The only XMPP I ever knew how to use was Gmail Chat, and they shuttered it, so I don't know how to use XMPP anymore or how to talk to anyone on it.

Signal is just easier.

I've been bitten before by these non standard things.. thanks for the reminder.

Many indie games are PC only and are unlikely to ever be ported to a Nintendo platform -- mostly because it's a lot easier to play them on new PCs. As Nintendo products age, emulation can be one of the only ways the games stay playable.

It would be fine if we lived in a utopia, but not fine when corporations have the power to require that you use one, or else you can't use their services.

The fact that perfectly capable PCs aren't getting security updates is just part of it. Once Microsoft and other corporations can ensure that your computer is no longer completely controlled by the user (as the TPM ensures) they can start locking it down, first in the name of security, but then just like how some phones have apps that you can't uninstall, or how printers force you to use name brand ink at a huge markup.

This is changing. Microsoft is trying to restrict Windows 10 -> uploads based on having a user-hostile TPM module to make PCs more locked down, just like phones.

Shows people using the LLM thought less about it and probably learned less.

Sometimes students are motivated to learn, but there's always the temptation to just get the work done and relax...

I think the next step is to eat something even hotter and in larger amounts, if you want to find out. Otherwise just count yourself lucky!

I've always thought that researchers should plot outcomes against commute times.

I've never seen it before -- ty stranger :)

Crazy to me how easy it is these days to Photoshop out a dollar general from the landscape

SOMETIMES IT'S STEWART'S INSTEAD OF DOLLAR GENERAL.