Fuck, there go my plans to use South America as a last possible fallback if shit keeps getting worse.

At least it isn’t a .webp

Yeah this is why I don’t do charity, at least not via any organisation. I’ll give straight to someone who needs it without involving any 3rd parties at all.

If they keep this up they might significantly cripple one part of Russia’s nuclear triad.

Worse, they would use it as pretext for “retaliatory” strikes.

Those are still coming, no doubt, but they’ll have a harder time spinning the story.

Seeing this immediately makes me smell cigarette smoke.

Cool, mine is 192.168.0.1!

Get fucked

A few weeks ago I managed to sit down for a few hours to put all my ongoing tasks and projects in fucking project management software in order to be able to follow it up better. I’m now afraid of opening the software to look at the mountain of collected work therein.

Don’t take any wooden buckazoids!

Every so many years I fire up a King’s Quest or Space Quest.

It isn’t even safe today, but people still do it.

Even at the basest level of society that we might fall back to, there will be a need for stores of great value in order to make larger trades. You can’t effectively trade large scale without it. Which might not be relevant right after a full system failure, but definitely afterwards.

So much FUD and complete misinformation here. Gold, first and foremost, is a store of value and a hedge against inflation. It’s a terrible investment. That said, if you bought 10k worth of gold 5 years ago, you would now have 20k. Which is obviously a higher return than most savings products or some actual investments.

It’s a hell of a lot safer than BTC and if society does collapse, it will absolutely retain its value.

I don’t feel important enough for that. Same reason I’m not religious. People claiming a personal relationship with the goddamn creator of the universe are hella conceited.

I’ve “hacked” web apps by logging in with “user - password” or something equally inane.

What a handsome fellow!

Yes. I picked up the habit at my (former) job (IT). So I drink a few cups throughout the day. I don’t really feel anything unless overdo it and drink like 4 cups before noon, in which case I get slightly jittery. But I can’t say I’ve noticed any “synergic” issues from combining equasym & caffeine.

Come to think of it, my meds are specifically slow-release. There are versions of methylphenidate that act more immediately.

That’s some final destination shit.

If there’s any upside to the entire situation, it’s that perhaps, maybe, developers will again start paying more attention to optimization instead of just throwing more powerful hardware at it.

Some of the greatest games ever developed for consoles were great because the developers had to get extremely creative with the limited resources at their disposal. This led to some incredibly optimized games that could do a whole lot with those very limited resources.