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Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.

5th pin down on the far left side in the picture.

There’s no solder on the pin.

Most of the joints are questionable, that one is flat out bad.

There are a bunch of questionable solder joints.

Like half the pins.

But the absolute worst is the 5th pin down on the far left side. There’s so little solder used that you can see into the hole.

A few others are also a bit lacking as well. Almost all of the joints are ugly as sin…

There were also early coronavirus vaccines being developed with mRNA tech to fight SARS and MERS. I have a friend who got the MERS vaccine as part of a test group.

There is actually a grant system for campaign finance. It’s anemic as all hell, and so restrictive that it’s never used, but it exists.

At least for presidential elections.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/receiving-public-funding-grant-for-general-election/

Newsom has already said that he wouldn’t appoint Shiff, he quite clearly said a black woman. And his best options there are progressive women, like Waters or Lee.

She has a caretaker who is acting as a guardian, but that care taker is Nancy Pelosi’s niece, and Pelosi want’s Feinstein to finish her term, so the seat can go to Adam Shiff, and not be filled by Governor Newsom, who has said he would appoint a Black woman to the seat, likely a progressive. Maxine Waters or Barbara Lee.

As a counterpoint, Feinstein is on the Judiciary committee, and if she were to retire mid-term, Democrats would lose that seat until the next election. So Republicans could then halt any judicial appointments.

As a counter counterpoint, Feinstein hasn’t been showing up to that committee, so it’s already happening.

Standard GOP thought process.

I mostly deal with it by not browsing the internet in a cave. I get some natural light. You know, pull back the curtains on those windows and let the sun shine in.

It works wonders for many hours of the day. After the sun sets… well, I too have an auto dark mode extension. It turns dark mode on a few minutes after sun set.

They ditched the “don’t be evil” years ago. Now it’s “As many ads as possible”.

I hear that they can cover up to 80% of a user’s visual field without inducing seizures.

Empress is currently the only person who is cracking Denuvo DRM. She’s also insane. This is the rules from her Telegram channel.

All the other (better) crackers were either hired by tech and security companies, or threatened with legal action until they stopped cracking. This is a large part of why Denuvo is seen as uncrackable these days, when three years ago you had games cracked the day of release.

The article is a puff piece about how the company behind Denuvo totally has data that says their root kit doesn’t negatively impact performance.

They assert this with the same sort of confidence that I had back in 3rd grade when I claimed to have a girlfriend, just one that went to a different school and no, you wouldn’t know her.

The interviewer completely ignores the massive amounts of 3rd party data that says, yes, Denuvo is cancer that makes games run like shit while also making it easier to hack people’s computers. Doesn’t bring it up at all.

Now for my part, I had to actually look to other sources to see what the current crack speed was, because I’m not going to trust a puff piece to be honest. I remember plenty of stories about how Denuvo was “uncrackable” and then cracked in literal hours.

Sadly, current crack speeds are much slower than they were just a couple years ago when I had last looked. Only one person is still bothering to crack Denuvo, and the company is constantly downloading the cracks and patching around them.

I admit to being a bit out of the loop on new games/cracks. The last time I look was a couple of years back, when Denuvo was being cracked with zero day exploits.

So, looking it up now, there’s just one cracker left working Denuvo, and the company downloads the cracks themselves and reverse engineers them to make future cracking harder…

Quite the change in three years.

Except it doesn’t prevent any piracy. Pirates strip the DRM away within hours or days, and then the game runs better for the pirates than the paying customers.

So, you have a small window of the game being “protected” but that’s the same window that people on the fence ab out the game wouldn’t have bought it anyway.

2011 is well outside the Statute of Limitations for infringement…

That’s three years with some wiggle room for ongoing infringement.

This is likely an intimidation/shakedown thing.

Same here, It’s the second thing I install on a new computer, the first being Firefox.

Every morning when I turn on the computer, I start Firefox and Thunderbird, and then leave Thunderbird in the background, quietly doing its job.

Seems it requires specific hardware to run. Newer AMD or Snapdragon processors can run it, all other processors (currently) cannot.

You just have to talk about the 21st amendment, and how there’s a brewery named after it.

Not a bad brewery, but fairly modern, all things considered.

But yeah, how amendments work is basic US government stuff, there’s a required high school class on it and everything. Or at least it was required in both the states I attended high school in. Since I moved mid-year, I got to take it twice. I didn’t learn as much the second time, after all, that class was taught by the gym teacher, but we still covered how amendments work. I remember one of the pot heads in class got really interested in the 18th and 21st amendments and argued that the DEA was unconstitutional because of those two amendments being needed to ban, and allow alcohol.

Conservatives really don’t like any amendment passed the 2nd. And they absolutely hate the 13th, 14th, and 15th.

The conservatives on the supreme court have been chipping away at the 14th and 15th for the last decade, but gutting both is still one of their goals.

Coincidentally, they’ve functionally gutted the 4th through the Supreme Court, and are taking stabs at the 6th as well.