Because during bad times the ones that make bad decisions don’t survive or at very least are removed from positions of power.

The ones best equipped to get in positions of power during “bad times” are bad people willing to put their ambitions above basic human decency.

The idea that violent and traumatic environments lead to strong people making good choices always seemed pretty stupid to me.

sort of

The real term is synthetic data

I thought this article had some interesting insight into how living in Israel can distort someone’s perspective on these issues.

Meeting my friends in Israel this time, I frequently felt that they were afraid that I might disrupt their grief, and that living out of the country I could not grasp their pain, anxiety, bewilderment and helplessness. Any suggestion that living in the country had numbed them to the pain of others – the pain that, after all, was being inflicted in their name – only produced a wall of silence, a retreat into themselves, or a quick change of subject. The impression that I got was consistent: we have no room in our hearts, we have no room in our thoughts, we do not want to speak about or to be shown what our own soldiers, our children or grandchildren, our brothers and sisters, are doing right now in Gaza. We must focus on ourselves, on our trauma, fear and anger.

If you are at the point where you are having to worry about government or corporate entities setting traps at the local library? You… kind of already lost.

What about just a blackmailer assuming anyone booting an OS from a public computer has something to hide? And then they have write access and there’s no defense, and it doesn’t have to be everywhere because people seeking privacy this way will have to be picking new locations each time. An attack like that wouldn’t have to be targeted at a particular person.

Isn’t it risky plugging usb drives into untrusted machines?

Wouldn’t this lead to snowblindness? It gets way brighter in the winter

Ok but that’s different than free will as in, the premise of a society in which a person is able to choose their path in life

I bet it was something like the hardware id instead but she misspoke

parks in bus lane

Wow I’m surprised you could find parking around here, you must be a parking sorceror

I think so, I’m using firefox and clicked the translate button in the address bar

The camera photographs the parking sorcerer, and the vehicle owner will eventually receive mail with a fine notice.

My browser is good at translating

IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn’t conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn’t know what they were doing as cannon fodder

Really good framing of it

Could you elaborate? Does HOA mean something different in other countries?

Home owner’s association; when you buy a house and it is part of a HOA, you have to sign a contract to join the HOA as a requirement of buying, which means you have to pay dues and abide by the rules of the organization, and you have to require the next buyer to also join in order to sell your house.

The detail that negative reviews warning of the danger kept getting removed or edited is really sinister

I count 32 total shots, this seems like a potentially fatal game

The pair said it was a major relief that the calamity came after version 4.0 of Godot was released in March of 2023. That version, they felt, was most ready for a sudden rush of new developers.

Sounds like they saw it coming for a long time and successfully prepared for it