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Comment Oh go fuck yourself (Score 1) 92

If you would stop being such a dumb mother fucker and stop voting for pedophiles because trans girls make you feel icky and give you a boner at the same time then we could fix all this shit.

There is absolutely no reason why everything can't be fine but guys like you are so fucking stupid you think you're part of the in group and that when the shit hits the fan Trump has your back. He hates you. You disgust him. When you showed up on January 6th to make him King he was pissed off how low class and how much of a bunch of losers you are.

The point of my rant which is way the fuck over your head is that if assholes like you would get out of the way people like me who aren't idiots could fix all this shit in a couple of decades tops. No poverty no war no starvation no hungry kids and the only thing we have to trade for it is you would have to be nice to trans girls and blacks or whatever group you don't like and you wouldn't be able to worship Elon Musk and pretend he actually did anything useful instead of just stealing all my taxpayer money and my 401k.

The real problem here is you have extremely low self esteem and you take that out on the rest of us. It's amazing that a bunch of losers with low self-esteem or basically going to end the human race for the stupidest fucking way possible in the stupidest timeline possible.

Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 56

Utilities are heavily regulated because they need to be. They have demonstrated it time and again. PGE in particular has proven it several well-publicized times that you surely have heard of.

The upshot of these regulations is that utilities including PGE only really make money from new generation projects, so they certainly would like to engage in them. But the longer they run, the more they cost, and the more PGE can charge as a result. This also motivates them to build the least cost-effective options.

Comment It's the woke agenda now (Score 0) 92

It was political correctness when I was a lad, then it was sjw and now it's woke. I think woke is running its course and being replaced by dei. But there is room enough in the right wing's head for both since God knows there's nothing else in there.

What's going to be fun is in 2032 when Trump's going into his fourth term and all these old fucking farts who sold us out so they could freak out about trans girls in sports and drag queens reading books lose $500 a month of social security money and become homeless.

I know they will just blame Joe Biden but at this point I'm not waiting for them to wake up anymore I just want them to fuck off. The problem is they didn't die fast enough they were able to destroy our democracy. A couple of drugs basically kept old people alive for too long and they're mean and they're nasty because even though they're alive they aren't any smarter if anything they're dumber because of age-related cognitive decline and as you get old you hurt a lot so you get angry and frustrated and you want to take your frustrations out on the people you see the most which is for these baby boomer trash usually some minority or another who had nothing to do with their current predicaments.

Basically what I'm saying is old people suck. We know old people suck. Traditionally not a lot of people made it to the point where they were old enough to suck that much. But now that we're keeping these fuckers alive this long they can really really fuck up everything with their incredible stupidity. I mean you're dealing with people who write it a fourth grade level when they were at their peak and now they've had decades of age related cognitive decline and they're still out there and mother fucking they vote.

Initially I thought it was just the older Gen x that doomed us but I gather that when the numbers were actually fully tallied about 70% of baby boomers voted for Trump. And the Reagan democrats can fuck right off. The I got mine fuck you crowd they are just nicer about it.

Not that the American left is making me terribly happy. They're so fucking useless. I mean I guess being useless is better than doing damage but still...

Comment Re:macOs no more? (Score 2) 9

There is a light version of the patch that only does fixes. If you want all of the content you will have to run Windows, or run the Windows version in some kind of VM. You can use protontricks or steamtinkerlaunch to install the provided openjdk and the required windows runtime and then run the jarfile installer, and copy the 4gb patch into the Apps directory alongside the game executable and run

wine 4gb_patch.exe "SimCity 4.exe"

To install the 4GB patch to a clean install.

I am running SC4 in dwproton.

Comment Re:Firewall? (Score 4, Informative) 39

Would a properly installed firewall stop someone from accessing this via the IP?

The short answer is yes, but the longer answer is it's complicated.

Devices with back doors may also dial out from your network. It's common for devices to phone home to check for updates and such so such activity is not necessarily even seen as suspicious, though of course in an enterprise context you should be disabling automatic updates and/or reconfiguring them to use internal servers.

Devices which might be malicious should be segregated onto their own physically isolated networks connected only through firewalls with policies for both ingress and egress so that you can control both types of threat. But it's better still when your software and firmware is OSS, and you build your own images and deploy them to the hardware yourself to have the best chance to avoid the possibility in the first place. Even this doesn't completely preclude such attacks, but it does offer some protection (mostly in proportion to the level at which you're auditing the source files, and the percentage of OSS.)

TL;DR: It's smartest to segregate and whitelist traffic in both directions for sketchy devices.

Comment Re:a path-traversal attack (Score 1) 74

I don't know that it's really "the EEs" that caused the problem. I suspect it's "the regular programmers who found themselves doing embedded programming jobs". They didn't care how it could be made to work, they just wanted it to work. Most of these haven't even been on USB until recently, they were all on I2C or SPI. However there ARE some standards now and corporations should just use them like everyone else. Since they don't, the semi-pro level stuff is superior, I'm pretty sure the RGB controller I'm using is put out by a one-person company.

