ByteOnBikes

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

Getting increasingly hard.

I finally learned why those 50" tvs are so cheap, like $200. Buy a dumb TV that's the same size is easily 5x the price.

Then again, nobody needs a TV and I only bought one during the pandemic, then connected it to my pi hole.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Moar wuuurk?

My wife and I do this voice when we go through our list of chores.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I can't stand that old-school WoW combat system any longer. It's so clunky.

The same way the Resident Evil remakes removed tank movement of the clessics, I want a KoTOR remake that makes this game be more action-y like all the modern online games.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Played the Bounty Hunter storyline and I was really impressed with all the storytelling!

Why is this a MMO?

It's depressing how much story is in this game, and you have to lug though the nonstop MMO BS to enjoy it.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The Confederates, for the non-Americans, take challenge to that.

They were the opposing force during the American Civil War, trying to keep slavery. Their reign was so short, even a can of beans last longer than they did.

And yet that doesn't stop chucklefucks in the American South proudly showing their Confederate flag, all because America is too chicken shit to call them losers.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Yep.

Tech companies have extreme "Fuck You" money. They have learned a lot from the past two decades of Antitrust acts.

That politician is either going to quickly change their mind with some bribes, or watch their entire life disappear with an army of lawyers or paid off peers shutting them down.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty much. Interesting people go for coffee, then something right after.

My first few dates with my now-wife was a park, then hot dogs, then another park, then back at her place.

Coffee is just the initial vibe check.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When it first came out, for some reason, I thought all games would start following Valve's lead and introduce commentary.

And now two decades later, I don't know if any other games have.

Then again, we have other ways like game devs talking on podcasts/live stream.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I thought it was just me! I played every HL game as a teen. Now 20 years later, my old eyes seem to struggle a bit.

And yeah, changing FoV is what solved it for me.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The whole purpose of ~~buying the boat~~ going on a hike in the first place was to get the ladies nice and ~~tipsy top side~~ alone, so we can take them to a nice comfortable place ~~below deck~~, and you know, they can't refuse...because of the implication.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fun fact: internet explorer was originally built off the File Explorer.

I kinda stopped following programming for windows a decade ago. But in sure there is some ancient code from 30 years ago that is holding some critical files together.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

 

The controversy is over a two-page document that was handed out to classrooms at Kapolei Middle School.

It broke down where the U.S. presidential candidates — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump — stand on the issues.

The state Department of Education confirms the document was put together by a group of teachers at the school who simplified the information in a candidate comparison article in the New York Times.

The material given out to students lists six issues.

CRIME

Harris: “Gives money to police”
Trump: “Sends soldiers to cities”

DEMOCRACY

Harris: “Wants to keep our country a democracy”
Trump: “Tried to overturn the 2020 election

IMMIGRATION

Harris: “Hires more people to watch the border”
Harris: “Limits how many people can move to the U.S.
Trump: “Finds and catches people in the U.S. illegally”
Trump: “Takes children away from their parents”
 
 
 

ABILENE, Texas — Students at Clack Middle School were allegedly told by a staff member that they would begin tracking menstrual cycles for female students.

KTXS reached out to Abilene ISD about the situation and they gave the following statement.

Abilene ISD is aware of allegations regarding an inappropriate comment made by a staff member at Clack Middle School. The district is actively investigating these allegations, and the staff member has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. We take every allegation of employee misconduct seriously. Our teachers and staff are expected to follow the highest standards of professional and personal conduct to protect the best interests of our students and schools.

 

Google Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software.

Specifically, of the 138 vulnerabilities disclosed as actively exploited in 2023, Mandiant says 97 (70.3%) were leveraged as zero-days.

This means that threat actors exploited the flaws in attacks before the impacted vendors knew of the bugs existence or had been able to patch them.

 

A war has been raging in the WordPress ecosystem for the past two weeks. In a latest development, employees are leaving the feisty WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who is dividing the WordPress community. An eighth of his own staff do not seem to share his position. It's about demands in the millions, blackmail, "nuclear options" and, in a very big way, defending the future of open source against profit-oriented corporate giants.

 

Amazon Layoffs: Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy's strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025.

 
 

A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.

Internet access is restricted while a ship is underway to maintain bandwidth for military operations and to protect against cybersecurity threats.

The Navy quietly relieved Grisel Marrero, a command senior chief of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, in August or September 2023, and released information on parts of the investigation this week.

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