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wizardbeard

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  • Windows 11 WSL

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  • Just run the Windows device using wired internet on a different (and isolated) subnet from everything else of yours and turn off wifi and bluetooth on it. Use a wired headset or a dedicated dongle like Jabra has for their headsets. That would prevent it from identifying other devices nearby.

    Beyond that, just don't do any personal shit on your work device. If you're providing your own Windows work device, then do it in a VM as already said.

    If your workplace allows WSL, then the main benefit is you could use more familiar software/tools through it. Your workplace is likely to be doing a hell of a lot more data collection than Microsoft anyway.

  • What next, power supply shortages?

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  • I built right as the nVidia 3000 series came out, and when I wasn't able to get one in the first month or two after release I said fuck it and bought one of the last new 2070 Supers I could find. Hooray for availability alerts.

    I've been wanting to upgrade parts for like a year now, because it's just starting to have issues with higher graphics settings on 1440p (had 1080p monitors when I bought it). Glad I went with 64GB RAM (DDR4, as was the standard of the time) and a little above mid range on the CPU. It's absolutely fucking absurd to me that the parts that are still available (mobo, PSU, and GPU aren't anymore) have effectively held their price point.

  • MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo

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  • Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog is one of the best things to come out of that writer's strike.

  • Cloud saving huh?

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  • A lot of computing "standards" seem to happen in waves. Not as directly as fashion, but still. Mainframes with endpoints are now the cloud.

  • Cloud saving huh?

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  • You probably already know, but for the crowd:

    Usually thin clients are clients that remotely connect into a central server that runs their VM, and the VM actually handles the compute. Like older mainframe and endpoint setups.

    There's still some minor compute hardware/resources on the thin client itself, but it'll probably be more lightweight than expected. Maybe equivalent to an early model raspi?

  • The first question any good therapist should ask is: "What do you eat?"

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  • There's a wonderful thing called reporting accounts, and/or writing up your evidence in an easily digestible way and posting it to one of many instance meta communities to bring admin attention to this.

    Works a lot better better than trying to counter-spam.

  • How do you vet open source software if you don't know code well?

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  • That's the neat part, you don't!

    You just get to feel marginally safer that there is at least the opportunity for someone out there to do it.

  • The most predictable thing ever to be predicted

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  • Near? Buddy they've been setting tanker ships of money on fire to stay afloat for at least two year now. Accountants have developed entirely new collateral schemes just to support this "industry".

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    On Greed

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  • I didn't say anything about self promotion because I don't usually have issues with that.

    This isn't self promotion. As I said, this is pure advertisement.

    Self promotion would be someone who is or has been engaging with the community or the wider fediverse at all that does something like "Hey, I did some research on this topic and there's some things I think people should know about it so I wrote a blog post. Let me know what you think!"

    This also isn't just out in the open. Why would this person set a different display name on their account unless they wanted to add a small delay in people catching onto this? Instead of a direct "this is the site I run", their profile has some weird promotional wank about the site and a link. It's not direct and up front.

    Just... any attempt at bare minimum effort to indicate that this person had any intention of actually engaging with the community instead of dropping a link and running would have made this more palatable.

    Edit: Maybe they did engage some, I can see their profile shows three comments now as well as this post, but I can't see those. I've already blocked them, for better or worse.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Anime and Altered Carbon?

    You might like Ghost in the Shell. There's a handful of different movies and timelines, but I think the anime show Stand Alone Complex is a good entry point. For that continuity, after SAC is SAC 2nd Gig, then the movie Solid State Society, and finally the recent Netflix CG show SAC_2045.

    Cyberpunk future, although not as gritty as Altered Carbon or Cyberpunk 2077. This trailer gives a good idea of the action scenes, but the show isn't mainly about that, instead more about the psychological themes. Story follows a cyborg special forces group in the Japanese Government. Lots of side plots about stuff like privacy and being able to trust your senses when hackers can hijack your eyes, what does conciousness and self mean when someone can literally shove their brain in a self sustaining VR box effectively forever, at what point does AI reach personhood, when brains can be fully digitized and be treated as data how do you ensure abscence of tampering, how do you even begin to handle people that opt into a gestalt existence, and more. The idea of self is a core thing repeatedly. Main plot of Stand Alone Complex is some wide reaching thing about corporations and billionaires holding critical medical knowledge hostage from the public and a specific hacker fighting to get the info out.

    Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077, go watch Edgerunners if you haven't yet. The dub is great, but I can't find that trailer dubbed. If you're even remotely aware of the videogame or the tabletop you know the kind of thing to expect. Gritty, dark. Starts about a year and a half before the game, ends around half a year before. Holy shit, nothing I could say would do it justice and it's best to go in blind. Just... be prepared to hurt. There are no happy endings in Night City.

    If you're up for a little less cyberpunk but still heady sci-fi future, give Psycho-Pass a try. Hard to find a good trailer for this one, the dub is fine but I was only able to find a decent subtitled trailer. The world is one of near omnipresent surveillance by "the sybil system" which can analyze a person's mental state to detect criminal intent before it happens. MC is a fresh graduate who has just started her job as a police detective, and has to adapt quickly to the reality that detective work is no longer true investigation, but mostly using the reports from the system together with using a troop of people flagged as criminals by that system to hunt down the other potential criminals. Of course cracks in the surveillance and the system itself begin to show pretty quickly, even before someone starts fucking with it for fun. First season is the best and works very well as a standalone thing. The movie and other seasons aren't bad, just not as good.

    If you just want some good anime without the cyberpunk elements, Cowboy Bebop is universally considered a classic. Great great stuff. Struggling bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet as their pasts eventually catch up with them through background details episode to episode. Heavy jazz influence and wonderful jazz soundtrack. You're gonna carry that weight.

    If you only pick one, go with Edgerunners, if you pick two, add Bebop. Edgerunners is a short show, I think 12 eps. Bebop is 25 episodes (and a movie technically between I think episode 23 and 24, but it came out years later and isn't needed for the overall plot).

  • but before you log off dear poster, where can our lurkers find you on the internet?

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  • Remember to always use plugs with a flared base

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    On Greed

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  • 22 hour old account, the website is the same name as the account (Joseph is only the display name). And some vague ad for the website as the profile body.

    And this is the only post so far.

    Pure advertising. Hooray.

  • Killer

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  • Yeah, and when's the last time anyone has legitimately seen Windows bluescreen for lack of RAM? I'm assuming that's the "logic" here, because in what world would a stuck browser cause a full crash?

    Man, I sure love tech memes not remotely based in reality.

  • Drag

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  • Decent chance it's not the same specific folks.

  • Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • Not sure the exact age, but it's xkcd 1288, they're up to 3195 now, and they're usually posted every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

    Napkin math says roughly 12 and a quarter years ago. (3195 - 1288 for total comics since, / 3 for number of weeks since, / 52 for number of years since, gets you 12.22 ish)

    There's some slightly more recent ones that are still many years old:

    1625:

    And 1697:

    Lord, Channing Tatum. The Big Bang Theory. Truly from a different time.

  • Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • I don't get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making "tech news". You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.

    • slams -> literally disintegrates the bloodline of
    • keyboard -> leopard
    • cloud -> butt
    • microsoft -> microslop

  • Opinions

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  • There was this wonderful slice of time around a decade ago where fast food prices had started to rise but local sit-down places hadn't. If you had the time and around $5-10 extra then it didn't make sense to get fast food when you could get an actual meal.

    Unfortunately inflation has caught up to even the local places now.

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  • At least at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe they bred and raised the cow to want to be eaten and to want to sell itself to customers.

    Wait. No. That's just absolutely fucked in a different way.

    For anyone who hasn't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" (of 5 or 6 books), the humor and social commentary still hold up. "Restaurant [...]" is book two.

  • good advice

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  • Try finger but hole

  • PlayStation Has Delisted Over 1000 Shovelware Games

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  • There's always plenty of garbage on Steam and itch.io