The Stochastic Game

I have exactly zero sympathy for people about to lose their Airbnb businesses in British Columbia, but Ravi Kahlon is very correct that there’s a shortage of property managers, for those about to look for new jobs: our residence’s last 2 managers were absolute shit, and our strata is currently hiring a 3rd one.

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing“. Cory Doctorow is once again right about DRM. On the media side, I don’t think people realize how genuinely superior piracy apps are compared to the legal ones.

Camera settings, especially field of view, are important, y’all.

People made fun of Microsoft when they released Powershell more than 15 years ago but it supported full object pipelines from the start. That makes more sense to me than hacking hundreds of brittle parsers to make JSON.

I love True Lies (even more than the original French movie it’s based on, which probably nobody saw here), and yeah, that climax scene is crazy on screen, but it was apparently even crazier to shoot.

Anyway… good morning!

Given the way so many people drive around here I’m very tempted to walk around with rocks in my pockets so I can throw them at cars

Well shit. Most of the world is firmly orange on this map. We’re not going to be able to go skiing for much longer, everyone.

The Dungeon Fantasy #TTRPG is having a Bundle of Holding! Dungeon crawling powered by GURPS! (pictured below: my own physical copy of the boxed set)

DNA ancestry testing services like 23andMe were always going to be hacked eventually, and it was always a very bad idea to use them. The potential uses for those leaks are really scary.