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A family member has passed on some links with a political bent including one for this guy whose antics have landed him in court opposite rather powerful and colourful opponents on several occasions. Also in the invidious predicament of riling up Joe Hildebrand, someone who comes off as generally being tolerant and of good nature. Still, Jordie is one that likes a bit of street theatre and fun, so we’re on common ground there, wonder where he will be 15-20 years on when his youthful looks and charms have all fled?
Of interest as well is this author and economist, Yanis Varoufakis, and his last work, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 2023, also read by him. Here’s a snippet from that books:From factory owners in America’s Midwest to poets struggling to sell their latest anthology, from London Uber drivers to Indonesian street hawkers, all are now dependent on some cloud fief for access to customers. It is progress, of sorts. Gone is the time when, to collect their rent, feudal lords employed thugs to break their vassals’ knees or spill their blood. The cloudalists don’t need to deploy bailiffs to confiscate or to evict. Instead, every vassal capitalist knows that with the removal of a link from their cloud vassal’s site they could lose access to the bulk of their customers. And with the removal of a link or two from Google’s search engine or from a couple of ecommerce and social media sites, they could disappear from the online world altogether. A sanitized tech-terror is the bedrock of technofeudalism. Looked at in totality, it becomes apparent that the world economy is lubricated less and less with profit and increasingly with cloud rent. And so the delightful antinomy of our era comes into focus: capitalist activity is growing within the same process of energetic capital accumulation that degrades capitalist profit and gradually replaces capitalist markets with cloud fiefs. In short, capitalism is withering as a result of burgeoning capitalist activity. It is through capitalist activity that technofeudalism was born and is now sweeping to power.
Does all this matter to the way we live and experience our lives? It certainly does. Recognizing that our world has become technofeudal helps us dissolve puzzles great and small: from the elusive green energy revolution and Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter to the New Cold War between the USA and China and how the war in Ukraine is threatening the dollar’s reign; from the death of the liberal individual and the impossibility of social democracy to the false promise of crypto and the burning question of how we may recover our autonomy, perhaps our freedom too. Today, to own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. It’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artifacts from automated means of behavior modification, that poison our social reality, to automated means of human collaboration and emancipation.
And, being an obedient and faithful technoderf (typo intented), went and proposed an idea to make the names of all deleted Wikipedia articles accessible, downside is they don’t like it much for the sheer bulk of the undertaking, upside is that it would take a little pressure off Wayback resources.
Edit: Oops, they do have a deletion log!Really quite amazing how Reddit has taken so much of the life out of other communities, CodeProject for instance. They have an annoying habit of archiving many conversations, of interest to us perhaps, but not to them, not as bad as Microsoft Answers though. And the length of some threads can be cumbersome too, not as bad as Youtube where some have millions of comments. There’s a limit of around 750 replies to each YT comment (OP comment can have 3K? comments) which can make it very interesting, and a challenge for spambots to cause havoc as well. There’s also a YT community post with more than 92 million comments, no idea how the OP would process all these.
The accounts section of Software Informer had an old email address that couldn’t be removed, so after contacting them, they fixed it so it could be changed. No problems with them personally as never used their app for which they have been criticized in the past. Funny thing is, as soon as it was fixed, and the password was changed by me, got one of these Google Critical Security Alert emails: “Some of your saved passwords were found online.”Some of your saved passwords were found in a data breach from a site or app that you use. Your Google Account is not affected.
Dispensing with the remote possibility the email is referring to something else happening elsewhere (the last GCS Alert received was back in ’21), interesting as to how exactly they come to that conclusion by what had just occurred, and from what their snooping bots log.
Ah, yes you mentioned that last month, in that case try Fallout 3 instead? Rename that and try it on on the Linux. not sure the best way to get it all setup there in the first place, Proton, Wine, or an RDP based exercise like WinApps for Linux or WinApps.org (site doesn’t exist 😛 ). At least FO3 doesn’t have GFWL any more. 🙂
The xEdit script checks for all that in Windows, but yep, what happens in Linux when setting or even creating a mod with GECK? If everything is already lower case there shouldn’t be an issue, unless the game or creation engines do something nice like converting things to proper case, for instance.Actually somewhat of a bum steer,
This branch is up to date with NimrodPSI/MWEdit:master
Just an example of forking a project, we could do that, or simply start a “new” one. 🙂
Sorry about Github, it’s just all our repos are in there. Hate having to foist something like that on an unhappy subscriber. Other web clients like Gitlab would certainly be fine, the only reason for being lothe to use them is simply opening up more accounts. Gone down the rabbit hole of opening too many accounts in the past, not so many recently, fortunately. If there is a convincing argument to open an account in an alternative client, then why not?
