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bastion,

It’s like btrfs, but faster, and less prone to data loss.

bastion,

The fire’s gotta come out sometime.

bastion,
  • get in
  • get keys into hand
  • the abyss gazes also into me
bastion,

That song tho…

bastion,

I think he’ll be doing a lot of not liking. That said, it’s nice he sees something in it.

bastion,

Yah bub. This were the good ol’ time.

bastion,

I don’t need more words to express something offhanded and casual. 🤮

bastion,

🤷‍♂️

bastion,

That’s a lot of dischill considering the casual and inconsequential nature of this conversation.

bastion,

Arch, btw 🙄

bastion,

About to get a new laptop, and it’s gonna Pop!

bastion,

The task question is:

Is Online Office 365 good enough for you? Or, is an ‘almost fully compatible’ word processor enough?

The features are there, but it’s a whole new interface to learn, and if you export to a word document, the document produced may look wonky when viewed in word. OTOH, whatever PDFs you produce, those will look right. And if Online Office 365 is enough, that’s great, because you won’t have to worry about that.

You’ll need to establish a workflow, and others in your office will need to use (and get used to) the same workflow.

It’s not a small leap for an office to take. I love Linux, but check out that it has what you need before you fully commit. Give it a try by dual-booting or by installing it on a secondary system.

bastion,

I have a thinkpad but am taking a chance on the Legion slim 7 gen 7. Still love that thinkpad.

bastion, (edited )

I like it but it needs less on and more space.

bastion,

Yes, that’s what they said.

Multiple: consisting of, including, or involving more than one.

bastion,

I had it pegged a little lower than what they got. I figured just upwards of three million.

Two is too small, and saying ‘multiple’ seems like it’s just sensational BS. Anything 5 and over, and they’d want to more clearly specify just how many millions they had sold. That leaves 3 and 4, but four would probably get a ‘nearly five million’. That leaves three as the most likely, with four a small possibility. I figured 3.2-3.3 mil.

bastion,

Communism isn’t a problem, just like actual christlike Christians aren’t a problem.

The problem is the susceptibility to abusive power. Capitalism is bad at that, but communism is terrible at it.

bastion, (edited )

I’m comparing capitalism to communism. If your issue is with that, I can’t help you.

If your issue is with me using Christianity as an example of a system that is broken in a similar way to communism, perhaps I can elaborate if you’re interested.

By ‘capitalism,’ though, I simply mean ‘capitalism.’ Sorry to disappoint you, bud, but the liberals aren’t the problem.

Now, I don’t have a fundamental problem with capitalism, it’s just weak in that it trends towards inducing and rewarding short-term thought, but it fundamentally depends on long-term thought.

Like anything, it can be a useful tool, but it’s definitely the principle of a “whole-ass ideology”.

bastion,

By your own assertion, people can create groups that are self-serving.

Go ahead and tell me your communistic ideal, and I can tell you how someone could hack it.

bastion,

Your judgment stings, really.

bastion,

Are insults and derision seriously all you’ve got to offer?

bastion,

Asking questions of you? No need.

bastion,

Although I’m fine with witty banter, when I ask questions I look for people who can combine their genuity with intelligence.

So indeed. Not of you. And not of anyone you imagine I should.

Your dangling reply is most welcome, should you make one.

bastion,

Not gonna lie, that’s true in this universe, too.

bastion,

Both are right. But, the ‘gods’ already broke the non-interference pattern, and the lesser-developed species has already been impacted. So, at that point, it becomes a judgment call - will further involvement be beneficial or detrimental?

bastion,

Game tradeables are a great case for block chain, even of it’s just some in-house one. No creating of new tradable items except by some offline key. Otherwise, the store only deals in pre-printed items. Plus, there’s a history for everything.

bastion,

Blockchain is a means of tracking information, typically virtual balances, usually with full history - but it varies in its level of decentralization.

While one of the big uses of blockchain is distributed trustless consensus, that is by far not the only use. It’s also great for inventory tracking - virtual or otherwise. Decentralization is just a kind-of bonus for redundancy, in such a case.

Systems already exist for blockchains - fast ones, too. They can use existing open-source code.

What benefit it provides is that only official Blizzard tokens are on the chain - each one signed (in batches, of course) offline by Blizzard in an official ‘printing’.

