I think it’s an EU age compliance thing. Not sure exactly.

For anyone interested, here’s the site operator’s statement on the sudden closure:

https://rentry.co/h2ch4wfr

Thanks for the tip. Just watched a bunch of 1.1 tutorial videos and it actually seems like it could be a better workflow for my use cases than Fusion, plus it also does BIM.

I’m nearly at the end of my journey to boycott Adobe and Autodesk for good. I dropped 3dsmax for Blender a while back after Autodesk attempted to audit me. They demanded I download an app that would collect detailed information about my computer, so I said go fuck yourself, uninstalled and canceled my paid subs, then downloaded Blender and besides missing V-ray and Forestpack, has been a much better experience.

Some of the other comments got me curious…

Is there a way to print the most recent accessed files (and time accessed and by which user) within a specific directory to terminal?

I’m not a huge fan of AI, but I consider myself pretty open minded and have been considering doing a demo of Claude to at least gain an understanding of the tech I’m constantly talking shit about.

Is there anything self-hostable that compares in quality to what vibe coders claim Claude Opus is capable of?

Careful. Almost every Firefox based browser still pings out to various google domains and sends out other telemetry.

Librewolf is fine though.

By then they will implement ID verification, so at least advertisers and data brokers will know who is real. Everybody else will be living in a simulated social network where all your “friends” and associates really want you to buy the new Gucci x McDonalds slides. Without them you’re a chopped jester verging on UNC status. You can finance them with 30 easy payments of $49.69.

A semiannual competition might be cool. Community poll to pick a project (small table, breadbox, bird house, etc), a few months to build and submit and then a winner gets chosen. I imagine the first few contests would be for the love of the game but eventually could figure out prizes like tools?

Difficulty level: Nearly impossible.

Even if you buy the house in a trust and have an attorney list his name for all utilities and have packages and mail delivered to a PO box, there’s a thousand other tracking vectors that will eventually tie your name to your home and most of them are completely out of your control.

You would need to have a car without a cellular modem, not use a cellphone, and most importantly never tell any friends or family your home address and never allow any friends and family inside your home.

My entire extended family knows how I am about my privacy and yet someone still thought it would be fun to sign me up for a planting magazine with my full legal name and new address.

Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn’t necessarily “protected or sensitive” information.

Friends and family will be so excited for you and optimistically update your address in there phone book. A month later they download some candy crush clone game and give it permission to access contacts. Boom you’re compromised.

Normally I hate blackpilled takes like this, but sadly this is the one aspect of privacy that at least in the US is essentially impossible.

I’ve had these issues during high intensity GPU usage on an nvidia gpu. It’s the only times REISUB didn’t work and I’ve had to do a hard reset.

Not much I can contribute other than don’t rule out a nvidia driver problem.

It’s the plugins that cause me grief. Especially any that use ilok or weird licensing software.

I’m a fairly advanced user of gnu Linux distros at this point in my life. Fedora is no where close to straightforward for gaming. Bazzite is plug and play set and forget. Is it frustrating to deal with flatpaks and osm-tree instead of simply using a standard package manager? Sometimes, sure. But for an absolute beginner there really is no better option for gaming as a fresh convert from windows.

Audio problems and nvidia drivers can be an absolute nightmare on almost all major distros from Debian to Ubuntu, to fedora if you don’t have an absurdly advanced grasp of the processes underlying.

Bazitte takes all of that out of the picture. It’s absolutely not a meme distro. It’s perfect for an average tech literate person.

I use arch btw, Debian, fedora, Pop, lubuntu, Ubuntu, and a half dozen other distros on a daily basis across a handful of devices. So I’m not daily driving Bazitte, but for gaming and general purpose computing there’s no simpler distro imo and I’ll die on that hill.

Okay. That clears up quite a bit.

It absolutely does and I’m not remotely interested in trying, but I’m also curious. There’s large communities and major repackers involved.

I’m hoping somebody from this community has an experience with that community they can share.

The gluetun wiki’s command didn’t work for me, so I used yours and it worked flawlessly. Thank you.

The wiki uses {{PORT}} and it seems {{PORTS}} is the correct variable.

I second this. Had nothing but headaches with duplicati.

Try Borg.

I’ve tried many distros, Bazitte is by far the best for gaming without having to tinker. Fedora is not a good option imo because nvidia drivers are a pain in the ass.

I’d recommend he dual boot. Bazitte strictly for gaming due to it’s lack of traditional package management. And arch, Debian, or Fedora for coding.

I personally use PopOS for work stuff as well.

You can’t stop people from distributing CSAM. How would you possibly enforce that? Might as well not even try.

If the child didn’t want sexual materials of them distributed around, they shouldn’t have taken them in the first place.

If you don’t want some creep to sexualize your children, then keep them locked inside your house, dummy. Your child has no right to privacy in public.

/s

Taking a photo of someone in the background is vastly different from following a private citizen to record them covertly, then posting the recording online to single them out and get people to harass them.

Taking a photo of a child is not illegal, but posting said photo online with the intent to sexualize them is.

Taking a photo of a person is not illegal, but posting said photo online manipulated to make them nude or doxxing/harassing them should be.

The key here is intent. And that’s how it could easily be enforced by law.

In case I didn’t make it obvious, most of your arguments can be ripped apart simply by replacing the focus of the argument from ‘noncensual derogatory use of likeness’ with CSAM.

Last time I checked, you need to make a github pull request with the relevant info about your instance and after a certain buffer period they will add your instance to the list. Check the github page. There should be instructions.

Bozo take.

Up until recently, you would need to have thousands of hours of Photoshop or visual effects experience to get an even mediocre result.

With current AI, the barrier to entry is basically nothing and the results can often times be indistinguishable from reality.

The solution is obvious…governments need to make non-consensual reproduction of an individual’s likeness illegal and actively enforce it.

The tools are already out there. Regulating them is a lost cause at this point…