xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Group A was conned by group B.
A subset of group A was helping con the rest on behalf of group B.

To the surprise of nobody, it's about datamining.

m*crosoft's involvement in the school system will only worsen this. School-provided laptops will likely be their only experience with something that's not a smartphone and they be presented to children as locked-down pieces of shit owned and operated by someone else. Even if they do take an interest in computers, any learning will be taking place in m*crosoft's walled garden.

It's no accident that gen alpha is less tech literate than the two generations that came before them. Big tech have a vested interest in keeping the public too fucking stupid to know why they should oppose them at every turn.

@theorytoe better get one of those 3d printers that lets you flash the firmware/doesn't need internet and do not use any print&go bullshit
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/08/any-user-who-has-a-3d-printer-would-have-this-software-installed-printgos-plan-to-become-the-drm-of-3d-printing/

2 days ago Transport Tycoon Deluxe (the original) got added to the GOG store.

Using a very misleading move GOG has now updated their OpenTTD page to list the original game as a requirement for playing OpenTTD.

This is not true at all. OpenTTD is a standalone game and does not require any files from the original game to work, it even replaces the original graphics.

Do not buy Transport Tycoon Deluxe from GOG. They charge 10 euro for it and it is simply the original game wrapped inside of DOSBox without any changes. Not worth your money.

Instead you should just simply download OpenTTD from the official download on openttd.org and play that instead.

And instead of giving your money to Atari/GOG you can donate money to the OpenTTD project directly. https://www.openttd.org/donate

"He got distracted by Iran? Pass it"

the iran shit has been successful in making nerds forget about their own shit being locked down
they're locking down android, they're locking down 3d printers, they're wanting age verification everywhere, meanwhile nerds are borderline fedposting about shit they saw on the Daily Kos

You can avoid most LLM slop just by adjusting the dates on your search result. I made a HTML form that makes this easier:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/search-the-past/

Since switching from led to incandescent light bulbs, my power bill has actually gone down
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Was curious about the old Orkut that Google bought and killed. The domain is still registered and has an interesting message.

THE WORLD IS HEALING

#infosec #linux #privacy

freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal

https://linuxiac.com/xdg-age-verification-interface-proposal-closed/

Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

Link: https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374745