If you run that, your machine will be (allegedly) secured against the attack. If you want to run the attack (and / or validate the fix) I think you need this.

The evidence is substantial. But if I were a certain tyrant waging an information war, and I were interested in spying on dissidents, I would be looking for ways to spy on and manipulate companies like Kape in ways that aren’t publicly visible, because their reputation of independence is valuable. That alone makes PIA not worth the risk for me.

2019 per wikipedia But I too used them for a while after that but before I found out. PIA used to be pretty regularly recommended as a VPN and then it kinda fell off, but I never really knew why.

PIA was bought by an Israeli private equity firm Kape Technologies that also has a bunch of other VPN brands they operate. Even if they pass an audit I wouldn’t trust them not to be doing something shady with the data.

Inside you are two wolves.

One of them wants to spin in the spinny chair. The other wants to spin in the spinny chair.

Which wolf is the stronger?

I don’t know.

I’m pretty dizzy.

I’ve never wanted to brush a bee before but boy do I now.

IME both have a lot of memorization, impossible standards, and clandestine sex, so yeah there are parallels. Divinity school must be a fucking cesspool.

0 is my Productivity KPI goal.

I love that. I love getting home from a trip and hearing the songs of my home birds.

TIL

Turdus is a genus of medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for ‘thrush’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turdus

edit: adding the species itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay-colored_thrush

I think it’s OK to complain about free software on social media. It’s also OK to tell people that sometimes, if they want something to be better, they might need to be the ones to roll up their sleeves and make it happen. But not everyone has the time or the technical wherewithal to fix every tool they use. I sure couldn’t implement every improvement I ever thought of for free software, I don’t have the time.

But I think It’s still nice, for maintainers and for people thinking about getting into open source, to get a rolling feel for what gripes a lot of people share about open software. If I have a problem and I know a lot of people share my frustration, I’m much more motivated to try to fix it than if it’s something I and no one else care about.

The point of “nuclear family” propaganda is to shame and isolate people who can’t reach that insane ideal, which is basically everyone who can’t afford to hire help. Do you rely on grandparents, on aunts and uncles, on neighbors, teachers, church members, friends? Congratulations, you failed the nuclear family test and you are a leech on your community, worthy only of scorn and degradation until you get your act together and get enough money to pay someone to raise your kids like a real American. People who fall for it are put into a needless and usually lifelong struggle as they attempt to do it all themselves rather than participating in and at times leaning on their community like humans have been doing since time immemorial. It takes a village now, just like it always has. The “nuclear family” is designed to undercut the networks poor people need to survive and escape poverty.

I’ll regard it, but I’m not sure what useful conclusions can be drawn from it. This seems like polarization bait that lets left-of-center types feel smug about how much smarter they are than conservatives, and right-of-center types can indulge in a good pity party about how biased those socialist Europeans are against conservatives. Something for everybody, accomplishing nothing. Who gives a fuck about who has the higher IQ? What has it to do with whether a persons actions are just or unjust? Even if we take for granted that IQ is a reasonable measure of intelligence, intelligent people are just as capable of doing terrible, selfish things.

Imagine a scenario where this same study was conducted but it found that conservative men had higher IQs. Same study, same methodological rigor, different result. How would your opinions or beliefs about the world change? Would you be inclined to think that maybe conservatives are perhaps going about things the right way, by virtue of this study? I would hope not. Even if we could measure intelligence, hell, if we could even define intelligence cogently and comprehensively, what impact should that have on our decision making? Are “smarter” people considered more right? Or should statements be evaluated on their individual merits, regardless of the quantified “smartness” of the person who said them?

I think it should be the latter. IQ is at best a curiosity and it should have no place in the evaluation of government or social policy. Thank you for coming to my soapbox harangue.

Caring about IQ is stupid even when it validates your preconceptions.

or whom?

We are all Hungary, and it’s time to eat.

I have, and it’s hard to disambiguate the effects because they do overlap. But I think the experiment had an effect because I noticed it strengthening while I was looking at that background image every day, and then there was a sharp dropoff after I stopped using that background. If I had bothered to graph it, I expect the relationship between “number of days since using that background” and “number of illusion incidents in the wild” would have looked like a power curve. Unfortunately I am not much of a data collector, more of a casual data observer, so I may never know for sure 🤷

It would be nice to have a distro with some basic flight control drivers preconfigured so we didn’t have to build from scratch for every airframe. Maybe wouldn’t get the same performance profile as proprietary drivers but something that could get off the ground. It could even be called AvioNix.

I did an experiment once where I made my computer background a similar image that produced the same undulating movement illusion, to see if I would lose sensitivity to it over time. Not only did I not desensitize, I think I actually became more sensitive to it with time, and I would get flashes of that sensation looking at grass and trees and shit. Still do every once in a rare while, it’s kind of similar to the phenomenon where you think you see someone you recognize, but at a second glance they are obviously a stranger. I’ll just get the occasional random “movement detected” sense from a pattern in woodgrain or raindrops on a windshield, but when I look back at it I usually can’t see it again. It’s an odd feeling.