A constant, unwinnable arms race against unauthorised bots is now inevitable.

I assume they’ve considered this and expect they now have everlasting proof to take to investors and stockholders that they’re “doing something” to increase revenue and/or provide exclusive data for LLM training.

Huh. I guess it’s possible it’s always been a thing in my WM and I thought I set it up. I do like to fiddle with the keybinds to do funky things. And lots of things carry over between machines and reinstalls if you move your entire home directory around like I do, so it’s easy to forget what’s original and what’s not.

Now that I think about it, maybe the change I made was to add Alt-Enter as an alternative for Alt-F11 as a carry-over from DOS prompts in the old days, and Alt-F11 was already there.

Anyway, if it solves your problem, that’s all that matters!

Minecraft scales with window size. Try using your window manager’s full-screen option rather than Minecraft’s own.

I used to have to do this on an old computer because, for a while at least, I found that Minecraft’s full screen didn’t play nice with vsync, and I got screen-tearing, but windowed mode had no such problems. The problem resolved itself either due to a Minecraft upgrade or something in the graphics driver, X11 or the kernel finally got patched. Still not sure which.

When you use the WM’s full-screen, Minecraft (or at least older Minecrafts) will still think it’s in windowed mode. Newer Minecrafts seem to be wiser to the trick, but you shouldn’t have any such trouble.

Anyway, I used to bind Alt-F11 in the system keybinds (actually I still do, just in case) and used that rather than regular F11 to toggle mode.

Tangentially, I also have a keybind that moves the Cinnamon panel to the top of the screen. For a while, the trick didn’t work and I had to run Minecraft maximised. Having the panel at the bottom under the game’s UI was a distraction. At the top I could tune it out along with the window’s title bar. I found that having the panel auto-hide, which misbehaved, or just disabling it outright, were too much of an inconvenience, hence figuring out a hack that moved the panel.

That situation didn’t last long. Maybe a point revision or two of Minecraft, and that was definitely well after 1.12.

Sasha, we can see Vladimir’s palm when he opens your mouth.

It would be a shame if that apartment caught fire right after the old woman’s possessions were retrieved from it.

I would not put it past the nutjobs (of any country) to pass a law that requires that each and every person* ensures their own replacement if not also surplus to that effect to make up for those that can’t. Or won’t.

* of course, by that point they might have created propaganda if not also a law about who or what counts as a person, because they only want more of those, not anyone who might be classified as less than one.

If Russia had the weapons, troops and skill to start taking on other European countries, they’d apply those in Ukraine to finish the job, so this threat must be a potential intelligence, technical and FUD offensive… which Europe should already have been on guard for, because that sort of thing has always been #1 in Putin’s playbook.

This reads like a tacit admission that European governments have let their attention lapse, nearly drove into a metaphorical ditch, and now they’re wagging their fingers reminding everyone else not to let theirs lapse.

… in which case, absolute clown show.

I don’t know about that. Europe is white majority so it could well split the right-wing on how acceptable immigration is from those places.

It could even be popcorn-worthy if they start tearing themselves apart over it.

A man can dream, right?

AMD CPUs have something called a Platform Security Processor baked into their chips, and don’t have Intel’s Management Engine, so if there is even a full OS in there, and I’m not convinced there is, it’s probably not Minix.

I hope the animals and the environment weren’t meaningfully damaged by his presence and subsequent death.

If you have a modern Intel processor. Some of us went AMD to avoid all that, although it’s not exactly clear what’s running in the negative rings of those either.

Assuming constant accumulation at the same rate, they’re on for about two thirds the target amount in a full year. It’s undoubtedly devastating, but there’s a lot of room for it to be worse.

Yes, but not yet, which is all CERN needs for now.

They’ll undoubtedly switch to something else in a few years if they continue to favour hardware retention over software compliance.

Spiralling off into rampant speculation, I can imagine they might end up finding some way to create their own in-house Linux distro that supports old hardware if all the stock distros raise the bar out of the reach of what they have, but I’m sure they hope that’s a way off yet.

But it could be a good thing for folks outside CERN with old hardware if that ever comes to pass.

Veterans as in “in receipt of an army pension” veterans? Because that seems like a way to begin to deal with the issue.

There’s a little manual wheel under the LED display on really old models but with newer models it can be done digitally with the remote control.

Wait. Where am I. What year is this? This isn’t about VCRs at all!

(Apologies for the joke. I couldn’t resist.)

Why the fuck does he think it matters what someone from the Trump administration says?

The US has main character syndrome. It’s hereditary from Britain, who have managed to tone it down a bit in recent years.

At an IT-related business, I had a colleague reformat and install Ubuntu after he foolishly clicked on something he shouldn’t and compromised Windows on his machine. The rest of us weren’t affected and stayed on Windows, but I did feel a twinge of guilt that maybe I ought to have done the same (Installed Linux, that is, not clicked on malware).

For the work we were doing there was almost nothing that didn’t have a Linux equivalent, so it didn’t affect him much if at all.

For the rare exceptions, we had a virtual desktop server, which had existed prior to any of that, because we occasionally needed very old versions of software that would conflict with the modern versions on people’s PCs.

This was all over a decade ago though, so it’s hard to determine whether the same circumstances would have the same result.

There’s a saying about Yorkshire folk, probably invented by rival Northerners, but could just as easily have been a self-deprecation:

“Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred; Strong in t’ arm and weak in t’ 'ead.”

I think we’ve found the Yorkshireman the saying was about.

Source: Am Yorkshireman.

Condolences to his family. Double if they’re as daft as he was.

Somewhere, sad Cinnamon noises.

US to Canada: Bend over.

Canada: No.

US: You’ll enjoy it.

Canada: Are you serious?

US: You’re unreasonable.

Canada: You’re creepy and weird.

US: Well then I’ll rob my family under the guise of robbing you and you’ll have to watch them cry. What do you think about that?!

Canada: … ~leaves the room~

US, to family: This is all Canada’s fault. Bend over.