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Cake day: August 17th, 2024

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  • In response to “will Trump roll it back?”

    According to Daniel, “most of those people would look at it and say, ‘Okay, we may not be excited about it, but why roll it back? Because most of what it tries to do is pretty nonpartisan or bipartisan. And if you roll it back, then you’re leaving yourself open to, ‘so why did you get rid of it?”‘

    Because logic and Trumpian Republicans mix even less well than oil and water. They also tend to have severe cases of “not invented here” syndrome. They’ll make a big deal about rolling “the incompetent piece of crap” back, change three words and the title, then claim how much better their version is.


  • Rapid7‘s Adam Barnett says January marks the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of publication. Today also saw the publication of nine critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.

    Man, I hope this doesn’t mean they’re trying to avoid looking bad by not publicizing severe issues. This is not an area where politics should prevail - it’ll only be far worse in the end.


  • I, too, was anticipating some relationship to the arcade classic, but that game’s over four decades old at this point so I can’t say it’s surprising that’s not the case. The younger male audience this obviously targets would have no recollection of that game.

    Frankly, this title seems perfectly timed for the mindset of self-righteous & revenge-upon-my-perceived-enemies-minded (no matter how inaccurate that may be in our current “post-truth” reality) right-wing audiences. It’ll unfortunately probably do well, but not due to the likes of us.






  • SanctimoniousApetoProton @lemmy.worldProton CEO goes full MAGA
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    That’s in large part because the market has been engineered to force that on a lot of people. There’s exceedingly few alternatives that aren’t evil, and those few that exist are comparatively quite expensive to choose - especially at a time when much of the public doesn’t get paid enough anymore to be able to afford that choice.