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haunter··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
What happened to Ubuntu Core Desktop the snap-only atomic version?
haunter··on Pirating the Pirates
> Movies and especially TV shows on the other hand are a mess. It shouldn't be a miracle to get a high-quality, faithful official remaster like the one Star Trek: TNG got.

TV shows are even worse because of the soundtrack.

Oh you watched this show with the iconic soundtrack? Too bad it's only available on the VHS release from 1995, they couldn't get the rights anymore so here is the same show but worse with different music

Even video games are not exempt from that. GTA games has tons of music removed from the radios with later digital re-releases so currently the original console disc versions are the only way to play the games as they were released back then https://www.reddit.com/r/GTATrilogy/comments/1gsqdc5/what_so...

haunter··on An airport cooled by natural ventilation
Cheapest and most damaging recreational drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant
haunter··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
Taking a walk

Taking a walk in Japan

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan

Also, https://files.catbox.moe/ol3dtx.jpg

haunter··on Is A.I. Above the Law?
No but companies are

Download a book and you are a thief

Download 1 million books and you are OpenAI

Or another beautiful recent example:

"Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John Doe’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive" https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolifi...

>Last summer, the company took aim at a much larger target. Together with Counterlife Media, Strike 3 sued Meta, accusing the tech giant of downloading thousands of its films via BitTorrent to train AI models. With 2,973 films at stake, the case could be worth up to $446 million.

>According to a motion filed last week, an anonymous pirate behind a residential AT&T connection is an executive at Meta’s Reality Labs division, which develops the Quest VR headsets.

>After AT&T shared the information, Strike 3 says its investigation revealed that the subscriber is an executive in Meta’s Reality Labs division. Citing his LinkedIn profile, the company notes that he has worked at Facebook and Meta for more than a decade.

haunter··on Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
Honestly I just loathe korean tech. I still don't get what makes korean brands _extra_ shitty. Like these dark patterns are all over the world but somehow korean brands crank it up to one more level.
haunter··on I said no and Apple said yes
“Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787535

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1vlnf13/workarou...

haunter··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Yet by the active unique user numbers they have estimated sold at least ~168k copies and maybe upwards ~500k https://steamdb.info/app/280680/charts/ And that's Steam alone. I'd be really curious compared to this how many people click on the Donate button on the Krita homepage.

That's a lot of purchases imo for a project like this. I'm kind of ambivalent about the store cuts but they give a huge enough exposure to any game or software.

haunter··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
I'm not sure it fits the free and/or libre software philosophy but I'm a big fan of releasing otherwise free and open source software as a paid version and with some exclusive QoL features in proprietary store fronts.

For example Krita. https://krita.org/en/download/ FOSS but you can buy it on Steam, Microsoft Store, Epic Store, and Apple Store. You get one exclusive feature, automatic updates (and more recently Steam Cloud sync support), and you also support the developers (on the other hand Valve, MS, Epic, and Apple also gets a cut too).

If you read for example the Steam reviews everyone points out that it's a free software but buying on Steam is also a good and very importantly straightforward way to support the devs + the platform itself has such a pull ("buying games you never play") that people buy it just for the case of having it in their library

https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita

haunter··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Last I've tried iCloud Drive is not preserving file attributes especially if you want to use it cross OS between Mac and Windows. Dropbox does.
haunter··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
https://diffviewer.vercel.app/v2/diff?id=diff-94626646216089...

https://github.com/technikhil314/offline-diff-viewer

haunter··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Diffchecker for the save

https://www.diffchecker.com/QD8AKShC/

haunter··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
>She has a rape kink

That's enough internet for today, back to playing video games

haunter··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Wonder how does Morocco feel about this becasue they applied to be an actual full memeber before s and they are geographically closer too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93European_Union...

haunter··on Number of 100 year olds in Japan top 100k for first time
88% of those are women
haunter··on Linux from Scratch
The last release of the no longer maintained sysvinit version is here (the default is systemd now) https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.4/
haunter··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
Great news: SteamOS running on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, ARM64

Bad news: I'm poor. Just wish I had pocket money for niche products like this.

haunter··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
Same
haunter··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
That really depends on the kind of games you play. There are plenty of 0 hand holding games which are respecting your intelligence and also challenging enough
haunter··on Logo Programming Language
This has to be one of the most widely ported language of them all because there are countless implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)#Im...

310 versions!! https://pavel.it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/logotree/pdf/LogoTree.pdf

haunter··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/james-franco-first-time
haunter··on How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread
Reading through this page...

Does anyone know if the technique mentioned by the earlier Aerated Bread Company still exist today? Like can you buy a bread somewhere made with the technology. No yeast but using carbon dioxide? Sounds like the irish soda bread, so not fermentation by yeast but chemical leavening. But surely they are different because the irish soda bread is dense whereas the Aerated bread sounds like something more fluffy. Googling around I couldn't find a photo how did this bread look like.

haunter··on Geekbench 6: Apple A20 Pro vs. A19 Pro
All this performance just to watch TikTok videos
haunter··on List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
HN trunks the url

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_...

haunter··on Stockfish 19
The GUI page is a bit out of date imo, or I'm not sure how does the selection work because there are countles GUI options nowadays. Anyways some of the best options are not even mentioned like

Nocheto https://nocheto.sallyx.org/ (this my favorite)

ChessMD https://chessmd.org/

PyChess https://pychess.github.io/about/

haunter··on CAA statement on passenger compensation following NATS disruption on 8 September
>We consider that disruption caused by the NATS outage is likely to be considered the result of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ under passenger rights rules. This means that although passengers should be looked after by airlines, they are unlikely to be entitled to compensation for delays or cancellations that were directly caused by the incident.

What a surprise lol

haunter··on iPhone Duo
The new iPhone Duo in single screen mode is the same size (5.4") as the iPhone 13 mini but with a different aspect ratio

https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2026-09-09/f-bf86c6f5adb3...

haunter··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
The new iPhone Duo in single screen mode is the same size (5.4") as the iPhone 13 mini but with a different aspect ratio

https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2026-09-09/f-bf86c6f5adb3...

haunter··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
Download a book and you are a thief

Download 1 million books and you are OpenAI

haunter··on SEGA president says there's been a rise in "fans who don't play the games"
tbh Sonic is a perfect case for this, he is almost like a bigger toy brand and movie character than a video game character
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