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almost entirely unrelated: i took the dog out to potty in the driveway a couple nights ago and I was looking up at the stars. He was hobbling around trying to find a good spot to pee and then finally started peeing. As I was looking at the stars I saw this gigantic shadow of wings float across the top of the house, cast from the streetlight across the street and behind me. I turned to look just as this gigantic white owl was about to swoop down and try to get my dog. I must have scared the shit out of it because it quickly aborted its little dive and flew into the gnarled walnut tree just above us. It sat there looking at me for a few seconds and then flew away. I've heard they're silent predators but goddamn I didn't realize just how silent they can be.

That's my unrelated owl story. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

oh i see, i didn't read that correctly. But if an exchange came to nuclear missiles China could fuck the US up just as well

outgunned how?

thanks! yeah it seems like forever really

love this artist

Nice.

I have heroic launcher but I've only ever used it for games that I actually own through the Epic Games Store.

I use OpenSnitch to prevent any unwanted outbound communications from applications.

Otherwise I use Lutris for any windows games.

I recently started grabbing jc141 releases which are games specifically packaged for linux that are compressed into a dwarfs image that do not require extraction. Unfortunately they don't work well on Linux Mint so I had to do a fair amount of finangling, with the help of various AI agents, to get them to run without having to extract everything. Essentially I had to install a linux distro that has all the libraries and whatnot needed to run them from the image in a container using Distrobox. Ubuntu 24.04 seemed to have what I needed to support my nvidia card and also have packages that the games need in order to run.

But overall I'm pretty much able to play anything that I would on Windows, but without worrying about viruses and trojans.

Yeah, I got into a job that I thought I always wanted. That was naive of me because once I was forced to do the thing it was no longer appealing. Hobbies do not make good jobs because a job will ruin your love of the thing in my experience.

At my last job i was the google admin and managed all the addresses of former employees and whatnot. We generally just set up forwarding to an email bucket. I saw these types of emails to just about every single former employee in the company and I used to get them as well. I think this is just what you suspected, someone scraped emails from the site, and blasted this template email out.

we've been together for 16 years now so i guess i'm just used to it at this point, but finally inroads are being made!

was just talking with my partner about this earlier today. She is FINALLY getting over her Trump sycophancy, which was borne out of a hatred of the democrats never doing anything and always expecting to just win by default. She was loving Trump just because he was showing how absolutely pathetic the democrats really are, which I can understand, but is also infurating on another level because she'd get mad at me for hating everyone, Trump included.

But now she's finally onboard with Trump is not great just because he's not Democrats. I can't believe it took this long but holy fuck what a hurdle to climb. But yeah we finally are in agreement on everything is fucked and none of this is good. And when Trump is gone the Democrats aren't going to roll ANY of this back and will continue to make shit worse.

What a good day today was.

In all honesty this is incredible. How was this not the case from the very beginning? Beyond banning cybersecurity products they'll want to become more reliant on their own silicon too. Each and every microprocessor produced in the US is ripe for backdooring. https://www.eejournal.com/article/clever-hack-finds-mystery-cpu-instructions/

There are seemingly endless opcodes that are not documented that probably only Intel/AMD and the NSA know how to use.

Probably the same for nvidia cards.