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The Lo Stve Tattoo or Lost Steve Tattoo, also known as the "Love Lost" Tattoo, is a photo of a tattoo fail resembling a broken heart that appears to read "lo stve" but is meant to read "lost love," depicting a red heart broken in half, the left half reading, "lo," and the right half reading, "ve," revealing a grey heart underneath reading, "st." The tattoo was posted to the /r/shittytattoos subreddit in June 2023 and went viral over the following years through reposts, becoming a piece of engagement bait for its confusing nature. One of the most common misunderstandings of the tattoo is "lost Steve."
Tempting, but when I've used tools like this, they rarely stay up to date enough to deliver on all their promises over a period of more than a year or so. I suggest you try Ubuntu before anything like this.
In my mightily humble opinion, probably the worst thing to happen to Windows over the years has been AI. Maybe I'm just not the target market for it, but having Copilot buttons clog up my taskbar and apps wasn't what I thought I'd be getting with Windows 11. And I know at least some of you feel the same, because someone's gone out of their way to make a tool dedicated to removing all Windows 11's AI features.
The creator, zoicware on GitHub, says: "The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security."
Full disclosure: I am not a software or security expert, and in fact I have been known to be a massive idiot on occasion, so do not take any of this as direct advice to install and use said software. Research it and make that decision at your own risk.
Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's get nuking our PCs of all this AI garbage. Apparently, this tool disables a bunch of registry keys to do with all things AI, prevents AI packages from being reinstalled, removes tons of AI-related files, and much more. It looks like it essentially takes a shredder to anything AI related in Windows.
There's an obvious concern here, this being that Windows 11 is pretty AI-centric these days, so there's a risk that messing with all of this could affect other parts of the system. Who knows how Windows is coded on the back-end?
(Image credit: Microsoft)
But part of the utility is a custom Windows Update package that is aimed at stopping those AI features being patched back in with subsequent updates or patches down the line.
The specific registry keys it disables are:
Disable Copilot
Disable Recall
Disable Input Insights and typing data harvesting
Copilot in Edge
Image Creator in Paint
Remove AI Fabric Service
Disable AI Actions
Disable AI in Paint
Disable Voice Access
Disable AI Voice Effects
Disable AI in Settings Search
But there are AI components that can't be disabled via this script, such as Gaming Copilot or OneDrive AI, though the github repository does provide methods of disabling those in Windows settings.
There are other tools that can be used to debloat Windows in various ways, too—Windows Utility is a popular one—but I'm not sure whether these take as big of a sledgehammer to AI features as this new tool does.
I shouldn't go too ham on Windows 11, though. It does look like it might have a nice new Run dialog box coming up in future updates. Silver linings, I suppose.
I do want to note again, that you ought to be careful just randomly downloading or entering scripts into Windows, especially if it's messing with the registry. This isn't Linux after all. But if you want to go through the script it's all up on github, so you can go looking through exactly what it's doing yourself just to be safe.
Germany's Third Reich also tried to hide the existence of its concentration camps.
Bari Weiss apparently yanked a 60 Minutes piece on Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison because it was not friendly enough to the Trump Administration. Somehow, the piece aired in Canada anyway.
There are links to downloaded versions of the show for folks who want to watch it that way. — Read the rest
The DOJ released a de-Trumped batch of Epstein files, missed the deadline, and redacted extensively.
Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring the Justice Department to release all its files on Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. Friday was the deadline. — Read the rest
"Our users hate this new feature. How can we make it look good so it justifies the cost we've sunk?" "I know, let's put it where they can't avoid it or get rid of it. TVs!"
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Ok so I have a story. I worked Fantasyland (Dumbo) at Magic Kingdom. We had a girl transfer from Pirates of the Caribbean. And she told me the most amazing story.
So Pirates is down (shocking) And this particular boat is stopped at the first big scene, Where Barbosa is on the ship yelling for Jack Sparrow.
Anyway the boat has been stopped for about 15 minutes at this point, and there’s a couple sitting alone in the back. So the guy decides that nothing gets him in a better mood than the smell of water that hasn’t been changed in roughly 50 years, and convinces his girlfriend to blow him.
Now this girl is in the booth, along with the coordinator, watching this go down. Literally. There’s not much they can do to stop it at this point, other than notify security. Then another problem arises. The guy finishes, and the girl makes the motion to spit.
In. The. Fucking. Water.
Now if that load is released into the water, thats an automatic biohazard, and the ride is shut down for weeks. The water is removed, the ride path is scrubbed, along with the ride vehicles, and then new water is brought in. Costing the company thousands of dollara and pissed off tourists. The worst combination on this earth.
Panicking at this predicament, the coordinator grabs the mic in the control booth and says:
“Spitting is for quitters.”
This echoes over the bitching of guests and 50 year old audio of pirates commiting various crimes.
