Great article.

Probably a dumb question, but my mobo has an option in the setup utility to “enroll hash” and it seems to let me pick an .efi executable.

Can I just use that to sign any bootloader (or efi executable for that matter) I want, e.g. HackBGRT, GRUB2, and if so, would that allow me to play Battlefield 6, or would the other features like TPM attestated logs indicate the chain loading and flag me for a ban (or simply not let me launch the game) ?

But it feels odd to single them out rather than who would really perpetuate.

You’re right, the difference is that I’m reading it in bad faith and you’re reading it in good faith.

It’s definitely a thing but i doubt it’s progressive women who are perpetuating it.

Yes of course

Name one?

I’m not sure if the medical records keeping can get any worse than it already is to be honest. It is borderline impossible to get anything done when despite endless records half the time the medical staff just ask you for your entire life story, only to proceed to not understand it and usually set you back a step or two.

Lmao. Thankfully it’s not real and ipv6.disable=1 will stay in my kernel boot params forever. Just add more layers of NAT if you need more addresses.

Blast from the past. I remember that site that let you play many YT videos at once and people would have ‘In A House, In A Heartbeat’ playing over stock screams and crowd noise and ebola news coverage and post it in the happening threads before we found out nothing ever happens.

I was a kid back then obvi, I didn’t understand the racism of it, I’m sure many others were the same.

Honestly pretty glad to be woke and not them. I’d rather hang out with the most vapid preachy liberal talking about alien feminism or some shit than these fucking losers and their coffin dodger in chief

Is the container exposed to the internet?

If yes, do not.

If no, I think it will be ok so long as it’s actually not exposed to the internet, e.g. ideally behind NAT with no port forwards and all ipv6 traffic turned off or some other deny all inbound firewall outside the system itself that sits between it and the system on which the container runs.

In the worst case scenario: you’ve given someone a file share on your root partition, but if it’s not exposed to the internet, then the chance of it happening is extremely remote.

Yeah it does, I didn’t say it doesn’t, just like it makes sense for other bourgeoisie like the tech billionaires to defend low taxes and low regulations, it’s class war where classes act in their material self-interest, as they should.

I agree.

Even more broadly, politically - copyleft in general is very unpopular with people, even amongst leftists and self-identified communists who you’d think would be all about that since y’know, good of the commons and the fact that communist states literally didn’t give a fuck about copyright and the literature seeing it transparently as another government method of enforcing corporate power, especially apparent today when it comes to pharmaceuticals snd the fact that capitalism needs this intellectual property monopoly as an added incentive for R&D is an issue with capitalism’s broken incentive structures, not cost in and of itself or science/technology.

Few people seem to understand the power of intellectual property, and various critics of corporate technology either omit mentioning or openly defend intellectual property, despite corporations having monopolies being the reason enshittification is such a phenomenon in the first place.

It seems like a lot of arguments about the role of technology in society instead boil down to more-stuffism vs. less-stuffism, usually based on emotionally charged preference for modern aesthetics or how much they believe the noble savage/appeal to nature fallacies.

When it comes to AI for instance, anyone reasonable can see that if it’s open sourced for everyone to use then it’s just a simple common good like a public library, use it (responsibly) and there’s no issue.

Closed source private models in use by corporations suck up the environment (which belongs to everyone) and use the capital they steal from wage workers who actually produce the things they sell to give themselves leverage over said consumers/workers and other corporations, and this is not fair to the 99%.

Picture a world where AI is good enough to where it actually provides value to use it in a good chunk of jobs, and the best AI is corporate and closed source, and they just enshittified it and jacked up the prices, but if you want to get a job, you better know how to use it well. It would mean that corpo has an enormous power over your life now and you got little choice but to pony up, and they can raise prices whenever they want and snowball that capital into more and more.

I think the reason in this instance is that a lot of artists are bourgeoisie themselves and they understand that. They may be progressive as a personality trait/gimmick/style and talk about “empathy” but they understand the material reality of things.

They had the opportunities and the room for failure necessary to go into such a high risk field, and their ultimate form of commercial success is essentially using that privilege to create intellectual property they could make money from, hence the “concerns” over “style theft” and moralist fearmongering over vaguely defined concepts like “soulless”, which is usually as arbitrary as “white” for racists (not implying equivalence here).

I find generally that a lot of the anti-AI viewpoints are simple self-serving veils of bourgeoisie who’s capital is threatened, no different from the culture war fearmongering about vaping, a dying grasp of the tobacco companies of old threatened by shenzen gadget slop factories.

The material reality is that digital goods are effectively infinite, copying an image isn’t a crime nevermind copying a style or some such, it is transparently absurd to imply otherwise.

I agree.

