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Wait, the US doesn't have a free service to (a) remove you from postal spam lists and (b) stop spam being delivered?

In the UK, I registered my address on a few of the things listed here ( https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/post-and-parcels/stop-getting-junk-mail/ ). And the only junk mail I now receive are political flyers & takeout menus delivered outside of the postal service (ie by people, not posties).

Do Americans really have to put up with receiving random bullshit with no easy way of stopping it?!

Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now being enshittified itself.

I thought it was the Epstein Ballroom

And here's me with my yay

In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

So 10 processes (threads) say "I need to do something":
2 of those threads are "ready to continue" because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).
1 of the threads says "this is critical for GPU operations".
1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

Oh, actual horses.
I was thinking the title was wrong. Or maybe that cavalry is a modern warfare term for something.
The thumbnail is a bit hard to see.

Nope.
Clicked through, and there it is. A picture of a soldier riding a horse. Like, full on galloping.
And the picture is clearly from a drone that is very very close.

Man does whatever he wants at the top, with support of experts to ensure it's legal (or at least deniable illegal) as long as other people in power get to do what they want and these other people get the presidential stamp when it matters.
There is so much noise. So much crap flying everywhere, that nobody is able to actually see the important piece of sweetcorn flying through someone's skull. (Or whatever).

Generate noise & outrage. Like real massive noise and outrage:
Wars (perhaps legit reasons, but unreasonable response causing the scandal), pedophile scandals (it's legit, but the handling is a scandal), ridiculous trade wars (arguably well intended (preferring local manufacturing), execution is nothing but "fuck over the little guy" with the added benefit of larger guys buying up the little guys going broke). Pardons that subvert their own administration's promises.
All the while, the US government is sailing through bills for "protect the children" masked mass surveillance, age verification, abortion bans, literally everything and anything to suppress actual people.

As soon as the Epstein list's redaction has been resolved:
troops will be deployed in another unwinnable war in Venezuela.
US trade relations will be in the toilet and other trade groups will be strengthened (UK is already rejoining some EU programmes, there are no-US trading groups getting established, so many trade deals that now ignore/exclude the US).
The US population will suddenly be under surveillance that hasn't been seen before (flock, ICE, and all the KOSA related bills). You think the UK OSA is bad? KOSA (and related) look to be worse.

That puts a lot of pressure on humans to not-make-mistakes.
However, repeated "mistakes" are a pattern of hostility.
Russia is hostile.
And they keep on "oops"-ing and "plausible deniability"-ing their actions.
Which is a pattern of hostility and should be treated as a declaration of war

When your hobby overlaps with your job and you still enjoy both :(

Oh, and another war over oil weapons of mass destruction

In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

Thank you for reminding me

Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?

And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved "to the cloud" (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.
Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It's a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it's perks)).
Many parentheses, soz.
Fuck excel, use a database!

Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

All of that doesn't matter.
Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn't exist on linux

Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.

We will develope a new API in partnership with AI providers that allows for tighter integration with our browser. To the point, a user can easily make it agentic if they want to. Or they can opt into the parts they want.
We are starting a new team that will work with such AI developers to ensure that the plugins they deploy both properly notify/request user permissions and only send the data they say they will.

That's the "Let's go AI!" while also being "We aren't sheep!" message.

Firefox should be the "user choice" browser

I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.

I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: "We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained".
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.

I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.

Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.

But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can't do on unifi (but I don't do bgp, mlag, etc at home).

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out