The look on this woman’s face was priceless. She gazes up, as if Walt himself commanded her from the grave, and swallows.
I’m told the ride started 5 minutes later and the couple ran out from the exit queue as fast as they could.
And this is why you dont fuck at Disney. Because cast members will call you out and it will be the highlight of our day.
The Xperia Play was the best phone I ever had. In a world of boring plain black slab style phones, I think I finally found one I'm excited about.
Handheld gaming hardware head Ayaneo has just unveiled its first phone. The Ayaneo Pocket Play is a smartphone with a sliding display that can be pushed up to reveal a d-pad, AXBY face buttons, and two virtual joystick touchpads.
We don't yet know what processor this bad boy will end up boasting, or even the device's display dimensions. However, given that Ayaneo is known for Android-based gaming handhelds such as the Snapdragon-based Ayaneo Pocket S, perhaps I won't need all three guesses to figure out this phone's headlining hardware specs.
So, like most of its ilk, it will likely be an Android device. That means we won't be able to play our precious PC games on it without an emulator, such as Winlator, which is a bit of a job to set up. At least other forms of Android emulation are generally excellent these days.
Though there's no gesture at a release window beyond the words 'coming soon,' I'm already intrigued. For one thing, there's something refreshingly retro about the Ayaneo Pocket Play's sliding design; some folks have already made comparisons to ye olde Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 from 2008 with its sliding keyboard panel, and 2011's more gaming-geared, PlayStation-themed Xperia Play.
Crossing paths with it again, perhaps it's high time to dust off the arc-slider phone design and see whether we can, perhaps, make gaming handhelds actually pocket-sized once more. Besides that, otherwise foldable screen tech isn't really an open-and-shut design decision.
Though foldable gaming handhelds aren't yet mainstream, foldable phones sort of are for those with deep pockets—and you've got to treat those bits of kit like the little princes they are if you want that pliable screen to keep working. Mind you, one creator's multi-day stream that tested the hinge of a Samsung Fold 200,000 times may suggest modern foldable phones are hardier than I'm giving them credit for.
At any rate, I'm cautiously optimistic about the Ayaneo Pocket Play. Granted, once the Kickstarter ends, experience tells me this gaming phone will cost a pretty penny indeed, and there's no guarantee Ayaneo will even support the device long-term. Given the fact I'm currently rocking a five-year-old Samsung Galaxy A52s, I'm not really looking to commit to a new device that will slide out of my life at the first opportunity.
Meh, I'm sure no one ever regretted pointing a camera at their butt.
For just $599 and your dignity, Kohler's new "smart" toilet cam will lovingly photograph your excrement. Ostensibly to analyze your gut health, but, and this is a big but, share those snapshots with the cloud. Nothing says privacy like a lens staring up from your plumbing and a company pretending Transport Layer Security is "end-to-end encryption." — Read the rest
While we can design robots and AI models to do all sorts of things, this very stable genius gave a clanker a gun and practically begged it to shoot him. The only interesting part is how quickly the AI took the opportunity when this AI/robotics researcher found a way around the machine's prohibitions. — Read the rest
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A week after the indie horror game Horses was banned from Steam, and just one day before it was set to launch elsewhere, Epic Games has decided that it too will not allow the game to be sold on its storefront. Publisher Santa Ragione said in a blog update that Epic informed it of the decision at 5 pm CET/11 am ET on December 1, saying the game violates its policies on "inappropriate content" and "hateful or abusive content."
Epic didn't tell Santa Ragione how exactly Horses violated its guidelines, according to an email from the publisher sent to PC Gamer, but only made what it described as "broad and demonstrably incorrect claims" about it. Santa Ragione filed an appeal, but it was rejected 12 hours later with no further explanation. Epic also indicated the game could be updated to bring it into compliance, but "the email did not include any information on what would need to be changed," Santa Ragione said, and even if it had there'd be no way to make extensive changes one day ahead of release.
Epic was not more forthcoming on the matter in a statement provided to PC Gamer. "We set clear guidelines for the content that can be distributed on the Epic Games Store and found violations of those guidelines during our extensive review," Epic Games communications director Jake Jones said.
Part of that review process, Epic told Santa Ragione, included filling out an International Age Rating Coalition questionnaire on Horses, which it says resulted in an Adult Only (AO) rating. This seems odd: Santa Ragione said it had already filled out the questionnaire as part of Epic's submission process, and did not receive an AO: "We received a PEGI 18 and an ESRB M rating, as currently displayed on the Horses coming soon page on the Epic Games Store." Both of those ratings can still be seen on the storefront.
(Image credit: Andrea Lucco Borlera/Santa Ragione)
Santa Ragione also questioned why Epic would redo the questionnaire at all, given that developers have to fill it out themselves in order to be allowed to sell their games in the first place. It further claimed that builds of Horses had already been submitted and reviewed by Epic, "with the final achievements-ready build being approved for release 18 days prior to launch."
