I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree completely. They are written in a different style than we're used to today, but they're masterfully done. To me, the movies are largely good adaptations, but the books are far superior.

But that's the nice thing about taste: everyone's entitled to their own.

I bet they've got websites with RSS feeds. Pick up an RSS reader and subscribe to their news & announcements page.

Relevant link: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

This is why my most frequent use of it is brainstorming scenarios for my D&D game: it's really good at making up random bullshit.

Here's the first few paragraphs:

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan's initiative to use antitrust laws to protect workers faces a key test on Monday when the agency will argue the merger between grocery chain Kroger (KR.N), and its rival Albertsons (ACI.N), would crush unionized workers' bargaining power.

Khan and her fellow antitrust enforcers in the Biden administration have sought to use antitrust laws - deployed in recent decades mostly to protect consumers against high prices - to combat what they view as anticompetitive practices squeezing workers' paychecks.

Labor has been an area of focus for Khan, a former law professor and congressional antitrust counsel, who took the reins of the agency in June 2021.

Unfortunately not! The poop deck is an elevated deck, aka a sterncastle; back aft on this one is the quarterdeck.

"To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

• Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Used to, until the tinnitus kicked in.

Just as an FYI, that's "per se"

KeePass doesn't store your stuff in the cloud; it's all local storage. You can sync your encrypted KeePass DB in a number of different ways; personally, I go for SyncThing, but you can use Box or whatever.

This confused me, too. I generally see"Lemming" used as the equivalent of "Redditor": someone who uses Lemmy.

There should have been only one.

The difference is the part immediately after you stopped quoting:

They don't understand how horrible the loss of privacy is...

What OP is saying here is that people know abstractly that smart devices are not privacy friendly, but they don't understand how big a deal that actually can be.