Even more broadly, politically - copyleft in general is very unpopular with people, even amongst leftists and self-identified communists who you’d think would be all about that since y’know, good of the commons and the fact that communist states literally didn’t give a fuck about copyright and the literature seeing it transparently as another government method of enforcing corporate power, especially apparent today when it comes to pharmaceuticals snd the fact that capitalism needs this intellectual property monopoly as an added incentive for R&D is an issue with capitalism’s broken incentive structures, not cost of it.

Few people seem to understand the power of intellectual property, and various critics of corporate technology either omit mentioning or openly defend intellectual property, despite corporations having monopolies being the reason enshittification is such a phenomenon in the first place.

It seems like a lot of arguments about the role of technology in society instead boil down to more-stuffism vs. less-stuffism, usually based on emotionally charged preference for modern aesthetics or how much they believe the noble savage/appeal to nature fallacies.

When it comes to AI for instance, anyone reasonable can see that if it’s open sourced for everyone to use then it’s just a simple common good like a public library, use it (responsibly) and there’s no issue.

Closed source private models in use by corporations suck up the environment (which belongs to everyone) and use the capital they steal from wage workers who actually produce the things they sell to give themselves leverage over said consumers/workers and other corporations, and this is not fair to the 99%.

Picture a world where AI is good enough to where it actually provides value to use it in a good chunk of jobs, and the best AI is corporate and closed source, and they just enshittified it and jacked up the prices, but if you want to get a job, you better know how to use it well. It would mean that corpo has an enormous power over your life now and you got little choice but to pony up, and they can raise prices whenever they want and snowball that capital into more and more.

I think the reason in this instance is that a lot of artists are bourgeoisie themselves and they understand that. They may be progressive as a personality strait/gimmick/style and talk about “empathy” but they understand the material reality of things.

They had the opportunities and the room for failure necessary to go into such a high risk field, and their ultimate form of commercial success is essentially using that privilege to create intellectual property they could make money from, hence the “concerns” over “style theft” and moralist fearmongering over vaguely defined concepts like “soulless”, which is usually as arbitrary as “white” for racists (not implying equivalence here).

I find generally that a lot of the anti-AI viewpoints are simple self-serving veils of bourgeoisie who’s capital is threatened, no different from the culture war fearmongering about vaping, a dying grasp of the tobacco companies of old threatened by shenzen gadget slop factories.

The material reality is that digital goods are effectively infinite, copying an image isn’t a crime nevermind copying a style or some such, it is transparently absurd to imply otherwise.

Oh ofc we heard of it, but as I said, I don’t think I, nor the folks I know actually know what it really is, as in: what’s it about or what you do in the game, or if it’s a social thing and not a game etc etc.

That’s…wild. No one in my 27 year old age group of friends knows what Roblox really even is or has ever touched it.

Yes, but today’s industry problems are way different than collector’s editions with that, of anything that feels quaint enough to peak my curiousity

You’re thinking of Gen Alpha. GenZ was born starting '97, most of us are closer to 30 than 13, they don’t play Roblox or know what that is. All they know is eat hot chip and twerk and cry for a world that never was yet feels was taken from us while watching old vine compilations and being able to recite them word for word with impressive if slightly concerning accuracy.

Just to add a contrasting perspective I feel like it’s been an absolute golden age of gaming for me lately personally:

No Man’s Sky still getting relatively fun updates. Cyberpunk 2077 was great on launch and arguably much better now.

The Last Of Us Part 2 on PC is incredible and I’m happy that the port exists so I could experience it. You haven’t really played the game till you replay it with both protagonists wearing their Hotline Miami shirts in all the cutscenes. PS4 Spider-Man on PC was prolly the best superhero game I’ve played.

MSFS2020 opened a whole new world of flight sims to me, especially when it comes to doing fun VOR2VOR navigation with littlenavmap charts printed to PDFs and attached in VR, and Assetto Corsa did the same for racing sims.

Speaking of VR, H3VR is stronger than ever. I have many fond memories of VRChat just a few years back.

Victoria 3 has a really fun thriving modding scene. Indie games like Sea Power, Flight of Nova, Stray, Ultrakill, World of Horror, Nuclear Option, Descenders and Crisis In The Kremlin: The Cold War have been a big timesink for me lately as well as classics of indie like Suzerain and actual art masterpiece DEFCON.

It’s also been great to go back and play old classics and PS3 emulation now that PC hardware is much cheaper after the crypto/scalper crises circa 2018.

Also, with Steam play and the steam deck, PC Gaming is easier than ever and just hassle-free.

I never played the popular junk so ig to me all this gacha mtx horse armor crap just doesn’t really relate.

This criticism is genuinely like 10-13 years out of date, gramps.

I get a runny nose in cold weather without fail, like 5°C or less, it gets all red too, it’s pretty embarrassing and makes me put on extra concealer I’d prefer to go without. Anyone else?