To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes

In other words, explain what you’ll be doing to add censorship to your platforms.

They really could not have picked a worse demographic to try that on. Not only do online gamers despise censorship and policing, their vocal minority is known for being extremely toxic and unrelenting. The icing on the cake is that a good number of them are right-wing, too.

Have fun dealing with the shitstorm you’re about to create!

Remove half of the context and it finally becomes accurate:

No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard.

Hypocrisy is a demonstration of weakness in accepting fault and/or being able to justify one’s position in the face of contradicting evidence.

The only reason it manages to work for him is because his followers are the manifestation of confirmation bias and are willfully ignorant about anything he says or does that they don’t agree with.

Saying they are complicit suggests they’re quietly looking the other way. If you look at our good friends at Fox or Newsmax, they are enthusiastically going whole-hog into it.

People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.

It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

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• #1: A code editor designed for AI
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• #2: Messaging app (no AI)
• #3: Note taking and planning software… with AI.
• #4: Screen recording software (no AI)
• #5: Visual Studio Code extension for using AI to write internal tooling.
• #6: Project management software (no AI?)
• #7: A web interface for using AI models.
• #8: A note-taking app (no AI)
• #9: AI-based workflow automation software.
• #10: Yet another AI code editor.
• #11: A bookmark manager… with AI.
• #12: A collaboration software suite (no AI)
• #13: A different note-taking app (no AI)
• #14: AI-powered social media management.
• #15: AI personal assistant.
• #16: Markdown-based wiki software (no AI)
• #17: Rich text wiki software (no AI)
• #18: A third note-taking app (no AI)
• #19: A LLM interface.
• #20: AI-powered personal finance tool.

Over half of the first 20 items focus on AI, and that’s not even considering the ads.

They blamed the freeze on windmill farms, for fucks sake.

They would fit right in with Don Quixote. Or the other way around. It doesn’t really matter which way, actually—both of those options are a bad look.

Of course. The need for Epstein’s clients generous donors to help fund the 2028 campaign is “greater than ever now.”

Or brainwashed by leftists. The idea of a Republican harming a Republican seems to short-circuit them, like a robot with a paradox.

They won’t because they’d rather play the victim

I often find myself in political discussions with Republican voters, for some of them, this is spot on.

One of the most flawed arguments I have heard is that the Republican Party wants to release the Epstine files, but they can’t because of the Democrats.

When I pointed out that they control all branches of government, and the only way they Democrats would be able to prevent them from doing that is if elected Republican representatives chose to vote against it, I was told it was still the Democrats fault… because they would cancel and persecute anyone even remotely associated with the people on that list.

The ones who still support their party’s leadership and direction are clearly master gymnasts im dodging accountability and performing as the victim. It’s not the Republicans’ fault— It’s the Democrats fault. And when it’s not the Democrats’ fault, it’s still the Democrats fault, but for a different reason.

No, no. Didn’t you read what they said?

The Treasury Department is rolling back efforts to shut down aggressive strategies used by America’s biggest multinational companies and wealthiest people.

It’s only the Exceptional Elons who they’re excusing from fulfilling their tax duties. The Average Joe is still fair game to draw and quarter over an unpaid quarter.

/s, but what I said is probably actually true.

Frankly insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars that can be trivially stolen like this.

The governments should be, too.

Instead, some countries are taking the approach of banning Flipper Zeros or restricting their sale instead. That’s like outlawing flathead screwdrivers because you can use them to pop improperly-installed doors off of their hinges.

It’s on the car manufacturers to fix their poor security, not on tool suppliers to not make tools.

Worst bossrun so far was probably the judge which was only like 2 screens when you think about it.

I found that run back to be infuriating at first, but it quickly stopped mattering once I realized that you don’t need to kill everything on the path over and are for the most part better off just running past the enemies.

Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.

There’s one trap that actually is pretty strong if you know how to abuse it.

I’m not going to spoil where or how to get it, but flying beetles that home in on the enemy and repeatedly bump into it to deal damage can be pretty busted… especially when they still attack during phase change animations that stop the player from moving.

That’s new. Always good to see them add more ways to customize it.

Does Steam Deck not have rpm-ostree (or an arch equivalent since RPM is fedora-specific)?

Steam Deck has a custom solution involving an A/B partition scheme of immutable btrfs filesystems and overlayfs for layering changes on top of that.

Also, what about distrobox?

If there’s a way to install containerization software with Flatpak, maybe. Docker isn’t available out of the box, though.

I haven’t really tried to do anything package manager-related on my Deck, so I’m going on what I know from Bazzite, but there are several ways to install non-flatpak software on it. In fact, I even installed yay on an Arch distrobox, and I can install things from the AUR (as well as the official repositories).

You can use pacman, but it’s volatile and requires making intentional changes to restore its functionality.

The first option is to disable the read-only flag on the root filesystem, then set pacman back up so it can pull packages. Whenever the root filesystem image is updated, you’ll lose the changes, though.

The second option is to add an overlayfs to persist the changes in a different partition or inside a disk image on the writable storage. There was a tool called “rwfus” that did this, and it worked well enough if you were careful. If you ended up upgrading a package that came installed on the base image, though, it would end up breaking the install when the next update came around.

With all the caveats, when Valve made /nix available as a persistent overlay a couple of years ago, I just bit the bullet and learned how to use Nix to install packages with nix-env -i.

Don’t forget the Mach heritage! Darwin is the mutt of kernels.

Fun fact: if you have a Steam Deck, Nix (the package manager) is pretty much the only vendor-approved way to safely install extra packages that aren’t otherwise available as a flatpak.

Trying to screw with overlayfs to make pacman usable is/was a thing, and it was a very good way to break the OS install despite it having atomic updates.

Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new ‘I use arch btw’.

“I use Nix btw”

Rolls off the tongue in the same way. And, honestly, “I use Arch btw” just isn’t the same hipster know-it-all contrarian meme that it used to be. It has a graphical installer now, and a popular retail device (the Steam Deck) comes with a user-friendly derivative of it installed out of the box.

Meanwhile, NixOS has a huge learning curve that’s off-putting to most non-technical users and even Linux hobbiests. I mean, really—having to configure everything through a functional programming language masquerading as a configuration file format? That’s just the kind of thing that would attract masochists and pedants!

I use Nix btw.

Conservapedia? No.

Truth-Pedia would be more this admin’s style. If they’re not personally profiting off of it as well, it’s not a good replacement.