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Figured I might as well write a quick review of this movie...

I mean, it's a Disney movie. There's nothing to nitpick about the overall workmanship that is apparent throughout the picture. The film score is fantastic. The underlying message is great. And the furry community must have gotten a kick out of the movie.

But it also suffers from problems common to modern-day Hollywood productions. Pacing became noticeably rushed in the second half of the movie, and that is not my biggest problem. My biggest problem with this movie (as well as the first one in its franchise, and big budget modern productions in general) is that writers of Hollywood these days seem to be incapable of telling a story without at least one conspiracy of some kind being involved. Sure, adding conspiracy to a story will most definitely make it richer. But it also has the unfortunate effect of encouraging conspiratorial thinking, which leads people to the conclusion along the lines of "everything that is against me is a conspiracy". I believe conspiracy is not an essential component of a great story and it should be less of a trope on the big screen, especially in today's chaotic world where conspiracy theorists proliferate.

(This may awfully sound like ranting over video games causing violence, and I'd admit so. I guess this is me venting over the proliferation of conspiracy theories and (mis)attributing it to the entertainment industry.)

And without any warnings Nick just randomly exposed my defense mechanism ... How dare he? (But I can't really say without any warnings, can I?)

Also Linux Engineering didn't seem to be a role in the credits roll this time but "Caffeination" got one. Excuse me? Literally unwatchable 0 / 10, would not recommend /s

But seriously, it's a pretty well-executed sequel to the original. Even sharing the same negatives as it. How nice.

If Tylenol actually causes Autism, then the decade-old meme song "Rainbow Tylenol" suddenly makes sense.

I'm a 28-year-old senile bugger now...

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All crawlers are now banned on cgit.chrisoft.org. They don't need to machine learn from my stupid code anyway.

In addition a fairly strict ratelimit has been implemented on that subdomain. Legitimate users are encouraged to clone the repository and explore the content locally.

This is what AI has done to us ... or me in this case.

Ferris what did you do to yourself?!

Well, this is slightly awkward, isn't it?

Note to self: don't change the login shell on OpenWrt snapshots unless you're ready for some great misery whenever an update is installed...

«Exercise»

Original post on r/OneOrangeBraincell

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

(Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965)

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WAR IS PEACE -- check
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY -- check
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH -- check

oh no

(hashtag pride month, maybe?)

For the first time in almost ten years, we have proper PWM OLED brightness control for this old a-- laptop!

More details later. May or may not come to a mainline kernel near you.

Wait, what is this thing?

Not only did you somehow survived, you got upgraded to the OLED panel too?

Well, I guess I'm stuck with you for another ten years ...

So long, X1 yoga. You've served me well.

Rest in peace.

"Terry", 2016-05-12 ~ 2025-04-14

Grad school be like:

I don't know what I'm talking about. My advisor doesn't know what he's talking about. But somehow we talked for more than two hours and now my prototype is done.

There's an International Asexuality Day??? What have I missed?

... and some random hailstones for good measure

Random Rosaceae of the year!

Pro: watching a clown car crashing into the abyss is hilarious.

Con: I'm strapped on said clown car...