The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
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Comment on Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome in ~tech
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Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered - performance benchmarks in ~games
macleod Link Parentthis seems to be a popular case, especially for a game considered iconic and legendary, I have started it (own it multiple times), and have nearly reached the end,and stopped multiple times since...I still have never finished this game.
this seems to be a popular case, especially for a game considered iconic and legendary, I have started it (own it multiple times), and have nearly reached the end,and stopped multiple times since its release. Not quite sure why, always enjoyed it, never had problems, and loved the story and gameplay.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
macleod LinkTo put it simply: A lot of low-sodium (tastes better!) fried spam and grilled pineapple. A lot of it. Nearly daily. Wonderful stuff. I think the last time I answered this a few months back it was...To put it simply: A lot of low-sodium (tastes better!) fried spam and grilled pineapple. A lot of it. Nearly daily. Wonderful stuff. I think the last time I answered this a few months back it was spam musabi, I guess this is the year of spam for me.
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Comment on Do you think you're special? in ~talk
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Comment on Wendy's - Songs to Listen to in a Wendy's Parking Lot (2026) in ~music
macleod Link ParentIf you're into that, then you need to listen to Sunrise Skater Kids, a skatepunk/pop punk satire that is almost better than some of the best. Love All The Old Things.Canadian Softball
If you're into that, then you need to listen to Sunrise Skater Kids, a skatepunk/pop punk satire that is almost better than some of the best. Love All The Old Things.
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Comment on Wendy's - Songs to Listen to in a Wendy's Parking Lot (2026) in ~music
macleod LinkBack in the day we would have called this "selling out".Back in the day we would have called this "selling out".
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Comment on Do you think you're special? in ~talk
macleod (edited )LinkOf course, and if you don't then you're not human (and that makes you quite special).Of course, and if you don't then you're not human (and that makes you quite special).
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Comment on Savant - Fantastique (2018 Remaster) in ~music
macleod Link ParentNo one specific, just listening to more varied music, a lot of 1970s space/thrash rock, digital ambience and berlin school, black metal, and grunge. All of it though, in that same baroque,...No one specific, just listening to more varied music, a lot of 1970s space/thrash rock, digital ambience and berlin school, black metal, and grunge.
All of it though, in that same baroque, theatrical, operatic style that Savant used to primarily make.
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Comment on Savant - Fantastique (2018 Remaster) in ~music
macleod LinkI legitimately consider Aleksander Vinter (Savant) as one of the greatest living composers, yes he primarily makes baroque dubstep, but his composition and design (and output! he used to put out...I legitimately consider Aleksander Vinter (Savant) as one of the greatest living composers, yes he primarily makes baroque dubstep, but his composition and design (and output! he used to put out 4+ albums a year) is prolific and deeply unique and original.
I have been listening to him since he was Vinter in Vegas/Hollywood and he was by far my most listened to artist for the past
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Comment on ‘We hacked the FBI:’ hackers say they have data on all FBI employees in ~society
macleod Link ParentThis feels like such a throwback to the LulzSec/AntiSec and #OWS/#Occupy Anonymous days.This feels like such a throwback to the LulzSec/AntiSec and #OWS/#Occupy Anonymous days.
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Comment on The invention of the MMO in ~games
macleod LinkI love that they did a deeper look into Habitat, moreso than any other articles I've read on this subject, and yet I am still disappointed they didn't include any references to the...I love that they did a deeper look into Habitat, moreso than any other articles I've read on this subject, and yet I am still disappointed they didn't include any references to the story/capabilities/features of Habitat that were a direct inspiration for the fictional "Community" featured as a main point (and practically character) during Halt & Catch Fire S02.
Then again, I consider H&CF one of the greatest shows ever created and have watched it near a dozen times, so that might just be my angle to possibly bringing more people to appreciate that Lee Pace-led incredible show.
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The invention of the MMO
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Comment on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis in ~tech
macleod Link Parentye olde blogroll over at blogroll.org has recently lead to some very interesting sites for me this week, such as this one i posted on here.ye olde blogroll over at blogroll.org has recently lead to some very interesting sites for me this week, such as this one i posted on here.
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Comment on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis in ~tech
macleod (edited )LinkThe same issue affecting the wikis affected me, when I switched to macleod.ee from macleodsawyer.com it would not add the sites, except for my index page. Nothing else would come up, even if I set...The same issue affecting the wikis affected me, when I switched to macleod.ee from macleodsawyer.com it would not add the sites, except for my index page. Nothing else would come up, even if I set up a 301 redirect on the old domain, explicitly added it to their search console, etc.
I eventually shifted back to the OG domain as it was registered far before the new age cap for content pages, new pages show up within a day or so. Just an overall very strange and abusive system for them to integrate.
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Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life
macleod Link Parent+ in the drier with a damp sock/rag does wonders.+ in the drier with a damp sock/rag does wonders.
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Comment on Marginalia Search is an independent, open source, keyword-based Internet search engine with its own crawler operating out of Sweden in ~tech
macleod Link Parentthey were decent results, but not all time; they are now adequate for a reasonable number of searches. decent being that that were decent enough to use for some limited things, adequate for now...they were decent results, but not all time; they are now adequate for a reasonable number of searches.
decent being that that were decent enough to use for some limited things, adequate for now being decent enough more regularly.
