CrackedLinuxISO

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CrackedLinuxISO ,

Ever used org-roam? It's org-mode plus obsidian features. Absolutely love it.

Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins ( www.pbs.org )

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, began on Monday. ...

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Seems like the case is about inherently addictive features of the website, and not about hosted content.

the lawsuit claims that this was done through deliberate design choices made by companies that sought to make their platforms more addictive to children to boost profits. This argument, if successful, could sidestep the companies' First Amendment shield and Section 230

CrackedLinuxISO ,

You make a good point, and one that I didn't necessarily consider.

Maybe it's naïveté, but I do still imagine this case could be hypothetically won without trampling section 230. Mostly because we have actual evidence that Meta designs their products to be harmful: Whistleblower leaks and books hace clearly demonstrated that management works to juice profits at the cost of users. Eg: Collecting data about users with body-image issues and selling it to beauty advertisers. When you can point to actual emails between decision-makers saying "Ignore this problem, it makes too much money for us to solve", I'd hope the case would revolve around not letting people prioritize shitty business decisions at the cost of people. Then theoretically, as long as you don't have a bunch of lemmy mods coordinating similar practices, the case wouldn't apply to them.

Hmm, now that I type it out, that's definitely a naïve take. I don't expect to see actual justice against corporations in the USA any time soon.

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Your profile looks fine to me. Viewed from a web client.

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Wizards 1977

I love the cheap rotoscoped WW2 footage. I love the animation (and the backgrounds!). I like the plot, and I disagree with people who think it's dumb that Blackwolf's secret weapon for organizing the armies of evil is literal fascist propaganda. I love the scene where all the fairy armies get wrecked in trench warfare.

I also love the ending:

spoiler

Instead of getting into a big magical fight with Blackheart, Avatar just fucking shoots him before he's ready.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the 55-year-old father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him.

...save him...

for themselves

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Implication from the readme is that the lego island decomp does indeed need original assets:

The simplest way to use the recompiled binaries is to swap the original executables (ISLE.EXE, LEGO1.DLL, and CONFIG.EXE) in LEGO Island's installation directory for the ones that you've built from this source code.

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Prerequisites

Those look like build prerequisites. Many decomp projects do not need original game assets at build time, just runtime.

and after that...

cdpath and diskpath registry keys [...] point to the correct location for the asset files

I read this as another implication that original game files are required. Otherwise, why would you need a registry key telling the new game engine where to look for assets? The /assets file in the git repo contains only 3 pngs of icon images. There's no way they've secretly bundled a whole game's worth of models and textures in the codebase.

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In the US it's up to individual states to set laws that require breaks.

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Fucking insane, and very sad.

I recall that during the cold war, US intelligence agencies were worried that American hams might be sending secrets to amateurs in the USSR. They commissioned some report and the findings were basically "The only thing these nerds talk about are signal reports and radio equipment".

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I'm in the habit of shredding everything.

a) It's so fun to watch a stack of mailers turn into confetti

b) Deniability. If I only shred important documents, then all my shredded trash is now important. If I shred everything, nobody knows how much of it is important.

Mostly A though. I'm not yet worried about someone trying to reconstruct my shredded trash.

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Seconding the other user's recommendation of an unmanaged switch.

If your goal is to add more ethernet devices to your network, adding an unmanaged switch to your router is the simplest way to do it. Anything plugged into the switch will operate on the same network as your router and, as a pure hardware solution, it will never need software maintenance.

If your goal is to learn how to build a router-oriented linux install from scratch, then go ahead with your original plan.

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I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity

What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.

One of the engineers said something like: "When we seal this up with so much concrete, there's no way you're getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they've exhausted all other natural sources"

And then there's a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste "for all time", and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.

CrackedLinuxISO ,

I liked it. I thought the action was pretty good and Jared Leto worked well. Setting aside my IRL feelings about the "AI" industry, the film had me caring about Ares and the future of programs like him. Whether intentional or not, I thought that the plot connected to how governments IRL are trying to turn "AI" into tools of hate.

Going into the film, I was a bit surprised that there was no real connection between it and Tron Legacy. I though the whole plot about Isos being advanced programs would have some relation to Ares, but it's not even brought up.

