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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK you would not have had to open the .lnk file yourself.

Wait, what? A .lnk file is a shortcut... you still have to click those for them to open whatever they're pointing to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Unhiding extensions wouldn't help here, as the .lnk extension is hidden even if you unhide the others, as it's the extension for shortcut files; you have to edit an obscure registry key if you want to unhide it.

(That said, it being a shortcut it should have the small shortcut arrow in the icon, unless you've used a third party tool or the registry to disable it, so it should still be easily recognisable as a shortcut.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There is.

No. It's called relativity for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

A time machine is a faster than light drive.

Well, the other way 'round, really, but same difference.

And to come back you need a slower than (but very close to) light drive.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Just checked. Mine still say this:

Comment redacted in protest against Reddit's deranged attacks against third party apps, the community, and common sense.

See ya'll in Lemmy or Kbin once this embarrassment of a site is done enshittifying itself out of existence.

Monetize this, u/spez, you greedy little pigboy. 🖕

(I edited them manually, though, so maybe it's that...)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Larry Ellison bought up his competitors and jack up prices on databsae products owning the industry for more than a decade.

It's well known that ORACLE is an acronym for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something from Iain M. Banks The Culture. The best books, like Excession would probably be hard to adapt due to the protagonists being mostly ships, but others like Consider Phlebas or The Player of Games could probably make great films or miniseries (and Use of Weapons would probably be great as the later).

Probably excessively expensive in the CGI department if done well, but one can dream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Very disco, though, the way it happened.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The story goes that, after watching the film, Reagan asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ”Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?”, and, after looking into it for a week, the general came back with the reply “Mr. president, the problem is much worse than you think.”, which prompted Reagan into setting off a series of interagency memos and studies that led to the signing of classified national security decision directive NSDD-145, “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security.”.

So... yeah, things probably actually were that bad, or even worse (except for the AI bit, of course).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What monopoly..?

There's multiple app stores for Android, and you can just download and manually install apps if you don't like any of them... it's Apple that doesn't want third party stores in their phones...

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