I get why this was shuttered. I love Borderlands but can’t imagine an mmo of the series that I’d want to play.

But if it makes this hacker happy to pursue launching this service himself, more power to him I guess.

Of course they want child labor. Who else could they get to replace a silent population of workers who are unempowered to fight against abuse?

Unless they get creative this likely won’t do anything but piss off the human users. Research from a couple years ago found that bots are better than people at captchas.

This is sort of the way ::: spoiler spoiler The Wrath of Becky ends. After exacting her revenge for the second time, she gets approached by a CIA person who basically offers her a job as a field agent/professional killer and she ends up getting support ro take out one final bad guy with a flipping tank. It’s a satisfying ending for the movie and for Becky. :::

If you haven’t seen those movies, they’re worth checking out. They’re like 2 hours of revenge/justice porn, very violent and gory but entertaining.

Isn’t this charging model the same reason Kindle stopped allowing in app purchases? I thought they had said it was a Google play store thing though. Is Google doing it too or is there pricing something different?

I’m actually okay with Trump and friends declaring war on Amazon. As long as one of them loses, society is a tiny bit better off.

Here’s the main one I used to get started.

https://www.udemy.com/share/101Yfa3@8XPxXbG1DlivBLYGDQBz4q_2ELh5RBS7IxJQFAsw6_JZaeTT-te7EdqUz3kcjiTo/

I’ve started one on creating abstract art in Affinity that seems pretty good and I have a few others in my learning queue from him on specific parts of affinity that look really good but I haven’t done yet.

Him and Lindsey Marsh have a bunch of content out there on the whole suite. I took Lindsey’s course on graphic design theory that was pretty good but that course used adobe so i used it more for general concepts. I think either of them would be a good place to start.

Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.

If you’re looking to learn it’s a really affordable way to do it.

I just watched that again for the first time in a while. It definitely hits different in the age of AI driven layoffs.

Highly recommend.

These researchers conducted research in a manner that was totally unethical and they deserve to be stripped of tenure and lose any research funding they have.

It already sounds like the university is preparing to just protect them and act like it’s no big deal, which is discouraging but I suppose not surprising.

60% of the time, it works every time

I was getting 500 errors on the url, but this link seems to be working.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/28/easter-eggs-marijuana-scavenger-hunt-texas/83251442007/

Oh my God this is so f-ing true. It makes me think a lot of sociology classes I took in college where we’d talk about the artificiality of money how it’s only meaningful because we have collectively decided it is. The folks who try to make it all scientific with lots of elaborate analytics and complex charts are basically just engaging a social math exercise.

I ended up watching all 20 min of this video. Crazy amount of thought and detail he put into it, and a very impressive result.

I’ve been learning it over the last few weeks, and I can say it definitely has a learning curve for folks used to the Microsoft style, it’s pretty solid. Integration with the affinity photo and designer are nice too - moving assets across them is incredibly easy.

It’s not free but it’s really affordable, and it’s not on a subscription so once you buy it you own it. Would recommend checking it out.

I couldn’t get through more than about a paragraph before getting prompted to subscribe so I’m still little confused.

Why get measurements of your child’s erections in the first place? How does this son feel about his PHI being shared all over the internet? Hard to imagine anyone being okay with that.

I don’t understand the folding phone thing. It feels like tech now is all about creating ridiculous features and tech companies trying to convince us that we want them while ignoring things that would actually be worthwhile like repairable phones, headphones jacks and minimal bloatware.

I look forward to Apple Marketing coming up with their usual line of nonsense, like a meaningless name for an existing capability that they are claiming to have invented.

They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.

Surely nobody saw this coming right?

I don’t get why HP continues selling in the consumer market if they are struggling so much to make a profit.It seems like they are trying to force a business model on the wider market that doesn’t work.

The subscription model makes more sense in the B2B world where companies just want fixed costs without doing too much shopping around (for things like printer cartridges anyway).