Indirectly, this was. He said this was a bug in their recent tool that allows sites to block AI crawlers that caused the outages. It’s a relatively new tool released in the last few months, so it makes sense it might be buggy as the rush to stop the AI DoS attacks has been pertinent.

You’re, right, I misread the post.

At that point DNS is handled by whatever network you’re on. Since that not always under your control, hosting a private VPN (and setting DNS though that) is the way to go.

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Population crises are mostly made up and just used as a political tool to justify controlling immigration and healthcare.

Historically populations tend to balance themselves as people will choose to have fewer children when times are hard. Want more babies? Make life better for parents and children. It’s that simple.

You come in to my feed and attack me like this?!

There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.

My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.

Those were good times…

Haha 405 really dates lolcats, eh?

Saving this.

They even have my favorite: https://http.cat/418

That is how the rickroll came to be…

I actually shocked no one did that in this thread (yet).

This is great.

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Wernstrom!

Yeah, I noticed this, so I started using RSS feeds of my subscribed channels. I honestly think RSS (and other web 2.0 tech) is when the internet peaked from a user experience perspective.

RSS only faded away because it’s so convenient that it’s hard to monetize. When the goal became keeping people on your platform as long as possible, RSS was antithetical to that goal. So platforms either abandoned support for it or (like YouTube) stopped advertising its existence.

I don’t kink shame unless they’re into snaps.

Yeah, I still hate Nintendo, but this guy was really asking for a lawsuit.

As for the “Sound Connect App” that’s unfortunately the core of the problem. That app doesn’t exist for Linux. If the hardware relies on that app to set up or manage profiles, it creates an unavoidable roadblock for desktop Linux users.

The app runs on your phone (Android or iOS), and then you use the phone to manage Bluetooth connections for the earbuds. IMO you shouldn’t need a second device, but I guess they just assume 99% of people are connecting to a smartphone.

It just seems to be a non-standard implementation from Sony that doesn’t play well with the standard Linux audio stack.

I think the issue is that the actual Bluetooth connection is obfuscated behind a proprietary connection to the app, and the app exposes the protocol.

I agree it’s a stupid implementation, prioritizing a UI for pairing over literally everything else, but you still might be able to get it to work. I’ve successfully paired my WF-1000XM4 earbuds with my EndeavourOS (KDE) desktop.

Drivers (other than your Bluetooth chipset) generally shouldn’t matter. AFAIK Bluetooth audio device protocol is generic.

How are you pairing the headphones? Are you adding your PC as a device using the Sound Connect App? I have different SONY earbuds, but they can pair with 2 different devices and switch between them with the app. Perhaps they still have another device (like a phone) selected for output?

District 9 is the most plausible exploration of how humans would deal with aliens visiting Earth.

“Why aren’t you fixing the boiler?”

“Scheduling conflict.” *flips through magazine*

I like the awkward start. It makes it feel more improvised, building confidence as he gets going. It’s portrayed in the movie as him speaking from the heart, and him struggling to find the words in the beginning helps sell it imo.