They don’t even need to sell. The price could drop to zero, Trump already made his money on the initial sale of the coins.

Nobody sane expected the price to go up; the whole thing existed to provide a veneer of plausible deniability for illegal bribes.

The irony is that I typed JIRA in lowercase and my phone autocorrected it to JIRA

I’m amazed they had 1600 employees to begin with. I guess it takes a lot of resources to make something suck as hard as JIRA

Neither of them are fresh out the box clean installs, they are what they are.

But anyway, I’ve been trying to engage in good faith but you keep being obnoxious on every single post you make, so it’s Block time

I very specifically said “my windows machine from 2011” because it’s still in use.

it doesn’t account for modern computers doing more now than they did then.

We know they do more, but most of that “more” is bullshit bloat and sloppy engineering, neither of which we asked for.

When I boot up Windows 11 and start no programs, somehow there’s already over 8Gb RAM already consumed, the CPU shows 8% utilisation, there’s 244 processes running, and it still took every bit as long to get there as my Windows 7 machine from 2011. That’s what the rest of us are talking about.

What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

Bullies are always cowards

Literally my entire point was that people are offering some strong opinions without having read the complaint, and here you are demonstrating exactly that.

As a general rule of thumb if something sounds stupid then it’s probably been reported badly with some key information missing. I’m betting the music industry press reporting will be very different from that of a site called “gamesindustry.biz”.

My suggestion is that probably their lawyers have examined the case in rather more detail than the armchair lawyers on here pontificating based on an eight-sentence summary. Incidentally, PRS are a 175,000-member artists’ rights collective that very often represent a significant portion of individual artists’ incomes, they’re not some sort of grubby billionaire-owned patent troll.

For the benefit of those here suggesting this is a spurious or vexatious lawsuit: in the UK, it’s standard for a plaintiff to be forced to pay all the respondent’s legal fees if they lose.

Yes. It’s almost as if that wasn’t the point I was making at all.

If homeless people were allowed to stay in the spaces that they’re currently being chased away from, there’d be a lot fewer homeless people.

Stock market indeces, like GDP, are a horrible way to measure success of a nation, so don’t take this as support of the pedophile rapist Donald Trump - but the stock market is doing fine. The 5% drop it had last week comes at the end of a whole year of constant growth, and even now the Dow is still 13% up from this time last year.

Making an overly big deal of short term dips only feeds into the myth that the stock market is a valid measure of a president’s ability. If you blame Trump for the crash it keeps the door open for people to praise him for its record highs. Don’t play their game.

For some reason my household fibre connection is about ten times faster up than down. It’s like an anti-ADSL.

It’s a thread about comparing Signal to Telegram of all things

The relevance is that it’s not some unaligned security professional talking in the article, it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition.

People who voted for Trump voted for Trump. Go talk to them.

Blaming anyone else is not only an unhinged attempt to claim some sort of moral ownership of an entire bloc, it isn’t even supported by any reasonable reading of the statistics.

This kind of obsession with whipping other people into maintaining an entrenched two-party system is exactly how America let itself spend the last 40 years getting slowly dragged to the Right in the first place.

See this is why I’m reluctant to start listing them because I don’t want to get dragged into an interminable discussion about how hacks like https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices.html?m=1 somehow “don’t count” because it was the user’s fault, or https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-Twilio-Incident-What-Signal-Users-Need-to-Know doesn’t count because it didn’t include chat messages.

The irony is I very carefully chose my words when I said “Signal-related hack” instead of “Signal hack” because I knew fanbois would show up to argue that anything short of a central database leak isn’t really a hack.

Either they’re all ironic [] or none of them are ironic

Textbook false dichotomy, and not how I read it at all. Setup->Punchline is the most basic joke format in existence. The whole point of a setup is you have to be on board with it before getting sideswiped by the punchline.