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All these years playing GTAV and I only now learn that using the custom radio station cooks your CPU
  • Real-time audio processing is one of the more intensive things CPUs do, and when it gets out of realtime it's noticeable real quick and not-good. Obviously there's some problem with how they've implemented calculating it versus the normal radio stations though. Weird the WAV conversion doesn't work, I'm positive I did that years and years ago. What patch level are you on?

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    I promise you nothing can prepare you for what I found at work with the Halloween merch
  • Does it have a lump of flesh protruding from its neck?

  • International Longshoremen's Association will Maintain Pledge to Handle Military Cargo During Strike
  • Unions in the imperial core at this late stage would probably always be questionable. They're just better than the alternative (at least when they're not being run by CIA)

  • Shonen jump doing a tribute for the manga of a convicted pedo
  • The pedo stuff is downplayed in the guy's NATOpedia article. Would be funny to periodically detail the DVD purchases throughout the career section... Probably took a while to accumulate >100.

  • Junk mail that feels like a shitpost
  • disgost "Vote Conservative"?

    I wouldn't be surprised if this was AI generated stuff that a PAC quickly OK'd and had mailed.

  • What's the official Hexbear Party line on the Jaffa Cake "Cake or Biscuit" controversy?
  • If the only options are "cookie" and "biscuit" I'd say "cookie".

    Title changed, I guess it's "cake". Biscuits in burgerland are different, I would probably say "slop" or honestly "mass produced confection" if somebody asked me out of the blue to classify this.

  • Real question: Don't all electric cars have this risk?
  • They're especially unprotected. Most electric vehicles don't fail as spectacularly or often as Teslas, eg losing power and locking people inside to burn and igniting in crashes. I'm sure some examples of some other models will crop up but they likely got banged around a lot more by the floodwaters.

  • Time to switch to a better Discord alternative
  • Quiet seems OK, similar attempt to Cwtch, but like all of these it needs more testing to trust for anything significant. As it stands I only consider Briar & LoRa stuff like using LXMF trustworthy.

    Session suffers from all messages persisting forever across effectively a federated message routing network, piggybacking on some barely recognizable cryptocurrency. Inadequate long term secrecy guarantees to me. The foundation for it is also Australian.

    SimpleX seems to have ties to Israel and its founder is cagey about it. It can route over Tor for everything. It's not really worth considering it for me, but if you do trust it completely you should probably self-host the server for it via Tor and not federate them.

  • Disposal of liquid nicotine questions - how to not kill birds/bees/fish and humans by disposing properly?
  • with 0 research: get some metal hot electrically (dab coil would be ideal) and set it up to drip it onto the coil next to a running HEPA filter

  • Nintendo is filing for the patents it's suing Palworld with in the US as well, though some (non-final) rejections could complicate matters
  • I don't know how anything about Pokemon is patentable. If they actually copy character designs enough I think that's just a copyright issue. Fuck Nintendo is always a safe position.

  • They deserve a bigger Poly Mansion
  • Now do US NGOs...

    I was surprised the Tor domain was down the other day, doesn't seem like the operation seriously otherwise affected. Some domains lost.

  • With Stickers on Phone Cameras, Clubs Defend the Party Vibe
  • they better check within the camera app after, I've got some with rear or front cameras relocated to the side/mic hole/3mm jack

  • Well there's your problem.
  • If I didn't want the house to burn down for the insurance, I'd probably go shoot the power line down. Finally a use for BMG.

  • What is the materialist explanation of the War on Drugs?
  • It's useful for an imperialist ruling class to keep drug trafficking and drug traffickers around, it's possible that some are powerful enough that they are effectively on the same level. We're not so far removed from things like British opium imports to China having a huge effect on quality of life and such. They can disrupt other nations and be used as a pretext for sanctions/occupations/foreign aide to facilitate god knows what.

    For domestic operations it's slush money and can be politicized. Its illegality puts people in situations where they'll be more likely to do anti-social actions benefiting or on behalf of clandestine operations. It's also a great cover story for any violence that might erupt between elements of this, for lack of a better term, "deep political network".

  • You ever just dream about watching YouTube
  • When it was new to me, circa 2006, and mostly just had reuploads of prank shows and atheism v. creationism vids. I remember a dream where I sat down and watched a video on it called "insurance agent PRANK reads his own autopsy" that was just a guy walking into a cubicle in a hotel conference room and sitting down and opening a manila folder and there's just a photo of the same guy dead on an autopsy table and he just sits there processing the claim. A guy in a grim reaper costume walks in and knocks at his cubicle entrance, he looks and then jumps onto the desk and then over the cubicle and runs off into a seemingly neverending conference room. Then I was in the same conference room looking for a bathroom for what felt like an eternity until I woke up.

  • Help me understand the CIA's role in US foreign policy toward Israel
  • James Angleton is historically the most important individual we know of, he managed the Israeli account as head of Counterintelligence at CIA during and after the Kennedy years. His testimony to the Church Committee reads as an admission of Israel's role and interest in seeing JFK dead. While far from perfect, for Kennedy nuclear proliferation was an obstacle to peace, and an existential threat obviously. Angleton has no less than 2, possibly 3 statues in Israel. None in the US. One overlooks Jerusalem from foothills outside the city.

    Basically Zionist got the bomb and they got all the blackmail and plenty of operations outsourced to Mossad, Epstein is very plausibly Mossad, etc.

    There are networks and associations between people which supercede a lot of this though, it's unclear how much going on today is "CIA" versus the organized criminals, "terrorists", foreign intelligence services, and business interests they've flooded with cash, guns, and technology for decades. There's possibly just enough parties with resources now that we can't really make much sense of specifics in real time

  • Help me understand the CIA's role in US foreign policy toward Israel
  • If not by design, it's a feature of all NATO ruling class decisions thus far, so the rest of the world has every right to reject it and proceed... The main risk being the potentially thermonuclear tantrum that could precipitate...

  • Is there any foss email android app compatible with Kolab Now + 2Auth enabled ?
  • How does one setup 2FA on their site even? I enabled it on the trial subscription but it didn't prompt me to set it up, even during the next login flow.

    An article from 2017 on their site says that only the web client is available for 2FA-authenticated users. They actually say every other protocol is disabled.

  • How can I configure 2FA so I won't get locked out of all my accounts if the Mossad detonates my smartphone?
  • I'm keeping my MFA secrets in keepass, don't think about password manager compromise

    nerd shit

    In the past I also rigged my phone to relay SMS TOTP codes for the stupid shit that only supports that like my fucking bank used to only, to a self-hosted API that KeePass can fill them in via... now I just use a GSM dongle with its own SIM though