No. I think that things have pretty steadily gotten better over time, and that a great deal of people being upset about now for any given now comes from a tendency to focus on negatives. Could be social media or news media tending to bring negatives to the surface because it drives engagement, political activists aiming to drive or leverage upset, or so forth.
tal
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And I’ve never played any of the Total War games so I guess I need to look into those too!
Just to be clear, the Total War games make up a large collection that span many settings and themes (e.g. ancient Japan or Rome). It's the Warhammer line of games within that collection that is specifically fantasy, and inside that, it's specifically the Curse of the Vampire Coast stuff that has the undead pirates.
That's not to say that the series is bad
it's been a prominent strategy game series for a long time
but if what you're looking for is specifically undead pirate stuff, only a small portion of that collection is relevant.
You kinda made me wonder how the "undead pirate" theme developed. Sounds like it might have been at least in part around The Flying Dutchman, though that's not the only "supernatural maritime" folklore, and that specific story wasn't originally about pirates.
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), a friend of John Leyden's, was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby (first published December 1812) that the ship was "originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed" and that the apparition of the ship "is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens".
https://fathomsdeepbeyond.substack.com/p/the-flying-dutchman
As to games, have you played the classic Monkey Island series? It's not all that dark, but it is pirates and ghosts.
If you play the Total War: Warhammer games, there are undead pirate factions in the second game's Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC. You can buy multiple games and use the factions from different titles in later games. I don't know if that has enough story for you.
EDIT: TV Tropes calls it the "Ghost Pirate":
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GhostPirate
Despite the name, the Ghost Pirate trope includes all forms of undead pirates, including zombie or skeletal variants (literal skeleton crews).
EDIT2: I thought that the Flying Dutchman didn't involve pirates at all, but WP says that it did become associated with pirates at some point; added reference above.
EDIT3: Going a bit out of genre, there's Sunless Sea. That's Lovecraftian and Victorian British naval stuff, but not really specifically undead and the player's ship isn't a pirate ship. Might be close enough in feel to make you happy, though. I'm not really a huge fan of the game, as I don't like the gameplay much. It's really about the ambience and feel, but it might be right up your alley.
From an organizational standpoint, it doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
The group will be split into four smaller groups, according to a New York Times report. One group will focus on AI research, another one on infrastructure and hardware projects, one on AI products, and another one on building out AI superintelligence, a hypothetical AI system that could outperform human intelligence on any and all scales.
I mean, they have different skillsets, a fair bit of that is going to be on decoupled timelines, they have different levels of risk, and the technical expertise is going to differ. One succeeding or failing isn't tightly coupled to another doing so. Sure, they all relate to one thing or another to something that has been called "AI", but that's a pretty broad group.
Not directly related, but do you use an actual APL keyboard or use something with an APL input method, like emacs?
Depends on what you need it for. There's no single LLM model that's a superset of all others today.
Under the new laws in Malaysia’s Terengganu state, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years and fined
So can they leave Islam and not be bound by the obligation to show up?
kagis
Sounds like that's illegal too. Rather more illegal.
Attempted Apostasy and Apostasy offences in Malaysia
Terengganu
Criminal offense
Apostasy
Repentance in 3 days or death sentence and forfeiture of property.
Says that the federal government apparently has a constitutional issue with states imposing the death sentence, so it hasn't been applied, though.
https://old.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/xamxt4/countries_where_apostasy_is_illegal/
In Malaysia it's illegal, but it has yet to have a death penalty for apostasy. Kelantan is currently trying their best to make it legal tho, so we'll see where that goes. The punishment is an expendable arrest where the syariah courts will send their officer to detain you for a year or two and sending you to a Muslim therapist or something. Yea they treat people who committed apostasy like they have some kind of mental problems. And how long they will be detained will depend on the syariah courts. If they think they should keep you in their "correction center" for 5 years, then you'll be there for 5 years. Which means, yes, you're most likely are gonna lose your job, house, and car just because you no longer believe in what they believe in.
I believe that they had one in the same class that had already launched prior to the sinking, so same class, different ship.
kagis
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Hyon-class_destroyer
The first vessel, the Choe Hyon, was unveiled by the Korean People's Army on 30 December 2024. The second ship, Kang Kon, capsized during launch but was eventually restored to upright position and launched on 12 June 2025.
From the article:
While inspecting the warship Choe Hyon, a 5,000-ton-class destroyer first unveiled in April, Kim said the allies’ joint military drills show hostility and their supposed “will to ignite a war,”
So it's that first one.
To be fair, the actual article text was "adolescents", and someone can be going through puberty at twelve, so the body text is correct. Might have been that a different party writes the headline, and considered it to be a mechanical shortening, as the terms are generally used kinda interchangably.
Good catch, though.
If your readers don’t accept this policy, then they should please feel free to fly with other airlines, who may operate a more lax minors travel policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair
The company has at times been criticised for its...tendency to intentionally generate controversy in order to gain publicity.[31][32][33]
"Let's be honest," the RyanAir spokesman continued. "If your readers aren't willing to even fly with their children, can it really be said that they even love them?"
Leave the console visible on an attached monitor. I don't recall if Debian out-of-box has Ctrl-Alt-F1 disabled, but if not, that'll put you on the first console. If the kernel panics, it'll display something there.
If you can't do that
no spare monitor
you can set up a serial port console to another machine. I don't know off the top of my head how to have the kernel emit errors there by default if it's not the default, but I'm quite sure that it's possible; I've debugged machines with kernel stack traces on serial port consoles. Sending a BREAK was equivalent to Magic Sysrq, as I recall.
I think that you're going to need some context here for a useful answer. Are we talking about a hardware MP3 player? An Android phone? A Linux laptop? Just a recorded audio file where you want to have a period of silence?