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cecilkorik

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  • Minecraft Bedrock on Bazzite

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  • It's shit. Minecraft is so odd with editions and launchers because Minecraft Bedrock is Microsoft's weaponized and monetized version and it is fucking with everyone on purpose. The Java version is the real Minecraft, and it always will be. Kids will never understand this, because they are vulnerable to Microsoft's relentless advertising and branding that they use Minecraft Bedrock specifically as a vehicle for, which flows directly into kids' brains through their social networks (both digital and real-world, in school, in the neighborhood) and all the other marketing efforts their vulnerable minds are constantly bombarded with. Therefore, Minecraft Bedrock is the future, and that future leads you directly and inevitably into Microsoft's grasp. This is not an accident.

    I know this knowledge probably doesn't help you at this stage. You can probably get it working in Linux, for now, but it will always be clumsy and sort of a mess because it will always be an arms race with Microsoft's enshittification strategies, and there's a good chance that Microsoft will eventually win. Unless we can somehow all convince our kids, "You know what, this sucks, let's go play with some modded Java version instead". Good luck with that.

  • Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’

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  • At least Russia had the decency to put a transparently thin veneer of subtlety and justification when they did it to all their neighbors. It was all lies, it was all paper thin, but at least they, y'know, tried. I respect the effort put into the hustle.

    Trump is just like "yeah whatever they can't stop us, we'll take whatever we want if we want to."

    The fucking disguises have been dropped and the gloves are off, time to wake up and start paying attention before our entire planet is stolen from us by despicable, hateful monsters who want to destroy it and then fuck off to Mars and leave us all to die.

  • Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’

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  • Seems like a lot of work and probably too slow. Guillotines were invented to automate the process. That means they're basically the AI-enabled "smart" version, and everybody wants to use that for everything nowadays, right?

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • We should all be willing to serve Canada's needs, and we absolutely need a much stronger military to survive the unfortunate dumpster fire that the rest of the world has chosen to make itself into. I would volunteer for service if they would have me (they won't, because I'm old and fat now and they aren't flexible enough to give me the support I would need to handle my other responsibilities while I would serve) but if we end up at war, you better damn believe I'm going to find a way to serve somehow, bureaucracy and other responsibilities be damned.

  • Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

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  • I'm excited, we're starting to hear those little bubbles popping... pop... pop... pop... and they're getting louder... just wait, it's coming.

  • You can’t beat Canada’s far-right with a broken electoral system

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  • Remember that it's always morally acceptable to punch nazis. Or hit them with baseball bats I suppose. Boils down to personal preference, I guess, although the latter may get you in more legal trouble as I think it's considered assault with a weapon. I dunno, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not here to tell you what's legal, just what's moral, and beating up nazis is definitely always the moral thing to do.

  • Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???

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  • I ran Matrix for like a year, and pretty much hated every minute. It was fragile, complicated, and incredibly, bafflingly resource intensive. Matrix is an overengineered nightmare in my opinion, and it seems to be quickly distancing itself from self-hosters while pursuing enterprise usage. Neat technology, horrible implementation, misguided company.

    XMPP is a breath of fresh air in comparison. Just like we still use email everywhere (even for authentication nowadays, fun!), XMPP is not obsolete simply because it's older. It's a solid foundation, plenty extensible, and does almost everything I can imagine needing to do without unnecessary complexity.

    Matrix's bridges are its killer feature, and it's nice... when it works. But it's simply not worth the headache of dealing with Matrix, in my opinion.

  • Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home

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  • If the polls are rigged, does that imply that most Israelis don't support the genocide? So ... you think you've got a majority of people who don't support the genocide and with that majority you plan to do ... nothing? Just gonna ... let the minority do what they want?

    There's a word for that, the word is "support". You might not think you're supporting it, but if you're not doing something to fight it, then yes, you are supporting it. Get to work. Nobody ever promised that doing the right thing has to be easy.

  • AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

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  • We are so, so, so thoroughly cooked. I can't even.

  • Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home

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  • Lots of enabling in your comment.

    People like you, with no control over the big decisions. Just like Palestinians can’t control Hamas, Russians can’t control Putin, US citizens can’t control Trump, and so on.

    If people can't control their own governments, who can? Who should? Other people's governments? Is that how you think it's supposed to work? That's why Israel is obliterating Gaza? Because Gaza can't get rid of Hamas themselves so Israel is going to do it for them? Do you think that is justified and the right way to do things? Is it Canada's job to rescue the US? Is it Europe's responsibility to stop Russia?

    Are Iranians responsible for the Iranian regime? Yes, they are, that's why they're fucking protesting and dying in the streets right now. Resist, fight back, don't comply, undermine your illegitimate government until they can be toppled.

    Take responsibility. I am responsible for the actions of my government and my country. And so are you. You will be held responsible. And you should be. Other countries are not responsible for fixing your shit. You are. Fix it. Figure out how. Stop acting like it's somebody else's problem and you are just a humble peasant. Humble peasants can start revolutions. Lazy citizens who are happy with the status quo while pretending they don't agree with it do not start revolutions. Which one are you?

  • FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay

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  • This situation is literally what the second amendment is for. When Americans were asserting their right to buy and own fully automatic assault rifles and the NRA would defend them, the second amendment is why. The amendment exists because the citizens of the time believed they would need guns to eventually defend themselves against a tyrannical government.

