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Cake day: January 3rd, 2022

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  • Difficulty level: Nearly impossible.

    Even if you buy the house in a trust and have an attorney list his name for all utilities and have packages and mail delivered to a PO box, there’s a thousand other tracking vectors that will eventually tie your name to your home and most of them are completely out of your control.

    You would need to have a car without a cellular modem, not use a cellphone, and most importantly never tell any friends or family your home address and never allow any friends and family inside your home.

    My entire extended family knows how I am about my privacy and yet someone still thought it would be fun to sign me up for a planting magazine with my full legal name and new address.

    Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn’t necessarily “protected or sensitive” information.

    Friends and family will be so excited for you and optimistically update your address in there phone book. A month later they download some candy crush clone game and give it permission to access contacts. Boom you’re compromised.

    Normally I hate blackpilled takes like this, but sadly this is the one aspect of privacy that at least in the US is essentially impossible.




  • I’m a fairly advanced user of gnu Linux distros at this point in my life. Fedora is no where close to straightforward for gaming. Bazzite is plug and play set and forget. Is it frustrating to deal with flatpaks and osm-tree instead of simply using a standard package manager? Sometimes, sure. But for an absolute beginner there really is no better option for gaming as a fresh convert from windows.

    Audio problems and nvidia drivers can be an absolute nightmare on almost all major distros from Debian to Ubuntu, to fedora if you don’t have an absurdly advanced grasp of the processes underlying.

    Bazitte takes all of that out of the picture. It’s absolutely not a meme distro. It’s perfect for an average tech literate person.

    I use arch btw, Debian, fedora, Pop, lubuntu, Ubuntu, and a half dozen other distros on a daily basis across a handful of devices. So I’m not daily driving Bazitte, but for gaming and general purpose computing there’s no simpler distro imo and I’ll die on that hill.









  • You can’t stop people from distributing CSAM. How would you possibly enforce that? Might as well not even try.

    If the child didn’t want sexual materials of them distributed around, they shouldn’t have taken them in the first place.

    If you don’t want some creep to sexualize your children, then keep them locked inside your house, dummy. Your child has no right to privacy in public.

    /s

    Taking a photo of someone in the background is vastly different from following a private citizen to record them covertly, then posting the recording online to single them out and get people to harass them.

    Taking a photo of a child is not illegal, but posting said photo online with the intent to sexualize them is.

    Taking a photo of a person is not illegal, but posting said photo online manipulated to make them nude or doxxing/harassing them should be.

    The key here is intent. And that’s how it could easily be enforced by law.

    In case I didn’t make it obvious, most of your arguments can be ripped apart simply by replacing the focus of the argument from ‘noncensual derogatory use of likeness’ with CSAM.



  • Bozo take.

    Up until recently, you would need to have thousands of hours of Photoshop or visual effects experience to get an even mediocre result.

    With current AI, the barrier to entry is basically nothing and the results can often times be indistinguishable from reality.

    The solution is obvious…governments need to make non-consensual reproduction of an individual’s likeness illegal and actively enforce it.

    The tools are already out there. Regulating them is a lost cause at this point…




  • I recently went down that same rabbit hole.

    I ended up buying Bitwig Producer and I’m running it in an Arch install.

    I tried a number of different distros which all caused different headaches. Arch ended up being the best fit for my Linux audio needs and was way easier to set up than Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS.

    With the right setup, latency is better than I was getting in Ableton on Windows and Mac. I can even record live audio without any perceivable latency.

    Bitwig made me realize how convoluted and stupid Ableton’s UI is. The team behind Bitwig holds good values, so I felt they deserved my money. However I have seen torrents available for it. I suggest you try a 30 day trial first that way you can check if you even like Bitwig before going through the hassle of getting a pirated version working.

    My current pain point is Serum in Wine has GUI rendering issues making it unusable. Luckily Vital for Linux works perfectly.

    Fabfilter plugins work with some minor tweaks.

    My Waves license is on an ilok, which I know doesn’t work in Wine. So eventually I’ll pirate the cracked version and try that.

    So far I’m really happy with the setup. Another benefit of Linux audio over Windows or Mac is the routing abilities. I can route any program as an input, allowing me to stream YouTube or Spotify into Bitwig so I can play live music over the songs without having to download them first or rig up some weird aux cable nonsense.