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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it seems likely to me that humans as a species will survive through the various climate crises, but I think the question is - at what cost? A lot of the scientific research and tech developments that might help us cope with or reduce the impact of climate change seem pretty reliant on our global system of trade / supply chain, and COVID showed how fragile that system is. I worry that by the time it gets bad enough that everyone is on board with doing what we can to reduce our impact, it’ll be too late because the systems that could create those new options will not be capable of operating at the level we assume is normal today.


  • If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.

    So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔








  • Again, I think there’s a certain crowd of internet users who are familiar with fun domain names and enjoy playing in that space. My example is particularly innocuous (a club of people who love stone megaliths in the UK). I also think the fun and playful names aren’t difficult to tell from phishing sites, but maybe I have a gut instinct developed from exposure to the folks who do use playful domains.

    My point is that thinking these quirky links look dangerous is specific to a certain social or generational group, and it wouldn’t hurt for them to keep an open mind about URLs/TLDs.

    (Adding an icon to remote fediverse instance links is a nice idea too.)