I didn’t know being designed for screen rather than print was woke now

This list is getting long

I mean, you could attach a pi (and a Kafkaesque combination of USB hubs and adapters) to run a ramdisk make a sort of scratch disk ChristNAS

That’s a bit sad

They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time

The chances of a true philanthropist beating out the psychopaths currently at the top of the chain, is basically nil. They will always fight dirtier.

You need to ensure a government can exert power over the largest organisations in its country. If that ever becomes an issue, the organisation might start behaving as a de facto government of its own and start treating the actual government as a vassal.

Basically we need to kick corporatist politicians out of our governments before they finish rolling out the red carpet for the end of democracy, and start chopping up and/or nationalising these proto-megacorps. If only a few control the tools that put us all out of work, we’re not getting anything close to utopia.

And I suppose I’ll continue my plan of staying the hell away until this administration is long gone

This feels pretty hard to enforce, are they gonna let people self select what they provide or are they perhaps going to give a list of services to give accounts for? The latter would have me looking either like a ghost that disappeared about 7 years ago (for most public social media) or one that disappeared about 3 years ago (if Reddit is included)

What happens to people who don’t use social media at all? Are they going to be treated with suspicion?

Hmm, well the latter part is still standard monitor controls (contrast, brightness, colour temperature)

For the former, limiting how fast brightness can change would effectively be the same as a poor pixel response time. This tends to manifest as image ghosting past a certain point and is usually seen as pretty undesirable given it means you lose a lot of detail around anything in motion

You’re describing image contrast, high contrast pushes the pixel intensity out to the extremes (black & white), low contrast pushes it to the middle* (grey).

I’m pretty sure every monitor I’ve ever used has a setting for it, which is about as close to the end of the pipeline as you’re going to get.

*The brightness setting means it might not actually be a middle grey

I’m not recommending it, I’m describing why saying it adds no security is silly.

The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn’t mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user

If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it’s still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.

Well boot sector viruses used to be all the rage in the 90s, they’re entirely impossible under secure boot

Malware rootkits were a pretty big problem about a decade ago, I understand the techniques those mostly used are more or less impossible under secure boot now too

Then we could go into all the government and adjacent industry use cases where state-sponsored targeted attacks are a real concern. Measures like filling USB ports with super glue and desoldering microphones on company laptops is not unheard of in those circles, so blocking unknown bootloaders from executing is an absolute no brainer.

Saying it provides no security is just not true. Your front door isn’t only secure if someone has failed to break in

You don’t have to

If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you’re particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)

If you don’t care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub

If you don’t want to break the law but also don’t want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys

If that’s still too sketchy there’s the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)

Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.

Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they’re just happy to have users it seems

It technically does add security in that it prevents a load of attack vectors that would dodge most anti malware tools (i.e. the ones before the anti malware tool can start)

But you’re right in that the execution of the idea is unnecessarily painful for Linux

PIF same as everything else

Hmm

My immediate reaction is “stay in your lane, Gabe”

Honestly if the bluesky and Mastodon crowds were federated, a lot of the gaps in the respective communities would be covered

The only other crowd I feel isn’t really represented much is the photography/arty/music crowd that meta seems to have somehow not pissed off enough to cause any large exodus. I’m mostly talking about Instagram, but a chunk of them seem to actually use threads bafflingly

I remember learning about this when they had an area that involved it at the millennium Dome back at the start of the century. Though, I’m not sure if they were actually generating it there at the time and it moved over the river since or if it was just a feed

Cold pizza is a superfood

Got it

Briefly saddened as I thought for a second there was somehow a game involving the YouTuber with the same name (is he still going?)

This looks cool regardless though, will give it a look

Facebook did this shit too when I last had the app installed

You’d get a notification about one of your friends and clicking it just took you to some random brand’s main feed page

The point of life is to enjoy it

You seemingly made the choice to make your life less stressful for about the same compensation as you got before for a stressful job.

I don’t think you need to be particularly smart to understand that’s a pretty great trade off. Just from what you’ve written here, I completely understand your reasoning and it makes complete sense to me.

Your colleagues are giving crabs in a bucket energy. You never agreed to work harder than you need to, you don’t owe it to anyone.

Makes sense, if the US doesn’t like it they can finally join the ICC and make their argument

They might have to stop doing their own war crimes for that though