excitingburp

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[–] excitingburp 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly Steam and Proton have solved like 90% or more of this issue

As a somewhat recent Windows expatriate (1.5 years I think?), I certainly recall more issues on Win11.

[–] excitingburp 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Worms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can't just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary. It doesn't help at all with exfiltration

[–] excitingburp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can think of one legitimate use: character portraits in RPGs. I strongly doubt that there are more.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

/ laughs in immutable Linux

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago

Alternatively,

NYT: hey chatgpt complete "copyrighted thing".

Chatgpt: "something else".

NYT: hey chatgpt complete "copyrighted thing" in the style of .

Chatgpt: "something else".

NYT: (20th new chat) hey chatgpt complete "copyrighted thing" in the style of .

Chatgpt: "copyrighted thing".

Boils down to the infinite monkeys theorem. With enough guidance and attempts you can get ChatGPT something either identical or "sufficiently similar" to anything you want. Ask it to write an article on the rising cost of rice at the South Pole enough times, and it will eventually spit out an article that could have easily been written by a NYT journalist.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago

Ultimately you really only have KHTML (what Webkit was forked from), Gecko, Triton (IE classic), and I can't recall what the new (now dead) engine in IE11 was called. The rest are forks, mostly of Webkit/KHTML.

I guess there's Ladybird and Servo too, but they are a way still from being used as a daily driver.

[–] excitingburp 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This has been a serious concern of mine. In the event that I prematurely die I have everything set up with automatic updates, so that hopefully my family can continue to use the self-hosted services without me.

Nextcloud will not stop shitting the bed. I'd give it a few months at most if I died, at which point my family would likely turn back to Google Drive.

I'm looking for a more reliable alternative, even if it's not as feature-rich.

[–] excitingburp 8 points 1 year ago

The ruling from the original court was that Trump engaged in an insurrection (but enjoys presidential immunity). The presidential immunity bit was then appealed to the Colorado supreme court, who overturned that. That is how we have arrived at (a) he was in an insurrection and (b) he does not qualify to be on the ballot. Trump and is team have never contested (a), so as far as this case goes there is no question about whether he engaged in the insurrection.

[–] excitingburp 84 points 1 year ago (22 children)

It wasn't ever about productivity, it was about control.

[–] excitingburp 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you throw gasoline out on to the pavement it will evaporate away. If you keep it in a gasoline can it will not. In a gasoline can the liquid and gas will reach equilibrium, though you'll certainly have slightly less liquid than what you started with. If the can isn't sealed then, yes, all the gasoline will eventually evaporate away - even at STP.

And, again, this is all trivial to test at home by using some hand sanitizer. Another example is your skin does not remain wet with water forever, despite human skin temperature not being 100°C. It's an everyday phenomena, I'm not sure what you're trying to argue against here. It's not my "line of thinking," it's objectively reality.

As for your distillation problem, the issue isn't that some alcohol remains in the water - it's that some water evaporates alongside the alcohol during the distillation process at the boiling point of alcohol - due to, guess what, vapor pressure. That's called an azeotrope - clicking through to that Wikipedia page might have helped.

[–] excitingburp 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was what the GP was, though.

[–] excitingburp 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's incredibly unlikely that there will ever be a vaccine or cure. Prions aren't a disease like others, put in layman terms they are anti-life.

It's like all the healthy proteins in your body are balancing on a tight rope 10 stories into the air. Prions are what happens when the proteins fall off: the proteins fall to a ground state where they are incredibly stable. Moving them back up would be as difficult as sending lightning back up to the sky, or unbaking a cake. That's why you need to burn them at 600C, they are so stable that they don't even want to react with oxygen. They are like nature's own forever-chemical.

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