I still am struggling to find articles that actually delve into the technical details of how they’re blocking and if it’s any more complicated than a DNS-level block or if they’re also demanding to block that IP range or what. I want to know who the third parties are and what kind of services they’re offering that allow it to be routed around. Damn not being able to speak Portuguese, that’s on me.

Soon the predatory loan industry will just be the loan industry because poor people won’t be able to afford food without one.

A roundhouse kick to the neck!

Ah, yes, my favorite activity at parties, looking at some weirdos trash collection.

It’s called a joke. We’re in a sub called “programmer humor.” You must be fun at parties.

I don’t know, that mindset is so foreign to me. If someone was overestimating how long it would take because they were simply trying to be conservative and not run into unexpected cost overruns, I would commend them. I’ve always considered it more prudent to expect something to take longer so you know the kind of budget you need up front instead of lying to yourself about it. It costs a lot more (in terms of lost time and productivity) to have to swing a new budget mid-project because it turns out you’ve burned through the planned budget and you’re only 2/3 the way done with the project.

So, screw your manager, you’re doing the right thing, in my eyes. I guess that’s why I’m not in charge of anything.

Doctors with Borders Made for Them.

Montgomery Scott of the Starship Enterprise has entered the chat.

Lula doesn’t seem quite as straightforwardly pro-Russia as Bolsanaro was, but its very clear their economic association with Russia makes them unable to truly be neutral arbiters of the situation, no matter how much Lula wants to present Brazil as attempting to be neutral.

It’s probably more familiar with trashbat.co.ck

Obligatory Johnny Mnemonic:

EasyTouch maxed out at 400 DPI and the 256 was 256 shades of grayscale.

It doesn’t say when the original ScanMan Color came out or how many colors it had but the Color 2000 didn’t come out until '96 and had a 24 million color pallette.

So, yeah, sounds about right for the ScanMan 32.

Nah, scanned with that Logitech Portable Scanner.

Doing the cyberlords work

This guy looks straight out of the film Hackers.

Also, for real, mirrorshade sunglasses never went out of style.

Now do MicroSD

Oh I know. It’s a shell of what it used to be, but Bandcamp Fridays still happen and artists have confirmed that they’re getting full payouts for them.

It’s terrible what they’ve done to former staff (laying them off) and current staff (making them do more with less) but currently it’s one of the few ways to ensure the money still makes it to artists. The ownership of the company hasn’t impacted that part of the ethos of Bandcamp… yet. I’m sure the day will come when there is the final Bandcamp Friday, but it isn’t here yet.

Trump: “…and Netanyahu told me that Hannibal Lecter came to him, eyes full of tears…”

I know, even this snippet is too coherent for Trump, but his current obsession with Hannibal Lecter is just asking for him to get this confused.

In regards to the actual article about Israel killing its own citizens, I present Philip J. Fry, shocked face:

The study considers two main types of anti-piracy messaging. The first, prosocial messaging, asks pirates to consider the effect of their consumption on others, such as harm to film industry workers and how piracy compromises the quality of future productions.

This might work for some people, but folks who are familiar with Hollywood and Recording Industry accounting practices and payment schemes fully understand that this is a joke and those industries work fucking hard to not pay people a living wage.

It’s an instant turn off and reminder whose pockets I’m really putting money into unless I’m supporting artists directly through something like Patreon or Bandcamp Fridays.

Real pro-social anti-piracy messaging would work on providing me with more options like Bandcamp Fridays, instead of making empty promises that they can renege on easily.

I had thought I never had to hear John Yoo’s fucking name again, then, shocker, he’s in Trumpland arguing for Executive Supremacy.

Gee, of course the legal architect of Bush’s war crime torture program is all on board with Trump being an untouchable Executive.