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Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

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  • Stopping fascism wasn't the point. After liberating the camps, they even threw the homosexuals right back in. (Source)

    They were just worried that the USSR was going to beat them to Berlin, and then keep going across the entirety of Europe. Likely a valid concern, to be fair.

    • What is a story from the internet that will remain in your mind forever?

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  • "Today you. Tomorrow me."

    • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • "Read the fucking room Mal" deserves to become a thing.

    • How much porn is too much porn?

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  • The "Winger" shirt really dates this.

    • Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history

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  • I think it's a new thing where the browser does the profiling locally, and supposedly without allowing sites to track you anymore. But of course the sites can still ask the browser for your personal interests in order to serve you ads, so I couldn't tell you why they think this is any better.

    • Another Starfield Post

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  • My friend, I don't need to go read the video game history about Daggerfall: I wrote some of it. :)

    And I stand by my statement. That game was the height of storytelling that came out of Bethesda in a bunch of small but important ways, although Morrowind is not far behind, in a somewhat different fashion. And there is a definite shift in the series from the moment Ted Peterson left the team. Patently, not a shift I am personally very fond of, but to each her own.

    • The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website

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  • Friend, you do you, and in the meanwhile the rest of us are in fact going to be right there celebrating the fuck out of the deplatforming of a bunch of horrible people whose pastime is literally to drive trans kids to suicide.

    • Another Starfield Post

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  • Well, I'd argue that Daggerfall was their best game, story-wise, but Daggerfall is even older. And that's the point, isn't it? More time passed between Skyrim and Starfield than between Daggerfall and Oblivion. A lot can change in so many years, and I do believe that hoping for something new was not entirely unreasonable.

    Then again, the keyword there is entirely, isn't it. I personally didn't expect very much from Starfield, and, also personally, I can't say I fully understand the amount of hype surrounding it.

    • Another Starfield Post

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  • They’ve always been boring

    Strongly disagreed. Pre-Oblivion their games were great. Hoping for a return to engrossing stories taking place in a rich, expansive universe was not entirely unreasonable.

    • the whole fediverse is wholesome ❤

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  • True. It's still a good aspiration. Maybe we can get there.

    • Bram Moolenaar Passed Away

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  • Well, damn. What sad news. :(

    • What is the most cathartic movie?

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  • In a way, I think: Little Miss Sunshine.

    A movie wherein everything, everything goes horribly wrong, and yet in the end you're left feeling absurdly good.

    • Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

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  • A CPU performs operations like "read a small bit of thing from the memory into the CPU" and "do a small bit of computation on things inside the CPU" and "put a small bit of thing from the CPU into the memory".

    Doing small bits of computation on things inside the CPU is very fast but moving bits of things from or to the memory is slow in comparison. In order to not be slowed down, CPUs read the code ahead of what is currently being executed, and try to guess what is going to happen and what will need to be moved from the memory into the CPU, so they can do it ahead of time, and have the small bit of thing from the memory already available right there in the CPU when it's time to do a bit of computation on it. That way, there is no need to wait on slow memory, and the CPU runs much faster overall. That's a good thing.

    In this case, a researcher found a way to make certain CPUs guess what is going to happen with the code wrong, in such a way that the small bits of things that were read from the memory ahead of time do not get properly cleaned up, and can still be found inside the CPU by another program. Those small bits of things might be your password or banking details, so that's bad.

    • Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain.

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  • He's an African actually, look it up.

    • What in the actual good god happened to Elon Musk?

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  • We've got a perfectly good planet right there under our feet and we're failing rather spectacularly at keeping it functional, so as things currently stand the idea we could go to a dead planet and somehow turn it livable is, at the very best, dubious.

    If you are interested in the topic, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith of SMBC fame have a book coming on this very subject: https://www.acityonmars.com/.