Assange has been held in [...] Prison on the outskirts of London for five years, and he previously spent seven years in self-exile at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London [...] until his asylum was withdrawn and he was forcibly carried out of the embassy and arrested in April 2019.

12 years... fuck...

"Remember those 3 years of 100% remote work during the COVID pandemic, where we broke record renevue 3 years in a row? Yeah, we need you back at the office twice a week. Why? Because we said so."

Sure, boss.

We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.

Saved you a click.

Our CEO came to visit us. It was fun. Some people couldn't make it because they were out on vacation.

Our department manager announced with less than a week's notice that he'll visit us after our CEO, for no specific reason, the weeks around the Easter weekend (Friday and Monday are public holidays so 4 days weekend). For the occasion he asked everyone in the team to cancel vacations approved months ago.

All department employees individually politely declined to cancel their personal plans or approved vacations and involved HR. HR wasn't aware of the manager's decision.

He'll be alone at the office for 2/9 visit days 😂

Yes.

1. Don't buy games with such DRMs

2. Buy the game on DRM-free platforms like GOG

3. Piracy

Correlation of duplicated posts/automatic crossposting. I'm tired of seeing 3 times the exact same posts from 3 different communities.

Literally Dying Light

The Quantum games (Heavy Rain, Beyond:Two Souls, Detroit:Become Human) are great for that. Also the Life Is Strange series. Abzu, Journey are "cinematic games" of their own. Maybe Firewatch? Outer Wilds?

That's it? You just need to say "you know this actor character we call Tom Cruise in our show, and does the same stuff as the real actor Tom cruise in real life, it's actually a fictional character unrelated to the real Tom Cruise in real life" and you Gucci?

In french, via SMS, to a girl I was flirting with as a teenager:

"T'es où?" (Where are you?) got auto-corrected to "T'es nu?" (Are you naked?).

I don't remember what her response was, but I remember we didn't end up dating.

I always check https://howlongtobeat.com/ before starting a new game

I also tend to prefer games that are short.

Here are a couple of my PC recommandations, in no specific order :

Somerville

Jusant

Planet of Lana

Limbo + Inside

Little Nightmares 1 + 2

Cocoon

Solar Ash

Tunic

Cult If The Lamb

Have A Nice Death

Death's Door

Stray

Trek To Yomi

Thanks for the responses.

TIL: Americans pay first, then fill. Now I can understand how you could easily get distracted once it is in and locked.

To clarify : this is absolutely impossible to accidentally happen in the EU, because the payment transaction isn't completed until the nozzle is placed back onto its support (that's when the pump shuts off).

Is there a "usenet for dummies" guide somewhere, for 90s kids?

Asking for a friend.

It certainly is one statement.

• In Egypt

Saved you a click.

To add insult to injury, supporters of the police officer raised a crowdfund. It is now above 1.5 million €.

During the "gilets jaunes" protests, one participant boxed a riot police unit (in full riot suit) & got arrested. A crowdfund was opened to help him. The government cancelled the funds within 48 hours.

The French government is sending the clear message that "it's okay for French police to kill people; even better if they are minorities (arabs,muslims,...)" and they will always get the support of the state. Disgusting.

Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.

My i7- 4790K from 2014 thanks you.

No love for Stranger Things intro here 😟

On top of my head (uneducated guess) :

• multiple accounts regularly logging in through a single IP
• day/time login patterns
• same champion pools
• consistently stomps games
• frequent higher than average KDA
• frequent higher than average CS/min
• higher than rank level winrate
• higher than rank level MMR

These items taken individually don't tell much. But when cross-referenced with other data, I'm pretty sure it becomes clear really fast when someone is smurfing.

if you use your imagination real hard

"Stop right there, criminal scum. You are infringing our Intellectual Property!" /s

I self-host a SearXNG instance and it works really well.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker

We make grossly exaggerated corny sex jokes when we're horny and want to get down to it.

• wife is preparing hard boil eggs

• Well... talking about hard balls...

