Recent content by Beholder

US politicians complain about Chinese influence. UK politicians hold their election on TikTok.

NDA is when you are prevented from revealing trade secrets. What Trump gave Stormy Daniels was a gag order (same as the judge gave Trump to prevent leaking the names of jury members) which itself is intrinsically legal but in the context of an election, covering up the truth becomes a scam...

Trump was accused of having declared taxes incorrectly as legal advice while the money did not go to a lawyer. Stormy Daniels did of course have motive to lie in order to get money with or without a true story, but either way the taxes should have been declared correctly for such a large sum of...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/30/trump-hush-money-trial-verdict Trump got convicted as predicted, but prison sentence is currently seen as a long shot. We'll just have to wait and see what the judge decides.

I bought Dying Light on both GoG and Steam. The Steam version is always updating when I want to play the game, breaking the main game with forced DLC that can't be turned off, et cetera.

Not worth buying newly released games on Steam, because every time you want to play something, you are forced to download and install an update, which also breaks the game and can't be rolled back.

My city had a blackout, and my powerstation was down at 20% capacity from yesterday, but I had enough solar power to boil water for lunch. Now I have turned off both freezer and refrigerator, by only relying on dry and canned food as a buffer. Sh-sh-shaaaaa!

If the periodic table was invented on Jupiter, hydrogen would be correctly classified as a metal gas. If invented on Venus, some of our metals would be considered non-metallic gases, because they don't exhibit metallic properties under "normal circumstances". Egocentric observations are not...

Soon Russia will start to crumble. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/russia-begins-tactical-nuclear-weapon-drills-near-ukraine-border

Returned a new desktop computer for not having DisplayPort working. Got a new computer of a different brand but the exact same defect. Now the support suggested that I take the second computer to the store, just because incompetent hardware and firmware developers never bothered to learn the...

A chatbot called me a furry for preferring birdpeople, so now I am confused. Don't know if people in dog suits pretend to be animals, or if everyone else pretend that humans are not animals.

Commercial services come and go, but if people build what they need with open source and open standards, you can keep it for a much longer time.

Still zero messages in my junk inbox. Maybe they got sick of me spamming them with strange replies.

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