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Likely installed the Battle.net client as a non-steam game and launched it from there. It’s what I’ve done with Battle.net

This is very much my worry with AI in government. Those systems mass hallucinating fraud or some other punishable crime, and then the justice system doing what it does by threateni…

Which they're fully aware of. They will eventually at some point pass a law requiring you to identify yourself to the VPN and/or government. This decision is ultimately about the e…

This is a good thing. What nations and governments, along with individuals have been to do with OSINT is pretty stunning. https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases…

Link https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/

They don't need it, which was my point. They have all the tools the need right now to get what they want. Why should anyone grant them more?

One of my favorite comics about cryptography. https://xkcd.com/538/ Government routinely posits a desperate need for backdoors in crypto and crypto secured products, but almost uni…

Hrm. I've never ordered anything from them beyond books. I'm at 58 books so far this year from them, and they've always arrived as I've ordered them. I've had a couple of books lis…

I rarely buy new books anymore. I just use ThriftBooks. Haven’t had a problem with any of the books they’ve sent me.

I would continue discussing this with you, but if you object to people buying a bag of chips, I can draw a relatively easy conclusion to your overall opinion on the social safety n…

The max benefit for EBT in ND is $250-ish for a single person essentially making nothing. The whole point of EBT is to keep people fed. If they are eating junk food and not maximiz…

I think they've found their sweet spot as a publisher rather than a development house. It's hard to make successful games, and just throwing large sums of money and people at a pro…

Or it can be is as simple as saying a caste system is dumb, Americans and I assume other nationalities find it fascinatingly backward. The idea that there are “upper” and “lower” c…

I'm working through a paper idea for a social scheduling app. The question I have is as a solo developer, should I include messaging if I'm unable to moderate the content due to ti…

I subscribed to DDJ years ago, and only recently found out they had ceased publication. I went to buy their last Developer Library DVD 6 but their store is down. While the site is …