Isn’t the current build of MWEdit 32 bit? Think we will be in a world of pain trying to pass 32 bit structures to and from a 64 bit framework.
Give me a bit with VS, there are a few things that want to be done concurrently, like actually setting up and playing MW. 😛Great movie, slight issue with the ages, in RL Cruise is 25 years younger than Hoffman, so younger brother is a bit of a stretch. OTOH under appropriate lighting Hoffman could have passed for 45 and Cruise 30, otherwise the make-up folks appeared to have little concern. Like most, one suspects. 🙂
Watching Guilt Series 3, spicy dialogue and intriguing character interplay, and all very Scottish, recommended.Welcome to the Vault, @AlfrescoD, 🙋♂️ do hope your stay here will be pleasant and fruitful 🍒. Best way to get started is to engage in a friendly chat by responding or creating a topic in the discussion forum, there’s also Projects and Blogging for more focused avocations, if anything in the sanctum feels out of place just holler over here in forums. 🙂
1.1 fixes a few bugs and logging, there’s also an explanation on Github of why cmd isn’t real good with anything but lower case. Using such languages is a bit like operating vintage cars:
A welcome invitation to any players of a lightly modded Fallout NV install …
RSVPs for such auspicious occasions are still under construction. 🙂
Ah, Pocket keep a cached copy of sites that have moved on, a costly exercise which explains it. Side-alley stuff like The Bored Hoard provides a refreshing alternative, here’s one:
Never used these sites personally, notwithstanding their marked improvement on the webrings of old. Always use search engines, and if something juicy crops up, yay. For bookmark management Raindrop.io looks tempting though, as the current state of the bookmarks here is shoddy at best, and somewhat outdated from lack of use.On moving down to the South Coast around 2K joined up with this ISP and dropped them in 2007 for some reason, probably cost. The next provider was gotalk, and left them in 2010 as the service delivery dropped when they were taken over with focus more to mobile plans. Thus the provided email addresses also got nixed, these days it gets interesting when using one of those to sign in entities such as Scribd where upon there returns something like:
Check Your Email: To protect your account, we’ve sent a verification email to ol******@**ne.com. Please click the link in that email to verify your identity. To learn more, please visit our FAQs.
Didn’t receive an email? Check your spam folder, or send again.
Not the correct email? Use a different email addressNot the correct email means signing up for a new account, so any info stored with the old one is lost, thus contacting them is the last resort, which by the looks of that page doesn’t help too much. What ever happened to webmaster or admin @suchandsuch.com?
History on the web is changing too, when Google stopped caching pages, there is now more encumbrance on IA than ever before. Did sign up with Furl way back, will anything like that come back again?
Also had an account with Shelfari, IIRC there never was a merging of accounts into Goodreads, understandable of course if there were millions of them.From The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings:
Playing an improvised finale, Fry produces crude, cartoonish images of himself and Leela. To a simplistic yet sweet bansuri tune, the created Fry and Leela kiss and then walk into the distance hand-in-hand.
An alternative ending is for Fry to walk into the distance hand-in-devil robot hand? Like the idea, and the wealth of possibilities abounding for an appropriate operatic motif. 🙂
Now streaming another more recent spy drama in the Bond tradition is The Night Manager. Although Le Carré may not approve of the Bond association (as he referred to him as an international gangster), the protagonist often succeeds by engaging in rather thuggish activities, if you don’t mind. Like a Bond film it flicks around various worldly locations, as well as stitching important events in the story through flashbacks. The finery, competent acting and stunning locations sometimes reveal a rather bony lattice of plain in the screenplay, which takes the edge off a fabulous show, still recommended, and can’t wait for the second series. 🙂Logged on to the Final Fantasy forums after 8 years, there’s something funky about that install as performing any actions from saving stuff on your profile to navigating to another page gets one logged off! Very quiet now, there well may have been a first post for 2024, a final post in subsequent years may not be out of the question, and the fantasy of the assimilation of FF Forums into Wayback could turn out to be no more than an irksome reality. 🙁
A little further back signed up with the Wrox forums regarding info on good programming books. Never made that post though, and a few years later it was death by a thousand spambots, bad luck packages like Cleantalk for vBulletin weren’t around then.
And the blech NewEgg account protection again, well meaning of course despite reviving for subscribers the ancient conundrum of Humpty Dumpty, and was he over protected? 😛Updated the thread there, happens with just the Evnia 27″. The only hope is a DP 1.4 cable which can be procured from the local outlet. Funny, couldn’t locate the DP info in Adrenalin, is it visible on yours?
