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argv_minus_one ,

I think the problem there is that, for many years, nobody bothered to explain to him exactly why child porn is bad.

Most people observe that everyone else thinks it’s bad and don’t question it any further. That’s not good enough for Stallman, though, and for good reason: expecting him to unquestioningly bow to peer pressure is an insult to his intelligence.

Someone did eventually explain the problem to Stallman. I don’t know what exactly was explained, but my guess is that Stallman was told that child porn is non-consensual and therefore violates the child’s privacy, similar to how revenge porn violates the subject’s privacy. At any rate, after that discussion took place, Stallman did an about-face on the subject, and is now opposed to child porn like anyone else.

Moral of the story: taboos and peer pressure bad; logic and education good.

argv_minus_one ,

We kinda do need him, though. Very few people are as intensely principled as he is on the subject of computing freedom, and without him anchoring the Overton window, there’s nothing stopping the Bill Gateses of this world from moving it.

argv_minus_one ,

The wireless kind, presumably. Those always need their own firmware and therefore their own driver.

argv_minus_one ,

And back at that time if you installed any flavor of Linux you were lucky if the OS install didn’t fuck itself over

I was using Linux religiously back then, and this is false. As long as there’s a driver for all of your hardware, it generally worked fine.

But that “as long as” is doing some heavy lifting. The usual suspects were pretty much the same as now: Broadcom, NeoMagic, and NVIDIA. Some cheap printers and modems were problematic as well, but if you paid for good hardware, it would probably work.

argv_minus_one ,

Printers these days tend to be driverless, so that’s pretty much a solved problem.

argv_minus_one ,

Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.

argv_minus_one ,

Good. China has enough slaves. It doesn’t need more.

argv_minus_one ,

If you can’t afford Starfield, how can you afford a computer capable of running it?

argv_minus_one ,

Since when did Bethesda have QA?

argv_minus_one ,

Which is not a desktop.

argv_minus_one ,

What’s wrong with it?

argv_minus_one ,

Yikes. Thanks for the heads up.

argv_minus_one ,

That’s not how you spell “imprison the C-suite of”. Last time I read the Constitution, giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies was treason.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

Could’ve fooled me. I was under the impression we were sending weapons and trainers to one of our allies who are fighting them. Sounds like an enemy to me.

argv_minus_one ,

Who needs a wireless mouse when you’re sitting right in front of the computer it’s plugged into?

argv_minus_one ,

With a console controller? Being barely able to aim isn’t my idea of easy. Mouse and keyboard, please.

argv_minus_one ,

You might pay for a subscription-based future, but I will stay on PC where this sort of nonsense is not tolerated.

argv_minus_one ,

Dis gon b gud.

argv_minus_one ,

Aren’t you supposed to be sword fighting on an office chair?

argv_minus_one ,

Hoping to see news that the US government has finally decided to stop the economy from melting down.

I keep being disappointed…

argv_minus_one ,

To be replaced by Nazis. A sad and embarrassing choice by the people of Finland.

argv_minus_one ,

It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

argv_minus_one ,

Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

argv_minus_one ,

As is Bethesda tradition.

argv_minus_one ,

Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.

argv_minus_one ,

“Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

argv_minus_one ,

Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?

argv_minus_one ,

Steam system requirements say RX5700 minimum. Recommended is RX6800XT, which was ludicrously expensive last I checked. Also I need a much newer CPU.

In this economy, that’s gonna be a no from me.

argv_minus_one ,

Now imagine how fast they’d be without Denuvo.

argv_minus_one ,

I’m an adult with a job, and I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of affording the recommended system requirements for this game any time soon. RX6800XTs do not grow on trees.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

Such an on-device feature would either be trivial to break (if it’s an ordinary API) or be impossible to implement in an open-source browser and OS (if it’s some locked-down DRM-like thing), and the latter is not privacy-preserving because proprietary software tends to be spyware.

If these moralizers would just shut up, go away, and stop trying to ruin the Internet, that’d be great.

argv_minus_one ,

This group has been demanding the censorship of porn, consequences be damned, for decades now. They have failed thus far, and the sky has not fallen as a result, so it’s pretty clear that it’s safe for society and the courts to continue to dismiss their irrational hysteria.

argv_minus_one ,

That would require you to disclose proof of your real-life identity to some dubious company for the purpose of unlocking porn. Definitely not privacy-preserving.

argv_minus_one ,

You severely underestimate kids’ technical know-how. If it can be broken, they will break it.

argv_minus_one ,

some conservatives are going to have things blocked that aren’t porn and are helpful to some kid’s sexual education because they’re regressive.

That sounds like the real motivation for this nonsense: not to protect kids from harm, but to protect their parents from the responsibility of properly educating them.

argv_minus_one ,

Before Internet video porn, kids were finding their dads’ Playboys and VHS tapes.

And before that, people living in cabins or caves had sex in full view of their children because there was nowhere else to do it.