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A good friend of mine is quitting their (once) dream fed job, counting down the remainder until their last day. They work for the government to enforce engineering safety standards, but can no longer stomach the gutting of safety regulations that their department manages. Upon raising ethical concerns, they got dragged into a room with lawyers who relayed a parable about ethics. The lesson was: Be "a good soldier" and ignore safety regulations if you're told to do so.

I go to work everyday and feel like a mail clerk in the Death Star

- My friend to me

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Pedantry:

I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I'm just not allowed to consume them myself.

No bar is going to eject someone just because they're buying drinks for other people.

CrackedLinuxISO ,

When the game tells you something is urgent, it’s usually lying. You have all the time in the world, and nothing to fear from a long rest.

The only exception to this that I encountered was in the underdark. You take a boat to an area with an optional quest to rescue some gnomes (or dwarfs?). Forget exactly what I did (long rest, or taking the boat back again) but the gnomes had outlived their usefulness by the time I got back to them.

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Solarized gang rise up!

If I don't want to be blinded by my screen, I either turn the monitor brightness down or the ambient lighting up.

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Does this mean it should be possible to have 30 simultaneous JS8Call transmissions on a single SSB CB channel?

Yes. If you play around with JS8Call, you'll notice that the UI picks a frequency offset from the SSB band and parks itself there. If you move the offset frequency to be near other traffic, the messages from nearby offsets will auto-populate in the yellow text box.

Do people have to transmit after each other or can they transmit at the same time while being spaced out within the the same channel?

Data frames are synchronized to 15 second time windows (I think). You can transmit during the same window as anyone else, as long as you're not both on the same frequency offset.

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Problem is that if you use white text on dark background, the bugs will be attracted to your code.

Meanwhile, when I use dark text on a white background, the bugs are only attracted to whitespace. Easily removed with a linter.

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I appreciate that the definition of the does not contain the word the.

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Protos reporting on the bet indicates that this unknown person had been building a position since December. The list of people who knew so far in advance must be smaller.

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I like analog clocks because they're usually more decorative than digital clocks. If I'm going to hang a clock in a room (and I will, because I hate not knowing what time it is) then chances are high that I'll get some cool artsy analog.

A collection of easy-to-use tools developed by a radio amateur for use by anybody with an interest in designing and building their own lightweight portable wire antennas for the HF amateur bands. ( portable-antennas.com )

Such antennas are primarily to be used in person-portable / rucksack-portable activations of parks, hills and mountains, islands and lighthouses in the various amateur radio outdoor award schemes. They would also be ideal for Field-Day operations, either as the main antenna for a single-op entry, or as an alternative antenna for ...

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These are really cool! I've been meaning to get a 6m antenna ever since I got my IC-705. Now that this page has taught me about the hentenna, I think I might build one.

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Not sure if you're making a joke, but that's also the conclusion of this video:

ChatGPT was trained on mandela-effect data (reddit posts) talking about emojis that don't really exist. When asked about these specific emojis, its text prediction is primed to answer that they exist, but it cannot substatiate that prediction by outputting the non-existing emoji.

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Everett on his best behavior. A rare one.

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I was AMAB (Assigned Marketing At Business school) and coming out as sales was really stressful. I'm glad someone understands.

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I've heard people say "the wee hours of the night" to refer to time between midnight and dawn.

I think one of the reasons that there's not a good word for that in English is because it's the time anyone is least likely to be awake, so there's not much reason to talk about it. And then by the time humans built enough lights to do something worthwhile at 02:00, we also had clocks and started to describe that period in reference to clock readings.

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The story I heard was that Kopi Luwak was discovered by Indonesian slaves working Dutch coffee plantations. They weren't allowed to drink the coffee they farmed, but they were allowed to pick through civet dung and gather coffee that way.

Once the Dutch learned what the slaves were doing and tried it for themselves, they determined it tasted better than their own terrible brew methods and declared it a delicacy. Then the slaves were left with nothing.

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It is on by default, but can be disabled in your repo config: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html

The feature works by adding a flag to one random http request to a fedora repo every week. Fedora then aggregates the http logs that have been flagged to derive their metrics. You can opt out of sending the flag, but if you're querying fedora repos then you still end up in their http log.

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His full name is Theodore Grinch, but his friends (numbering 0) call him The.

CrackedLinuxISO ,

Not my absolute favorite epic (probably that would Lawrence) but I haven't seen Master and Commander mentioned in this thread.

