#Target is a terribly risky place to #shoplift from, but remember, its only a crime if you actually pass the checkout. Here are some things you can do without much risk that will distract their AP and cost them time/money/profits.

• Wear a large, oversized coat and/or bag and keep examining items acting like you want to keep them.

• Use your own bag or coat instead of a shopping cart when only buying 1 or 2 items but be sure to put back all of the other 10 items you change your mind on.

• Dress up like staff on black friday (or any other day really), wear a lanyard and name tag. If people ask you for help, do as you like.

• Take items from expensive areas of the store and leave them in non-expensive areas.

• Ask to view items behind the cases, then just walk away after its unlocked, do this for multiple cases in different departments if they have them.

• Go with a friend and start blatantly and obviously pointing at all the visible cameras.

The most they can do is ban you from the store, and realistically, they probably would only ask you to leave for the day.

Wear a mask when you do all of this, and most importantly of all HAVE FUN!

Follow me for more tips!

The most frustrating part of being a privacy advocate for so long is that you’re constantly being told “its not that bad” or “well it doesnt bother me”… until one day it gets worse and suddenly all those people are saying “but thats where all my readers/viewers are and I need the income”…

FFS if your content is worth viewing, if your users/fans are actually fans and like your content, THEY WILL FOLLOW YOU, and then you can actually help fix the problem that we all created when we first started allowing these corporations to control everything on the internet to the point of it basically becoming 4 websites each posting screenshots from the other 3.

“Please disable your #adblocker”

Oh your poor little for profit website just cant pay contributors peanuts and still afford hosting, you poor thing, I’ll just ease the load for you by viewing the same content being hosted by a non-profit like Archive.org or Archive.Today instead.

How about this, Pay journalists what they are worth, let them host their own articles on their own self hosted websites and you get a license to republish their articles on you ad splattered corpo site.

and no I dont mean fucking substack… #substack is just another rent seeking corpo (all too happy to provide a safe space for nazis), get off that shit and move to something that doesnt try to lock you into their ecosystem and steal 10x what it costs to pay for the hosting “services” they provide.

Been playing Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 and its okay, but its not a sequel at all and certainly not worth $70-90.

At best this should have been a $40 spin off title, they could have stripped out all the pointless side quests and just made a proper story out of it, but of course that wouldn’t sell the most copies (probably would get a lot less refunds but the share holders probably wont notice those)

I can’t leave a proper review yet since i never actually purchased the game on steam, but I’m thinking i might just to leave a review and then refund it.

Its too bad corporations can never really get this kind of thing right. They should have just slapped together a new “remaster” of the original on UE5 if they wanted to cash in on the nostalgia…. Oh well.

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2-RUNE

I’m really liking #hyprland so far, its been a while since i used a tilingwm but since I am often swapping between terminal tabs, VMS and remote desktop sessions, it makes the workflow a bit easier.

Oh yeah, theres a pretty huge outage going down rn

is #Signal down for anyone else rn?

Imagine if like 1/3rd of the libs who are going to performative protest “no kings” on a saturday and did an actual general strike on a Wednesday instead…

But no, cant risk your precious jobs that allow you to keep contributing to the capitalist machine, then you might have to actually struggle for a while..

The primary reason I use AI is to waste techbros’ money.

The second reason is because I am Lazy and bored.

#Slacktivism

Just put up our new flag… Never really felt the need to put up a flag before now but it seems like literally the least we can do at this point.

I made #fish function for #CheatEngine that just takes the steamID of whatever game I want to run it with and opens CE in proton-ge for that specific game.

This probably isn’t the ideal format for this kind of thing, but I’m lazy so deal with it.

function cheatengine
if test (count $argv) -ne 1
echo "Usage: cheatengine <Steam_APPID>"
return 1
end

set -l appid $argv[1]
set -x STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH "$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/$appid/"
echo "Set STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH to $STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH"

proton-ge run ~/Games/CheatEngine/cheatengine-x86_64.exe
end

I use the browser Thorium to keep about a dozen google accounts signed in, and i rotate between them as each hits limits.

Some fun things i’ve learned abusing Cursor AI:

They limit the number of free accounts per computer, this limitation however is stored locally, so creating a snapshot before first running the app lets you get around it.

I’m not sure how many “tokens” or whatever they give you per month, but the limit resets on a rolling 30.

My antacid tablets moving in their bottle sounds just like the cat treats to one of my cats , so every time i get indigestion, she gets very excited.

It’s Bandcamp friday

Here’s a few suggestions to check out.

https://itsdamag3.bandcamp.com/track/put-a-landlord-in-a-landfill

https://ho99o9.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrow-we-escape

https://andosan1.bandcamp.com/album/oh-kay

https://dyingfetus.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-cesspool-single

https://dopethrone.bandcamp.com/album/broke-sabbath

I remember when gox went down the last time, everyone saw it coming, there was a couple of dudes who went to japan to stage a very small protest outside their offices. Crypto in the early days was so much more fun, just as much of a ponzi scheme as it is now, but at least it wasnt taken too seriously.

Zhou Tonged - You Just Got Mt. Goxed! (Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It’s Hot)

hard to believe this happeend 12 years ago and now he’s a free man again.

Zhou Tonged - End of Silk Road

(Boyz II Men Parody)

Since Im not sure how much longer i’ll have access to the ability to do so, I decided to download my entire youtube watch history.