Duh, civilized countries make education free because it;s a net win for the country. If your politics makes that a bad, dunno, sorry for your loss…

FFS, just adopt, it’s way to needed anyway.

Yuppers, net zero is a (useful target) boondoggle, back to where we were (sequestration, net negative, reforestation) should be the actual goal…

Nah, NVLink is irrelevant for inference workloads (inference nearly all happens in the cards, models are split up over multiple and tokens are piped over pcie as necessary), mildly useful for training but you’ll get there without them.

Does anyone not?

Ima go with Voyager, because it was real science, versus (admittedly cool) mostly dick waving and missile development.

Didn’t take as long as I expected, but I expected it (which is why I didn’t bother to read, even if it’s not all the way there, it’s coming).

Seriously, advertising (or propaganda to use the older name favoured by Goebbels) really needs to be seen as a much more serious enemy than most do. Propaganda for capitalists is super effective at sucking up peoples mental bandwidth, they’ve been selecting for it going on a century now and they’re depressingly good at it, if you don’t actively counter it, straight to the subconscious, along with all the background crap in it. /rant, but seriously…

For science! Good to know (how did you tell with the door closed? text it or something?).

Gaming…straight to Bazzite, you’ll likely be playing in an hour. Why wait, just point the installer at an external drive and see what it’s like.

The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.

Surprised no-one pitched Elite:Dangerous. Certainly a labour of love to begin with, incredibly talented sound design, first space sim to VR, truly devoted to the original material… Still going pretty strong (had a few weak years) with updates (only 2 DLC-ish major updates of which were paid) a decade later…

Privately owned (no shareholders), small team that seems to love what they’re doing, they can likely go on forever. Strange how a lack of shareholders correlates with good games (/platforms, Valve!) isn’t it ?

Uh, most? do have a compass, mine does. Needs an app installed to use of course.

I replied to @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee and understood the question like “Is distrobox as secure as QubesOS?”, which I replied with “No”.

Ahh, fair cop. Good point on Secureblue, but my threat model doesn’t take me there.

Eh, it’s fedora under the hood with SELinux enabled, and immutable, better than most security wise, I didn’t say much more.

Bazzite is the better distro because you install things in a distrobox. Muck around, break things in there, but your main distro stays safe, secure and stable.

Fair enough, I got the wrong impression with the post (which I did read) finishing with

It is not impossible to circumvent these issues, for instance by paying for a jmp.chat phone number with monero XMR. In this case you don’t actually have the sim, but rather access it remotely over XMPP. If you do this over Tor very little can be used against you.

and so on, which I found wanting from a privacy perspective at the implied threat level. No phones (or perhaps faraday bags, or aircraft mode, if tested, depending on threat model) is a much more astute take home, hence the spycraft suggestion.

Anyhow, best of luck.

So, your key takeaway seems to be getting an untraceable phone number. From an opsec point of view I see a few problems.

First, this is implicitly aimed at going against state level actors, which is a whole other game than random internet services. With that in mind…

You assume TOR is actually anonymous, but it has been shown that with enough compromised exit nodes that fails. It’s also a NSA project originally, which may or may not be relevant, the code may be good and is open and has had eyes on, but at the least shows they are intimately familiar with it.

You assume acquisition of Monero is uncompromised and untraceable. Perhaps cash at a machine might be pretty good, but a camera could easily invalidate it, or the machine itself be compromised, wouldn’t be hard to imagine a profit motive or false flag driving that.

What’s the security implications of the XMPP protocol ? Just using TOR may not be enough (I don’t know, just asking the questions). What about the other end of the phone call?

One approach, especially for local efforts, is just using old school spycraft, dead drops, one time pads etc.

You asked for feedback.

Until next week, sigh.

Huge kudos to Freetube, I love it. Just the opposite to Alphabet, go on, be evil again.

Lovely. Seems (could be wrong) the title is actually Kinder than Man at which link those of us who hate bloody pictures of poems can have the text.