    Now they have a tyrannical government. I'm not convinced guns are actually what they need, but this is precisely what the second amendment is for and it's not really a surprise to find the NRA is still in support of it.

    In my opinion, the problem is not with the second amendment itself, or the NRA's unflinching support for it, at least in theory. The problem is, in practice, 90% of the people who are the most heavily armed Americans with the biggest arsenals under the second amendment are the ones who openly support the government tyranny: racists, bigots, and fascists who want their white-ethno-state. So not only are the genuine "second amendment" defenders against tyranny, like presumably Alex Pretti, going to find themselves outgunned by a heavily militarized police force and government, they're also going to be outgunned by their heavily militarized angry white neighbors.

    They built a society based on a foundational tolerance of gun ownership, and then they were tolerant of all the wrong people, the most intolerant people, getting lots of guns, while the tolerant people said "we don't need guns, because we live in a tolerant and just society and the second amendment is outdated". Meanwhile, their intolerant neighbors were steadily building an arsenal for the civil war that they were planning on starting. And now it's starting. The second amendment isn't going to be the panacea that the founders thought it would. It's been working against them and contributing to the problem. And that's why reasonable people have been against the NRA and the second amendment for years (and probably still should be, although it's probably way too late to change anything significant now), because we could see where this was headed. Everyone you don't want to have guns, were getting lots of guns. And everyone you do want to have guns, doesn't have nearly enough guns to matter. Yeah, it was everyone's "right" to own a gun, but most people didn't take advantage of that right, while the people you didn't want to abused the hell out of it. It's not solving any problem, it's making it worse.

  • "How do you grow up listening to punk and hip hop and still end up a bootlicker?"

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  • The resistance is going to be in for a long, brutal, deadly slog this time around, but at least we'll still have the best tunes. They'll never take away my mp3s.

  • FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate agent who shot Renee Good

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  • "I AM THE LAW" --Judge Dredd

  • Suggestions for self-hosted online petition creator application

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  • I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.

    So either you're creating a petition with a size of exactly "1" or you're asking other people to trust YOU with their personal info instead, or you're asking for a federated solution (extremely difficult to establish a verifiable web of trust framework, and STILL shares your "personal network's info" whenever it federates or validates its data to dozens of other servers).

    None of these scenarios are viable for creating a petition that anyone is going to take seriously (to the extent that anyone takes petitions seriously at all)

  • How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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  • fail2ban mainly, but also things like scaling login delays (some sort of option often built into the software you're running, but just as often not configured by default), or if you're feeling particularly paranoid account locking after too many failures, and in general just not using default, predictable, common usernames or weak passwords, and honestly it's even helped a bit by having slow hardware and throttled network bandwidth.

    The goal is to make it so that someone can't run a script that sends 100 million login attempts per second for common or stolen usernames and passwords and your server just helpfully tries them all and obediently tells them none of those worked... until one of them does.

    Not only does this encourage them to TRY sending 100 million login attempts per second because your server isn't refusing it, which is a huge waste of bandwidth and resources, it also makes it really likely that they're eventually going to guess one right.

  • Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

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  • It's basically a free single-player demo with extra steps. Not being able to play on legitimate servers is realistically a huge drawback, honestly. And also, Microsoft knows it's a huge opening for "piracy" which is why they've created Bedrock edition which is where all their monetization efforts and future content updates will be increasingly directed.

    Neither you nor I are supposed to ever care about Bedrock, or are ever expected to pay a cent for Minecraft. We are a tapped resource financially with nothing left to give and trying to get more money out of us and our community would be like trying to get blood from a stone. But that doesn't mean we're not important. Our role, even as free-to-play pirates in the Minecraft ecosystem, is to create content and create brand awareness, to keep it trending and on people's radar, so that when children and whales are drawn to it, Microsoft makes sure the first thing they see is some Bedrock edition thing and they can start shelling out cash immediately.

    The whales, children, and naive parents are where the free money is. We're just part of the advertising pipeline aimed at those demographics. We create buzz, they buy.

  • Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

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  • Do any of bunker doors also lock from the outside? Asking for a friend.

  • (Stupid post) Am I banned from Reddit for life or is there a chance to get unbanned?

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  • This is the right community to escape from Reddit for good, honestly.

  • Some Canadians feel uneasy as Trump ramps up talks to 'take' Greenland. What should we do?

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  • The most important part of GUARD, Maffin said, is D, which stands for distinguishing people from a regime. In this case, it means recognizing there is a difference between American people and the government and authorities that are making decisions for the country.

    Sure. I will distinguish them by their actions, and they have to put in some work to start to earn any goodwill, support or sympathy they're going to get from me.

    I know they don't learn much about history besides their own down there, but if anyone is reading this: go invest some time in learning about the French Resistance in WW2. The further you let it go, the worse it's going to get. It's NOT going to be fun for you. That does not mean you don't have to do it. It sounds like it was a long goddamn 4 years they went through, and you might end up in something like the same. I don't envy you, but I also didn't choose this for you. Fix your shit, and once you start, you can count on our help.

  • Text to speech that's free of modern, "generative" AI?

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  • I'm just a philosopher being criminally open-minded, don't take my navel-gazing too personally. I hate AI so much that it has led me into a nihilistic fugue.