The image/animation that sticks to the top, showing visually what is being talked about as we scroll is really nice work, and I typically hate fancy pages changes during scrolling.
Readit NewsModified3019 commented on How to Draw a Space Invader muffinman.io/blog/invader... · Posted by u/abdusco
How are they different?
2 decades of increasingly refined 24/7 propaganda designed to radicalize.
Modified3019 commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
Also, does not help that the US Army does NOT want this FMECA document released. From the article that is cited the US Army's project manager & legal counsel gave this response to help Sig justify keeping the document sealed:
> The Army position would be to oppose the distribution to the public of the > FMECA document as it potentially reveals critical information about the > handgun (design, reliability, performance, etc.).
Wow that’s asinine. Like, russian-tier levels of lying straight to your face.
I should really know to expect less, but they yet again managed to slide under even my low expectations of sense.
Pistols are the least important weapon in a war. Their capabilities are essential identical, and you can replace every sig with a Glock and the only thing that’ll change is whose pockets the money fills.
The idea of an enemy trying to plan a battle based on the flaws of a particular pistol is exceedingly silly. Even Blackadder has gags more grounded in reality.
Modified3019 commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
You're kidding me right? I thought guns were at least somewhat safe in general but putting the trigger safety on the trigger is...
I'm used to the kind of engineering where the goal is not to kill people I guess...
I believe you may be confusing the type of safeties that block even intentional firings with safeties that try to block unintended firings (such as from drops or other mechanical stress). Pistols have multiple levels of safeties involved.
A trigger safety is meant to ensure that the trigger must be intentionally pulled (as opposed to moving during an impact) for the firing pin to be able to release and hit cartridge primer.
The 1911 famously has a grip safety, which needs to be depressed for the trigger to move. This is to try to ensure someone has to be gripping it with intent to fire, for it to be able to do so. While much safer than other pistols at the time, 100+ years later the design is relatively flawed, and isn’t truly drop safe, as the firing pin can still move.
I'm very surprised to learn 1/3 of Americans have a passport. I would have guessed much lower.
We used to be able to afford traveling.
Modified3019 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
> Social media rose to prominence with ubiquitous always-on internet.
Hmm.. Wikipedia says: From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world.
Then again, Myspace (and most social media) isn't an app for synchronous communication, you logged into it and see who's interacted with your content (or comment). OK then someone invented notifications, and the smartphone (which went from bookish BlackBerry to hip and trendy iPhone in 2007-2008) would bother you.
In the old days of AOL, ICQ or MSN and not always-on-internet, you weren't reachable 24/7. I think one of these didn't even have offline messaging, meaning, if the other user is not online, you couldn't send them a message. A friend showed me ICQ and I hated the concept; I thought "but if I go online and I see someone online there, isn't it like walking into a cafe and seeing them, it'd be rude to ignore them and not say hello?". I saw it as a virtual place where people can come and go and you have a chance o catch up.
Nowadays I can make anyone's phone ping and notify them that I want their attention using WhatsApp, etc within seconds of thinking it, and we've lost the concept of "Hey, fancy seeing you here! How have you been?". It seems connecting to anyone is possible 24/7, so it doesn't happen anymore.
That’s an interesting point. I would also add that having a pretext can be important as well.
I’ve had 24 hour instant access via phone/text to my siblings for almost 2 decades, but we really didn’t talk much until we started doing gaming stuff with voice chat on weekends. I think part of it is it really helps if there’s something, anything, that can fill the gaps in conversation and provide a pretext to getting together (even just virtually). We’ve since talked about so much that we likely would have never otherwise brought up or picked up a phone to talk about.
Hell, one of my favorite games as a kid (wyvern: https://web.archive.org/web/20040102095422/http://www.caboch...) was basically just a chat box with an adequate mmorpg attached. Sometimes I even just skipped the game and connected via telnet, since that was an option, so I’d be available when someone I knew popped on.
Modified3019 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
And if your kid has downs or gets hit by a car or is an addict or a fuck up, they're not going to be able to support you into old age either. And then you're responsible for them as well, until you're too old and senile yourself, and then what?
That's not to say don't have kids, but go into it with your eyes open, don't assume they're your lifeline to the future.
Or more likely, their kids are still going to be renting and living paycheck to paycheck at 50, so they aren’t going to have time, space, energy, or money to take care of the parents when they are barely treading water.
I encounter a lot of people my age and younger whose own retirement plant is basically:
Plan A: Miraculously get rich
Plan S: When severe disability or pain hits, find the exit.
Maby it’s the lifelong depression, the disappointment at what the future’s become, or the hopelessness that society can escape neo-feudalism to something better, but there’s a noticeable decrease in the desire to keep living at any cost. Who knows whether we’ll actually see this start to see this express in the next few decades.
Modified3019 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
How is it supposed to work when every working age person has two retirees to support?
Probably like: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kaelon
Just need to re-evaluate things once we hit post-scarcity.
Modified3019 commented on When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks linuxjournal.com/content/... · Posted by u/dxs
Flatpak's "sandbox" is mostly theater, and it gives little when it comes to privacy. Apart from the obvious that packages sometimes come with overly broad permissions to be usable at all (but you are still given a marketing pitch about enhanced safety, granted, flatpak.org doesn't do it but flathub does), the fact that some paths are denied or some access is revoked is also a data point.
I'd like to have a system where I can choose to give any bitmap, movie, or blank screen when an application asks me for permission to use my camera. It shouldn't know that I have denied it. When it asks for my microphone, I should be able to choose to make it think I allowed it microphone access with dummy audio stream with no audio or audio of my choice. When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be bind-mounted into its mount namespace without giving it extra information about other files beside it, or indeed what's the full path of the file. When recording a screen, I should be able to pick which regions and which applications it should be able to see, and the system should make it think it's all there is.
All the while the application doesn't even have to cooperate. This is the important bit.
I think the pieces to do this are mostly there already (portals, Pipewire, namespaces), it's just a lot of faff to actually implement.
I believe this is part of what [Spectrum OS](https://spectrum-os.org/) is ultimately trying to do. That said, while it’s being actively developed, it’s not a trivial effort and is nowhere near “download the iso and daily drive it”.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11...
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