And then one thing leads to the other 👍

You're absolutely correct. The deputees from the Rassemblement National voted against writing the right to abortion into the French constitution and they did not support gender-equality laws when presented at the Parliament.

(https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4251954e-b409-4c17-ab4c-307eab8864d3.png)

SearXNG is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

Why use it?

• SearXNG may not offer you as personalized results as Google, but it doesn’t generate a profile about you.

• SearXNG doesn’t care about what you search for, never shares anything with a third-party, and it can’t be used to compromise you.

• SearXNG is free software, the code is 100% open, and everyone is welcome to make it better.

https://mdrsearx.com/info/en/about

X Not Gon' Give It To Ya

Swat Kats

Click-bait article. Instagram/Meta did not add "terrorist" to user's bio.

Some users say they have been "shadow banned" on Instagram over pro-Palestinian posts. This is when a platform intervenes to make sure posts do not appear in other people's feeds.

They got shadow banned for supporting Palestine (now fixed). Still fucked up, but not accurate to the article's title.

Final Fantasy VIII card game ♥️

I'm all for green energies and all. But in his defense, in the vast majority of presentationss/documentaries/panflets for "replace fossil fuel with electric", they nearly never openly take into consideration how fucking bad for the environment and the local populations mining rare minerals used in batteries is.

So yeah, let's stop using non reusables, but also let's acknowledge and openly talk about it.

My favorite is Caves Of Qud. The amount of freedom in character build and progression options is just unlike anything else I've tried. Also the very distinguishable graphics make it more interesting to me, because "games don't need to be pretty to be crazy fun".

I discovered it thanks to Sseth. His other recommended roguelike games (Synthetik, NEO Scavenger, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead) are all great in their own way.

Some research on this topic, for the case of Iran: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32387885/

Support websites show it's mainly faith-based recovery programs in Muslim communities:

https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/faith-based-drug-and-alcohol-rehab/muslim/

https://rehabs.com/rehab-options/islamic-rehab-centers/

Imagine not using Twitter / not owning a Tesla / not using Starlink in 2023. /s

Look into breakdancing lessons

Fire + Fish = Sushi (?)

Fire + Sushi = Wasabi (??)

DongHuaP mentioned. Auto upvote.

But yeah ELO hell is real... I tried to combat that by only playing with at least 1 premade (duo). If I bring someone in, that makes one less spot for inter/AFKer/troll in my team, right? Yes. But matchmaking also sends you to harder matches because "you are at advantage of playing with a premade".

Each past season since S07, I reach gold then quit. This season I fell from Gold 4 10LP straight to Silver 4 25LP. 15 loses streak. The hardest I've ever fallen. Soul crushing. And I usually end up top 3 players of the match. I make mistakes, but they don't cost us the loss.

Even in bottom silver, I saw matchmaking sending Platinums in my enemy team (based on porofessor.gg pre-match info). I thought it wasn't possible to play with 2 divisions difference. Get your shits together and fix matchmaking, Riot.

We've used https://roll20.net/ in the past. It works in browser, I don't know if they have an app.

Their previous game Craftopia was also on GamePass and somewhat successful. They probably had some leverage for negotiations.

French YouTuber Léo Grasset lost ALL revenue on ALL his videos following (up until now unproven) rape allegations.

Here's a random source in English for you: https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-11-30-back-to-the-l%C3%A9o-grasset-case--targeted-by-an-investigation-for-rape.rJPCh24vj.html

"Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't exist for celebrities and YouTube/other platforms become de-facto public juror.

My gaming time has drastically reduced since our first kid was born. I still manage to get an hour or two in the evening (if we don't watch a movie/series or don't have plans). On the other hand, I noticed I started getting bored of lengthy games and wanted to switch to something else around the 20 hours mark.

What helped me, is finding and playing well-rated singleplayer games that can be completed in only a few seatings, typically <10 hours. I use https://howlongtobeat.com.

But I also come back to endless games (Escape From Tarkov or League Of Legends) when I have friends to play with. You gotta find the balance that fits your schedule and tastes, without turning gaming into a chore.