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Facebook fiasco: why is Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta?

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He is suing for material damages, and honestly it's not a bad case. He allegedly paid meta a bunch of money for advertising space right before they pulled his account, so the money he paid plus potential lost business.

Dude is a lawyer, I fully expect him to have a good case and on the surface it's a slam dunk.

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Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex

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The software isn't the hard part, it's the storage for the mods and networking infrastructure to get them out to people. Add in commonly requested features like comments, tagging, search with filters, and a website and you have a recipe for a wildly expensive and fairly complex product. As shitty as Nexus is, they have evolved into the YouTube of mods. A single entity hosting fairly sizable infrastructure to provide a free as in data theft service to basically anyone with a pulse.

I am curious to see if there is a good solution to decentralized data storage that isn't redundantly copying the data X number of times and hoping for the best. That alone would go a long way towards solving the infrastructure issues.

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Hmm, I think as a DM I would roll an arcana check to see if the wizard would conceivably have heard of radiation from arcane studies. It's reasonable to assume people with arcane knowledge would be the first to hear about the strange metal chunks that everyone keeps dying around. One of them would have had to have come up with a word, if not some variation on "death cursed"

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1981 asbestos ad

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Again, the issue is the scar tissue. Even if it didn't develop into a cancer it will give you nasty COPD, gas exchange doesn't happen with scarred lung tissue. Look at silicosis, potters lung, popcorn lung, and the plethora of other occupational diseases that are caused by particulate matter damaging lung tissue for examples of what asbestos would do without the cancer

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US warns hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure

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Incredibly, and not at all subtle. It's also of fairly limited effectiveness in most scenarios, wireless signals are generally a lot more complex than what a simple jammer will cover. On top of the difficulty in transmitting a reasonably large amount of radio power in any useful frequency, you have to also jam side frequencies to avoid fail over and certain noise mitigation techniques.

Honestly it's not even just that it's massively illegal, it's just so wildly impractical. Like, what would you accomplish? Radio waves fall off pretty quickly in strength, so your jammer is going to have a limited range, and if it doesn't you just knock out flight communications and emergency response while cellular hops to one of the other hundreds of frequencies and like 10 modulation protocols until something works, and it's going to be insanely difficult to jam all of those at once.

Just jamming 700mhz would involve an antenna array that would be bigger than a person and using the old "moar power" approach sees wattage requirements shoot into megawatt ranges pretty quick.

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Or just make it yourself. The biscuits are dirt simple, butter, flour, baking powder, and just enough water to hold it together. Gravy is just a white flour gravy with lots of pepper. Ingredients are sausage with grease, flour, milk, and pepper.

Season to taste.

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Vectrex Mini

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It's always Vectrex too. I had a customer that was obsessed with getting one emulated, he just refused to understand that, fundamentally, vector graphics are incompatible with raster. No matter how I tried to break it down that a CRT was a necessity, that raster would always look wrong, that nobody develops a good vectrex emulator because you can't emulate the graphics...

Grifters gonna grift I guess.

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Tempest, it uhhhh finds a way.

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Close, the NES actually broadcasts a standard NTSC RF signal on its output. The old TVs were acting as a broadcast antenna for the others to pick up. You can do the same thing with some decent rabbit ears by just putting a paperclip into the center pin of the RF output on the side of the console. Don't play that way though, you would be technically operating a pirate TV station if you didn't have a license to broadcast on that channel. The NES should be a low enough output power that it doesn't matter either way.

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ROCm on older generation AMD gpu

You need to set an override in your environment variables to force it to use the gfx1030 kernel modules, but otherwise you shouldn't have too many issues.

It's unofficial, but the 6700xt uses the exact same core as one of the supported enterprise cards, so just using the drivers for it generally works just fine. I use a 6800M personally.

If you are struggling to get rocm installed at all then stop using the amd guides and just install the pre built binaries directly. Fedora packages them in their repository and in my experience rocm just works once you run dnf install rocm*.

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Anon uses GOG

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The problem isn't even software running on the host machine anymore. Cheaters have long since moved to using a different machine running ocr software and handling input, then it just sends mouse and keyboard inputs based on what it sees. It's all of the advantage of esp hacks and aimbots of yore, all while being 100% undetectable as all the game sees is generic peripherals and no code other than legit code running on the main machine.

Yeah, losing the ability to run games in a VM adds a bit of complexity to the setup, but you can still plug a capture card into a raspberry pi and let it do the aiming/firing and just look like an l33t gam3r in the stats.

None of this even touches on DMA hacks that read host memory over a bus like PCIe, but that's getting into some complexity far and above the average cheating kid. Unfortunately plugging in a couple cables and flashing an SD card is pretty trivial for someone wanting to get more headshots.

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Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?

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I can speak firsthand that this is the case for Kroger in Illinois. Their unions fight to cap wages below living wage levels, pick some of the most expensive insurance on the market, and work with Kroger corporate to eat away your hourly rate with sliding payscales based on incredibly arbitrary criteria (overnight premium, but it only counts for 4 hours of a graveyard shift as an example that happened to me).

They are actually worse than not having a union, because then they could make more than $23 an hour in Chicago.

Oh, did I mention the union contract specifically prohibits strikes and any form of worker retaliation?

Awful company.