Often the person who collects the cash is ALSO being controlled by the scammer.

Yeah, it’s the ‘Application’ wallpapers which are the attack vector here.

Hardly surprising that malware peeps would be all over it

This isn’t steam wallpapers, it’s Windows wallpapers for the Wallpaper Engine application distributed via Steam Workshop.

The author saying it themselves sounds absolutely dickish to be honest, like “heyy check out this smart detail I added that probably none of you noticed!”

It’s very vain.

My friend asked why I’m looking both ways before crossing when it’s a one-way street.

Same deal. It’s legally one-way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some impatient dickhead blasting down it the wrong way regardless.

First rule of road safety (as either a pedestrian or a driver) is to assume everyone else on the road is an absolute moron with no ability to drive.

I freely formed the considered personal opinion that driving through a red light is a bad idea.

If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

Exactly, right!

As a FOSS person you don’t buy a used PC from someone, find it still has an OS installed and just start using it.

No, you wipe that sucker clean and install your OS fresh.

An open-source car would be exactly the same.

Good.

Please hurry up and make your browser unusable so more people will finally get the kick up the ass they need to move away from it.

Honestly I don’t get what is taking people so long.

Active income, as it were.

It may have felt like that, but I will trust the numbers from the company whose function heavily involves monitoring this stuff.

Tinkering is fun when your actual goal is to tinker.

But when your goal is to get work done then the machine is just a tool, and there is nothing more frustrating than a broken tool.

Always true, in music and in everything else too.

They said 40, not fucking 70

It’s even better than that - for them.

With this bill the legislation is effectively now on the books but in a dormant state where it can be selectively activated at any future time and with whatever scope the ‘working group’ decide.

For what it’s worth, this doesn’t sound quite as stupid in Japanese.

An ideal translation would be like:

“What’s ‘Swiftness’?”

“It’s an attack that that increases your Pokemon’s speed!”

But of course the already-established English translation of the move is not Swiftness but Extreme Speed and that’s what the translators had to use and so they both sound like idiots

That’s the worst part of USB, but it’s also simultaneously the best part.

You can connect a cable to that HDD, and if the cable fits you’ll get something. Might not be the best something; could be super slow and awful. But it will be something. And that’s a reassuring capability.

Despite all its problems, USB and especially USB-C have been a blessing.

The only “review” that Spotify will understand.

What are they supposed to do? RAM and storage prices are hardly factors in Valve’s control

I think you have identified the issue. It’s not doctors being rubbish or vindictive, it’s the system which contols those doctors trying to maximise profit (or minimise cost).

Doctors are an expensive resource, which means the system will invariably trend towards keeping them utilised 100% of the time. So we get back-to-back appointments with zero slack, and if customers have to wait then so be it.

And they can get away with it because healthcare isn’t like a cup of coffee. You can’t just go down the street to a different place. Providers know that changing doctor takes time (if it’s even possible for you at all) and so they aren’t incentivised to care about the patient’s waiting time much at all.