NY Times: "Can New Yorkers really take a chance on a mayor who hasn't been publicly disgraced?"

the scrapers ignore robots.txt. It doesn't really ban them - it just asks them not to access things, but they are programmed by assholes.

The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.

If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it's being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.

Having access to a system that promises to always have availability in a crisis does lose a lot of its value if the company is run by one of the people more likely to cause a crisis

Remember to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription to kick them while they're down

I went from ~140kg when I was in highschool to 68kg today. When I go through an airport, the milimeter-wave scanners usually say I have a hidden object under my shirt and I get hand searched.

I recently bought a projector that I had to trick into not connecting to Wifi by telling it that it was connected to ethernet until it gave up. It will never know the wifi password. It gets an HDMI signal, it shows the HDMI signal, that is its purpose.

I've wanted this for a while; when I'm done with my computer, I don't mind it staying on a bit longer to do this, rather than when I next turn it on when I (presumably) want to do something. Great add!

my favorite thng about this image is how the mandatory hamburger acknowledgement is interrupting a scene where a man is getting shot in the face, emphasizing that the target audience is Americans

after a long period of disuse, the rails turn back into the snakes they were made from

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Live like Gentoo, cook everything from scratch