Honestly the bigger take away from all this IMO is the automated decompiling stuff. Like… kind of a good use case for the word guessing machine. It’s tedious but easily verifiable, kind of a perfect use case.

like being able to decompile a game to mod it more easily is cool and all, but like, that’s probably gonna be a lot more disruptive to other more significant things than video game modding.

I think he’s been a little fooled by them, that or he’s playing their game and beating them over the head with it.

The crux of the issue is that what the platforms want to be, and the reason many people want to use them are misaligned.

A chronological feed makes no sense for a content delivery system, where the goal is to maximize the fit of the presented content to the interest of a user from a huge number of content creators. But it makes perfect sense if the goal is for a user to keep appraised of the lives of people they care about and be aware of events and situations with in that limited group. If someone spams or clogs up the feed with nonsense then people can tell them to nock it off, or mute them.

The problem is that every “social network” site inevitably jumps to try and become a “content delivery system” because it promises greater engagement from the existing user base, and thus growth. Users are trapped by inertia and network effects and forced to engage with a content delivery system they didn’t sign up for, assuming they don’t just leave because the utility of the platform as a social network is gone. By forcing companies to offer an option of a chronological feed, it gives them a choice on how they want to use the platform.

When people ask me about music I just say “I don’t really listen to much music”

I know they’re trying to develop a conception or me, I recognize that they’re trying to get an idea of who I am, trying to start a conversation but I also know they will not draw any meaningful information from the answers I could give. Not because what i like is “too sophisticated and they just wouldn’t get it” but because my taste is completely incoherent. My taste is obscure and trash, and each listened facet is tonally dissonant from the last.

The difference is that previous admins have just abused it much more sparingly because they knew that it would undermine the regime’s legitimacy if those powers got to much attention.

They donated to a bunch of different Linux projects. A few were run by shitty people, notably hyperland. They didn’t really handle the discussion about it well.

Some of that may have been fixed since last time you tried. Like, stuff is moving really fast right now. A lot of things that used to be stand alone fixes have been upstreamed.

Debian derived distros tend to move a lot slower (for the sake of iron clad stability), so even if something was fixed a year ago it might not be fixed in Mint, Ubuntu or the like.

Arch based distros like catchy will show what’s working right now.

Again, like, it still might not be to a point where you feel comfortable with it as a daily driver, but it’s still worth checking on from time to time, just to see if the issues you had have been fixed.

“Investigation reveals that many people think using an automated system to commit cyber crime some how absolves them of responsibility.”

“Yah but the non deterministic system just did that all on it’s own… after i told it to do exactly that… and gave it a connection to the internet through which to do it.”

Repeated violations of his rights, no warrants, no formal arrest.

Fuck all the way off. Zero case.

No, it would not be possible, the etching process would destroy extant features on any silicon. There are multiple steps to it and some will destroy the work of the steps that come after, so putting a finished chip through would remove the existing features.

Generally fabrication is done on a circular 300mm wafer, printing a grid of identical chips on it that are then cut out. It would be highly inefficient to do each chip one at a time, doing one small chip or 50 chips at once on one wafer takes the same amount of time and effort.

And the bare silicon left after the first few steps isn’t really worth much. You can go buy a blank high end 300mm wafer for like 81 bucks online. The material value of the silicon is nothing compared to the value of the machine time.

I mean, team fortress two was the first game in the series. Team fortress “1” having been a mod for a different game.

Ah, I hadn’t even considered that Xdotool would be… well for X11. Thanks mentioning this, so I’ll know what the problem is next time I try to use my auto clicker script and it doesn’t work.

X11 and Wayland are the bits that handle windows, mouse inputs and stuff around graphical user interfaces. They’re what makes GUIs work.

X has been around since the 80s and is throughly decrepit and just does not support a lot of modern functionality. If you’ve had some issue with your windows and display being janky or monitors not working properly, it’s probably due to X11. It works for the most part, but there are just a lot of situations where it creates issues.

Wayland fixes a lot off issues because it is built to handle modern situations better. If you want to see an easy example, if you’re on mint with X11, go to settings and set your UI scaling to some uneven value like 136%, you’ll probably see some weird buggy stuff happen. That’s the kind of thing Wayland fixes.

maybe people should vote more strategically in primaries so half the party’s base don’t feel like they’re voting for the lesser of two evils in the general.

People still voting for republicans at this point will not hold their representatives to account over favoring billionaires, it’s a nothing burger as far as they’re concerned, not an issue for the realm of politics.

Democratic voters, as the poll shows, do care and can be convinced to hold their representatives to account, if the representatives ignore it, they are liable to get primaried.

Where is the effort and attention best placed? What is most likely to produce results?

IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE COMPUTER! IT IS A PRICE TAG! THERE IS NO REASON IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO RUN DOOM!

Ezra Klein being on the list is so fucking funny. Like, you telling me the “abundance” guy associates with the “techno monarchy” guy? Shocked I tell you, that the guy who’s proposed ideological concept basically just boiled down to “what if we deregulated stuff further to make economy good?” Is deeply tied to tech oligarchs.

Red hat isn’t a publicly traded company, but they are owned by a publicly traded company (IBM)

Going public just means that the shares will be traded on a public market (stock market) rather than being held privately. So anyone who wants to buy shares can. There are some legal requirements to be publicly traded, largely regarding public disclosure of finances and assets.

The major difference would be that suddenly anyone who wants to have a say in how they are run can buy shares, and if they buy enough shares, they can pressure leadership in to making decisions they would not have otherwise made. also, people buying the shares probably will want to see their shares increase in value, and thus leadership will be pressured to please the stock market hive mind. Potentially it opens them up to a hostile takeover where some outside group buys up enough shares to replaces the leadership with people they want in charge.

I’m constantly getting bot checked these days because I do a lot of stuff when casually browsing to prevent being fingerprinted and tracked between sites. I wonder how often they just mark anyone not making them selves easy to identify as a bot.