That has nothing to do with what’s happening. Twitter can’t be fucked to appoint a legal team to comply with Brazilian law, so they don’t get to operate there. Simple as.

That is a rad *fetch image 😎

Yeah. Piracy is alive-and-well. You can even acquire and play PS5 games right now if you wanted to.

It’s also worth noting that even Sony can’t be bothered to properly emulate the PS3, which has resulted in many PS3-era games being remade into either native PC versions, or PS4/5 titles.

While it’s true that there are still some PS3-exclusive games that aren’t available in other formats, many of them are, so most people can get pretty far without needing PS3 emulation.

I only bring that up for anyone that may think they need PS3 emulation, but maybe haven’t been made aware of newer remakes or native PC ports of the games they’re actually looking for.

God damn it.

Eww… You’re right. What a waste.

Article text because I was getting an “access denied” when trying to read it initially:

Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday.

“We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it’s 700 years before we run out of land,” Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics show on Sunday.

“The limiting factor is water.”                                   

The front lines of the crisis is the Rio Grande Valley, where international disputes, declining groundwater, over-pumping from big agricultural growers and — above all — a deteriorating climate has eroded the ability of Texas’ Winter Garden to produce fruits and vegetables amid broader fears of cities in the state running out of water.

“We’re out of water, especially in the Rio Grande Valley,” Miller told WFAA “Our tomato production in the Valley is just about gone.”

“They usually grow five crops of vegetables in that area,” he added. Now “they have enough water to grow one. So, our production’s down 80 percent And it’s all about water.”

Meanwhile, in the West Texas town of Pecos, once known for its melons, “you can’t get a Pecos cantaloupe anymore,” Miller said. “The wells are dry out there. You can’t find one anymore because the farmers are gone. There’s no water. They had to leave.”

Miller spoke to WFAA weeks after state lawmakers, policymaker and water experts from the state’s constellation of water conservations districts found massive shortfalls between state water spending and the scale of the onrushing crisis, as KAMR reported.

While the state passed $1 billion for the Texas Water Fund in 2023, the amount needed to overhaul the state’s water infrastructure sufficient to head off shortages is estimated to be more like $80 billion, per KAMR.

Even if the state were sufficiently funding its water plans, it would be running a 2.4 million acre-foot-per-year deficit, Sen. Charles Perry (R) said at the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts meeting last month.

That’s more than the entire 2 million acre-foot volume of the Highland Lakes system that the city of Austin depends on.

With state spending “a drop in the bucket, no pun intended,” Perry said last month, the true shortfall was more like 10 – 12 million acre-feet per year.

In his interview on Sunday, Miller called on Texas legislators to act to ensure the state water supply holds. He called on the oil and gas industry to stop using potable water for fracking and on city and state officials to embrace reuse and desalination.

But as reporting from KAMR noted, the ability of the state legislature to pass anything next session will be handicapped by the vicious inter- and intra-partisan fights — starting with the hyper-contentious proxy war for the House speakership.

With the state’s legislature increasingly acrimonious, and longtime moderate Republican House leaders on complex water issues retiring amid the infighting that followed the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, passing serious legislation will be a challenge, Sarah Kirkle of the Texas Water Conservation Association said last month, KAMR reported.

“The vibe,” Kirkle added, “is not great.”

The boss makes a dollar,

I make a dime,

That’s why I poo on company time

Yes. The US is also authoritarian. Yes, there is a clear media bias when it comes to the headlines that western media outlets are willing to run. In particular, painting non-western countries as more authoritarian than the US (which is sometimes true).

It’s valuable to point this out. Dog knows the shitty media bias bots used in other communities won’t.

However, the overall tone of your comment seems to suggest that it’s okay for non-western governments to do authoritarian bullshit, just because the US does. I trust that wasn’t the point of your comment, but I assume that’s why some may not take kindly to it.

For what it’s worth: my instance disables down votes, so I literally can’t down vote posts I disagree with.

Why Haptic

We built Haptic to make markdown writing simpler and more accessible. We believe that many existing editors are too complex for simple use cases and day-to-day note writing, so we decided to fix that.

