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Actual hardware support in Windows is a joke, and it's only often-crap OEM drivers working most of the time that keeps you from realizing this.

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LB: I don't trust a cell phone's airplane mode to be enough to keep itself quiet when a gov's highest level alerts come in. I do, however, trust this mode to be enough:

Mere days after the winter solstice, it's unseasonably warm outside. However, it didn't feel quite *this* warm.

Raspberry Pi drama 

Consumers: "Cops are using computers to spy on us more and more, and that's really worrying."

: "HEY GUYS, MEET THE COP WE HIRED! HE SPENT HIS CAREER MAKING COMPUTERIZED SPY GEAR FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STATE! ISN'T THAT SWELL?" raspberrypi.com/news/meet-rasp

Consumers: "Um, no, and here's why that's a problem."

RaspberryPi: "Stop being mean to us! Blocked!"

531 (online) (3/6)
Palmdle 533 (online) (3/6)
Palmdle 534 (online (5/6)
I missed Saturday (game 532), and that ended my streak. :<

525 (Online)
The number of words with the same middle 3 letters is higher than I thought.

A cute kitten photograph every hour from a bot that *ethically* sources and shares photos: @hourlykitten

Welcome to the future, where you don't meaningfully own anything you buy anymore.

Your car's accelerator is just the latest thing locked behind a paywall.

"RSS is dead!"
No.
Google Reader is dead.
RSS is alive and well.
Podcasts are literally RSS.
RSS is for every kind of content.
RSS readers exist for every OS.
RSS never died.
Only the walled gardens told you it died.
Spotted in a Mastodon profile:

Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. 68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03

If stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

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