CodexArcanum @ codexarcanum @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I donate about $7 a month to my masto instance (Hachyderm, funny enough) because:

• Twitter wanted $10
• I know about 1% of users donate
• I like having an independent instance run by people I feel ideologically aligned with.

For similar reasons I will very likely donate something to db0 this quarter to support my Lemmy habit.

I still have reason to use Facebook, reddit, Instagram, and those places all suck. It's so dire scrolling there and literally 80% of the content is ads. I canceled all my streaming services this year but I'm still going to pay for independent social media because it's worth it.

Many people consider it an unseamly career, and most who go to school for it come unraveled or wash out early. They needle you everyday, and it's all too easy to get caught in a tangle. And then even if you manage to graduate, the job market is only sew-sew!

The attacks are more sophisticated and with Ai able to be performed at far larger scales. Cybersecurity practices have been eroded for years by, I suspect, intentional effort by multiple spook groups to make security more complex and less accessible to normal people. Multiple fascists governments globally have also made strong efforts to weaken education, sow mistrust of experts, and in general promote anti-intellectualism.

The result is a population of over confident, uneducated people who believe they can detect scams and lies with their vast superiority, and who widely lack tools, training, and access to real cybersecurity.

They probably think NordVPN protects them from phishing too, somehow.

I suppose while we're conquering a grab bag of countries Trump remembered exists, Putin is supposed to be using his North Korean troops to take over the rest of Europe? Goddamn, WW3 is going to be so fucking stupid, right up until the nukes fly because the might of the Greenland national guard proved too great for us.

The first time I played Crisis, I was already in awe because of that brilliant sunrise opening scene. As I'm creeping through the jungle towards the next objective, I hear loud running water and decide to see what it is.

They put in an absolutely stunning waterfall off to the side, complete with rainbows and ferns growing up around the base. One of those few memorable, special times when a game had the right art direction, graphics tech, and hit at just the right moment for me to all culminate in a real feeling of wonder and joy.

I tend to be very cynical about games being able to do that to me anymore, and it is much rarer with how commonplace high-definition but artistically uninspired assets have gotten. But it still happens now and then, the last time being Elden Ring which did have impressive art and design, and did "wow" me several times.

A keylogger on the back of the boss' computer? A hardware VPN backdoor to the company's network? Oh maybe bring a flash drive full of malware and viruses and just drop it in the break room?

Jork-Aff Videos, for jorkin' aff!

My favorite bird! So beautiful!

My high school and early college was during the W. Bush years. I hated him, and around that time is when I got political, active, and told my (Republican) parents that I was a proud Libertarian! (Look, I've learned a lot over the years, and Libertarians used to pretend to be a little more progressive.)

My parents hated that, and constantly gave me the "you may not like him but he's your president too and you have to respect the office!" The first time he complained about Obama (hours after the election), I broke that one out and turned it around. And they realized their hypocrisy immediately becoming gay communists decided that the rule was stupid, actually, and that it turns out you don't have to respect the office when you dont want to!

What bothers me so much more than their stated political views is the realization that they never actually had reasoned, considered views to begin with. They emotionally select things that seem directly beneficial to themselves. And then lie about their beliefs because they know they're selfish and indefensible.

They're still republicans but I'm an anarchist who no longer respects any presidents! Funny where a difference in fundamental values will lead you.

Can purchasing anything within the system of monstrous exploitation called global capitalism be justified?

Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you'd need a more uhm... elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.

Where is this Galt's Gulch where all the world's sane and intelligent have fled? Because they sure aren't in America, and most of Europe isn't looking too brilliant either!

Straight from Blade Runner

👶: Mr. Owl, how many shots does it take to reach the center of our ongoing polycrisis?

🦉: [REDACTED]

The French Quarter has retractable bollards in that area. They had been temporarily removed for upgrades ahead of the Super Bowl. At least that's the story circulating here.

Lacking Short Circuit (86) and Real Genius (85), two of the most iconic 80s scifi films. They just don't make them casually bigoted like those anymore!

It's only "wage theft"

when they take time from you.

But slack off for what's left:

shocked pikachu

This is called manufacturing consent. News media tells you what future the elites want so it seems inevitable and desired when they force it through. Alternative futures can never be considered.

which could delay certification of Trump’s 2024 election victory on January 6.

The MAGA movement, newly emboldened by Trump's election victory, storms the capital again to overthrow the Trump administration and install a more pro-Trump regime.