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They scrape data indiscriminately; I’m sure any Epstein files publicly accessible on the internet have been added to their databases. Perhaps they’d be filtered out before being used to train models but I’m skeptical they take that level of care with the data.

They’re based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can’t imagine they’d implement such a feature.

Wouldn’t this just be unenforceable for any Linux distros not directly owned/maintained by a US-based corporation? I don’t really see how they could force a distro to comply, unless they start going after individual maintainers who live in the US.

It might take them a few more centuries than us to develop the tech, but just because we use chemical engines doesn’t mean it’s the only viable method. I’m sure they’d figure something out eventually.

You’re sort of right. The change in distance from the surface is insignificant, but a spacecraft orbiting a bigger planet has to travel further with each orbit so its speed must be faster to avoid falling out of orbit, even if the gravitational acceleration at its orbital height is the same.

I don’t see it as necessary. I have full disk encryption set up, which is sufficient to protect my data at rest. Even if I had secure boot set up, a sufficiently skilled agent could physically install a USB sniffer in my keyboard, flash a malicious BIOS to my motherboard, or just install a hidden camera to watch me type my password. And many TPMs have vulnerabilities that I’m sure government agencies are able to exploit.

I don’t give a crap what Microsoft’s doing with their garbage pile of an OS, but this does imply that the AI hype is finally starting to fail, which is definitely good news.

This is definitely AI, but AI is such a vaguely defined term that it’s basically meaningless. Too many people these days mistake it for meaning “a computer that can think like a human” even though it encompasses everything from LLMs to chess playing algorithms to something like Minecraft zombie pathfinding.

That would make sense.

I don’t use Play Services and still get push notifications from Signal, so they’re clearly using an alternative implementation.

Pretty sure the distances are to scale. It would be harder to see things if they also sized the Earth and Moon correctly, but there are some good images that show them fully to scale.

A much simpler animation: Animation

Mint does have a graphical app store. Steam also has a .deb package on their website to download, which opens by default in the GUI installer when you double click it. Using the CLI is fine, but it’s definitely not necessary.

I was really hoping for a lunar impact, oh well :/

It’s also good to keep in mind that the gambling site is predicting only a 50% chance of a sweep. That’s still coinflip odds.

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It’s your phone, it’s your app store, it’s your browser, it’s your email, it’s your storage, it’s your search, it’s your maps, it’s your music, it’s your news, it’s your credit card, it’s your password manager

Google is so deeply integrated into most people’s lives that they can’t imagine going without it.

The AI companies are inbreeding intentionally now? Wonderful!

It’s a sure sign of a healthy non-bubble economy when a random Substack post can cause a stock market crash.

That’s odd, maybe it has to do with symlinks? Adding --dereference to the du command will count the file size of the files referenced by symlinks. If that doesn’t show anything abnormal, I’d compare the directory sizes between your home directory and the rsync backup and try to find where they differ significantly. If it does show a much larger size, narrow down the location of the relevant symlinks (may be a hidden directory) and either delete them or exclude them from the rsync.