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If you exist in the Social Security records then yes, your personally identifying information has been leaked to unknown actors a minimum of three times.

Whether or not your identity has been properly stolen and used for illegal business is down to luck and pretty much nothing else.

I trust Steam for exactly as long as Gaben is heading it, once he dies or retires all bets are off

RetroArch has the old-school Linux problem of “all the functionality you need, plus all the functionality anyone might ever need, plus all the functionality that no-one needs, all arranged seemingly at random in dozens of menus”

This definitely does happen sometimes, especially these days, but this is explicitly opposite to old-school Linux design principles. A program should do one thing, it should do it well, and it should be able to be plugged in to other processes in order to accomplish whatever this single-purpose program accomplishes. If you want it to do something else, go get/write a different package to do something different. This is actually explicitly stated in the “Unix Philosophy” papers by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, et al.

Literally came here to make this same joke, lmao. Great minds, and all.

Chad mod action

I’m one of the biggest Rowling haters you’ll ever meet but I agree with this comment in its entirety

I’ve got a corsair rainbow barfer and I also had to install its control program manually. Mileage probably varies by manufacturer, most likely.

Wouldn’t matter if they’re never in there anyway

So this fine is being paid to… The French government?

Look, I’m all for trying to punish the corporation for bad practices, but that money should be distributed to the people impacted by those practices, i.e. Joycon owners. Not disappear into the pockets of a regulatory board who had largely nothing to do with this situation and just sees an easy opportunity to profit.

Then you did not speak with programmers regularly, I learned this term probably back in 2008ish

5-10 years ago, you could be pretty sure this was a thing that actually needed checked, since the post about the clutch safety switch was posted by a real person who presumably had the same problem as you and fixed it with this method.

Now, there’s no way to know if that’s actually the case, or if “clutch safety switch” is just a likely string of words to feed someone who is having car trouble. You might get lucky, or you might get sent on eight consecutive goose chases because an LLM fundamentally doesn’t know what factual knowledge is, it only knows how to reorder and regurgitate things that other people have said in other contexts.

I’ve been playing Phoenix Point recently, and while a lot of the game feels a little half baked in comparison with XCOM2, I have found that I really really like their trajectory based shots. Gone are the days of missing a 60% shot on a guy in no cover or missing a 90% shot with the barrel of your gun touching the ayy’s forehead. If they’re in the aiming circle they’re getting shot. On the other hand, getting them inside the circle is a bit more of a project, because shots will hit intervening cover. So you might only have half of an arm and some fingies visible past cover on your target, but if your guy has good aim you can still hit it.

Anyway, good game, I recommend it on sale if you’re an XCOM fan, I bought it at full listing price but I feel it’s probably not really worth that. It’s Julian Gollop (main creator of classic XCOM)'s response to the new-Xcom we got from Firaxis.

GI,GO only matters if people actually stop buying your garbage. It’s becoming pretty overwhelmingly obvious that most people are going to continue buying the garbage no matter how garbage it is, therefore, this is technically cost effective.

Canada has the opportunity to do something very funny

I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve had to dick around with Windows’ command line to make something work. Not to mention registry editing.

Greater than 90% of all Linux software I’ve ever installed has also been as simple as “just install the thing and click Run”. Building a project from source is different, I still struggle with that (anybody want to help me build Ardour?) but that’s a fairly rare necessity, at least for me.

At the very least, fascism, pandemics and gambling are nothing new.

It’s not.

You have an account on a server (instance). That server has an administrator. I have an account on a different server, which has a different administrator. We can speak to each other in the middle from these two separate servers, via federation protocols.

The administrator(s) on your server are loud and proud authoritarians and frequently silence any discussion of general resistance, among other topics that they don’t like. This is not a personal failure on your part; there’s not much way to know about it except to be told or to inspect the mod logs yourself. Now that you’ve been told, though, you have the opportunity to move to a server that actually respects your right to speak on the internet.

Or you may elect to stay on LW and be banned or censored without warning, and be lightly associated with auth-left idiots for anyone who knows what the LW admins are like. That is a choice that can be made.

If you are going to make a move, I’ll warn you that .ml is known for similar. Just about most anywhere else is hosted by sane people, frequently as independent projects, even more frequently as a direct response to LW and ML’s dumbfuckery.

The people specifically elected and appointed to hold him responsible to his oaths of office have abdicated their duty.

Many of the rest of us are busy being shot, arrested, and/or deported about it.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

I’d believe that some corners were cut in these servicemen’s duty, and it just happened to be one too many corners one too many times. The men are fatigued, they want to get off the ship. It’s possible these corners were even cut on purpose with exactly this result in mind in an attempt to get them off the ship.

Sure. This comment thread is about class mobility in the West though.

But, fact is, it seems it’s the same everywhere.

Throughout pretty much all of human history it’s been apparent that the “nobles” class has been, at best, more trouble than they’re worth; and at worst, the instigating spark that creates a nation-destroying blaze.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read a history book that the American nobleman is equally as useless and destructive as his counterpart anywhere else.