Children seeing adults bang is not even remotely new, and nothing overly bad ever came of it. The only reason anyone is concerned with this is because their screwed-up religion taught them to be afraid of sex, and that is not an adequate justification for compromising innocent adults’ privacy.

argv_minus_one ,

But yes, if porn is the only use case then this method is self incriminating.

That is precisely the problem. It will mostly or only be used for porn.

argv_minus_one ,

That will keep children out for about 12 seconds.

argv_minus_one ,

May his afterlife be long and toasty.

argv_minus_one ,

Long, toasty, and full of rope-spear uppercuts.

argv_minus_one ,

It costs four hundred thousand Red Bulls to crack this video game in twelve seconds.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

I feel like Bethesda wouldn’t use Denuvo at all, because it would break a lot of mods, and Bethesda games rely heavily on mods to be fun.

ETA: Also, Bethesda games tend to be appallingly slow even without Denuvo, let alone with it.

argv_minus_one ,

The ones that haven’t suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can’t figure out.

The reason is money. Either they got paid by Putin or they’ve been brainwashed by someone who got paid by Putin.

argv_minus_one ,

I take it you don’t already have a desktop you can use?

argv_minus_one ,

Sadly, mods can and do remove the horrid dialog wheel thing, but they can’t add more interesting dialog options.

argv_minus_one ,

I’d start by admitting that school shootings are, despite being extremely sensationalized, also extremely rare.

There have been multiple school shootings this year alone. Your statement would have been reasonable had you made it in the wake of the Columbine shooting, but to say it today is frankly absurd.

In scare quotes, because the people that commit random acts of violence in schools—versus targeted violence–are so uncommon that it’s hard to draw definite conclusions about risk factors.

That is not relevant. Targeted violence in school isn’t tolerable either.

Almost all of them ‘leak’ information in the days or weeks prior to murders; I do think that there needs to be a way to seriously investigate things like that, but I don’t know how you could do that in a way that doesn’t infringe on other, equally fundamental rights.

Indeed, so we’re going to have to solve this problem in whichever way minimizes harmful side effects. Unfortunately, that may involve inconveniencing gun owners, but it’s better than depriving everyone of privacy and going full Minority Report.

When you get right down to it, a lot of it is an issue of culture, where people feel like violence is a reasonable way to express feelings.

Mass shootings in particular are usually committed by someone who has no intention of still being alive afterward, and they do indeed almost always end in the shooter’s death. That’s not merely a “way to express feelings”.

the UK and Australia both have combined rates of violent crime–battery, forcible rape, robbery, murder–comparable to the US, and, in the case of rape in Australia, likely rather higher.

You’re contradicting yourself. How can American culture be uniquely violent if those other countries have similar rates of violence?

The US does have a sharply higher murder rate though; our violence is more lethal.

Because we have guns.

The unfortunate truth is that you can’t have rights without someone misusing those rights to hurt other people.

Yes, and we preserve those rights despite that because the alternative is worse.

The alternative we’re discussing right now is gun control. Is that worse than the status quo? If so, why?

If people can drive, sooner or later someone is going to drive a rental van into a crowd, just because they want to kill people and that’s the way they can do it.

This equivalence is questionable for two reasons:

  1. Unless I’m mistaken, that doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as shootings do.
  2. Cars have a purpose other than killing. Guns don’t.
argv_minus_one ,

First, despite there being multiple school shootings this year, school shootings are a tiny fraction of the overall homicides in the US

Which are also often committed with guns…

which are, in turn, dwarfed by the number of suicides committed with firearms.

I’m not talking about suicide.

Second, looking at your link you provided, you see a lot of things like, “A gun was fired during a fight near a basketball game at Appoquinimink High School. No injuries were reported”, and “Bullets struck two windows of classrooms at PS 78 in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island. One classroom was occupied by ten adults, but no bullets entered the classrooms” being counted as "school shootings:, which you then compare to Columbine. You are intentionally, and in bad faith, conflating entirely different things, and placing them all under the heading of, “firearms near schools”.

I did nothing of the sort. There are multiple bona fide school shootings in that list, such as the Michigan State shooting and the Covenant shooting.

It is relevant, because it has different causes, and is thus addressed differently.

That’s not a meaningful answer. Let’s have some details.

Are you willing to engage in good faith, or have you already decided that the only solution is banning firearms?

Are you willing to engage in good faith? So far, you’ve argued based on false premises (namely that school shootings are rare, and that there are no bona fide school shootings in the previously linked Wikipedia list) and evasive non-answers (namely that targeted violence at school is to be “addressed differently”, with no explanation of how). Doesn’t seem like good faith to me.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

There’s also that desktop web browsers generally request that their title bar not be shown.

Those have the excuse that they’re basically several windows in one, and the tabs are the title bar-equivalents. Very few apps have that excuse, though.

Side note: KDE’s tabbed windows feature was pretty neat. Too bad it’s gone.

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