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No, stupidity is a growing global threat. Measles is just riding shotgun.
It's also mind blowing to consider that as many other projects, both Linux and Python started as a hobyist project never meant to do more than cater to some personal needs.
This taught me how important is allocating time for your team for their personal projects, as the next school romance anime tagging system could be the cornerstone of every AI in the future.
Discovering obsidian has been a blessing for my sanity and made me less lazy for taking notes.
Plus I can use latex to transform md into docx and there's decent pdf support so I don't need to play with the circus of WYSIWYG pain that's MS Word.
EXCUSE-ME but their slogan says not right and they are clearly not right at all, way far from it.
I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:
- Had a computer and lots of free time.
- Had 0 money but friends that would lend me a game for a week or two.
- Had access to burnable media.
This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.
It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.
Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.
Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.
Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.
I'm not bi, but this made me curious.
Calibre vs... em something that's not calibre.
I'm honest not sure what I would use instead, but it would be hard to replace.
Evidence!?! Well number ONE he has a LAPTOP, honey and number TWO his name is BIDEN!
What more EVIDENCE do you NEED, honey?
You've gotta start somewhere.
Consider that with both Reddit and Digg, their initial communities where mostly technical, and with time, the creative people slowly and gradually got in.
However IMO finding an active community within the diaspora of finicky servers and empty channels, makes it less alluring than a centralized service.
I simply hope that at some point, finding out communities will become easier.
Maybe it's a Minecraft-trained AI.
It's a neat trick: You give your donations to a foundation where you also put your family members, and use that foundation to lobby for the stuff that you're investing in.
That's at least mostly what Gates is doing.
Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
The National Gallery - If you're into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I'm not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it's still entertaining.
Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
Insider - Had a series of "How Real Is It?" videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you're interested in FX, it's good.
LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
Joel Haver - Neat if you're into deadpan humor.
Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.
Bonus round:
Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.
Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don't be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.
Awful news to receive right when Seth Meyers is on a strike.
Steam Deck Alyx
So you do one thing, and do it well.
Me too. I never thought I would say this, but I'm surprised the Military Industrial Complex doesn't hold more pull with Reps.
Yes, please see the links below, however as a brief summary:
Bill and Melinda Gates foundation do two things: Invest in public issues and lobby governments to spend in said issues, in exchange for further donations and investments.
However, in parallel, Bill Gates also invests in specific companies that will be targeted as main providers for those activities.
One could consider that he's investing in companies that help out (e.g., vaccination) and that's not a bad thing. The problem is that he is bennefiting from lobbying in pro of the companies he has invested on.
We could also agree that even if he's bullying governments and institutions into giving him more money through those companies, at the end it is a positive boost (like the example you mention).
That's not the case with Common Core: Diane Ravitch put it better than I could here, but basically Bill Gates' is forcing public schools into programs that do not work, alienate teachers and students, have almost bankrupt public education and required purchasing materials from companies he controlled.
Furthermore, for each time Common Core failed, he doubled down, and for each consecutive failure he decided that a new drastic measure will solve the issue, even though the education community was saying otherwise.
The issue with these foundations is that rich people believe they have the solution to all the problems: not money but their intellect, and that they know more than everyone combined on that profession.
This is in parallel what is been happening with carbon capture. This foundation is also lobbying for a technology that has been heavily critisized as a pipedream; however, surprise surprise, Bill Gates do have large investments in carbon capture companies (e.g. Heirloom).
Again, I do not think he's evil or is going to inject me with pentium II mmx now; I just think he feels smarter than everyone else and is misguiding governments to invest in failed practices despite what the actual professionals are saying.