As it did following the Steam ban, Santa Ragione argued that Horses "does NOT contain explicit or frequent depictions of sexual behavior."
"All nudity in the game is completely censored via pixelation," the publisher wrote. "There is never any visible sexual act involving genitalia and all animations are stylized and unrealistic. Additionally, in the three hours of gameplay contained in the game, there are only four brief and censored sexual sequences, with two of them happening mainly off camera. And finally, we explained that the content presented does not in any way promote abuse (including animal abuse). The game is a strong critique of violence and abuse in general."
Horses does have some nudity, though, as well as adult themes, and that can be vexing for an industry that's often more focused on selling product than making art, or even mere provocative statements—particularly when it's already facing pressure from major payment processors over adult-oriented content. Epic has always been more selective about what it allows on its storefront than Steam, which is home to numerous hardcore sex games, so it's not entirely surprising that Epic would bow out of Horses too.
But that it would wait until this last minute to make the move—literally the day before release—doesn't speak especially highly of its processes, and it makes me wonder if this isn't so much about the game as it is about the public's perception of it, largely the result of Steam's refusal to carry it.
Despite the Steam and Epic bans, Horses is still available on GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store: Humble had initially intended to distribute the game via Epic Store keys, but with the new ban in place it opted to go with a DRM-free direct download instead.
November 24, 2025 - Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley called the privacy and transparency activists who are creating a public database to track the locations of flock cameras at https://deflock.me “terrorists" and said they are “closer to antifa than anything else…”, meaning that to be a bad thing apparently.
Flock Safety is a tech-company that’s putting up thousands of AI-powered cameras around the USA. From the deflock.me site:
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.
These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn’t require a warrant.
Data from ALPRs has led to wrongful arrests, profiling, and stalking ex-partners by police officers. There’s no substantial evidence that ALPRs effectively prevent crime, despite Flock’s unethical attempts to prove otherwise.
ALPRs are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion.
Baldur's Gate 3 is well over two years old and its developer is no longer making major content additions, but its players are still finding fresh and exciting ways to crack open its ruleset towards their own gamebreaking ends. This week, as spotted by GamesRadar, BG3 players have found a way to recruit a fighting force of the most powerful beings in Larian's version of Faerun.
It's children. They're building armies of children.
The process is laid out in a YouTube short from BG3 aficionado and seeming evil mastermind Morgana Evelyn titled "Child Labour is Unbeatable." That name alone should tell you what kind of moral dimensions we're working with here. If the idea of conscripting a horde of combat orphans doesn't pass your ethical sniff test, you probably won't enjoy where the rest of this goes.
To pull this off, you'll need a level 7 Companion character with access to the Dominate Beast and Polymorph spells. With that character, you'll need to select your ideal child combatant—or because they all perform identically, any child combatant—and polymorph them. Once they're in sheep shape, hit them with Dominate Beast, and then travel to your camp.
Once there, Morgana recommends enabling turn-based mode, because the timing windows here can be particular. Dismiss the companion who did the spells on your chosen child from your party, and wait until you see the notification that their concentration has ended for the Polymorph and Dominate Beast spells. Once it has, re-recruit them before the spells expire, quickly leave camp, and immediately save the game.
(Image credit: Larian)
Once you load that save, that companion will now permanently have a child follower. Why, you might be asking, is that a good thing? After all, children aren't renowned for their battlefield prowess.
That's where you and whoever distributes battlefield renown would be wrong, and—Morgana concludes—you likely have German media law to thank for it. As Germany's Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle explains, German law requires products to be rated for appropriate ages, and holds providers of digital content responsible for ensuring that children aren't exposed to "material which is likely to harm the development of children or young people."
That harmful material, according to Germany's Youth Protection Act, includes depictions of "serious physical or mental suffering in a manner that violates human dignity" or are "likely to seriously endanger the development of children or adolescents." In this case, we're counting "children dying" as a violation of human dignity that, if it was portrayed in a game, could prevent it from being advertised or distributed, or force retailers to pay a fine for selling it.
Aside from its being frowned on by most ethical frameworks, Germany's laws and similar laws elsewhere are why killing children tends to be impossible in games—Baldur's Gate 3 included. Morgana probably shouts out Germany's laws specifically because of a brief controversy that bubbled up online after Steam started mandating ratings for its German store in 2024.
In BG3's case, the particular way in which Larian tried to make children unmurderable makes them terrifyingly potent in a fight if you can find a way to get them into combat under your command, like with the method above.
As you'd expect, your child conscripts are unkillable. But more than that, because they generally aren't intended to be in combat in the first place, they ignore BG3's combat initiative order. In other words, they have infinite attacks.
I might object to the methods, but I can't deny the potency.
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