The Communication Cube

[JDTAY]

There’s a Player’s Voice award at The Game Awards that I don’t have a problem with. I just wish they’d keep the players out of the main awards. The third round of voting is underway, and the field has been whittled down from 30 games to five. The finalists are:
Sonic Frontiers
Elden Ring
Genshin Impact
God of War: Ragnarök
Stray

You can vote in Player’s Voice here:

The Game Awards

Check out the nominees for PLAYERS’ VOICE at TheGameAwards.com. Who will you vote for? #TheGameAwards @TheGameAwards

thegameawards.com

 

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Free Software Foundation Bulletin

Bi-annual edition of the Free Software Foundation Bulletin

magazine.fsf.org

 

[JDTAY]

Guys, this may not surprise you at all, but I am going to watch The Game Awards, which start in about fifteen minutes. I’ll let you know if Microsoft finally buys Nintendo or whatever.

 

[JDTAY]

Never watch YouTube with the chat on.

I saw the word “Ohio” approximately 6000 times in the first hour.

 

[JDTAY]

So, my meds knocked me out halfway through the awards, but I looked up the important parts.

Game of the Year: Elden Ring
Player’s Voice: Genshin Impact
Stagecrasher: Arrested

 

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Ads disappear across the internet as Google Ad Manager briefly goes down

 

[JDTAY]

Preorders went live for Final Fantasy XVI today, and all I can think is what is the point of preordering something six months early, except maybe to give the preorder as a gift this holiday, which still seems weird? I mean, I think I finally understand living in the moment. This is definitely something no one should be thinking about right now. Maybe grab the preorder within a month of release though, in order to get the bonuses.

 

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On Privacy at School - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

www.gnu.org

 

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Hitler defends his love of Band Maid

#bandmaid Some of us have those idiot friends with their idiotic comments about our love for Band Maid and their music. Miku is a genius for setting up the concept of the band and a lot of people will never get it. And yes, there are other points to be made but I ran out of Hitler rant :) And...

vid.puffyan.us

 

[JDTAY]

Twitter is relaunching its subscription service tomorrow. I think I’ll subscribe since you guys keep telling me to go to Twitter.

 

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Staying at Nintendo’s Original Headquarters in Japan | Marufukuro Hotel Kyoto

Nintendo’s Original Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, is now the Marufukuro hotel that you can spend the night in! I'll show you around the hotel and what you can expect when you stay here on your next trip to Japan. HOTEL INFO: --- Address (Japanese): 〒600-8126 京都府京都市下京区鍵屋町342番地 Address (English)...

vid.puffyan.us

 

[JDTAY]

I thought Twitter would relaunch subscriptions at midnight Pacific, but apparently not. They need to hurry up before I change my mind about giving them money.

 

[JDTAY]

The Atlantic called Elon Musk a far right activist. I wouldn’t say that, but he does have a problem. The Left evolved their position on free speech to match changing environmental conditions, and Musk’s position on free speech should evolve too, instead of being stuck in the nineties.

 

[TeDaDeS]

The Atlantic called Elon Musk a far right activist. I wouldn’t say that, but he does have a problem. The Left evolved their position on free speech to match changing environmental conditions, and Musk’s position on free speech should evolve too, instead of being stuck in the nineties.

Elon's point was that you can't learn from each other if you block all the people you don't like. Free speech is the basis of a free society. Not having Twitter promote a specific ideology should be a good thing, whatever that ideology is, especially since it's a world wide platform.
"When in doubt let the tweet exist", and if it's controversial just not promote it. "A good sign as to whether there's free speech is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like": Source
While Twitter was blocking everyone and everything they didn't like, and the blocked opinions are actually shared by a lot of people. You could state: most people should understand why 'my' ideology is best. But maybe there isn't a single good ideology.

 

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The Atlantic called Elon Musk a far right activist.

He's a grifter is what he is.

 

[JDTAY]

I just did 150 squats on a squat machine. Not all at once, mind you. My legs were jelly for the first few minutes after I finished though.

I now realize you probably aren’t supposed to do 150, but staff told me the other fat guy here did 200, so I was trying hard to match him. Guess I couldn’t.

 

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[pyrat]

Not sure this belongs here or on the absurdism corner...

According to reuters, North Korean spies have developed a new sophisticated technique to exfiltrate information from western experts: just ask nicely.

"For us as defenders, it's really, really hard to stop these emails," he said, adding that in most cases it comes down to the recipient being able to figure it out.

In other words, if users are stupid what do you want me to do?

Social engineering is older than the wheel, but to paint as news that spies may lie and deceive... well, slow week or something.

 

[FBnil]

Not sure this belongs here or on the absurdism corner...

According to reuters, North Korean spies have developed a new sophisticated technique to exfiltrate information from western experts: just ask nicely.


In other words, if users are stupid what do you want me to do?

Social engineering is older than the wheel, but to paint as news that spies may lie and deceive... well, slow week or something.

Yeah. Filler fodder. Would have been more interesting if they reported about the 10th day of Mongolians protesting against it's corrupt government officials at -25 degrees Celsius. (-13 Fahrenheit). It's like a German protest, where you glue your hand to the pavement, but in this case, you just don't move for an hour and you are frozen to the ground.

 

[JDTAY]

I saw on the news this morning that scientists have achieved a net energy gain from nuclear fusion for the first time. Well, I guess Biden solved global warming; what else can he do for you bitches?