I immediately dropped r/canada after there was an upvoted post about how Canada should switch to US styled privatized healthcare and all the top comments were cheering for it. Absolutely no Canadians talk like that.

So it’s about a billionaire punishing intellectuals who want to reshape society?

Have you checked recently? I like to use ProtonDB. Unless you only play games with kernel-level anti-cheat, most of your games should run fine with Steam’s built-in Proton compatibility tool. I rarely find a game I cannot play.

Damn, imagine your mother telling you she’d prefer being in a warzone than raising you.

Edit: did you guys not read the article? She says her family doesn’t support her decision and that her unit is now her new family. This isn’t a feel good story at all.

People buy stuff for the image. Apple has cultivated a certain image with its branding that people are attracted to and buy their products because of it. I’ve heard it described as “People don’t buy what you make but what you are.” The image and brand of the company is often why people buy from them. Apple produces products for cool hip people, not the stuffy old guys in suits! You’re a cool person, right?

Something being expensive is often part of the image. People like to pretend they’re rich and the more expensive all their stuff is the more they can project that image. It can also be self validation. Owning expensive products can someone feel better about their lives.

“Progressive Conservative”

Welcome to any gaming community! There’s always a few miserable people who aren’t happy with anything.

Poilievre, with his fingers in his ears: lalalalalalalala

If an instance admin stickies a post it’ll show up at the top of all your feeds (unless you sort by “top”).

However, I checked lemm.ee and it doesn’t have any stickied posts, but it does have a month old post stuck at the top of “all”. Comments in the thread are complaining about it. I see lemm.ee is using the newest version of Lemmy (v0.19.10) so maybe it’s a new bug?

This monument overlooks Montreal.

Lemmy is serious business!

While I’m all for spray painting a Musk company because he’s a dick, I’m not sure spray painting an electric car company to protest inaction on climate change makes a whole lot of sense.

I have a relative that, while working as a police detective specializing in fraud, lost a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme. It was his belief that he would always be able to tell if something was a scam that sunk him. Definitely embarrassing, but it always reminds me that anyone can be scammed by the right offer.

I first played it on a 5 year old computer and could barely get 10 fps on the lowest settings. I upgraded knowing that pretty much every other game now is wanting crazy hardware to run. I now have a very expensive top of the line rig that can run the game on max settings with a silky smooth 40 fps…which seems to be the max anyone can get even in benchmarking videos. I haven’t played this patch so not sure if that’s fixed yet.

Other than the ridiculous hardware requirements, the game is very much like all the other STALKER games. You wander around dreary forests and swamps completing quests or searching for items. If you liked the other games you’ll like this one.

Annoying parts for me have been all the walking and the mutants being bullet sponges. Walking takes up a lot of game time and I wish there was an option for fast travel. I know not everyone would want that but I’d personally like the choice. Sometimes I just want to get back to the settlement to trade my loot and don’t want to spend 20 minutes walking through an empty forest. I often run from mutants when I can because it’ll take 100 rounds to kill one and they don’t drop any loot.

Alaska was settled by Russian colonists in the 1800s but the colony didn’t do so well. The Russian emperor at the time decided to sell the territory to the US hoping to weaken the British Empire by preventing them from taking over the territory in the future (ie. to avoid it becoming part of Canada). The Russian emperor had hoped the entire West coast of North America would be US territory eventually but that never happened.

After all the gold was taken from it, Alaska’s benefit to the US is now extending its reach into Arctic waters which are being eyed as a potential international shipping route since climate change means ice breakers might not be needed to escort other ships through the Arctic. The US (via Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (via Greenland), Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all currently arguing over which parts of the Arctic ocean belong to them. They’re hoping to ensure any cargo ships that pass through will have to pay them a fee similar to how Panama and Egypt charge for the Panama and Suez canals respectively.

They could also avoid the Canadian fees by using ships but the US has the Jones Act which increases the cost of contiguous States shipping to non-contiguous States like Alaska. So their own government has already messed with Alaska which is why they truck shipments through Canada in the first place.

Error messages are a common way for hackers to gain information about a system. Useless error messages are recommended for security.

If you enter your username as Robert’'); DROP TABLE Students;-- giving the error “Oops, something went wrong” is better than “NoSuchTable: ‘Students’ Table doesn’t exist in the database” because now the hacker knows you’re using a database that interprets SQL commands and inputs aren’t being sanitized.

Hacking programs like Burp Suite have functions that spam sites with all kinds of garbage data and uses error messages and delays in response times to highlight potential vulnerabilities.

Taking furniture from government buildings? Now where did he get an idea like that…

The Tumblr Effect

I loved that the original attack ad they had when he was first running for Prime Minister was that he was too young and handsome to be a leader.