Perhaps they have made the decision to treat all IP addresses that aren't officially marked as residential connections in known locations as being in international waters. As the wave of censorship continues, they'll most likely be required to block VPN users and other "data centre" IPs well before the VPN services themselves are banned.
Interesting to learn that Pornhub now requires "identity verification for uploaders." That must've had the same effect on a lot of non-professional uploaders that the new laws will have on U.S. viewers, making them go elsewhere.
There are options. It's a big country. It contains thousands of people who would be capable of doing the job of leading the party, and the country. We do not know their names. As is usual in politics, the people most capable of doing the job are not the people capable of getting the job.
Every once in a while I'll see some advertising from 30-some years ago when I watched a lot of TV and it'll be instantly familiar. Mostly it just makes me wonder what similar kind of garbage is filling up the heads of people still habitually subjecting themselves to TV commercials today, which they'll be stuck with for the rest of their lives.
I spoke against the need for realistic graphics last time the topic came up, and I'll say a word in favour of it now: It's pretty awesome having realistic lighting and shadows when you're admiring the scenery in Skyrim. My 6600 can barely keep up, but the work it's doing there is fully aesthetically worthwhile. The same can't be said for every GPU-hungry game that comes out, and it may not have the central importance that it used to, but nice graphics are still nice to have. I say that as someone who appreciates NetHack at least as much as any new AAA game.
Of course it's a distraction. A deliberate one, designed to attract government subsidies while pretending to do some good. Which I suppose makes it an actual scam. The only thing motivating it is a refusal to accept the reality that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, like right now. Good thing the Government of Canada is there to warn us about the dangers of greenwashing, otherwise people might fall for it.
My Firefox chrome never looked much like any of those. I remember when the "classic" theme came along in 2011 and everyone praised it for being more compact and efficient, I was already long-accustomed to an even more compact layout that takes up very little vertical space and is still very similar to how I have it set up today.
From a user's point of view customisation of the UI has gotten slightly more difficult over the years, but it's still not that much trouble and so far it's always been worth the effort.
Just surf along the information superhighway and keep an eye out for tasty links. You'll soon get the hang of it. Here's one place to start: https://mastodon.social/public/remote
The fediverse is the one halfway viable alternative to the rotten big platforms that has a chance and I continue to be perplexed that Ed Zitron isn't on it. We're building the future of social media over here. Maybe that was you back in 2018, giving up after two days when it turned out you didn't have an instant audience of millions after two days on mastodon. Maybe the problem didn't seem so urgent back then. Maybe you got a bad first impression for some other reason. Try again. You make the case for it without being part of it. Join the fediverse, Ed.
I'm willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I'm pretty sure "configuration tools for sysadmins" is not one of them.
My first thought was "why would you ever buy it in amounts less than an 8th, that's not much" but I guess I had heard of such a thing as a dime bag which I have only just now learned was 1g. I always thought it meant "$10 worth" or something, and was for tourists who didn't know they were paying too much for too little.
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Perhaps they have made the decision to treat all IP addresses that aren't officially marked as residential connections in known locations as being in international waters. As the wave of censorship continues, they'll most likely be required to block VPN users and other "data centre" IPs well before the VPN services themselves are banned.