https://www.londonsecuritycollege.co.uk/wrongly-accused-of-stealing/

Sounds like they have a case.

'Trumpler" is his name here

1. Provide a good and cheap service.
2. Improve the service over time with some of the money you make.
3. Make pro-consumer choices knowing full well you can afford it.
4. ???
5. Watch competition repeatedly shoot itself in the crotch.
6. Profit.

If you made the same thing with operating systems it’d just be a 20 pages of Microsoft shooting itself while Apple hits some crack in the background. All this being watched by a swarm of penguins eating popcorn.

I wish I had the artistic talent to make this.

Keep them coming - I love to see things like this on my feed. Keep up the good work!

Invest in academia, get the best new tech.

This is not surprising - the west has some serious university investment to do if it wants to catch up!

Let $\mu(x)=0$ if $\exists y<x\mu(y)=0$ or $x$ is the 20 millionth prime. $\mu(x)=\mu(x+1)+1$ otherwise. The elements of the sequence only become defined once the 20 millionth prime is found; till then they’ve yet to be constructed.

Bonus: The sequence $\nu$ is defined as follows.

Let $\nu(x)=0$ if $\exists y\leq x\mu(y)$ is perfect. $\nu(x)=\nu(x+1)+1$ otherwise.

We’re not sure if this is a sequence, even though it is algorithmically definable. Its existence relies on the existence of an odd perfect number.

It’s possible to define an infinite sequence whose nth term must exist before it’s first.

Tap water anywhere near London.

It’s like drinking chalk.

Ah yes, the “delete system32 to free up space” of the modern era.

And here we see copyrighta blightus, the copyblight firm to the rest of us, looking to expand it’s territory.

This species is, of course, an invader to the quiet widely watched waves; an invasive element that can, and will, upset the local ecosystem.

If you listen closely, you can hear the call of these parasites; it sounds a little like “you wouldn’t steal a car”.

Very different game (if you’ve played the pathfinder games, it’s a similar feel).

Honestly, my memory is too rose tinted to offer an honest review on bg1 and bg2… They were amazing for their time, and have aged well in my elderly opinion.

They’re less dialogue driven than bg3 (planescape torment will scratch that itch), and a bit less forgiving, but they’re damn good fun!

So, this might not be the great news folks think it is…

I own a bunch of ancient freeholds (“peppercorn rents”), so I keep track mostly for folks looking to develop the land (I.e. buy the land off me).

Recently, a lot of rented houses got sold, and bought up by “property management” companies.

This appears to be a consolidation rather than a capitulation sadly. The properties are going under the umbrella of larger firms with better lawyers.

Those parents would be really angry if they could read.

Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields…

A lot of games wear “lovecraftian horror” on their sleeve - they borrow some squid monsters and a wobbly screen effect for a sanity meter and call it a day.

Darkest dungeon does not do this - its mechanics are all geared towards creating tense moments of player fear; the slowly unwinding story played blind gives a feeling of genuine cosmic unease. It embodies Lovecraftian horror in a videogame - not the cheap jumpscare, but that ever lingering unease at a universe that cares not (the rng in this game specifically hates you, but will rarely surprise you with a genuine miracle).

This is a game heavily refined over years with outstanding visuals and audio - the storytelling has a genuinely organic feel. It even runs on a potato; there is only one bit of bad news really…

Ruin has come to our family.

“Pay or Ok”

The latest scummy tactic of news sites; this started shortly after the ruling that reposting their content was grounds for a DMCA strike.

Oh no…

“Amazon grade” made me laugh - though the reality is a bit closer to “Alibaba Roulette”.

I think the stigma still holds, mostly because a lot of Chinese goods exported to the west have planned obsolescence baked in.

This is largely because this is the manufacturing trend worldwide, not because Chinese fabrication is inherently bad. In effect, the world got enshittified while China was holding the “make all the things” card, so any improvements in their manufacturing are likely overlooked.

Now, as to who is at fault for the enshittification; this remains an open question to explore case by case. In some cases, it’s just capitalism at pay (lowest bidder giving lowest quality), in others it’s a slightly more sinister bid for future business by ensuring repeat customers down the line, in others (rarer by far) the hands that rule dictate.