I guess, no one NEEDS a video streaming platform.

Nobody NEEDS social media, but when a social media does something harmful, they need to be regulated.

That’d be well and good if they didn’t have a monopoly.

many of which wirh anti cheat, it’s not worth making the switch just yet.

I get that. Shit like that is the only reason I stick with a dual boot.

Also, I got a NAS recently with OpenMediaVault and I only have the time to tinker with one thing at a time :P

I also get that. My self hosted gaming server can be a bit of work sometimes.

Any advice on the switch though, or tools you use lmk!

Two things, I’d go with Linux Mint Debian Edition if I we’re you. I’ve found it to be the most compatible with my games, (like 9 out of 10 or so), and have had zero major issues/glitches with it. Plus it avoids the drauam surrounding ubuntu.

The second thing is to keep a separate “home” partition for your documents/pictures/game saves/etc. Mine is [Name]_STC, with the acronym being a nod to wh40k’s Standard Template Constructs. The idea being it isn’t named something generic like “home”, or worse using the home folder.

And anytime I need to back up shit, I just zip the whole partition and put it on a separate drive. If something happens, I copy my standard template construct.

Why wait?

Good. Now make it work for everyone’s tax situation.

and a majority in Congress

Democrats do not have a super majority, which is a problem thanks to the fillabuster. So the only branch of government the democrats have is the executive, which is not enough to fix things.

Agreed.

Then you have to ask “are my non-US accounts able to be shut down/frozen by the IRS/US?”

The answer is probably no, but not always.

There are edge cases where you still need to pay/file taxes.

Anyway, out come the pitchforks and 50 replies telling you your feelings are invalid and you’re wrong. And should die in a fire.

Are those replies in the room with us? Where is the reply saying they should die in a fire?

Agreed. I have zero regret.

Should’ve been Terry Davis.

Void star labs/Zach Freedman moment

Everything is bigger in Texas

* Except the paycheck

To me it is ridiculous that companies can even own other companies. The only real purpose of doing so is to play shenanigans with regulations, obfuscate responsibility, and generally deceive.

And for the “corps are people” crowd, owning people is wrong.

If they weren’t 10 times as slow I would never fly.

We have the tech for high speed rail, we just refused to build it because of lobbying (bribery), regulatory capture, and forced dependence on cars and planes.

Given that multiple other commenters in the infosec.exchange thread have reproduced similar results, and right wingers tend to have bad security, and LLMs are pretty much impossible to fully control for now, it seems most likely that it’s real.

My first PR at my current job was about 130 files for the front-end, and about 70 for the backend. This hits close to home.

That’s a fair assessment, but I think it’s going to get a whole lot worse.

Before, to the degree that nobody could figure out the truth, it was largely due to lack of information/evidence. The future will instead have evidence manufactured for whatever opinion you like.

I wonder if some kind of hidden visual data could be embedded within AI images - like a QR code that can be read by computers but is invisible to humans.

Said protection would also be hilariously weak. It would be easy for malicious actors to strip/alter the metadata of the image. And embedding the flag in the image itself is something that can be circumvented by using a model that doesn’t apply any flag.

We’re about to live in a world where nobody can tell truth from fiction.