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Comment on What are the genuinely worst films of all time? in ~movies
macleod (edited )Link ParentConsidering that the satellite crashes and allows them to create a world free of crony capitalism, where no one has to work through automation, everyone has a place to live, and they live within...When an American city is destroyed by a Soviet satellite [..] there a rather unsubtle message about socialism?
Considering that the satellite crashes and allows them to create a world free of crony capitalism, where no one has to work through automation, everyone has a place to live, and they live within organic homes, where "everyone can have a home and no one must be homeless", I would say that is not a capitalistic-positive film. The entire film is about the warts and cancer that is capitalism, media, and wealth.
a true pioneer who would fix the whole world if only everybody just listened to him.
This is just 'he's the main character' sort of thing who was bestowed upon the gift of being able to see the literal future and being given the elixir/material of construction from the gods for having his wife taken back to the world of the gods.
he has his fridged wife who dies before it starts, his mistress whose sole motivation is that she loves him, his new wife who has a baby and then stops having opinions, and the singer who falsely accuses him of rape.
His wife wasn't fridged, she was taken back to the underworld for being about to give birth to a half-human-half-god, which in classical roman mythology is a huge thing to not ever let happen. She was a god/angel who was stuck in purgatory for her love for him and the mortal plane. His mistress (not really a mistress though, more like an ex-girlfriend) doesn't really love him, she loves power and the media, which is why she was a sensationalist media journalist, the spotlight, and with her lover in the spotlight and able to have the literal gift of seeing the future and making time stop, she sees him as the best way for ultimate power. His wife doesn't stop having opinions? It is very clear she helped define quite a lot about his design and usage of the material, and that she was a leading member of the design team even when they began courting and after. I am truly not sure how you see her character arc as anything but her standing for her own opinions, against her father, against her mother, against even her husband. The singer never said he raped her, she was a pop star whose whole thing was "she was a teenage virgin", well turned out she wasn't a teenager (25), nor a virgin, and the video that was leaked and broadcasted with her with Adam Driver was consensual, that was the entire thing - the fakeness that is the concept of 'virginity' and how selling it to the public is a lie, worthless, and demeaning to others.
The movie is about media, appearances, and the abuse of the wealth of power, how the most powerful aim for power and control over the needs of the people.
Coppola be making a statement about how he sees cancel culture as women tearing down powerful men? Could this sentiment be reflected in the film's casting of Shia LaBeouf?
Considering the fault of 'who' tore down all these people is the people themselves, not women, even Shia's character was about his want and needs for power and spectacle and power led directly to him starting a movement he didn't truly believe in, caused death and carnage that he didn't approve of, and led directly to his death, is a rather apt indictment that 'being cancelled' laid not at the hands of women, but on the people who perpetrated the obscenities.
The entire movie was about how the rich and powerful neglect the people and their needs, and how they should be removed so that the people can have infrastructure, care, leadership that actually helps the people, and not the rich.
the dismissal of common people as Nazi immigrants
The only people who were the 'nazi' immigrants were the red-hatted (MAGA) spartans, and it was clear they were just an incredibly violent, loud, minority of people, not all common people. They were such a minority that there were counter-protests throughout the film that dwarfed them at events. I saw them more a commentary as "practically all of are are immigrants here in america, and yet even while we are immigrants, many of us have a grotesque ironic hatred for those that came after us as immigrants".
I feel like we have seen entirely different films, again if you have this much to say and think about the film, then you should watch it a second time - the movie is very quite different than what you are describing.
Again: This is why I believe this movie is going to be a cult classic and have a long lifetime, it has a lot of moving parts and a lot of discussions may be borne from it. It's interesting to try to see the movie on first watch to what you took from it, in fact I thought the same on many topics on the first watch.
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Comment on Sublime - F.T.R (2026) in ~music
macleod LinkJust continually impresses me that 1) he has the emotional ability to take over for his died who passed from a heron overdose when he was less than a year old and 2) that he sounds practically...Just continually impresses me that 1) he has the emotional ability to take over for his died who passed from a heron overdose when he was less than a year old and 2) that he sounds practically identical, and that the rest of the band still sounds the same.
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Sublime - F.T.R (2026)
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If only the design was novel or even good. Hell, their sidebar is still massively under featured after all these years and customizing the UI continues to be incredibly antagonistic of the community. I maintain a fairly popular sidebar theme (using Sidebery) for tree style tabs, and the amount of hacks, and their constant weird HTML-like XML/CSS UI that is constantly changing is incredibly annoying.
Someone seriously needs to fork Firefox, ditch all UI, all of the internal networking stack, just rely on cURL (like LadyBird) and use gecko for the rendering, nd you could have a shot at doing something interesting - but they (as a company) work so hard to make embedding gecko so incredibly convoluted and impossible to keep market cap, that no wonder no one can iterate on their engine beyond small UI changes every few years that were obviously not thoughtfully designed.
Additionally, it's not the UI design that keeps people from using it - it's the fact that they hide all their best features in never ending menus and they can't seem to focus on one thing and make it understandably good. Container tabs is one of those, it's brilliant! Wonderful! And yet it's usage, understanding, setup, is so horribly complicated that no one who is a lay person would even know what it is.
Their mobile apps (because of the failure to allow easily embedded gecko) are absolutely lacking. The design gets worse every year, they have support for extensions but they don't market that, and they are terrified of bringing anything useful to the mobile web.
Mozilla is the only thing that is holding mozilla back.