As Gabe Newell once said:

Piracy is an issue of service, not price

The number of users here is pretty minuscule compared to the Reddit userbase

Musk's logo for "X" is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).
Which means that #Musk can't trademark the logo.

https://mastodon.social/@Rii_cck@mas.to/110768836422832847

I felt a great disturbance in the Lemmyverse, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly ... moved to this post.

Bravo. Thank you

Real life example of: https://xkcd.com/2347/

My current ISP still does not offer IPv6 🤦 🤦 🤦

Not only do they do nothing for open source, they actively kill open source projects after aquiring them.

It's absolutely happening again (if it ever stopped). Did you notice how "Critical Race Theory" was all conservatives ever talked about, for weeks/months on end, and then they all suddenly stopped, and then they couldn't stop talking about Trans/Drag things? It's all contrived panic. It's well coordinated to drive engagement and a sense of impending doom. They require an Us vs Them mentality to survive.

Eternal July?

They absolutely knew it was an unconstitutional law. They want it in front of a friendly SCOTUS. Legislating from the bench, just like they have always accused democrats of doing.

He's a child. His cars are named S3XY. He thinks that's cool. He's obsessed with 420. X is funny due to "X rated"

Musk's logo for "X" is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).
Which means that #Musk can't trademark the logo.

https://mastodon.social/@Rii_cck@mas.to/110768836422832847

Why Theres No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire by Adam Conover

Hexachess is the Bestachess

Green Queen is actually Fiona from Shrek. It's day time now, so stops being an ogre and turns into a human.

Too many scams. Too many ads advertising companies who ended up being scams as well. The pivot to NFTs was short-lived (because they were scams). The high-profile exchanges (FTX et al) going belly up, and the their founders in jail.

It's not delusion, it's Digiorno !

Linux powered refrigerators?!?!?

N+1

Smoked Paprika! Gives anything a quick/easy smoky flavor, with just a touch of heat (not like cayenne pepper). It's works with just about anything.

With this news: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers' request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop the $69 billion deal.

The court separately extended its temporary restraining order to July 14 at 11:59 pm to allow the Federal Trade Commission to appeal.

The FTC had originally asked the judge to stop the proposed deal, arguing it would give Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), maker of the Xbox gaming console, exclusive access to Activision (ATVI.O) games including the best-selling "Call of Duty." The agency's concern was that the deal would potentially preclude the availability of those videogames on other platforms.

“We are disappointed in this outcome given the clear threat this merger poses to open competition in cloud gaming, subscription services, and consoles. In the coming days we'll be announcing our next step to continue our fight to preserve competition and protect consumers," said FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar.

Microsoft shares edged lower and Activision shares were up 5.6%.

In its arguments, the FTC has said Microsoft would be able to use the Activision games to leave rival console makers like Nintendo (7974.T) and market-leader Sony Group (6758.T) out in the cold.

Microsoft President Brad Smith tweeted that the company was "grateful" for the "quick and thorough" decision.

"Our merger will benefit consumers and workers. It will enable competition rather than allow entrenched market leaders to continue to dominate our rapidly growing industry,” Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard CEO said in a statement. The FTC complaint cited concerns about loss of competition in console gaming, as well as subscriptions and cloud gaming. To address the FTC's concerns, Microsoft agreed to license "Call of Duty" to rivals, including a 10-year contract with Nintendo, contingent on the merger closing. During the five-day trial in June, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued the company would have no incentive to shut out Sony's PlayStation or other rivals in order to sell more Microsoft Xbox consoles. At issue in the Microsoft-Activision deal is leadership in a gaming market whose sales are expected to increase by 36% over the next four years to $321 billion, according to a PwC estimate. And while much of the testimony in the recent trial focused on "Call of Duty," Activision produces other bestsellers like "World of Warcraft," "Diablo" and the mobile game "Candy Crush Saga." Microsoft's bid to acquire the videogame maker also faces opposition from Britain's Competition and Markets Authority, which blocked the takeover in April. An appeal is scheduled for July 28.

What happened to states rights? Wasn't that the rationale of getting rid of RoweVWade? Oh yeah, that was another lie. Of course it was.

Holy hell

Cotopaxi is making fannypacks cool again. I'm seeing dudes wear these in Colorado.

https://www.cotopaxi.com/products/kapai-1-5l-hip-pack-del-dia

I used them for a while as well. Their search was good, and their auto-generated answers they provided was very decent. I loved the idea of non-ad supported search. For me, their problem was their value proposition. You could use search for free, but you have to pay them if you want them to index your github/dropbox/etc accounts, so they could be searchable from the same searchbox. I had no need to have any private accounts searched, so never needed those licensed features.

They continue their march towards irrelevance.

TLDR: "Nothing to see here, move along. And who is ProPublica to question me anyways? -Alito"

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1182216970/supreme-court-student-loan-forgiveness-decision-biden

This just happened to me. I had an "integrated" LED light in my laundry room that died after 4 years. I was flabbergasted that I had to buy a whole fixture.

Spectacular video by Stefan Milo on the current evidence of the First Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnrdCdGs7o

He even sites his sources. Solid stuff.

It also leaves out the research side of things. CSU Fort Collins is a leading renewable research university, and NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, part of DOE) in Golden.

Kerbal Space Program

I had no idea Gitea was adding actions! I'm very excited! It doesn't look like it's out in the current release version (1.19.3):

https://docs.gitea.com/next/usage/actions/overview

He named his son "X Æ A-12"

New version of FisherRandom just dropped

Like Comcast rebranding to Xfinity

It's just like the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Absolutely worthless as it gives "equal credence" to ridiculous claims.

Why is arguing with fools like playing chess with a pigeon? Because it doesn't matter how masterfully tutored you've been in the theory, how sound your thinking and strategy is, or how good you are at the game in general, the pigeon is always going to knock over the chess pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

heavily relate to the competition between schools to provide the most services to their students and court new student admissions

Malcolm Gladwell podcast discussing this very thing: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/food-fight