Watching it for the first time, I could almost understand why people put up with so much danger and hardship to sail around the world. But then you think about it longer, and it's nice to not have your arm blown off by a cannon when you're 10 years old.

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He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

Doesn't want to do that? Just like how 6 months ago, Sam Altman said he didn't want OpenAI to do adult content? Hopefully I'm overreacting, but I'm worried more about this kind of thinking than an AI feature.

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Good. The combat was one of the weaker parts of D:OS2.

  • Late-game damage sponge enemies.
  • There are fundamentally two enemy types: weak to physical and weak to magic.
  • Goddamn cursed ground where you waste source points blessing it only for an enemy to re-curse it next turn.
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I use a PiKVM to manage my server at boot.

It streams video from the HDMI port so I can see what's happening before boot, and plugs into a USB socket to emulate a remote keyboard.

Saved me the other week when I installed a new network card and the server lost its network connection. Since I could still reach the KVM, I logged in remotely and solved the issue.

Although some KVM devices can take power from the USB connection to the host, you should make sure your KVM has an independent power supply. Otherwise, when you shut down your server, the KVM will lose power and then you can't remotely turn it back on again.

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My friend told me this story from his antique radio club:

One club member is an audiphile and a former vibrations engineer for automotive companies. He disassembled his speakers and arranged custom housing for the drivers such that, based on his preferred listening spot, the peak of an average waveform from every driver would synchonize exactly at the spot where his ears should be. This, according to him, produces an unbeatable sound. We're talking about opening a speaker and moving its tweeter, like, half a millimeter back.

No, I don't understand how this is supposed to work, let alone consistently.

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    CrackedLinuxISO ,

    Played system shock 2 for the first time in January.

    Joining with The Many didn't sound like such a bad deal.

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    git commit --amend --author="Automated CI Action <[email protected]>" --no-edit

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    I love movies with abstract imagery and themes. Usually I can piece things together and figure out what the film is trying to say, but not Megalopolis.

    Like, what was Megalopolis (the in-film construction project) supposed to represent? It was one guy's vision for a better future that he was going to build no-matter what. Fine! But then Adam Driver's character makes a big speech at the ribbon ceremony about how we need to start a conversation about the future. What conversation? The guy never listened to anyone else during the film! Maybe his wife?

    Why was everything wrapped up in the names and imagery of late Roman republic? To imply that American society is reaching an end of its current unsustainable phase. Ok, but then you name Adam Driver's character after the guy who turned Rome into a militarist principate. So what better future should we be looking towards?

    What was the whole deal with Carthage, the crumbling Soviet satellite which destroyed part of the city? The Megalopolis project only got underway when the destruction cleared out a chunk of New Rome, so are we to assume that our bold conversation about the futute can only happen when the once-forgotten ghost of Communism smashes America? But then the satellite's crash has no impact on anything except some buildings. The mayor doesn't face any problems as leader during or after this disaster, and the MAGA-coded villains don't really change tactics either. Adam Driver's plans are obviously helped by this, but he already had buy-in from the Mayor. It's not like the disaster was some catalyst for change, but rather a convenience so we don't have to watch Adam Driver finger-snap another building demolition.

    Megalopolis threw a lot of ideas on the screen, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never arrived.

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    You can use devcontainers without vscode. At work, I use https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

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    I had to look up what possible edible someone might confuse with a death cap.

    Apparently there's an Asian mushroom that can be confused with death caps. The secret to not confusing it with a death cap is knowing it doesn't grow in the US. I wonder if this is AI identification going amok, or if there are people from Asia who are foraging it and not realizing the problem until too late.

    A sad reminder to make sure your foraging guide is tailored to the area you are in.

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    Bladerunner 2049

    [Solved] How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?

    Hi all, I'd like some help with setting up Linux for gaming, I'm not a new user but I'm not expert either, I've been having problems with my current setup, before I had Bazzite 42 which worked perfectly, however I was afraid things would eventually break over with that layering thing, since I use some things like Pale Moon which ...

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    I know it's late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I've never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.

    My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I've been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn't hit the repos yet.

    Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it's a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I've found it's often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.

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    ban trangender soldiers

    surprised pikachu when they lose a lot of cybersecurity talent

    inb4 they double down and ban furries too

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    I. Drank. Your. Prune juice!

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    Looks like she's waving a crab over its head