I used a Sidewinder keyboard for years with programmable macros.

Yeah, I had my password as a macro.

Dick move on my part as the macro, I’m fairly sure, is stored in plaintext on the PC. But the convenience was great. I don’t do that any more.

I’m a native English speaker. I can’t understand your comment. I sense that you have a useful perspective, could you rephrase it so it’s understandable?

Think of the lexiconsequences

Maybe not. But that was before he was president for four years - fuck, it’s still crazy to think that happened - and really forced people to acknowledge that yeah, he is a pathological liar who doesn’t give a shit about the country.

A lot of people still suck on the tit. But a lot of others recognise that the hot pain comes from getting burned.

You had all the tea party nutters for years - but none of them became president.

The bit about “secret” whatsapp messages is alarming.

when Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers in his garage

Just erase Wozniak from history huh

If I were a democrat pol, I’d want to keep Gaetz, and Trump, and all the nut jobs.

They are loved by their base and horrible to work with in the houses, but they are electorally toxic.

Prediction for your next presidential election: Trump will still be on trial on federal charges, he will be the nominee anyway, and he will lose badly. DeSantis will bite chunks out of him. Bullish on popcorn.

Or Trump bites chunks out of whoever they do nominate. The party either gets moderate votes, or Trump votes, or DeSantis votes, but not all three.

Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

Actually no, I’ve met some people who present themselves like slobs but are excellent human beings.

They are. If Trump stands, it’ll be a big victory for Biden, because Trump has made himself unelectable for swing voters.

Over here, the tories are heading for a wipeout. They’ve been telling us their shit smelled like roses, and it worked, up until it didn’t.

Edgy shit like this is why anti-woke is a vote winner. It’s repulsive to normal people.

It’s not a uniform, it’s a dress code, and it long predates boomers.

My friend, you haven’t heard about Oracle.

Microsoft at least gave the world Powershell, to balance out their sins. I can also name other good things they have done. Oracle is pure and deliberate evil.

I believe that the human race will end in one of three ways:

• asteroid strike
• disease
• Oracle

I think you were merely being pedantic, but there are some interesting points in there.

Is it a crime to generate fake “csam”?

Should it be a crime?

How can prosecutors get convictions against a defense of “no, your honour, that video is AI-generated”?

What we have now is still miles off general AI, but it’s going to take years for society to catch up. Interesting times.

Another Kagi fan here. I pay $10 a month.

I’m a reasonably heavy search user, but have never hit the quota.

It’s wonderful to have relevant results again.

The one thing it doesn’t work for is shopping. From time to time I use Google. I should probably switch that to Bing, as the lesser of two evils.

Deliberately duplicate a mac address, and worse, deliberately pick a device that’s definitely going to be online in the same network segment?

At first I thought you were either trolling or profoundly ignorant.

Then I remembered that wifi is CSMA, and thought, hang on… is this actually a genius idea? Has this user come up with a hack that no-one else knows about? So I tried it.

It doesn’t work. I couldn’t even join.

So no, you are either trolling or ignorant.

Hers some discussion and links, for anyone interested: https://superuser.com/questions/1132935/duplicate-mac-on-a-wifi-network-problems

Racial origins of those terms? Citation needed.

Black and white, in the sense of good and evil, have had their connotations for a fucking long time, whereas black and white to describe skin colour are relatively recent etymologies. I’m pretty sure that Romans didn’t call themselves “white” or others “black”, for example.

I’m willing to be taught, but this sounds like bullshit to me.

The etymology being wrong doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t drop freighted terminology, I just don’t want false justification. Bullshit is never a valid reason to do something.

His password was “daddy”

Now it’s “daddy2”

Looks like yellow fingers and grey complexion.

I did not find that at all.

I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)

The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.

If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.

I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.

It ain’t no joke?