@skinnylatte Ah, that place on Lighthouse Ave.? Definitely decent!

There's a Mediterranean market on Lighthouse Ave. called International Market & Deli which I think also had an OK falafel? It's been ages since I ate there though, so not sure if it's changed in the intervening decades.

Figures that Monterey's first all vegan restaurant (El Cantaro on Foam Street) opened after I moved out of the area.

Growing up in that area, Tillie Gort's (which is now gone, but was also on Lighthouse) was a hippie haven with lots of vegan options at least.

@ariadne As someone who used Adamantix way back in the day, good luck on upstreaming that kind of stuff.

You'll probably need it.

@mwl Roger Ebert passed away in 2013.

The author of that article, is Matt Zoller Seitz.

I have no idea why Roger Ebert's personal domain is being exploited after his death. It seems, disrespectful to understate it.

I was intrigued by Megapolis though I didn't think it was a great movie I am grateful it took some risks and it felt less formulaic than a lot of schlock in theaters. Maybe I just like Aubrey Plaza a lot and was grateful to see her on screen more?

I really didn't like Joker: Folie à Deux. There are so many better musicals and BATMAN franchise installments and IMHO, not many worse ones.

What's sad is that many people seem to be so ignorant that they don't even realize that libre/free open source software existed BEFORE the FSF/GNU existed.

How many poured one out for Cynbe Ru Taren (aka Jeff Prothero) when he passed away in 2016?

His website, is still up (Please ignore the SSL warning, dead people don't renew certs so "The certificate for muq.org expired on 3/24/2024.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE" is pretty pointless):

https://muq.org/~cynbe/cynbe.html

Of particular interest to "hacker" sorts (as much as that term has become demeaned, Cynbe was of its original sense) might be The Hacker's Code:

https://muq.org/~cynbe/hackers-code.html

@fujiwara I watched the Bocchi the Rock movie(s) the other day.

So hilarious! I guess I need to catch up on the manga and episodic series next.

@skinnylatte @SRDas I'd steer clear of Dubai and UAE personally given that slavery is sanctioned there and I've read too many horror stories about foreigners being lured there with the promise of good paying work only to find themselves trapped.

Admittedly, such perils aren't unique to UAE/Dubai. Slavery is still sanctioned in the USA and it's probably not coincidental that billionaires such as fElon Musk have chosen both the USA and UAE as places to do business.

There's also fictional retellings of similar perils in films such as 孤注一掷「Gū Zhù Yī」(English title: "No More Bets") about white collar techies being lured abroad and forced to work for online gambling "fraud factories" inspired by thousands of real world tragedies.

There's tons of bad advice online.

Like the morons who said high paid techies with jobs in Silly Con Valley should live in San Francisco in the early blog days, because there's "more to do on SF". Or the bigger morons who claimed it was more cost effective to work in SF but rent in Las Vegas and commute by plane.

Minmaxing capitalism to try to make the most money for oneself with abject disregard for one's surroundings is not even fun in a video game. In real life, it's disastrous, like pouring fuel on the gentrification fires.

Still, doesn't stop people from sharing their bad takes online. Nothing ever stops that.;(