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Dr. Guillotin’s organic headache remedy? All natural, no chemicals involved.

I guess Iran has a vice president, too.

The Nobel prize trophy is a massive gold medal, AFAIK. It is not the Oscar.

Doesn’t matter, because Trump doesn’t know. Even if he did it wouldn’t keep him from claiming it was “his” Nobel Prize. “It was given to me, so it’s mine., see? All mine.”

Utter nonsense. First thing you do in a military conflict is withrdawing your diplomatic personnel.

Just like Germany did, even twice.

A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.

Do we? Eh… who, exactly is us?

this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.

Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.

Scandal! Shame!

P.S.: Buy more crap!

There are no “good communities”, here.

“Codec information” is in ROM or implemented in hardware directly. Even studio quality audio interfaces that are DSP comtrolled will need only relatively small amounts of RAM; relatively slow memory for variable space and slightly faster mem for buffering. Both in the megabyte range and far from the speed that GPUs or AI require.

Serves you right, Amazon victims. I hope your lords and masters at Amazon will spray you orange and force you eat lukewarm oysters in public by the dozen for only $999/month. And you’ll be grateful, because you love to be fleeced. Also, it’s basically a bargain and your neighbours don’t have it!

The reality is by far not so simple but just as ugly.

I know. I just had become lazy enough to take the daily notification’s subject line (“backup4l has run successfully”) as evidence that everything was OK. If I had looked inside the bloody mail I’d have notices that the backup’s size was 0B all the time because my self-rolled XZ-compression script failed to add data to the archives it “successfully” created. That’s what I meant with “re-testing” - I should better have written “re-validate”. My unforgiveable fault was not to look directly at the generated archives after changing the compression from bz2 to xz. Which was pretty pointless anyway as it turned out.

…and don’t forget re-testing your backups regularily. I had a really good backup strategy on my Loonix machine. Automatic (or it won’t be done), tested, fool proof. When I somehow crashed a somewhat complex encrypted LVM array while swapping HDDs against SSDs, I had to recover from backup. Unfortunately I had become a better fool than I was when I set up backup4l. I had changed the compression algo, made a tiny mistate in the config and failed to realize that for six months I had been storing empty backups every day. Outch.

Years ago I tried to use the WIndows backup app to back up my system disk to a tape streamer. (Magnetic tapes were and still are useful as long term backup.) Result was a backup you coulndn’t recover. I don’t know what exactly was on the tape but it couldn’t be read back. Tried the same with a harddisk, same result. I’ve since then used various external backup tools that had no problem creating backups that you actually can recover from, never looked back at MS backup. You just can’t trust Microsoft to store any important data. You can only be sure they’ll fuck up sooner or later and take things in you own hands.

they saw the fire start in the basement section of the club after a bottle containing “birthday candles” was held up too close to the wooden ceiling.

Fuck. I bet it was flimsy wooden panels (a solid wooden floor construction would not catch fire from candles that easily) in a club. Killing dozens for a bit of “rural atmosphere” without thinking of the fire hazard. Whatever idiot came up with that idea is going to pay dearly for it. Criminal idiocy and a total disregard for building and safety codes - still much too common everywhere.

Me walking up to you

And whisper in your eager ear

You whisper back to me

And he begins to see, he feels the claw is near

Certainly nöt.

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Very funny… Yäääh! Shabb nigurath… wrdlbrmbfd,