Someone discovers an exploit that gives them more tokens? The answer is ‘from where, and who signed them?’

Now, this doesn’t prevent someone who has a hacked system from getting screwed and losing all their items. But it does prevent magic item gain just because you fiddled with the interface in a certain way, and a counter went up.

It also means that, if you did somehow find a way to steal, the history of that is there, and the transactioms can be reversed.

bastion,

What resources - a few VPSes running at moderate load?

bastion,

The good word

bastion,

Meh

bastion,

Does a corporation have the right to withdraw from a country, even if doing so costs lives?

bastion,

A lot of people are saying Debian, because Debian.

Debian. I’ve literally run Debian stable with uptimes of over a year.

bastion,

There are plenty of people (including those in power in some countries) that absolutely lie about capitalism.

Their lies, although clearly in support of other regimes, don’t make capitalism any less shitty.

Likewise, some capitalist lying about communism doesn’t make communism any less shitty.

They are both crappy systems, and they lead into each other, because at their core, they tend towards different and opposite kinds of violation.

bastion,

Definitely cute.

bastion,

Socialism: development? Yeah, I created that.

bastion,

Part it out and scrap it for cash.

bastion, (edited )

It’s legal and user pushback - and it’s a battle I’m bored of fighting. I just use Linux, and find it simpler. With Windows, it’s ads, forced updates, ‘upgrades’ that re-enable ‘features’ i never wanted, a billion background services, most of which I don’t need - and more.

Fuck the battle to keep shit from being shoved down my throat.

bastion, (edited )

Go with Jetbrains. Their tools are seriously good.

They also provide a very decent free version of most of their stuff, and have pretty reasonable pricing if you want extra features.

That’s not ‘extra features’ like debugger support, that’s ‘extra features’ like support for specific frameworks, AI, etc.

bastion,

Huh. Hadn’t heard of codeberg. They look pretty good.

bastion,

I love Jetbrains. As a company, how they treat their users, the way they do subscription models (subscribe yearly, and if you unsubscribe, keep the license for the version you have still, including the ability to re-download that version), and just the prodding quality overall.

bastion,

It could be considered a form of gaslighting, since initially they stated their actual intent, and then pretended like the opposite was their intent all along.

bastion,

Yup.

bastion,
  • sovereignty, and the necessary respect for mutual sovereignty, are the cornerstone of law
  • government may have absolute authority over is own services, but may not determine what services a citizen subscribes to
  • a decent portion of taxes must be self-directed
  • taxes apply equally to all valid legal entities
  • all legal entities receive UBI from those taxes
  • the only act of compulsion permissible by the government is to reduce compulsion, and may only be applied to the compelling party.
  • contribution of time, energy, effort, and attention may not be compelled
  • isolation may not be denied
  • strict separation of church and state
  • strict separation of government and bon-government financial interests
  • government pay is proportional to average income
bastion,

This needs to be encoded in the system we build - that it is not possible to build the perfect system of law, but rather any system we build will, over time, come to reflect the character and viability of our principles.

bastion,

Well damn, that was fast. I only asked for it like, an hour ago. Good job, world.

bastion,

There’s a physical necessity to keep all of the information necessary to decrypt messages in the app’s folder.

Anything the signal app shows you can also be seen by an app with access to Signal’s data on that device. This is true of any E2E encrypted messenger service.

Of course, this is disallowed by the OS, but if you have physical access to that device, you have and can access that data. That includes the database of all of your messages on that device, and the key to decrypt them.

PFS prevents someone using the key your device has on it from decrypting earlier cyphertexts. But if they have access to that key, they almost inevitably also have access to the database that signal keeps all of your messages in.

Thus PFS only works in practice if you delete the data from both the sending and receiving devices. PFS is useful, but it’s usefulness is fairly limited in typical scenarios. But, if someone sniffed the cyphertext and then you read the message and deleted it/had disappearing messages on, and they later hacked your phone and got the key, you’d be safe and they couldn’t decrypt the cyphertext they’d sniffed earlier.

It’s just… …it’s a really niche scenario, and most people (except the very paranoid) aren’t regularly deleting every message.

bastion,

pat pat

bastion,

If all goes well, I should be getting my first big (non-integrated) AM’s gfx soon.

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