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Wake me up when Rand mentions the fact that Moderna patented the spike-protein in 2016. That is what is at the bottom of the "origins" rabbit-hole.
Fauci was just the corporations' high-level govt-employee tool. We need to strike at the root.

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More entertaining nonsense from the copyright cartel world:

"'Such conduct, coupled with the use of domain names incorporating the expression 'IMDb', prima facie reflects dishonest adoption intended to exploit the goodwill and recognition associated with IMDb and to induce users into accessing infringing streams under the guise of legitimacy,' the order adds."

When was the last time IMDb had "goodwill"? Maybe in the early 90s when they were claiming to be some sort of non-profit or user-driven organization rather than a corporation out to exploit it's users contributions???

They certainly don't have "goodwill" here. They switched over to a .com from a .org and later shutdown public access to their database. Now you have to go through imdb.com and even pay for a subscription to access some functionality.

I'm not against companies making money- hell- I am the founder and CEO of one, but this isn't the way you generate "goodwill". This is how you put off users. They stop just shy of people fleeing ... not to mention Google and other search engines prioritize them over everyone else because they had the benefit of millions of contributions before anyone else of which no one today can pull off due to their dominance and the direction of traffic by search engines to IMDB over everyone else.

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Well it turns out that even the Debian team is having trouble with SFML3, due to the breaks in compatibility, which is why 2 is still on their repositories.

lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Yeah. I'm not touching SFML ever again. At least SDL allows you to download previous versions and the current version on most Linux repros.

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@ArdainianRight What's wrong with Kars4Kids? I don't know why anyone would ever donate a perfectly good car instead of selling it, but I'm out of the loop when it comes to them.

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They would rather work for Walmart corp for 14/hr and get their allotted 15 minute break, than support small businesses. Because guess who can pay compliance costs - WALMART. And because they can pay for compliance, they drive wages down. If it were truly free market, retail wages would probably be closer to double what they are.

@beardalaxy The Pleroma instance is at least. I think many of them don't even use the forums (at least not the lolcow subs). I like them better than most Poast (-adjacent) users. That's for sure.

I feel kind of scummy because many people bought the game and even tipped me, but couldn't play it because SFML seems to break compatibility whenever it wants. It's not my fault, but I feel like I at least owe them a working product.

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@beardalaxy Hopefully this will bring back old-school (pre-2022) fedi culture, somewhat. KF users are surprisingly laid back.

I've been blowing off the Refractored Depths Windows port for a while, but fuck it. I'm going to port it to the latest version of SFML and then port it to Windows that way, Also, it gives other Linux users (non-Debian) a chance to play.

Since when did the KiwiFarms instance come back online?

@djsumdog It would probably be that mouse girl from Touhou.

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@bonkmaykr@canithesis.org pointless complexity aside, the real problems are that this only works with debugging binaries and only if their symbols are in Visual Studio format, and Windows doesn't even remember where the loaded DLLs are from. allegedly. MSDN didn't exactly give me a single concise page or two explaining this. anyway, it can't print nameless addresses like glibc.

the entire point of getting a backtrace at runtime and not from your debugger directly, is to get information about a crash in a customer's stripped binary. this code is entirely useless for that purpose. i am sure there is another way to use CaptureStackBacktrace to get output similar to GNU's backtrace_symbols but it isn't documented anywhere I could find.
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