Then call out the bullshit, don’t just call the whole thing bullshit with nothing to back it up. That just makes you look like a cynical asshat.

I too, enjoy plugging a USB-C to A adapter into my Android phone so I can use an ethernet to USB adapter. :P

More seriously, two of the hard requirements of my house was fiber connection available from the ISP to the house and wired ethernet to the major rooms.

Wasn’t going to, as it’s just a lazy day home caring for a probably sick toddler. She sounded awful when she woke up, but now after medicine and time sounds and is acting fine. Besides being the hungriest two year old in the world. Wonders of youth.

But I realized I was getting slightly more frustrated with her normal toddler antics than I should be (she’s at the age of testing rules and boundaries), so I took them a few hours ago. Better now.

Don’t be like me. If you’re supposed to take psychoactive meds regularly, ones that have effects on your mood and emotional response to things, don’t just fucking skip them out of laziness. It’s not fair to put the people around you or yourself through having to deal with a worse/less controlled version of yourself due to laziness or lack of enough self control to just take your damn meds. You’ve been perscribed them to help you, use the help. If they arenct helping, go talk to your Dr.

The neat thing is that it depends on the direction you stroke them. In one direction it is very abrasive, but in the opposite it feels very smooth.

Well, what are you doing about it?

What part did you miss about “off grid”?

More than 15 years ago I ended up with one of those in a C++ program.

I’m sure the real ssue was somewhere else in the code, but if I removed one specific comment (or maybe it was a print to console, it was forever ago) it would segfault, otherwise it ran fine.

Sounds like it’s on its last legs, especially if one of the partitions locked up file explorer to that degree. Too much messing with it could kill it for good.

Your best bet would be to do a low level backup of the whole drive using something like dd. That’s a Linux utility, but I believe there are open source equivalents that you can run on Windows. You might see them called sector level backup tools. Basically, they don’t care how fucked a drive is, they won’t try to make any sense of it, they’ll just copy it exactly to a .ISO file. Corruption and all. That should be the last time you actually plug the physical drive in.

Then make a copy of the ISO file to tinker with without risking losing any data. You can always go back to the original ISO copy if you fuck something up.

There are a ton of different tools you could use to attempt to recover data from that ISO, but the first step is to make sure you aren’t trying to build your workbench on top of a time bomb.

You can look this shit up you know. 3 yachts each retrofitted into marine research vessels and one under construction as another research vessel. Two “support vessels” whatever the fuck that means. The one under construction will house 75 scientists. His marine research company, inkfish, releases all findings publicly and for free.

But nobody knows this shit because he isn’t burning money on a fucking PR firm.

Two yachts for pleasure, which is entirely two yachts too many.

Look, he’s sitting upon an empire largely propped up by the fucking invention of lootboxes, the marketing of them to children and whales, and all the second and third hand markets and gambling sites that have sprung up around this shit. I’m not going to sit around and suck his dick.

But inkfish isn’t even the only “public good” organization he’s founded. And he’s also just directly donated money to existing things as well, such as considerable money into pediatric ICU in New Zealand.

On the scheme of ultra rich, he is one of the better ones.

Edit: Especially if we’re putting Gabe Newell up against Tim “banning Twitter because it allows AI generation of CSAM is gatekeeping” Sweeney

Re-read the title. considering halting plans to. They aren’t using them yet.

As others have said, I guarantee there are movements and organzing happening in your area.

Don’t be the person shouting that others aren’t doing enough when you aren’t doing more than complain online.

Use this energy. It’s kind of hilarious that you’re complaining about how people are fighting amongst themselves while you’re doing it too.

Some people have to focus on survival, and don’t have the energy to do more. That’s by design. Intentional design by those in power. So if you have that energy, go do for them. Work with unions and local lawmakers to improve conditions for the people living paycheck to paycheck instead of trying to shame them into just magically having more energy after ensuring they’ll be able to eat and have a place to stay.

Huh? I’m having no issues with vsCode, and while I haven’t used Discord in ages I didn’t have problems with it either. Both are electron. Got any links about these issues handy?

That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.

Don’t rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.

If you think that any nation-state with the money to implement this shit isn’t doing it already, I have a bridge to sell you.

Surveillance is a matter of power and maintaining it, far more than any ideological thing. There are already people being caught by this sort of shit in the UK and Europe as well.

While making this easier to access isn’t a positive, there are a ton of ways that this can, and already is, being done at companies that actually care about this shit.

Yeah you’re totally in the office, but your laptop just magically has an IP from the subnet for devices connected over VPN 🙄

Once again I must insist that people need to stop expecting any privacy on work devices. It is possible to find out anything on them, including location, it’s just a matter of how much effort your workplace is willing to expend on looking.

Edit: While I appreciate the article being short and to the point, a link to any documentation on this would have been nice. The claim is that it will display the SSID of the Wi-Fi AP you’re connected to. While being able to get that from your phone is a new bit of reach, it’s possible to gather that from work devices easily.

Altman realizes most people outside of third world countries aren’t ready to just hand over their biometrics for cash, so he’s come up with a new way to get people to give them to him. Hooray.

I don’t get how anyone can trust a fucking word out of this guy’s mouth.

It’s only a thing if you leave smartscreen on. Think it might also only apply to stuff downloaded through Edge, but don’t quote me on that.

It’s also important to bear in mind that at early ages, conversation doesn’t really work. You still do it, because eventually it will sink in, but a certain amount of it is more for the parent than it is for a toddler.

My daughter is two and a half. She’s better than I expected her to be about listening, but if she’s already tantruming it’s usually less distressing to her to just say no. Gives her less to fuss in response to.

When she’s calm, depending on a number of factors we might be able to talk her through it. We always try. But we’re also going to be talking her through it countless times until she gets it.

Depends on the program. I’ve got a handful of that old on CDs that still install fine. Checked when I was backing them up to ISO. There’s little bits of weirdness and unintended behavior while running them now, but they still install and run to a fairly acceptable degree.

That experience varies wildly though. Wine tends to handle things better and more consistently.

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