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The “Copyright Alert System”, otherwise known as the “six strikes” policy, is about to be launched by media companies and ISPs operating in the United States. That’s not exactly news and certainly no surprise, as the ISPs from there are more than happy to spy on their customers and take action as commanded by the […]

Got the repaired HDD yesterday, but due to some issues which I’ll describe below I only installed and checked it today, also copying everything back on it in the process. At least this time around it doesn’t have bad sectors from the very beginning, as the old one had, but with a label that says […]

Finally managed to finish reading Tongues of Serpents today, after letting it sit on my desk for a good month and a half after I started it, and put up a tiny one-paragraph review as well, so at least that should count as doing something. I now see that a seventh book was also released, […]

The subtitle is “A Novel of Temeraire” and it does indeed feel almost like a side-story, being restricted in scope, quite removed from the overall plot and at times appearing to lack in content, the author seeming to struggle for inspiration in a few moments. But at least the dragons are still interesting and the […]

What everyone knows is that this Tuesday, United States citizens elected their president for the next four years, some 98.5% of those who even bothered to vote completely ignoring any options that might have represented actual solutions and making their choice only between the two major evils, ultimately picking the lesser one by a much […]