100% no doubt The parable of the sower and subsequent book. I read that book - started reading it - in June this year and read it over about a month. It was very creepy to be reading a sci fy book set in the future that is now my present and while it is not as bad right now as Octavia Butler makes it out to be, we are definitely heading there if drastic action is not taken immediately.

Edit: the books in order: (Only two, sadly she died while writing the third but still both worth reading, there isn’t a clif hanger at the end) https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

We used to have white christmases and dream of them too, now with climate change we dream of them but have green / brown ones in reality.

Could it be it is now down because of it? The dashboard was available as of a few hours ago, but now it is unavailable.

From their description it seems like just another tpm - like chip with extra functionality. That “cloud to chip” stuff seems to be marketing bs to me, possibly a tpm like chip that can only be used by Azure services? Doesn’t seem to me that it overrides the os in any way, so Linux would probably just ignore it withou the right drivers.

Groundwater poisoning any% speedrun w/ cheats

Almost, gen Z

Death has always just been a word like any other

Damn. So poetic, and yet I can’t quite grasp the meaning.

Switzerland: Generally you are only allowed to go during breaks and if you forget / don’t have time due to switching buildings you are told to suck it. Starting a certain age girls are allowed to go whenever, but only some teachers allow it in practice. During breaks though, I never had to ask a teacher.

It is. Unless of course, you didn’t know it wasn’t true and you call again in 3 days to let them know your realised you were wrong.

I don’t even need to click taht to know his initials are R.A. :-)

Where sadam

The best way to survive guantanamo is to be very kinky.

Switzerland: Just upgraded my plan to 18.90CHF (21.45usd) for unlimited 5G (1700mbps), calls and text in Switzerland and 20GB, 100 minutes and texts in EU and UK. I haven’t switched my number yet so I’ll have to see what coverage is like, but it will likely be very good cause switzerland.

New copypasta just dropped

Afraid I have to break the rules as it is an api key for anthropic :(

In some of them mabey not grumpy, but at least tired, disappointed parent.

What’s that about organized crime? I have never heard of that before. Is it only a scare tactic or is it really something to be concerned about when sailing the 7 seas, other than the usual caution (uBlock, VPN, private browser tab)

Well now I want “Mealworms 5KG” just to open it outside!

It implies we are definitely thanking someone, but not so sure if that someone is you. No, it is you, I am sure now.

It doesn’t say on the website but on their anniversary day they are giving away unlimited ssl certs!