e: sidenote. if you're using markdown for codeblocks you can add the language name after the first three backticks to change the syntax highlighting in the codeblock. TIL
Is there an emacs key to 'delete this entire word'?
like if I'm using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It's be much better if there was a 'delete until whitespace' button.
Imagine I said that I would come into your house and install a new TV and entertainment system, re-build your bathroom, fix your maintenance issues, clean your floors, wash your dishes, etc. That'd save you a lot of time.
Now, I'll even do it for free! But, you have to let me install a door that only I have a key to so you can't stop me from entering your house and also to install cameras and microphones covering every square foot of your house and you consent to being recorded.
That's the deal people are making with their digital lives.
Yeah, it was inconvenient to have to learn how to setup the software so I could have 'cloud storage' using my home server. It's annoying that I have to deal with IP Cameras and ZoneMinder. But, because I do the work myself, I don't have to let Google/Meta/FBI/Amazon have access to listening devices in my home (Oh, sorry Alexa, I didn't know you were listening), footage from my security system or the contents of my personal files.
Unless you can convince them to get out of the 'surveillance for free stuff' market then they're fucked, not everyone.
You can choose to use free and open source software and sped time learning and putting together a system that benefits you. Or you can just sign up for Google, let them do all of the work in exchange for spying on you with every device that you buy and put in your house.
"The only acceptable bigotry is my bigotry" is the theme of social media.
I saw a pretty highly upvoted thread where they were trying to brainstorm new slurs. But it's okay since they were targeting people that use AI and since those people are unpopular then it's okay to be bigoted assholes against them. /s
I'm sure I believe a lot of nonsense from reading the Internet.
That's okay, we're just human. The problem is when people try to 'inform' people of things that they 'know' from reading social media. That's how these situations are created, so many people believe this because so many other people believe it and then repeat it as fact without themselves ever checking.
It's like a feedback loop of ignorance, caused entirely by people who care more about getting social credit for talking and less about saying things that are true.
If you look at Valve's TOS or any other game developer who has games with an online component, you will see the exact same language regarding data collection. The language being added is to comply with laws, like the GDPR, which requires specific language indicating what data is collected and how it is used.
The data that is being collected is the same as it was 10 years ago. There's nothing new here, just a YT video that got a lot of views and social media being full of people who don't fact check anything.
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
The unfortunate thing about the UAC prompt is that it gives the software permission to put files in protected folders, but it also gives the software root permission so it can do literally anything else without prompting the user. Except, I believe, if it tries to install unsigned kernel drivers, then the user has to click a new prompt... but you can completely compromise a machine with the permissions that users routinely give to executables that they download from the Internet.
Here is another person, 7 years ago trying the exact same outrage-based engagement farming strategy of linking a TOS update and implying a nefarious intent: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/8naopt/take_two_a_spyware_apocalypse/ It's exactly the same "Take two is spying on you!!!" content and yet, none of the Borderlands games have added spyware and none have added kernel anti-cheat.
Also, if you read the 2018 and 2025 TOS you will notice notice that the information that they collect in the 2025 TOS ( https://www.take2games.com/legal/en-US/ ) is exactly the same as it was in 2018.
TL;DR - Just because you read it on the Internet, doesn't mean it is true.
Google is constantly making changes that break it, the developers fix them quickly... but if your distro doesn't keep the newest version in their repo then you'd have to install it from their git repo.
Generally they have a patch for any breaking changes within the day.
It is also worth nothing that no Borderlands games use anti-cheat, much less kernel anti-cheat. I'd even go as far as to say that no Gearbox, Take2 or 2k Games use kernel anti-cheat.
This is boilerplate language for games which include an online service component. Publishers often use the same Terms of Service across all of their games, so they include language that is often irrelevant for any specific game.
The only thing that's different about this is that there are a bunch of bored people who consume engagement farming content, which often make outrageous claims in order to earn money from engagement farming. This "story" is not an actual story, but it is a great example of how a mob can be summoned with some creative writing and a credulous audience.
Oh yeah, that's way better. Thanks!
I'm using zsh and trying the emacs mode, that alt operates on words is the secret sauce I was looking for.