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Democracy relies on transparency and verification, not trust. Any government official who tries to keep secrets from the public is an enemy of the People.

No, “soft skills” are things like being nice and working well with other people. Why the Hell would gamers have that?

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How male-dominated is that profession, anyway?

Watch out for them immediately contracting with Axon instead, which is just as bad.

I didn’t want to give the appearance of shilling. But if you want to know, it’s www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

There are apparently also similar products from “Reflectacles” and “Vaydr,” but they were more expensive and/or not normal prescription glasses. The Zenni thing is just an extra coating you can add on to the glasses you would have otherwise bought anyway (which is how I found out about it; I didn’t know it existed beforehand).

Meanwhile, I recently got new prescription glasses (after wearing my previous pairs for way too long, BTW) and got some that have an IR-blocking coating that’s supposed to block face recognition cameras. Because that apparently needs to be a thing these days.

(I’m disappointed that these DuckDuckGo glasses don’t have a similar special coating. I like the company I got mine from, but I’d like to see more companies offering privacy-enhancing tech.)

Or a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act!

I use Linux and have done exclusively for almost a decade, dipshit. Get some reading comprehension skills.

Free Software package managers are good, because having somebody who knows what they’re doing curate the apps for you is helpful. “App stores” are evil, because you’ve replaced that expert with a salesperson with a vested interest in exploiting you.

Off the top of my head, I wouldn’t know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example.

The way to find out the correct domain is to go to the Wikipedia page about the software.

But actually, the right way to do it is to install software using your Linux distro’s package manager.

Were it not for the fact that it’s the fucking privacy-invading big tech companies doing it, I would admit that there are good use-cases for the camera:

• Reminding you of the name and possibly previous interactions with the person you’re talking to, for instance (if it only did local lookup based on consensual photos you had previously added to your address book). I’m not face-blind or anything, but my memory is bad enough that that would be helpful to me.
• Scanning, OCR-ing and making searchable any papers you’re looking at (hooking to your selfhosted Paperless-NGX).
• Displaying augmented-reality translations of street signs (which is one of the few reasonable things Google Glass actually did).

They don’t have nearly enough battery life for that.

Probably under the assumption the data was deleted.

Which is why allowing that sort of inference to be made, under any circumstances, is absolutely tyrannical.

It is outrageous that he could be convicted on absolutely zero evidence beyond a username “match” anyway! This case had way more problems than just a damn typo!

OpenWRT is still the best shit now.

I honestly feel like the BSD license should be a better license because it gives more freedom

It does not. Saying the BSD license gives more freedom because it lets developers choose to close up the code is like saying the Confederacy gave more freedom because it let white people choose to own slaves.

Yes, it’s bad. Permissive licensing (instead of copyleft) is for cucks.

Because if literally every new car on the market is doing it, you don’t have much of a choice.

(Okay, sure, you could resolve to drive old cars forever – and that’s what I do – but let’s not pretend that’s possible for everyone. Even if people were willing and able to accept the maintenance/reliability/safety tradeoffs, which many are not, there simply aren’t enough old cars for everybody to drive one.)

Don’t ask a serious question in an unserious manner if you want a good result. Your refusal to edit yourself so that people can understand you is solely your own damn fault.