[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Seems they have a tendency of leaving important details for the last minute.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Opera were nice enough to port spyware to Linux? How sweet of them.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 92 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The fact that governments are so hellbent on having backdoors to encrypted communications should be telling...

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 93 points 2 months ago

Pirate to own what they want me to rent.

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Tiswas Source (lemmy.ca)

I realise I'm probably swinging for the fences here, but does anyone possibly have a line on a British children's TV series from the 70s and 80s called Tiswas? A family member appeared in it so I was hoping to surprise them by finding the episode they were in. I know I'm specifically looking for the 1975 series but I'm afraid I don't know which episode it is.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 169 points 7 months ago

Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport

What, and Google is now the TSA? Fuck that shit. I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 year ago

Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 year ago

Maybe don't whore out your daughters?

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 97 points 2 years ago

We'll keep wondering cause the shift to digital clearly isn't stopping piracy.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Agreed. Definitely send this to Louis. The tirade will be funny, at the very least.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 112 points 2 years ago

Probably the spiciest instance of fighting fire with fire I've ever seen

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com @radix@lemmy.world and @Deestan@lemmy.world for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 115 points 2 years ago

Problem isn't just on Linux's side for a change. Louis Rossmann did a video on Netflix's bullshit some weeks ago. Seems it's far from uncommon to not get what you're paying for with those shitbags

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 97 points 2 years ago

I find it funny that they specifically refer to the past year for a large increase in piracy. Remind me when it was that companies started consistently charging even more for the base package of their games...

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