For a long while after the Iraq debacle, I was predicting that Iran would be next, and it just kept not happening.

I guess even the right-wingers of the time were too level-headed to want to open that can of worms.

Heck, even Trump didn’t go there during his first term. I had accepted that I had been wrong.

So, of course, this time, the crazy old narcissist has gone and done it.

(This reads like I feel like I could have done something to prevent it. I know I couldn’t, I’m just some random guy, but I still feel like I took my eye off the ball.)

It would be amusing if this actually got the powers that be to consider proportional representation. Better chance of having a say in government if the alternative parties start beating first-past-the-post. One voice that must be listened to is better than shouting impotently from the wrong side of the house.

I assume they’re using (year - 2000) as the version number, which happens to match “last two digits” and will do until 2099. So any version of Minecraft released that year under the new system would be Minecraft 1002.x, not 2.x.

There’s a Linux tool called cmp that compares two files byte for byte. On my distro it’s part of the diffutils package which is required and installed by default.

Its better known sibling is diff which is used for finding differences between source code files, or any other text files for that matter.

You could build something fairly quickly that wrapped cmp and a list of files.

Alternatively you could look for a duplicate file detector, but then, those generally only pick up on the duplicates and won’t show non-matching files. You’d be blind to the changed ones unless you already knew where they were supposed to be.

Also be aware that on modern filesystems, there’s such a thing as a hard link where two or more filenames can point at the same data on the disk. Those two files will always compare as being the same because they literally are the same. And some filesystems can automatically de-duplicate by creating hard links between anything it detects as being identical.

You might be able to leverage that as well, depending on what you need.

Finally, many files have various dates and times associated with them, again depending on file system. The Linux stat command is aware of four of these: File birth (original creation), last access, last modification and last status change. Some or all of these may be combined depending on the underlying filesystem.

And here’s me thinking it was called Vintage Story.

Actually, Minecraft 26 comes out this year. They dropped the “1.” and bumped the sub-version from 21 to 26 to match the year. They’ve also changed the way the new second tier works to be related to the quarter-year.

26.1 is due next month.

So yeah, there’ll never be a Minecraft 2.0. The versioning no longer allows for it.

(This doesn’t rule out a game called “Minecraft II” with its own set of unrelated but identical version numbers. Minecraft II 36.1 drops in ten years. Maybe. But probably not.)

He’d say “I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”

Those who dehumanise are the true subhumans.

Ha. I’ve heard of Amazon offloading heavier parcels to municipal mail carriers, so I don’t see that working out.

The day they codify in law that public services should not make a profit, the lawsuits will begin. Those to reclassify all and sundry that we think of as public services as not being public services.

A necessity argument would result. Do people need electricity, gas and municipal water treatment? No. They can live off-grid. Therefore these are not public services.

Do people need public transport? No. They can walk or buy rent a car. Therefore public transport is not a public service.

Do people need police, fire, medical? No. Most people can go months, years without needing any of those. Therefore they can’t be public services either.

etc. etc.

I’m not saying I agree with any of that, but the expensive lawyers will be arguing these points and they’ll continue to argue them as long as there’s a profit to be made.

Although a processor might be nominally capable of accessing a bus of a certain width, it does not mean that all address or data lines need be connected.

orange = {
    you = "glad",
    I = {
        didn\'t = {
            say = "banana"
        }
    }
}

This whole thing is in violation of Rule 3.

There’s a place I used to pass frequently that has an automated car wash at one side of the road and a manual car wash at the other. In the sense that they have staff there who do all the washing, cleaning and even detailing if you’re willing to pay for it.

As far as I know they’re not owned by the same people.

It says “was” not “had”.

I’m surprised those signs don’t include sinistralité. Those left-handed f–kers are up to something even worse than the gays, I’m sure of it.

(/s is for satire and that’s good enough for me)

My own external 1TB HDD is old enough that it only has USB2 connectivity. It transfers at around 40MB/s. Maybe you’re in the same situation?

I only transfer files of a few gigabytes to it every month or so, which I find bearable, but I’d be less happy if I was trying to move hundreds of gigabytes or the full drive contents on a regular basis. That would literally take hours.

“Don’t be silly, they can’t do that. That’d be antisemitic.” – Bibi Utteryahoo

Usenet then Slashdot and a forum on a website that no longer exists.

Once I got Internet at home, there were a few online chatrooms that were web based, but were basically IRC. It looks like one of those sites still exists, but if it’s the same one I used (and Yahoo used as a proxy) it’s not at the URL I used it at. Also either I’ve forgotten my details or I’ve been deleted (or it’s a knock-off).

Then Digg, Reddit, Twitter and now the Fediverse.

Oh and throw Discord in there too somewhere towards the latter end.

Dishonourable mentions: MyYearbook and Tagged.com. The former was a bit like old-school MySpace, but it became a soulless dating site called MeetMe with none of the fun Flash games and chat. Tagged was basically a (surprisingly smut-free) user avatar trading site. Attractive people’s pictures (usually women) could end up worth ridiculous sums of fake money. Like vigintillions of dollars kinds of ridiculous.

Now it seems that both are part of the same company, at least based on how the websites for MeetMe and Tagged look. Very glad I’m out of there.

I’m not OP, but yes I hoard. For most of the non-sentimental stuff, any third party coming in would result in me saying “OK” and throwing it all out because wanting to get that third party out of my safe space as soon as possible and not have to think about it would trump the need to keep those things.

And I’d deal with the regret later. Both that I didn’t have the stuff any more and the cynical belief that the need for it is bound to be hastened precisely because I got rid of it.

For the sentimental stuff, that third party is going to quickly become an enemy, whether either of us likes it or not.

Stuff that’s in the middle ground, for example, old computer parts, maybe that third party might be able to help reason about it, but it’s going come down to one of the two above results pretty quick.

FWIW, I had a partial clear out about a decade ago and I still have regrets.