that they were attending the same protests and had texted one another.

Most of these people are only guilty of misdemeanor vandalism. Elizabeth Soto even left the scene when instructed.

However, one guy shot a police officer and the government was somehow able to prosecute them as if they were a single group (‘antifa’) as if they were all the shooter and, in addition, all of the charges were run consecutively. Typically if you have a bunch of charges you serve them concurrently, i.e. if you’re sentenced on multiple charges to 5yrs, 8yrs, 3yr, you’d only serve 8 years and not 16 years.

That’s pretty chilling, if you attend a protest where there is violence you could be charged as part of a ‘terrorist group’ and given life in prison.

You haven’t lived if you haven’t had a good burgle

Gamers Nexus says it’s about $70 more than self-built. (for the 512GB model)

So, you’re paying $70 for a small form factor PC in a custom case, with SteamOS. Another thing is that you can choose to buy a Steam Controller for $20 less than buying the controller by itself and you also don’t have to wait in the pre-order line for the standalone controller (which is currently extended into 2027).

The hardware shortage makes it not a great time to buy a gaming PC, but in the current market it’s priced competitively and you get to jump the line buying a Steam Controller as well.

Same. I saw a civilian car bug out with some weird physics and some texture pop-in issues and that was pretty much it.

It felt like it needed some more polish/balance in the combat system/mob AI system (esp the cops). I thought I became powerful too quickly, playing Netrunner I could just pull up in a car outside and use the cameras to kill everything in the area before walking in and collecting the loot.

It was fun, it just didn’t feel too challenging. The balance pass that came with the expansion is much better.

My friend was playing on a Playstation and his experience mirrors the social media complaints.

I look forward to hearing his work again when Duke Nukem Forever finally comes out.

“These speechwriters routinely handle classified material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There’s nothing controversial about that.”

This must be the first administration who’s speechwriters handle classified material…

Trump admin:

If he had a CDL then he passed the same tests as every other CDL holder and so is just as qualified. His immigration status is irrelevant.

The implication is ‘if he wasn’t in the country this wouldn’t have happened’, but CDL holders have accidents all the time. Cherry picking this case just because he’s an immigrant is such a blatant bad faith nationalist argument (which will land with the base, of course).

I don’t doubt that there are probably tens of accidents today involving CDL holders that are white christians, likely most accidents cause by commercial drivers are caused by white people (because statistics), but I know we’re not going to see Republicans are not going to apply this same logic to that group.

Article has lots of pretty graphs and methodology but if you just want the numbers:

When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks ran on both operating systems, going from Microsoft Windows 11 Pro to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS meant +15.3% performance for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. Meanwhile with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D was +10.2% better performance on Linux. Or put another way, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 was less than 1% faster than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in the same workloads on Windows 11 but under Ubuntu Linux this Dual Edition CPU was 5% faster than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

It doesn’t brick any hardware at all.

They’re using the IOMMU page table enforcement hardware (VT-d/AMD-Vi) to block DMA access to specific areas of memory.

This press coverage is largely just Valorant tooting their own horn. It will block the current generation of DMA hardware but there are several ways to bypass the IOMMU enforcement via hardware.

So, they simply rendered the current generation of DMA hardware obsolete. There will be new DMA cheats pretending to be Thunderbolt 4 controller devices (which are trusted to do their own IOMMU enforcement) or a PCI-e ATS device.

I understand why people would think that this could be due to influence from the morality police type groups, but there’s also a pretty boring explanation. Kickstarter is seeing an increase in NSFW content and Stripe has never allowed that.

So, knowing how risky it is to try to go on social media and examine a situation with nuance… It’s pretty well understood in the industry that fraud rates are much higher for NSFW-related content

This is why your favorite porn website doesn’t charge your card directly and uses a third-party processor who charge them an increased fee (insurance) to eat the charge backs and fraud claims rather than having Visa or Mastercard block them.

Stripe doesn’t do adult-industry payments. Here’s the oldest page I could find in the Wayback machine, from 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082217/https://stripe.com/terms

5. Prohibited Businesses

[…](38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, […]

Kickstarter uses Stripe and so is bound by their terms. The terms are not new, they are at least 14 years old.

The thing that is new is Kickstarter is increasingly being used for NSFW content which violates the contract of the payment processor that they use.

I wonder how they like being on the other side of Embarce, Extend, Extinguish

6090, nice

Claude, find me all of the synonyms for “kiss Trump’s ass”

The Steam Big Picture mode we have at home:

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If you can mentally separate the technology from the capitalist orgy around trying to shoehorn LLMs into every possible thing, he’s not wrong.

The technology has promise, but the reality of what it can be useful for is complete overshadowed by the hype frenzy declaring the end of all knowledge workers and creatives.

LLMs are significantly better at translation than anything we’ve been able to design, for instance. But that’s not flashy, it doesn’t generate seed funding or lure investors so it’s largely not what people think of when they hear “AI”.

I really don’t like how sites don’t link to primary sources anymore.

Here’s the actual order: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html