The cheapo monitors over here will never sport anything like a luxurious HDR toggle, the manufacturers could have at least included one which would have the effect of next to nothing, in an attempt to make us feel as if we have kept up with the Joneses. 😛Yeah, style, warnings, virtual functions in base class, override’ specifier required, function in derived class etc.
esm/EsmBase.cpp:28:3: error: There is an unknown macro here somewhere. Configuration is required. If DEFINE_FILE is a macro then please configure it. [unknownMacro]
DEFINE_FILE(“EsmBase.cpp”)
^🙂 Contacted Nimrod at NexusMods with a link on here, sorry for the delay. 🙂
Oh, was thinking a browser would have a policy of showing a search engine’s search results, but not the AI blurb as default. In any case, it can be turned of by plugins or this:
https://www.theverge.com/24162621/google-search-ai-overviews-get-rid-of
What about him popping up in an ad for sarsaparilla, or even better, betel nut beer? 😛
Ah, breathing again, know the feeling well. 🙂 Hot with fires over this part of the world, rainy up the top end, some had more than half a metre of rain in 15 hours, and well over a metre for the week.They should really provide an option to hide the AI, or at least put it at the bottom of the page, if it gets any worse, then another browser is definitely on the table. As an afterthought, wonder why ungoogled-chromium isn’t mentioned on the Chromium page?
All the way from California? Checked the air quality for your area just now, the maps say pretty good, there are some fires around, not too close though, and the southerlies should clear the air some. Has it improved recently?Wonder if there’s the ability to run oldReddit on a premium account, for no other purpose than requiring the devs to maintain, tease and cajole it into a new shape of old! 😛
NMS is awesome, it’s an amazing revelation that in all these planetary views the nearby moons and planets loom so large. In reality, the tidal forces would be such that the peaceful pastoral landscape are instantly replaced with uber seismic activity, rampant volcanism, huge tidal waves and massive storms. In other words, the No Mans Sky is falling down!
Aw snap, out of the blue OneDrive had started to download everything as if everything got reset, or something. Luckily, “Free up space” in settings or right click stopped it, just took a few minutes to work it out. When performed in Settings, a potential downside is “Free up space” zapping local copies of everything on OneDrive, might be inconvenient if internet is down later.
Going through some of the old Github issues, noticed the GitHub issues for some of the MicrosoftDocs categories have been removed altogether. For instance, the following come up in the linked search:MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs Function Type: Typo?
MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs Easy Jump Link for Windows Home Subscribers
MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs Totally unclear descriptionInteresting, ever since 2019 when removing Github issues got the green light, a few MicrosoftDocs categories yet remain for this user. Seems to be an increasing trend for the larger operators to move issues away from Github, for example, Reddit and even AutoHotkey. The wayback Machine has most of that stuff archived, best to search there by org or repo name, (don’t bother attempting to navigate from the front page. 😛 ). Due to the 10,000 limit on results, a complete list of archived Github issues only pulls a paltry ~700 hits with the filter
issuesapplied.Isn’t that what they want want – keep on filling Bezos’s moneypot ’til season 2?
Old is unbalanced, with an intriguing predicament for its leads. Even though not recommended for the list, it should be watched for the ideas, and the ways they could have better formed the movie. Running past full time, yet the myriad of unanswered questions at the end makes it incomplete, while a lot of stuff can be edited out. Fun fact, it’s actually based on a French comic:
After 15 years, memories of broken keyboards are as clear as a discarded CRT tube lying under the burnished sun.
Slight issue with the Evnia,
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_11-wintop_display/monitor-intermittent-blacking-outsyncing/e5765248-4aff-4709-8a0b-2ab07830a661
Seems like the only one reporting it though, if it isn’t a monitor setting off kilter, still better a fault than a product recall, either way, pain ahead. 🙁Ouch! Roger Moore had the nicest voice of all the Bonds IMOP. 🙂
Recently came across two “placeholder” films on offer by fta 9Now, Death She Wrote (TV Movie 2021), and Deadly Influencer (TV Movie 2019). There are literally thousands more like these made every year. The movie production teams do all the right things required to make the movies watchable, problem is, the directors think it’s enough to build a up a believable female character lead from a stock psychotic bipolar serial murderer template possessing the tenderness, panache and geniality of the Red Hulk, in order to plug any gaping holes in the movie’s plotline. The prerequisite for viewing is a single digit IQ, which should be noted in any Wikipedia Articles that will never be made for them. 😛
Completed Paris Has Fallen, the French spoken scenes necessitated switching on the subtext which is a little cumbersome and unreliable on this unit. Enjoyed it, very suspenseful and well paced, though lags a bit with a predictability factor towards the end.
Starting on The_Consultant_(TV_series), looks to be more than just the life and times of a fruitcake with a screw loose – all will be revealed – along with a colourful mix of nuts and bolts, no doubt. 😛 -
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