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... Did those nutjobs make it over to lemmy!?

Lol

Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror

It was the OG Counterstrike that started as an Unreal Tournament mod before getting a standalone release. It was popular for a long time entirely because it had zero anti-piracy built in and it supported modding. The game came out in 1999 and people still play it today.

Got it for $5 in the bargain bin at EB games.

That album showed me how to live.

Sure, especially considering they said fully printed -- no pre-made firearm components.

The FP-45 Liberator pistol and the CIA's Deer Gun are "real" guns designed for that exact purpose: to kill someone at close range to steal their gun. The first "successful" 3d printed gun was the Defense Distributed Liberator, followed by a plethora of single shot "zip guns" of the same type.

So ... a bunch of 3d printed guns specifically copied from the concept of the FP-45 and Deer Gun.

I went the career firefighter route.

Pros: tons of time off, rewarding, never boring, great pay and benefits. Will actually be able to retire at 55.

Cons: pretty much guaranteed to get cancer and it's not even the expected stuff from fires. The AFFF foam we used for years had PFAS -- a carcinogen. Even better, it turns out even brand new, unused turnout gear is absolutely saturated in PFAS too.

Oh and stress, cumulative injuries, etc.

I love demanding action from random people for the words and actions of assholes because they belong to some incredibly diverse group that also contains shitheads. It's so much easier than having to recognize people as individuals with their own values and judge them accordingly.

I'm going to go accost some hippie Universal Unitarians and demand they answer for the Westboro Baptist church. Maybe do the same to some Muslims and Jews later.

Right, the "take mass transit" works great ... in places with functional mass transit.

the faster kind Iran typically sells Hamas.

... Well, this isn't going to end well.

Moral panics are over things that don't have negative real world consequences.

We've repeatedly seen what happens when disinformation and violent, extremist speech is given a place to flourish on social media. The crazies get even more radicalized, organized, and emboldened. They start taking actual action.

Qanon, the proud boys, unite the right, patriot front, January 6th -- where do you think those ideas gestated and grew to critical mass?

Ah, my mistake

Aren't morse characters are 1 to 3 taps long?

It is a NSFW instance, so as long as it stays contained there I don't see the problem.

Here's a better article.

The first asteroid, named 349507 (2008 QY), is a colossal mass that is equivalent in size to a bridge.

Hey! It was served in space ... once ... in 1968.

Poe's law.

a troll spamming emojis like he was so smarter than me

I mean ... you could join an instance that's federated with hexbear.

Nah, they didn't grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software ... in COBOL. Also, they don't bother with documentation because they're intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.

The point at when you're "screwed" is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.

I can't imagine data scraping is something companies will quickly admit to, considering the legal issues involved. It was also the norm for a long time -- APIs for accessing user generated data is a relatively new thing.

As for a concrete example: companies using chatGPT. A lot of useful data comes from scraping sites that don't offer an API.

I always like people gatekeeping pizzas that use toppings other than the traditional Italian ones.

... ignoring the fact that tomato sauce is from the Americas.