Videos:
https://youtu.be/U3Z9gBKuTIk (CNBC - How Common Core Broke U.S. Schools)
https://youtu.be/laGtd-b0vMY (FT - Carbon Capture: hopes, challenges and controversies)
https://youtu.be/ag5zQeXC-TY (THD - How Bill Gates Hijacked US Education Agenda (Opinion))
- nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2019#recipients
- statista.com/statistics/250878/number-of-foundations-in-the-united-states
- propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
- nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/income-taxes-bezos-musk-buffett.html
- irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundations/taxes-on-failure-to-distribute-income-private-foundations
- nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-giving-statistics
- issuelab.org/resources/36381/36381.pdf
- thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy
- latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-na-gatesx07-story.html
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1166559/000110465923060842/0001104659-23-060842-index.html
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1663801/000089843223000302/0000898432-23-000302-index.html
- latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-may-18-la-ford-foundation-los-angeles-times-20120517-story.html
- archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/ford_foundation_los_angeles_ti.php
- jacobin.com/2015/11/philanthropy-charity-banga-carnegie-gates-foundation-development
- washingtonpost.com/local/education/pearson-pays-77-million-in-common-core-settlement/2013/12/13/77515bba-6423-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012323005270/0000950123-23-005270-index.html
- philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-awards-11-million-for-financial-inclusion-in-africa
- news.stanford.edu/2018/12/03/the-problems-with-philanthropy
- washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/05/what-bill-melinda-gates-did-to-education
- chalkbeat.org/2018/6/21/21105193/the-gates-foundation-bet-big-on-teacher-evaluation-the-report-it-commissioned-explains-how-those-eff
- currentaffairs.org/2021/05/humanity-does-not-need-bill-gates
- prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11601976.htm
- washingtonpost.com/education/2020/02/10/bill-melinda-gates-have-spent-billions-dollars-shape-education-policy-now-they-say-theyre-skeptical-billionaires-trying-do-just-that
- philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on-u-s-generosity/[28] charitywatch.org/nonprofit-compensation-packages-of-1-million-or-more
- nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html
- latimes.com/business/la-na-gates8jan8-story.html
- policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446
- oxfam.org/en/research/time-care → PDF report
- oxfam.org/en/research/survival-richest → PDF report
I'm surprised that for quite a while he was considered a legal genius, up to his mayoral stint. Was he always like this or has it been something related to age/hubris/lead poisoning?
Oh no, not at all scary. They just broke out because they thought the Catholic church wasn't zealous enough.
A misunderstood visionary.
At this point Rudy looks like a Simpsons' character.
Same, I thought this is gotta be a problem for someone who uses notepad as their main editor.
This is not because it's Trump; it's because the system was made so rich people do not face consequences.
This is a bizarro version of the three monkeys.
It's like that made up rule for scotus nominations that they requested Obama to follow then later did whatever they pleased with Trump..
Techno-feudalism sounds cooler than enshitification and way cooler than what it is.
Is the Demon Box protocol-compatible with the orphan crushing machine?
Is that his porn actor's name or the secret service codename?
Unless you manage your depression by trying to fill that bottomless pit with stuff on the net.
Kurzgesagt tends to push a lot of pseudoscience (e.g. carbon capture tech) and other stuff following the investment interests of their founders.
I like their animation style and honestly I wish they used proper data sources, however if you check the sources they mention on some of their more dubious videos they all come from some made up source.
This is particularly upsetting with everything related to parroting whatever Bill Gates is pushing (artificial meat, carbon capture, inequality is the teacher's fault, climate change isn't that bad, etc.)
So that's the trickle part of economics!
My experience with Fintech and the financial sector is that they don't care about how much, they only care about how fast.
Plus Chaebol companies (Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SKI, etc.) control the country and the economy. They have special entry exams and who is your family also determines if you can get in.
Consider that just Samsung's business supposes 20% of South Korea's GBP.
SK is the closest we get to Cyberpunk.
Yet such a fun and entertaining hobby drama..
To *newer Intel and AMD cpus and only certain models.
There's a lot of current hardware that uses embedded TPMs. It also depends on the communication path between the CPU and the module, but chances are it will be clear text and in some, via LPC.
I was for many years a heavy user and while I liked my niche communities, I abhorred the platform and how it was manipulating us through multiple schemes.
Oddly enough, while the communities here are smaller or nonexistent, the experience seems better and healthier.
Maybe in time this will change too.
Here the crime is privacy, which is the same thing many countries are trying to curtail, including France, which is clamping down hard on encryption.
With time we will see services like protonmail or vpns vilified in order to make them inaccessible to the public.
If you're a patient gamer or a VERY patient gamer, or simply an old fart this is a must know:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Pretty much a good argument for forcing companies to open source any tech like this once it loses support.