I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said “Well that’ll never go anywhere”. I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn’t find where the wallet ended to. I think it’s gone, now.

I’m glad to see i’ve been pronouncing it right all these years.

Same :o

It’s kind of embarrassing they still don’t have this tbh.

People should use better sources and call out the ADL when it’s used but they’re right on this. This information predates their current madness.

The SPLC’s information is, unfortunately, nowhere near as comprehensive but they also list it. As does Wikipedia.

Anyone using “Austria 88” knows exactly what they’re doing. No way you put that together by chance.

Which would probably go poorly for us, see: Bush v Gore. A bunch of the lawyers from that case are now on the Supreme Court.

It’s funny how git was carefully designed to be decentralized and resistant to failure from any single node… and we immediately put all our fault tolerance on the back of one corporate-owned entity. Welp.

Water bowls are stagnant water and animals can sense that and do not like it. In nature, stagnant water is dangerous and kind of a last resort. Heck, even humans can taste this and probably don’t like it. Try leaving a bowl of water out for 24 hours and drink it yourself, you might be able to tell it’s not good.

Fountains keep that water tasting fresh, though tbh they might fill it with micro plastics or something so who knows if it’s really an improvement.

I hope that’s true.

The whole experience was carefully tuned to be fun.

Quake does.

We recently got a demonstration of that with the “spicy pager” attack Israel pulled. A laptop could be even more devastating.

Generally i don’t think they catch too many people this way. If they had they certainly would have been talking that up during the Bush administration when they were looking for anything they could find to hype up the terrorist threat but they barely ever had anything to show for it. Some shoe bomb thing that didn’t even work, i guess.

Meanwhile, it’s well known that this stuff fails to catch weaponry and other dangerous objects regularly. I could link a story but i, myself, experienced this once: I forgot to take a 4" knife out of my backpack before flying and sure enough, they didn’t find it even though they “randomly selected” me for a manual search. (They were too distracted by the multiple laptops and phones is my only guess, but the knife was buried in there deep and i didn’t find it when packing either.)

I didn’t even notice until i was already at my destination and so i didn’t have much choice but to bring it back through security a second time and hope they didn’t catch it. Sure enough, they missed it the second time.

Fundamentally, the TSA is an organization that tries to replace skill and attention with technocratic rules following but you’ll never have a successful security operation that way. This isn’t the fault of the people doing the work, they’re treated like McDonald’s employees but they’re being asked to hassle everyone safeguard our flights. The primary motivating factor for this appears to be fear–both fear of bad things happening and a desire to instill that fear in others. That is also not an effective organizing principle for a security operation.

Why the tracking, then? That’s simple: it, too, is theater but it’s also a form of control. It gives the state more insight into and control over our personal lives.

That’s not affected by the relatively serious issues plaguing more recent Intel CPUs so it’s probably fine. If it was the more recent generations, there are some major and probably physical defects causing problems for those.

Using json for IPC but a binary format for log files sounds insane to me, but alright.

Nuclear war has been mentioned a couple times but i feel it deserves elaboration: We’ve been real fucking close a couple times. There was a Soviet “nuclear counterattack station”, or whatever, that got the “nuclear strike detected, fire retaliatory missiles” signal and the person responsible simply refused. The signal was due to a glitch, there was no attack. That guy probably saved millions and millions of lives by refusing to carry out his duty.

If you consider (potential) timelines being “close” to ours in terms of only a small number of things needing to change to get us there, the one where everything went to nuclear hell is very close to ours–but we’re not in that one.

For running applications: in addition to Flatpak (which is “cross platform” in that it works on most/all distros) there’s also Appimage. Appimage is the most like downloading a Windows application (technically it’s even more Mac-like) because you download a self contained program that just works. Not every application has a Flatpak or Appimage option, though.

I believe Xbox One controllers work if wired or fully Bluetooth out of the box, but if you use the dongle you need some software to handle it. I use “zone”, it’s kind of a pain to set up but honestly no more than (say) the Windows software to get PlayStation controllers working.

Protondb is primarily concerned with Proton, Valve’s customized version of Wine, so by default that means games run through Steam. (Of which there is a native Linux client.) If you want to use other games, ex ones that require EA’s launcher thing, then a tool to help make that happen is Lutris. It will help manage your games and launchers and customized Wine installs, including some automatic tweaks to make things work better (or at all). Steam gets official developer support for Linux so it’s generally the easiest experience.

Well there’s no way to fact check this so i guess it’ll have to stand.

Blue check on Twitter… Someone who’s paying $10/mo to the world’s richest person has an overinflated sense of importance… well… What’re you gonna do?