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

No way that holds up when challenged. Gacha games alone prove existing work.

Blocking users is free.

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.

Nope.

512+256=768, 768+64=832… minus 7 for system data and general overhead maybe? That’s my best guess, but that’s a really odd size.

I feel you, but there’s some good news! There’s an indie games team working on a game that’s Air Ride combined with the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure.

Star Garden:

First announcement on the lead dude’s main youtube channel

Kickstarter trailer

More recent video about it on the main dev’s channel

Small caveat: Mods C only get the report if they are users of instance D.

Pretty big flaw in the system imo. That’s why you’ll see mods like Blaze with a ton of alt accounts across multiple instances.

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.

Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.

Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).

Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.

DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they’re explicitly referred to as “free DLC”. Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.

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.

I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.

Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.

My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.

May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…

I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.

I can understand where they’re coming from, but the examples given seem particularly… minor?

Not sure if it’s my privilege showing, or the article author chose examples to make this seem goofy.

The faster sail and having the wind automatically change to be the direction you’re sailing are both features I’ve seen people use with randomizer mods for the GC version, but I don’t know if they’re available without randomizing treasures.

In the bloom-ified remaster OP is playing, there is a double speed sail you can get, and once you get the bombs you can fight an optional mini-boss to get the abilty to warp.

Sailing is still monotonous though, if you aren’t in the mood to just vibe to the music.

They also streamlined the section of the game where you have to search high and low for triforce pieces. It was a hell of a slog in the original GC version.

That’s not photoshopped/edited btw. It’s from a song going through all the fingers on our hands. I believe it’s from the first year/season of the show.