What’s objectionable about it Apple? Hmm?

git blame-someone-else

You could check the flashpoint archive. It’s a huge community project to archive every flash game that ever was, and to keep them playable.

I’ve found some real old flash games that stuck around in my head like that using it.

I was just listening recently to a podcast that brought up a BGP highjack.

Some people involved with the Pirate Bay got into the BGP router for North Korea and made it look like they were hosted there for a while. Maybe you’re thinking of that?

Relevant clip from the episode as a youtube short. Full episode on Youtube. Episode page on the Darknet Diaries site, with download link, cited sources, and full transcript.

I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.

But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.

There’s been countless studies on this. That’s not how our brains work. After the short term, or a scant few outstanding ones that stay with you, the only thing left long term is the brand recognition. That steers your choices when you buy things.

Put simply, people don’t have the mental capacity to keep a full list of every company that advertised to them in a shitty way in the front of their minds constantly, beside everything else required for daily life.

After Guardian reveals secret spy project.

Put the emphasis on Guardian, reveals, or secret. It’s all valid.

Guardian didn’t reveal a secret here. This just finally got them enough bad PR that it started to effect the bottom line.

Why are you talking like Microsoft didn’t know? They didn’t need “to check” or to “review”. They knew and didn’t care until it started impacting their bottom line.

They didn’t fire those employees because they thought they were wrong. They fired them for making a scene. For drawing public and news media attention to it. To try and stop the protesting employees from influencing even more employees.

This isn’t some “oopsie poopsies, we didn’t know! our bad!” thing.

Beyond what has already been mentioned, there’s the gopher protocol for entirely text based sites.

Meh. I’d rather they have their meeting places out in the light like this than hidden away in the dark web or something.

Just block, defed, move on. No need to feed their narrative of being the last bulwark against the bad guys by dogpiling them. People are allowed to be wrong and you won’t change their minds by storming in all righteous at them anyway. That will just entrench them more.

If you truly want to turn them, there’s plenty of studies and research done on how to actually influence people and change minds. Some of it is even in leaked classified intelligence agency field guides, which is a fun way to end up on a list!

At least a little bit of it is because moving around with large breasts and no bra can be painful if they swing or flop the wrong way. I almost never see this brought up whenever this tired question gets brought up online.

Also would you rather try to lead a one (or few) woman crusade against hundreds of years of social conditioning about what’a sexual or not, while dealing with even more guys being creeps, or would you rather wear a shirt (and a bra) and a skirt and get on with your damn life? You can walk around however you want in your own place.

If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.

This company has illegally installed their cameras in more than one town, then tried to sell the local police force on them.

They have lawyers on staff that they use to coach local politicians on how to hold the votes to establish contracts with them in ways that aren’t technically illegal, but ensure that no community opposition has a way to have their voices heard.

You can find a lot of these sprts of stories by searching online. In local subreddits, ones dedicated to talking about flock, and local news.

Benn Jordan has a good 40 minute video giving an overview of these systems, how they work, what they track, and why they are a problem. He highlights some cases where families were held at gunpoint by police due to failures of these systems. He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.

Louis Rossman is currently leading a campaign against their installation where he lives in Austin, Texas right now. Has a number of videos on it.

Overview before the Austin City Council vote: https://youtu.be/4RM09nKczVs

Call for people to show up at the Austin City Council session to discuss the potential contract with Flock, and showing how difficult it is to find this sort of stuff and be involved with your local government: https://youtu.be/g4vL1ERdZ9Y

Call to action 2: https://youtu.be/hDOmYqlwxD4

Austin City Council reschedules the vote (in a questionably illegal fashion) with less than 24 hours notice when they realize they kicked the hornet’s nest: https://youtu.be/iscDYp6dtl8

Minor followup during the wait for the revised time, at two of the three parks with 90% of reported car break ins these cameras are meant to deter: https://youtu.be/2QbtDWrlPpc

Guess what? They’re trying to find a way to ban trans folks from owning firearms.

Built in… I think 2021? Maybe 2020? Would have been October-ish. It was right as nVidia’s 3000 series came out and no one was able to get ahold of them, or any other GPUs, at MSRP.

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (came with CPU cooler)
• Mobo: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4
• RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
• OS and games that need fast loading drive: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2
• Drive for everything else: WD_BLACK 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
• Also misc USB 3.0 drives, around 20TB total for media, emulation, backups, old games where load speed doesn’t matter, etc.
• GPU: Asus DUAL EVO OC GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Tried to hit a sweet spot on price vs power, and then find the best performing card of that type. But mostly this was just snatching up whatever I could grab at MSRP. No one was getting GPUs when I built it, but I lucked out with an alert from NewEgg)
• Tower: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower (came with two fans)
• PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3
• Additional fans: Two Noctua A14 PWM chromax 82.52 CFM 140 mm

Use case when built: Gaming at 1080p with settings maxed out (or close), pimping old game graphics using reshade, running a home virtual server lab for learning, never having to close out of applications or browser tabs to ensure other programs had enough speed. Programming using RAM hungry IDEs (Jetbrains and VSCode).

Use case now: Mostly the same, but gaming at 1440p (upgraded my monitors) with high frame rates requires bumping down settings at times. Don’t play too many recent AAA games either, so it’s mostly fine for my needs, but the GPU is finally starting to show its age. Thankfully my eyes are pretty “console-ified” so with variable refresh rate I don’t usually notice framerate until it drops below 30. Little less use of the virtual homelab stuff. Still program at home occasionally, but again, not as often anymore. Use as a lazy man’s media server to share media folders to Kodi across the house.

Of course. Funnel all that info to Peter fucking Thiel’s Palantir surveillance company that also has contracts with international law enforcement.

There couldn’t possibly be any problems with funnelling every bit of panopticon into a single billionaire super lobbiest’s hands. Especially one that has openly stated that he doesn’t believe in the continuation of the human race. Who is the closest thing to a real life vampire, regularly getting blood transfusions from healthy young “blood boys” in a hare brained attempt to prolong his own life at all costs.

I find it a massive failure of society as a whole that this fucking charlatan wasn’t laughed out of society in the 2010s when he was doing interviews about the “blood boy” bullshit and all the other crackpot shit he was doing to prolong his life. Absolute fucking ghoul. The people in power value money more than sense.

You could set up a mail forwarding rule in the web client to forward all incoming mail to your primary email.

Nothing quite like dumb workarounds for Microsoft bullshit.

We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.

We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.

Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches.

Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last, with costs growing at a pace where “exponentially” doesn’t feel like an adequate descriptor.

There’s probably lateral improvements to be made, but outside of taping multiple tools together there’s not much evidence for any more large breakthroughs in capability.

Retroarch’s cores are usually multiple revisions behind the standalone versions, as it takes some effort to modify them into cores. The Dolphin core in particular has been pretty notoriously out of date over the years. I would check the Dolphin Wiki entry for the game and see if there’s some settings you need to tweak in the core settings that might be being applied automatically by standalone.

I believe most of the SMS and GG Sonic games have remakes like this now. I know there’s Triple Trouble 16-bit at least,which another good one to check out.