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- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 3 weeks ago:
Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders’ backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to “lure in as many victims as possible.”
ReasonLabs said that the malware was “likely from a Russian torrenting site.” It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers’ computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors’ benefit.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 4 weeks ago:
Nice explanation. However I’d argue the bottom right panel is different because the right hand door is the back door of the car, and therefore, different to frames 2 and 3.
- Comment on Oh shit, I thought about my life for a second. 5 weeks ago:
What about endless scrolling, that always helps too
- Comment on Will buying an e-ink reader with Android 11 be an issue in a couple of years? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t doubt your experiences. However I worry about things like Pressreader that require a subscription or any sort of DRM or security.
I have the meebook 7 and mostly use Moon reader.
- Comment on 2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts 5 weeks ago:
Sex scandals and foreign policy failures don’t only beleaguer the modern politician, it turns out: in the early second century, the scholar Suetonius chronicled the dramas of the first set of Roman emperors, and now, their indiscretions and eccentricities have been dug up in a new translation which is proving popular in bookshops.
The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, made the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week. Publisher Penguin Classics said that the book is the first of their hardback nonfiction classics to appear on the list.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Using gboard with UK layout here’s me typing a bunch I can remember, it autocorrected all of them. Would be interesting to see the dictionary as a list.
Zeus Herodias Herodotus Aphrodite Pegasus Nike - Greek
Mars Romulus Remus Bacchus - Roman
Valhalla Thor Odin Ragnarok Woden - Norse …
Kali Vishnu Brahma
- Comment on We have all done it 1 month ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Execution_of_Torrijos_and_his_Co…
It’s a great meme, story behind the painting less so.
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 1 month ago:
Yes, and lots of bonuses for c-suite I’m sure.
I was pretending that water supply/treamtment is not a monopoly and that under the free market businesses will provide the best service to customers whilst ensuring the business is sustainable. independent.co.uk/…/thames-water-dividend-payouts…
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 1 month ago:
Yep, how can the benefits of competition and reward play out if there’s no punishment for failure.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 1 month ago:
I use ai to apply for job. The recruiter uses AI to sift the applications.
Who needs humans.
- Comment on I guess I'll just go into work and pretend like nothing happened 2 months ago:
It’s a doozy
- Comment on Well, Athens wasn't built in a day. 5 months ago:
Careful, you’ve gone so far down the maze you’ll need a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way back
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they did.
Six months after he was first sent to fight, he was struggling with post-traumatic […] Before he was due to redeploy, he took his own life.
- Comment on Wolfenstein difficulty settings 5 months ago:
- Comment on Weather radar shows birds trapped inside the eye of Hurricane Helene. 5 months ago:
When skies clear after a storm, however, birds resume their migration en masse, Farnsworth said. “After the storm passes, we see these big explosions of birds at night,” he told me. Image