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1. Ready to Use: Open Haptic and start writing. No setup needed.

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3. Write Anywhere: Use Haptic on any computer with internet. Great for public or work computers where you can’t download software.

4. Made for Everyone: If other editors feel overwhelming, you’ll like Haptic.

5. Open Source: Self-host your own instance, giving you full control over your setup.

Haptic is all about making writing easier. We’ve left out extra features to keep things simple and help you get your ideas down without fuss.

Note: If you’re looking for a markdown editor with plugin systems, complex setups, or feature-packed interfaces, Haptic might not be for you. But if you want something straightforward that just works, give Haptic a try!

When people hear the concept of thought crimes described to them, they rightfully recoil in disgust at that kind of dystopic idea. However, euphemize the concept as intellectual property, and for some reason, most people are fine with it.

Silly question: what’s the difference between the otf and ttf fonts?

Edit: thanks for the explainers!

I know a bunch of people that own Steam Decks, know nothing about Linux, and have no idea that their games are running on it. I’d say it’s pretty easy now

“Karen compiler” is almost perfect, except unlike Karens, the compiler is delightfully helpful with the error messages it gives you (usually). It usually gives a straightforward error, an error code, and sometimes, an easy fix.

As someone that started with Rust, but just yesterday had to fix some C++ code, working with any other compiled language makes me shudder. I have nothing but respect for devs that have to wade through stuff like that.

Lula is so fucking great. He’s literally just backing up the courts that are applying the law fairly and as-written, which is more than I can say for most leaders.

Just don’t ls /dev/loop* 🫣

I just pre-ordered five of these. lol. Thanks for the rec. Wendell from Level1Techs always has his eye on the coolest stuff.

I’d love some suggestions. I have a 1440p 32:9 monitor that can act as separate displays, but since Synergy, input-leap, and the other software KVMs don’t work on Wayland, I’m having a bad time :(

If anyone has a referral code they’d like to share for jmp.chat, please DM me 🥺

Fuck sites that do that.

Here you go:

Ukraine carried out one of the largest-ever drone attacks against Moscow on Wednesday, as Kyiv continues to launch counter-offensives on Russian soil.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed 45 Ukrainian drones overnight, of which 11were over Moscow, according to a Google-translated update on Telegram.

“This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever. We continue to monitor the situation,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a separate Google-translated Telegram post, after assessing the strikes resulted in “no damage or casualties at the site of the fall of the debris” in earlier updates reporting the offensives.

Some of the drones were neutralized over Podolsk, a nearby city south of Moscow, the official added. Citing Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya, state news agency Tass said in a Google-translated report that airports in the Moscow region resumed regular operations after restrictions were briefly introduced during the night.

CNBC has reached out to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment.

The done offensive took place just as Russian President Vladimir Putin carried out his first trip in 13 years to Chechnya to inspect local troops and volunteers prepared to participate in the war against Kyiv, according to a Google-translated Kremlin readout.

Ukraine weathered its own barrage of aerial attacks, with the country’s air force saying it destroyed 50 out of 69 Russian-launched drones overnight, in its latest Google-translated report.

CNBC could not independently verify either set of developments on the ground.

The tides of the Russia-Ukraine war, largely carried out through artillery and drone advances, changed earlier this month, when Ukraine pivoted into the counter-offensive with a surprise cross-border incursion on Russian territory.

In the more than two years since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Kiyv has notched less frequent military attempts against the capital of Moscow, instead focusing its firepower on the airfields and oil facilities of the world’s second-largest oil exporter. The counter-offensive has also raised questions of a potential impact on flows through the Soviet-era Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline that deliveries gas from west Siberia through the Sudzha hub in the Kursk region, before crossing into Ukraine and flowing toward Slovakia.

The incursion has likewise further slimmed the odds of a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Russia has previously conditioned its willingness to join the talks table on its ability to retain four Ukrainian territories it illegally annexed since its invasion. Kyiv has repeatedly said it will not concede territory.

Moscow is now unlikely to fall in the “negotiation trap” following Ukraine’s attack on the Kursk region, according to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“No more negotiations until the enemy is completely defeated!” he urged in a Google-translated Telegram post.