For fuck’s sake.

What are parental controls?

I feel like this is the beginning of a howtobasic video.

(Is he still making videos, anyway?)

Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there’s already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they’re debating adding a fee for the ability to print.

I tried to find the article on it, but it was a while ago that I read, so I honestly don’t know 100%…

But I doubt it would be illegal, as a company they’re not small enough to fly under the radar and not big enough to flagrantly break laws and get away with it. Two possibilities that come to mind (and both may be true:

• they did it via black box reverse engineering. That has less issues legally, since you’re not trying to decompile someone else’s code, but looking what that code does and trying to recreate it

• the Linux Kernel’s GPL gives them certain rights in that area

What the hell is going on there? Why??

Yes and no, Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers for its old phones to provide android upgrades years after the component manufacturers have dropped support. The Fairphone 2, for instance, received a little over 7 years of support and 4 major version upgrades, skipping one on the way. For the Fairphone 5, they’ve promised 10 years of software support, and judging by their track record, I believe them. They also open source as much as they can and even give instructions on how to build the OS yourself.

Of course, open source drivers would be better, but that doesn’t exist at the moment, unfortunately. At this point, Fairphone is one of the companies that comes closest (with Shiftphone being a close rival).

Yes, but I mean… Has it survived a fall from about a meter onto a concrete floor, a fall from an overhead luggage rack, as well as a number of other falls I don’t remember, all without a case - and a bicycle accident (that time in a laptop bag)?

That’s what I mean. Just about any computer will last 15 years if handled carefully, but surviving a lot of active use and abuse, that’s another story.

Seconding Lindt. It’s fantastic chocolate, hands down. Love those Lindt balls (sounds wrong, but I can’t think of the right term right now).

Out of curiosity, why?

I’ve always assumed it was some fad, but I never assumed it was harmful (maybe I’m just naive).

My over 10 year old ThinkPad disagrees. The abuse it has put up with while still working puts macbooks to shame.

I know, the newer ThinkPads aren’t what they used to be, but I have a pretty new one as my work computer, and it still doesn’t let the MacBooks off the hook.

Multiple reasons.

1. As is always the case when fascism, authoritarianism or similar takes over, things happen slowly, and there’s a reason for that: humans notice fast changes very quickly, but not necessarily slow changes. They didn’t start building these concentration camps yesterday. This has been going on for a while.

2. Because at least right now, there isn’t the stated goal of keeping people there, but just keeping them there in the intermediate term. We all know where this is going, but it does make it a little more difficult to use that term.

3. The Trump administration has a habit of suing the press. This has already had a chilling effect. See CBS, BBC, and I think ABC as well. They have decided that it does not make sense financially to fight it, and there are probably a number of lawyers much smarter than I who know what they’re talking about. And since most major news sources are profit-driven and public broadcasting is chronically underfunded, that’s all you get.

4. The word “concentration camp” often gets confused with the word “death camp”, and we have failed to properly differentiate. How often do you hear about the Nazi concentration camps where they killed people on an industrial scale. No, those were death camps (they had concentration camps as well). But the term has been used wrongly for so long that when people hear “concentration camp”, they think “death camp”, so calling it a concentration camp, while correct, could make a fair number of people think the wrong thing - as of now, there is no systematic extermination, and I hope we get a handle on this before it gets that far.

I’m always astounded as to how some people can’t say that ICE is killing people without trying to insinuate that other downright horrible organizations are somehow better.

Update 2/5/26, 5:20 p.m. EST: The DOJ told 404 Media that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.

Who knows if that’s really the case, but it wouldn’t really surprise me, either, knowing how weird some of the other pictures are.

Not sure it’s that simple. A slow release can make the whole thing better known. Just look at Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Assange dumped everything he had at once. It was in the news for a bit (including that some of the stuff he put in there had the potential for putting people’s lives at risk), then it was out of the headlines. Snowden, on the other hand, worked with journalists to release things bit by bit, focusing on the important documents and spacing out the releases. Result: it stayed in the news a lot, lot longer than the things Assange released, and as a result people on average know a lot better about what he revealed.

So if anything, this is helping more people know about it. Think about it, the files were supposed to all be released last year. It’s still in the news, because of all this.

Honestly, this raises so many questions and just downright confuses me.

• Noam Chomsky is a critic of modern capitalism, and just generally on the left. Why in the hell would be want to spend time with Epstein?

• He seems to believe in Epstein’s innocence, even though he had long before been proven guilty. Chomsky is, as far as I can tell, quite the intellectual - did he not know, and if, how could he not know?

• It legitimately sounds like Chomsky is speaking from the experience of being falsely accused. I mean, he has been arrested a couple of times for his activism, but that’s a completely different story than being accused of raping someone or similar. Maybe his experience being on Reagan’s list, but still, that would seem like something different to me. Maybe I’m off.

• Assuming there’s nothing more sinister going on with Chomsky (and I really don’t know what to think there), what does that tell us about the world and the people around Epstein? I find it odd to have some of the greatest minds with a positive influence but also some of the most disgusting people in the same circle.

What’s red and hurts?

A brick.

Yes, but that’s always the case when you’re switching architectures. The x86 binaries won’t work on ARM, either.

IIRC Debian supports RISC V

I’ve never heard that term used like that in the US, I’ve always heard ice pellets

That’s not the point. Trump is known to use the law to intimidate, even if he loses.