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Disinformation is "Information" which is purposefully false. Getting in to a fight about whether it is true or not just boosts its engagement. Most viral disinformation only spreads in the first place because of all the people sharing it to show how wrong it is.

Instead of helping it spread, just call the person who shared it "weird".

This works because people crave social acceptance. No-one wants to be the weird kid. By labelling this behaviour as 'weird', you side-step the "true or false" debate entirely and put pressure on the sharer to stop.

TL,DR: Engaging a lie makes it breed. Calling it weird kills it dead.

I'm not ... really that in to Rockstar games in general. To me there feels like a lot of time has been spent coding for edge cases like what happens if I throw the teacher's hat in the john while hanging from a tree branch outside the window, and very little time spent making the core gameplay loop satisfying or fun. Bully is a case in point here.

I love so many parts of Bully. The art is fabulous. The character art on the loading screens positively drip with personality. Everything down to the slight reddish tinge of Jimmy's nose is spot on. The school grounds themselves are pretty sparse, but it's always perfectly clear where you are in the world. The voice acting is just incredible for c

A few years ago I found a box of PS3 games on the side of the street. Usual practice for people who are moving out or just getting rid of clutter in my part of the world. It was quite a fancy haul: GTAV, Mafia II, Fifa 17, L.A. Noire and Red Dead Redemption. Not bad for something that only cost me the time it took to bend down and pick them up.

My PS3 still continues to amaze me with the fidelity of the graphics it can throw around despite the hardware being over 15 years old, and these games are all great showcases for exactly that. Furthermore, I'd already had the PC Port of GTAV as part of the Epic Games giveaway but it was such a buggy mess (take taxi, ride in taxi, get to destination,

In no particular order, going by "Last played" dates in Steam and the amount of dust on the PS3 jewelcases:

PC Games

1.Frost Punk - 3,2 Hours I liked this game, a lot. Beautiful steam-punky graphics, great soundtrack and difficult life decisions almost every step of the way. But my goodness was it a depressing slog. I would feel my mood sink each time I started it up, and near the end I could only manage about five minutes of play.

2.Dead Cells - 64 Minutes It's a great little 2D scrolling hack-and-slash-a-thon, but I soon found myself stuck in a loop going between the teleports and not having the slightest idea where I was supposed to be going next.

3. *Call of Duty 4 - 7,4 Ho

First off let me say I'm a C64 newbie! Hi all :)

I'm trying to get into the C64 emulator scene, mainly (don't judge me) to compare how the games are with the ones from other 8-bit systems. I don't know if there's a good repository of C64 game images anywhere - there's one on archive.org which looks promising but you can't download anything, you have to play them in the browser: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64_games

What's annoying me is that when I do find a game image somewhere, invariably there's some unskippable demo at the beginning showing off the hackor skills of the person who cracked the original. Fair enough and some are quite clever, but it takes so long to load a

Finally got a dedicated machine (2010 MBAir if anyone cares) hooked up at home and I'm installing things to test them out and keep my hand in. Got a list of things I'd like it to do - any other useful services I can run on here?

By useful I mean things that would not only make my day-to-day life more fun but also practice for services used in the real world. My list so far:

• DHCP server
• DNS server
• Torrent server
• Nagios monitoring
• LDAP auth
• Samba server
• FTP server
• NFS server
• HTTP server (apache? nginx? something else?)
• HTTP proxy (even worth it these days? I last used squid in like 2003...)
• postgres / MySQL
• ownCloud or something similar
• Radius
• Jenkins, Git repo

I've played Civ 5 - the Gods and Kings expansion - almost literally to death. The interface and the visuals merge together so well that you instantly can see what's going on, the art is beautiful and the music too, and even now I can still boot it up and get an hour or so's enjoyment out of it.

Civ 6 I've had in my library for a good few years now but I never got in to it at all. I found the interface confusing after what I was used to in Civ 5, the visuals seem overly cartoonish, and the playing area seems cluttered and confused. Even though the core mechanics are familiar there's something about them that I can't get a handle on.

Interestingly, I found a similar problem with Civ 4. Never

Hey folks, I get the same issue with other distros too, but thought I'd ask here...

I have a Macbook Air 2015 with High Sierra installed. I've disabled SIP, created new partitions, installed ReFIND etc, and can start the installation process from a USB drive fine.

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BUT Linux for some reason doesn't see the Macbook's internal drive. If I do an 'fdisk -l' or 'lsblk' then I ONLY see the USB flash drive - reported as /dev/sda - there's no internal disk to install to, according to the installers.

I'm willing to believe this is some sort of Apple security issue, but I haven't found anyone with the same issue so far. Does anyone here have an idea?

Having trouble with a translation. The original German text is:

Jämmerliche Figuren können, müssen aber keine Jammerlappen sein.

I automatically understand this as saying: "Pathetic figures can be, but aren't necessarily, whingers."

Splitting the sentence in two, and restating, we get:

1. Jämmerliche Figuren können keine Jammerlappen sein.
2. Jämmerliche Figuren müssen [aber] keine Jammerlappen sein.

But then the original sentence seems to say: "Pathetic figures might not, and don't have to be, whingers."

Another way of splitting the sentence is:

1. Jämmerliche Figuren können Jammerlappen sein.
2. Jämmerliche Figuren müssen keine Jammerlappen sein.

... which gives the original mean