Today’s bit of work
Built a version of Birdie (which is premade for another Debian-based distro) for Ubuntu, that doesn't have a messed up Header bar.
Archive for July, 2019
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505 Doesn’t Publish Games (apparently)
So if you've been following along, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was supposed to have a native Linux release - which was cancelled due to unspecified "middleware" problems. No refunds were offered or given, and people who asked were directed to the online forum operated by 505 Inc. I filed a complaint with the CA […]
Next Time, Remember to Look Both Ways
How White Nationalists See What They Want to See in DNA Tests – The New York Times
TL;DR: You can't unracist someone by showing them their actual lack of purity. Racists are stupid, and will disbelieve the science. Kind of like with antivaxxers. What happens when white supremacists on the hate site Stormfront learn that they're not as white as they thought? Two researchers investigated. Source: How White Nationalists See What They […]
wait that’s FIVE kills tho
Outbreak: Epidemic on Steam
Linux support, cross-platform co-op, and continuing the plot and world of previous releases, Epidemic is free to play and the DLC is worth every cent. I helped beta test this game and found it to run flawlessly on Ubuntu.
But You Were Never Really My Friend

Conspiracyland: The Russian connection to Seth Rich conspiracies
To every QAnon retard that's ever said "but but but Seth Rich," congrats, not only are you a retard, but you're a Russian patsy too. In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working […]
Sigh
I really hate it when someone describes a security mitigation as a "fix," like there's some easily quantifiable problem, a hole that you can just shove your thumb into until it's patched, without actually investigating the issue any further. The Insights blog talks about CVE-2019-11479, an "attack" caused by someone setting an unreasonably low TCP […]