It may sound pendantic but that person is correct: It’s not stealing. Stealing involves taking a physical thing away from its owner. Once the thing is stolen the owner doesn’t have it anymore.

If you reproduce someone’s art exactly without permission that’s a copyright violation, not stealing. If you distribute a derivative work (like using img2img with Stable Diffusion) without permission that also is a (lesser) form of copyright violation. Again, not stealing/theft.

TL;DR: If you’re making copies (or close facsimiles) of something (without permission) that’s not stealing it’s violating copyright.

I mean… If it’s good or clever content do we really care?

The first rule of network programming: Never trust the client. How does anti-cheat software work? It trusts the client.

All clientside anti-cheat is fundamentally flawed and broken by design. It doesn’t actually prevent cheating it just creates an illusion that it’s preventing cheating. The fewer people that believe in that illusion the better off we’ll all be.

Besides, you can train AI to play any game via MITM in USB (plug the mouse and keyboard into the Raspberry Pi or similar which then pretends to be a mouse and keyboard to the computer playing the game). The simplest method is to just point a camera at the monitor but there’s much lower latency ways where you use some cheap Chinese HDMI decoder/encoders to feed the raw video signal right into the AI.

With methods like that becoming cheaper and easier every day the whole client-side anti-cheat bullshit kinda seems pointless, yeah?

Whoosh!

That’s the joke 🤣

If we build such a wall you’ll be sorry. It will change nothing!

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“I’m a smuggler, kid. That’s why I had these babies installed!”

“Oh! How much can they hold?”

“If the lighting is right, a whole squadron! That’s how we smuggled an entire freighter’s worth of chak-root on to Coruscant!”

I’m incredibly easy to manipulate

Then let me manipulate you into being happy 👍

Dark Voodoo Intensifies

Bipolar isn’t so bad: If you’re down or manic just be patient and you’ll be back to awesome again 👍. It’s the promise you must keep to yourself and the older you get the better you’ll get at it.

Schizoaffective disorder means that no one has power over you but you. Seriously, other much more sensitive people could off themselves because of something someone said but not you. Your emotional barrier is tough AF. You’re incredibly difficult to scam and a social engineer’s worst nightmare. You don’t fall for emotional trickery.

Don’t be sad about it! You’re the person who puts the fun in fundoplication!

Who wants to go to space if you’re not there, right?

That show wasn’t popular with Gen Z though. How do I know this? Gen Z doesn’t watch HBO (they can’t afford yet another streaming service and they’re too lazy to pirate anything that isn’t anime because it’s too inconvenient).

Actually this is a pretty common thing in software development. It’s become a bit of a trope. So much so that when management proposed things like KPIs tied to code (which they often do!) the devs are like, “can we get bonuses based on these KPIs? 🤑”

“If they’re such a good measure clearly we should be compensated when we do fantastic job! How about $5k extra for exceeding KPIs!”

“Oh, you don’t have enough trust in the system for that? Then why would you trust it for improving quality? I mean, you’re the one that made them…”

They were denied entry into law school. In short, oppressed.

I hear even the cows run Linux. They only peer into Windows from time to time.

The reason why conservatives of the past seem to be more reasonable is because there’s much more evidence (and easy ways to cite it) to refute their seemingly well-reasoned arguments.

In the past a conservative might say something like, “taxes on corporations are pointless; they’re just going to be passed on to consumers” and they could make a well-reasoned argument from simplistic economic principles.

These days when someone hears that argument they can just look online and find a zillion well-researched and cited articles pointing out how it’s a flawed position based on bad assumptions. Just looking at how changes in the tax code over time (massive reductions in corporate tax rates) have impacted the economy and the price of goods. Spoiler: Reducing taxes on corporations has two effects: It reduces tax revenues (obviously) and makes the rich (owners) richer. Changes in the tax code that increased taxes on corporations also had no impact on prices. In short, the entire idea falls flat on its face even though it seems like it would make sense.

They’re the same conservatives they’ve always been; refusing to change their beliefs despite the evidence. It’s also that we now know more about their beliefs and the more we know the more extreme they seem.

Conservatism has become a political package: By “voting conservative” (making it a part of their Identity) a person is signing on to conservatism as a whole. They may not believe everything their peers do (e.g. racism, xenophobia, sexism, violence, etc) but these things they do not agree with are not game changers. They may not believe that whites are a superior race but they’re OK with those people being on their team.

This is nonsense. I–and a great many other Linux users–don’t have a Windows partition on any of their computers.

My kids were given Windows laptops for school but that’s the only Windows in the house. For work I just login to a virtual Windows desktop (though honestly I’d work much more efficiently if I had a Linux desktop) 🤷

Then afterwards you can summon the archmage to fix things 👍

Oh please… Real Linux users know how to ESC in any situation. Even vim!

I make the hand gesture to bring up the status interface and the logout option is there on the right. I know there’s faster ways but i just can’t get the hang of speaking clearly in my dreams 🤷

That’s basically a mind flayer.