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Dark Arc
Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg
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Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company

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  • I guess Biden isn't going to enforce it and Trump has promised not to as well. So... This sucks.

    • YSK that if you weren't raised as a child you could ask ChatGPT about the things you were never taught.

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  • You should go talk to a therapist. I don't mean that to be mean, but you're clearly going through some stuff ... and that sucks but AI is a false prophet. It might make you feel better but it's no substitute for actual therapy, actual advice, and an actual support system.

    • US: Rather Than Ban TikTok, the Best Way to Protect App Users is to Strengthen Privacy, Transparency, and Security Protections Online, Freedom House Says

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    • mysql or postgresql? Which is better for an Internet-facing application

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  • PostgreSQL is just better. It's supports transactions on DDL (things like altering table structure) and enforces unique constraints after transactions complete ... so you can actually do a bunch of important stuff (like update your table structure or swap unique values between rows) safely.

    • Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer

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  • 😱😱😱😱😱

    • Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years?

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  • It's the old trope ... the perception of the future gets worse for some group and then society fractures into people that are willing to take ownership and do something about it vs people that accept polarized answers that "it's not their fault, they've been treated unfairly, and the other guy caused all their problems."

    Once you have a significant portion of people blaming "the other" society just stops working right and fights with itself. In many cases it's self imposed, but social media has added fuel to the fire and festered and inflamed old wounds (with the help of foreign governments seeking to do just that).

    We have half of society blaming liberals, gays, blacks, the poor, the colleges, and immigrants. Then we have the other half of society blaming conservatives, christians, old white men, the rich, hillbillies, and the uneducated.

    Frankly, we all need to take a chill pill and realize most people want to be left alone to do their own thing. Then we need to sit down at the table and look at which politicians are building bridges and which politicians are burning them. Most of us want similar things, we've just been conditioned to focus on our differences.

    • Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years?

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  • It should be counted but separately

    • Old Folks Gaming: Senior Edition

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  • If he's looking for something social.... Consider Brighter Shores.

    It's a modern table top styled MMO by Andrew Gower (the RuneScape guy). Just like RuneScape it's a point and click adventure MMO so ... it's really easy to pick up. It also works great as a windowed game, has low hardware requirements, and everything is saved server side so progress is pretty much impossible to lose.

    It's got 2 free episodes (which is a lot of stuff to potentially do) and the optional subscription is currently $5.99/mo so it's also very affordable.

    Linux is not natively supported but it runs great under Proton ... and the team seems very keen on making it work on as many platforms as possible.

    • Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux

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  • Yeah it was before AMD did graphics.

    ATI had an atrocious closed source driver. I used it ... but it was not good at much of anything.

    • Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?

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  • Don’t answer.

    Exactly, you're getting it.

    • Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?

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  • North Korea really is amazing isn't it?

    !If you don't get it, North Korea allegedly is a wonderful place to live with very high living standards but obviously isn't. Closed communication countries like China, North Korea, and increasingly Russia's claims about "how good things are" must be taken with an absolute grain of salt. Unfortunately, this list could even come to include the United States soon given Trump's desire to silence critics.!<

    • Are there any apps or services that aggregate RSS, Mastodon and Lemmy?

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    • 2025: The Year of COSMIC — Alpha 5 Released!

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  • Don't they normally delay against Ubuntu by a year...?

    • [Timothy Cain] Do Gamers Know What They Like?

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  • I didn't watch the video, but in my experience, no... They just have very strong ideas about what they don't like.

    • US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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  • I remember reading that and I very much hope it is truly what they end up doing. As of now though, that has yet to materialize.

    • Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads | Half as Interesting [6:38]

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  • tldw the county was made because the fed government wanted to put nuclear waste storage there, and they made this county to with nobody in it with extremely high property taxes to try and profit off of this. Supreme Court of Nevada killed the county as unconditional because there was nobody in it. Nuclear waste was never put there.

    • AliasVault | Open-Source Password & Alias Manager

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  • As someone that uses a custom domain for the majority of his email, it's not really a privacy thing, it's a control thing.

    I have hundreds of unique unpredictable email addresses and I can disconnect them at will to stop spam.

    • Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April

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  • That's not true. It's not all free software. The distribution of it certainly isn't free even if most of the individual pieces are.

    My distro containing emacs doesn't make the distribution itself free software, it just contains some free software. Similar to how emacs being on Windows doesn't make Windows free software.

    Steam OS is a higher percentage of free software than Windows, but it is not exclusively free software. The SteamOS trademark is also not free to use without authorization.

    This is not disparaging free software, you're making drama where there need not be any.

    • Tencent Designated as a Chinese Military Company by US

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  • The reality you live in must be nice. The CCP is just a peaceful little government trying to live its peaceful little life and bring people peace and happiness.

    China is a threat though. Destruction of as many computers as possible is a real threat. CCP members being able to request access to control servers and fire employees that might otherwise refuse is a real threat.

    So much of this is automated. You request SSH keys for "a review", upload a file to the distribution system, it sends it out as an update, and the update waits for the command and control server to say "go" before sending your credit card numbers from Steam to the CCP and bricking your computer. If it ever happens, it will be over before you know what hit you.

    • US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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  • Sure, but by then it could be too late for the vast majority of people.

    It's not super relevant if nobody is looking for it/it's hard to detect even if you are and plenty of damage can be done prior to detection.