Someone should create CoPirate for Linux, that saves a DRM-free local copy of everyone else’s data that goes through your machine. For training purposes, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

It splices into the live power cord and supplies the same voltage in parallel. When the connection is verified good, the PC is powered from battery and can be unplugged from the wall.

I have seen the use of such a device by gov’t agencies; basically a large UPS that clips onto the AC plug’s prongs so that a running server or desktop PC can be confiscated without power being interrupted.

If you are running Android Open Source Project without Google Play Services, Google has no control. However, manufacturers could be pressured into locking bootloaders and then no one gets AOSP or GrapheneOS at all.

Peter Thiel has moved past “anything I don’t like is terrorism” and on to “anything I don’t like is the Antichrist”. He’s telling other billionaires that the Antichrist will appear in the form of government regulation of AI.

I run a GTX 980 Ti; Maxwell architecture is still supported for three years. Older than that: Kepler support ended last year and Fermi support ended in 2023, and they won’t play nice with kernels released since then.

My Motorola has this by default, buried in Settings > Security > More security settings > Network protection.

Privatize the profits (stocks for investors) and socialize the losses (bailouts with taxpayers’ money)

Future headline: Intel, under new management, to now only manufacture motherboards with locked Microsoft bootloaders

It is highly unlikely you will be able to hear a difference.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/MP3

If you have golden ears or are just that worried, why not use a lossless codec like flac?

I had a boomer drop off a laptop after Win7 got updated to 8. Post-it note read: “I’m used to Windows with the “e”. Is Windows even on here?”

The case.

Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.

There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.

The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.

Indeed. It’s not the white “USA” hat, it’s the “white USA” hat.

I think they are implying that the far-right Paxton would mobilize left-wing voters more than the not-quite-so-far-right Cornyn.

Use Reader View in Firefox. I never accepted the cookies. 😉

Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)

God can’t seem to get much done without the US Military 😬

Yeah… Bad headline; this is completely precedented.