I do not understand the point of colorful lights in keyboards and the like. But then, I am not mentally 5 years old.

Sorry your heart is dead, but a lot of us still understand fun.

Comment America's lack of nuance is pissing me off (Score 3, Interesting) 92

The inability for America to comprehend nuance is starting to really piss me off.

Yeah we're not all immediately going to lose our jobs.

That's not the problem. The problem is we already are in a scenario where we have two good jobs for every five people. A good job here is something that lets you afford a one-bedroom apartment by yourself in a city that consistently has employment.

Oh here is where a bunch of people dig up lower cost apartments and places with little or no economic activity or job opportunities... Because every time I point out the reality of the economy somebody suddenly digs up a statistic out of context to prove what we all see with our own two fucking eyes isn't real because gas lighting is a thing. Also the president is a pedophile and they voted for him and they would really like to forget about that...

Anyway getting back on track, a small reduction in the number of available jobs that pay people enough to be functioning adults will have a huge impact on our consumer-based economy. Already the only people in the economy who have any disposable income to speak of or the baby boomers who got all the socialism from the New deal and the Great society before pulling the ladder up behind them because Ronald Reagan is so fucking awesome and Orange temu Ronald Reagan is even more awesome.

We have a major crisis coming in addition to all the others like the water shortages and the AI data centers driving up the cost of electricity and everything else and the fact that we've given so much money to the 1% that we can no longer function as a country...

In addition to all of that when the baby boomers die in a few years there isn't going to be enough jobs that pay enough to have disposable income to drive our economy or even our tax base. We're going to have to start cutting police and fire. And it's going to be a lot of desperate jobless young men showing up at your door armed to the teeth because we may not have food and shelter and medicine but by God we've got guns. All of us have guns. Including those desperate young men you abandoned because fuck those guys right? Bootstraps and something.

It doesn't take very many job losses from automation when we have already had 50 years of non-stop automation devouring jobs that nobody likes to talk about. Go Google the phrase 70% of middle class jobs lost to automation since 1980 and you can find the study assuming your Google isn't broken. For some reason every time I point all this out a bunch of people whose Google is broken ask for sources.

And this is why I hate americans. It has to either be every single one of us loses our job immediately tomorrow to a robot we all die in the streets or nobody loses our jobs and we don't have to think about anything on any of the complex interactions between gradual job losses due to automation and the inability to feed a consumer-based economy.

It's like how morons keep asking who is going to buy their products if we none of us have jobs. They don't want to sell us products they want us to go away and die so that they can have everything for themselves. They hate you and they want you to die. It's like none of you people saw the utter disdain and disgust in mitt Romney's face every time he interact it with regular people on the campaign trail back then.

Then again the current president is pretty good at hiding his contempt for you and when he lets it show like when he called the people in the army suckers the news media just moves on and pretends it didn't happen so...

It's frustrating cuz I'm sitting here trapped on this fucking train with all you morons and I can see the other train coming at us and I'm like hey guys maybe we should do something about that and everybody's like it's not going fast enough so it's fine. Then again there's also a bit of I got mine fuck you from all the old farts floating around here who think they're going to die before the shit hits the fan. And you absolutely do not believe in hell because with the shit you've done to your kids yeah if there's a help every one of you fuckers is going there.

And since I'm ranting fuck Reagan democrats too. Your grandpa who voted Democrat voted for Ronald Reagan and for Democrats who are right of Ronald Reagan. He was not a Democrat he was a fucking Dino. And he won't admit it but he voted for Trump at least once probably all three times.

Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 2) 56

More important than breaking up PGE, we should nationalize the distribution infrastructure. PGE has demonstrated time and again that they lack the necessary responsibility. I refer again to burning down much of Paradise, CA by skipping maintenance, as the fire was caused by a line falling because a hook wore through due to being in service for 99 years. Surely they could have caught that with an inspection any time over several decades as the wear would have been easily visible long before failure, if only they had actually done inspections.

PGE is in fact now complaining that they cannot reasonably maintain some of the primary infrastructure we depend on for literally our entire society to function, so we should reasonably just take them at their word and take it away from them. They have been poor stewards at best.

Comment Re:That's just it, it's a tool. (Score 1) 57

It can recognize and even simulate emotion, but it doesn't *need* it as a cognitive crutch the way we do.

It can't simulate emotion. It can simulate an emotional response. The difference is critical and every human who gets emotionally involved with AI is making the same mistake.

Comment Re:a path-traversal attack (Score 1) 74

The problem is there are many many different pieces of hardware which would have to be supported and nobody is bothering. Most of the RGB hardware uses its own interface instead of a standard. So instead this generic driver for direct hardware access has been used. The situation on Linux is actually not very different, except on Linux there are udev rules which make it possible to assign permissions to specific devices to users or groups and have more security than you get when doing the same thing on Windows.

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