Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.
One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can’t swoop in and yoink anything available.
This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is “safe”.
This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.
OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?
Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.
Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.
Not very RHELAIable, you say?
Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port
Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)
I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).
I’d say that’s credentialed enough.
I too wish he did more complex stuff.
The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.
Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?
About 2 years ago I wondered the same, so I collected a bunch of data (of ‘who worked on which game’) and used D3.js to make a graph thingy:
Downside: It’s up to Shadowlands, not Dragonflight; Also, the few little circles pulled more left are mentioned multiple times in the same Credits, just under different roles.
The thick green circle is Customer Support (though this was before the mass-layoff by MS).
Live version here, but it’s SUPER janky - changing selections will generate a new graph lower down the page.
Raw JSON data here - I had to install Retail WoW (F2P is good enough), dig into the game files to find the .html files that contained the credits and then convert that whole pile of doodoo into JSON.
I haven’t used 8GB since… 2008 or so? TBF, I’m a power user (as are most people on any Lemmy instance, I presume), but still…
And sure, Mac OS presumably uses less RAM than Windows, but all the applications don’t.
I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.
Linux or bust, babyyyyyy
Digg used to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603035130/http://digg.com/
They updated it to this: https://web.archive.org/web/20101231083935/http://digg.com/news
And basically reduced the amount of user-content, to promote… their own stuff? I don’t remember what they replaced it with. Users got pissed; left for Reddit.
Now it looks like a typical corporate website: https://digg.com/
It’s “XCOM” nowadays. Since 2012, really.
FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend
add “before:2023” to your search query
Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.
rockstar
We fixed that one: https://codewithrockstar.com/
It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.
Nix! Just being able to run
nix-env -i gitand get a newer, isolated, git installation on an older Debian is very nice. Makes it easy to remove.I can also do
nix-shell -p <application I want to try out>if I want to test stuff out.I’ve been able to ignore the Nix language pretty well so far, so no incredibly steep learning curve quite yet. Nix OS is still too spoopy for me.