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Is this picture idea immature?

It is immature and if you go around showing it to girls expecting a date you'll be disappointed.

Do it because it's funny, not because you could use it as an ice-breaker (you can't). If you really want to impress girls, doing it and not giving a fuck what your sister thinks is more likely the impress someone, girl or not- but it's not an ice-breaker.

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how private are RSS feeds?

An RSS feed is literally the same as going to the website. A request is being made to the domain and anyone who can see the data between you and the website can see it. If you think you're secure going to the website normally, then an RSS feed would be secure, too.

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Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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What kind of car you like is one thing but does he understand that when he sits at a café next to a busy, congested road and blame the cyclists for the congestion that he's actually just factually wrong? Because I don't think he knows that. Jeremy Clarkson is fiercely anti-bicycle and until he says, in front of an audience, that he's wrong about this and will stop spewing vitriol at bicyclists, I frankly don't care about him.

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Is Tor Trustworthy and Safe? A 2025 guide to all the basics you need to know about Tor, and more

Man I'm not going to dive into it but this reads like a FUD piece and I know the article explicitly calls out people who dismiss evidence as FUD, but please read just the first point that 'Tor is compromised':

the agency has worked on several methods that, if successful, would allow the NSA to uncloak anonymous traffic

If succesful, implying that they haven't been. I'd love to read the paper but I'm European and they block me from clicking it, citing GDPR issues :-)

promised to reveal how a $3,000 piece of kit could unmask the IP addresses of Tor hidden services as well as their users.

a much anticipated talk at the Black Hat hacking conference was abruptly canceled.

The university cancelled the speech and cited no reasons but I can think of several legal ones even if the device didn't work. No proof.

the FBI is able to de-anonymize Tor users and discover their real IP address remains classified information. In a 2017 court case, the FBI refused to divulge how it was able to do this,

I can fly. No, I don't have to prove it.

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GOG Stellaris+DLC on Linux, how to install all the DLCs, when they are separate executables?

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It was really that simple! Thank you so much, I had no idea proton could just be run like this.

Full tutorial for potential future readers:

First add the base game installer as a non-steam game and run it, then close the installer when it is done.

Go to the shortcut settings for the non-steam game (the installer) and set TARGET to "C:\GOG Games\Stellaris\stellaris.exe" and START IN to "C:\GOG Games\Stellaris"

Run the game to confirm it works. Close the game, then adjust and run the script. Start the game and confirm the DLC were added. It should just work.

#!/bin/bash

# PROTON="$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton 10/proton"
PROTON="/mnt/450G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton 10.0/proton"
PREFIX="$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/3543916168"

DLC_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/stellaris_4.2.3_(86961)_win_gog/DLC"

export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam"
export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="$PREFIX"

INSTALLERS=$(find "$DLC_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "setup_stellaris*.exe")

if [ -z "$INSTALLERS" ]; then
    echo "No DLC installers found."
    exit 1
fi

echo "Running Stellaris DLC installers in silent mode under Proton..."
echo

for inst in $INSTALLERS; do
    echo "Installing: $(basename "$inst")"
    # /silent or /VERYSILENT
    "$PROTON" run "$inst" /silent
    echo
done

echo "Done. DLC should now be installed inside the Proton prefix."