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14 hours agoSkynet is Made in China. That figures.
NaibofTabr
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I want infinite comfort items.
The basis of the modern consumer market.
7·8 days agoThere was no period without warfare or economic stability in Palestine.
I mean… there was time to build a bunch of modern residential buildings, hospitals and businesses (the things Israel is currently blowing up and bulldozing) and for people to live their lives without having to be armed 24/7. It literally has not been open warfare (at least for a little while), and yes there was some economic stability, enough for local Palestinian businesses to develop, for a semi-functional civilian government to form, and for civil services like hospitals and schools to be established. It hasn’t just been a warzone for 100 years.
The uber wealthy have set the conditions for conflict based entirely upon greed.
Same as it ever was…
Palestine has been in perpetual war for sovreignty since the end of WWII.
Yup. Even longer, actually: Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
1881
The first wave of Jews arrive in Ottoman Syria in the First Aliyah after Zionism itself began some time in the 1850s
Eventually leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and ongoing conflict
Basically the violence has been constant, with occasional breaks to reload.
The Pax Americana is probably responsible for the relative stability of the '90s and '00s - there was still violence, car bombings and rocket attacks &etc, but not open warfare. That’s obviously ending now.
My guess is that the period without warfare allowed Palestine to develop some economic stability and power of its own, which Israel perceived as a long-term threat. Combine that fear with greed and expansionism and you get the current attempt to erase Palestine.
41·11 days agoI’m not sure what most people were expecting
People were expecting the game that was promised in all the lead-up marketing.
CD Projekt has been building up expectations, previewing intriguing scenes and customizations that never came to pass.
It went to promise real-time AI that would grant over a thousand NPCs a variety of roles and actions that, complete with a day/night cycle, was designed to change up their routines. But as fans began playing, they quickly discovered this wasn’t true.
Then, there are the gameplay and AI issues that hinder the experience. A game like Cyberpunk 2077 runs on crime, and CD Projekt promised realistic interactions with the police. One would fully expect officers to come running if a crime was committed out in the open with witnesses, or even in a remote alleyway. Sadly, there is nothing realistic about a bunch of cops spawning unexpectedly around the player with guns firing – especially if no one even witnessed the crime.
Basically all of the marketing turned out to be lies and the game that CDPR promised never existed.
“Masterpiece” is a real stretch
Be sure to watch part 2 where they show pedestrian & vehicle pathing.
22·12 days agoBy the phone company.
Ah the ol’bait’n’switch, a classic.
Hey, it’s been awhile, it’s gotta be done by now!
Did they finally add all the features they advertised?
Heh, that won’t stop a C-level from thinking that you just write code.
4·16 days agoYeah I put a screen protector on mine right away. It’s a portable device.
The combination of the etched screen and an etched screen protector definitely hurts the sharpness - I would’ve been better off with the standard glossy screen.
Have you installed a Linux operating system before?
The hardware swap is not difficult, but you do have to reinstall the OS on the new drive, so if you’re not already familiar with that process it may be a hurdle. The good news is there shouldn’t be any important data on it, so if you do have a problem you can just wipe it and start over.
I bought the original largest model, and in less than 6 months decided I wanted more than the 512GB. I wish I had saved the $200 and bought the cheapest model. There’s no other appreciable difference.
I kid, I kid… actually I am obsessed with konsole
But… but… Sega does what Nintendon’t!
hmm…
hmm…
…and my axe!
84·28 days agoVPNs as a technology might not be illegal but circumventing the firewall certainly is.
Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding about how things work in an authoritarian system. Sure, you might fly under the radar for awhile, but if you call attention to yourself (say, by getting caught trying to bypass the government firewall) and you are not high-profile, then it is very low-effort to make you disappear. Few will notice, and those that do will stay silent out of fear.
If you are more high-profile you still get black-bagged, you just get released after, with your behavior suitably modified.
Naomi Wu no longer uploads to YouTube.
Depends - how many family members do you have that the PRC might use against you? or who would miss you if the PRC black bagged you?
And there are hundreds if not thousands of them, plus a lot of automated tooling.
If this is the goal, then you need to concern yourself with your network first and the computer/server second. You need as much operational control over your home network as you can manage, you need to put this traffic in a separate tunnel from all of your normal network traffic and have it pop up on the public network from a different location. You need to own the modem that links you to your provider’s network, and the router that is the entry/exit point for your network. You need to segregate the thing doing the sailing on its own network segment that doesn’t have direct access to any of your other devices. You can not use the combo modem/router gateway device provided by your ISP. You need to plan your internal network intentionally and understand how, when, and why each device transmits on the network. You should understand your firewall configuration (on your network boundary, not on your PC). You should also get PiHole up and running and start dropping unwanted inbound and outbound traffic.
OpSec first.