No shit. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones & Company - a division of News Corp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

No.

According to @rtxn@lemmy.world:

It gets better. PowerShell 5, which is still the default installation on Windows 11, aliases `curl` and `wget` to `Invoke-WebRequest`. The fucked-up part is that Win11 includes the real `curl` too, but the alias shadows it, and you have to use `curl.exe`. The even more fucked-up part is that `Invoke-WebRequest` **still uses Internet Explorer** to parse the result, and will panic if `-UseBasicParsing` is not passed every time, or IE isn’t installed and initialized. I used to develop applications in PowerShell. I still wear the mental scars.

My Motorola has this by default, buried in Settings > Security > More security settings > Network protection.

AFAIK, you need to use seperate drives and install the OSes in such a way that each drive has its own EFI partition. (Installing with the other drive disconnected is the easy way.) Then only use your UEFI boot selection menu to choose which drive to boot from.

https://github.com/Bladez1992/LTSConvert

See also: US Gov’t taking a stake in Intel.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/talks-are-reportedly-underway-for-the-us-gov-to-take-a-stake-in-intel-and-its-share-price-has-already-jumped-7-percent-in-response/

I’m guessing that PCs preloaded with Windows 12 will have locked bootloaders.

Big tech scandal, political scandal, policing scandal… 95% of them end the same way.

“We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”

It turns out that there isn’t one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.

Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks

It is highly unlikely you will be able to hear a difference.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/MP3

If you have golden ears or are just that worried, why not use a lossless codec like flac?

The case.

Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.

There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.

The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.

I got to meet Legaia’s creator Hidenori Shibao. He also created Lennus (“Paladin’s Quest” that I enjoyed on SNES in my youth) and its sequel.

The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?

Huh.

Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.

https://www.npr.org/donations/support

It’s lemmy.ml that censors it. I see it just fine here.

Castle Adventure

I played this on a Visual Commuter (with no LCD?). Amber monitor with nice long phosphor persistence. My grandmother loved to point out the typos… “You are in a Cooridor.”

Zelda, meet Jelda. (Her shirt is JEANS!)