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  • I consider quality to be unlocked with recycling.
    At that point it can be automated, making a nice challenge. Then you can let it run away and be a thing to eat your bases resources while you are occupied, and have already researched everything. Very nice for me who likes to waste time take a lot of time and care in designing parts of my base.







  • Kovarex’ message for which he is accused of sexism is just pedantry about the definition of “bigot”.
    Given that all this is taken from a huge endless discussion of that post, picking out a weird pointless bit of pedantry not addressing the original baseless accusation and calling that “proof” is a major stretch. (also the original accusation it isn’t even shown, only paraphrased, which is weird)

    I don’t see the accusation of sexism having any footing at all if that is all of the “proof”.

    The homophobia part is mixed. I think Kovarex did fall for the right-wing projection that homophobia is “pushed into” media, and that you will be cancelled on twitter or smtn if you don’t watch it.
    Kovarex did however agree that if someone hates gay people, they are a bigot, and hating that homophobe in turn does not make you a bigot.

    I don’t think Kovarex is homophobic, he just fell for some weird right-wing talking points about popular media and twitter mobs. (Also this was 3 years ago, he might well have realized the mistake since then)

    The racism is completely unfounded. I assume this is derived from the first part which seeks to apply guilt by association. FFF #366 quoted “uncle bob” who is described as “a racist, sexist and Trump supporter” by the accuser. I don’t think it matters so I will simply assume it is true for this matter.
    Kovarex’ point is simply that quoting good advice is independent of who it came from. Saying “If Stalin had a good writeup on programming” that would not matter. He would quote it if it was good.
    I don’t fully agree, quoting someone extensively like that does push people towards them, what I have seen done before is a simple disclaimer that “the person holds weird views so don’t mind finding that mixed in with their advice if you look them up”, something along those lines.
    What I do not at all agree with is that it makes kovarex a racist or sexist.

    Guilt by association is a fallacy with its own wikipedia article, I consider the racism point dead in the water if that is it. I also consider the entire source extremely suspect for including that.

    Finally, the rape part. I think this holds the most water out of the claims. I will quote it in full first:

    • The male teacher preys upon and rapes the female student.
    • The female teacher seduces and has sex with the male student.

    It’s statutory rape regardless of the genitals attached to the adult in the situation.

    kovarex:
    “statutory rape”? A new sjw term?

    Yeah lol. Those darn two and half century old terms really scream “sjw” don’t they? /s

    kovarex:
    I always thought, that rape means that you assault someone against his will. If teacher seduces his/her student and the act is voluntary, we can’t really talk about rape right?

    First of, this is 6 years old now. Also I cannot find it anywhere, the only source is the screenshot in the linked page.
    Now to me there are two main interpretations here. One is that the question is legitimate, the other being that the question is rhetorical. If it was rhetorical, I don’t understand the first question. Calling “statutory rape” and “sjw term” does not hold any arguments or dog whistles, it simply makes you look like you don’t know anything about this topic. Which is what I think is the case here. Kovarex has no idea what that term means, or really about the complexities of rape in a legal and moral sense.

    Assuming then that the second question is legitimate, I think it is fair to ask. In a colloquial sense in the ancient before times, rape meant something violent (probably, I’m not old).
    Ofc then we were enlightened that you could be threatened, or drugged. And at that point it shifted to being consent-based. And if you then add an age or power hierarchy element, you also disqualify certain people from consenting.
    At the end of that you hopefully come to the conclusion that calling it all some form of rape is sensible.
    Either case, lawmakers generally have done that, and the resulting legal definition I assume is called statutory rape and might confuse someone hearing about that for the first time.

    I assume therefore Kovarex simply had no idea and learned a new thing there.
    Immediately jumping to “swj term” does again remind me of the riling up that right-wing influencers do. If you are told constantly that “sjw” are inventing new words and pushing xyz into media then you do jump to that for every normal thing instead of thinking about it more reasonably.
    To me it sounds like Kovarex was in the “alt right pipeline” at the time. I can’t speak about their opinions nowadays, but given the article doesn’t have anything else I have no reason to believe Kovarex followed through and somehow became a radical right-winger since.


  • I will update a running total here:

    steam charts on 2024-11-05 22:00

    ⁤ 91 801 - 21:00 Monday
     90 572 - 21:00 Tuesday
     89 402 - 21:00 Wednesday
     89 261 - 21:00 Thursday
     95 758 - 22:00 Friday
    111 160 - 22:00 Saturday
    118 166 - 21:00 Sunday
     98 562 - 21:00 Monday
     93 980 - 21:00 Tuesday
     90 954 - 22:00 Wednesday
     85 407 - 21:00 Thursday
     94 835 - 22:00 Friday
    106 844 - 22:00 Saturday
    112 738 - 21:00 Sunday
     89 372 - 21:00 Monday
     85 098 - 21:00 Tuesday

    Times are in central european time, mind the DST clock-shift on the first weekend.








  • Careful, Google is currently forcing apps to migrate from SafetyNet to PlayProtect!
    SafetyNet is used by tons of security theater apps like banking 2FA. It is an API of play services.
    PlayProtect is basically the same but you have to talk to it though google play. This is a blatant move by google to make exactly what OP is suggesting impossible, and means that if you do this, you may soon see many apps break that you are forced to use.


  • Yes, those could be detected.
    Ill see how large that portion is on my system in a bit, but I would expect it to come out as the minority.

    Non-detectible ones I can think of rn:

    • Tab muting manager
    • VPN manager
    • link redirect skippers
    • stats printers, like a tab counter
    • dynamic shortcuts, like opening the archived version of the current page on archive.org
    • old reddit redirect
    • cookie managers

    Many more of the ones you listed won’t be detectable on most websites.

    userscript managers (grease/tamper/violentmonkey etc.)

    A userscript manager is by definition detectible only on pages you define or install a userscript for. Even then, modern userscript managers like tampermonkey are running scripts in a separate scope that is completely sandboxed from the actual websites js context, you can’t even pass an object or function to the website and access it there, it will fail.
    Youtube has actively fought some userscripts and failed, which they probably wouldn’t have if those userscripts were detectible.

    User theme managers should be similar, but I can’t comment on them as I don’t use any.

    page translators

    Translators are only detectible when enabled.

    addons serving in-browser ads

    Why would you have an addon that serves ads?

    site-specific UI improvements (RES, SponsorBlock, youtube/SNS tweaks)

    Are site-specific, i.e. not detectible anywhere else

    privacy blockers (CanvasBlocker/JShelter/etc.)

    Please don’t use those anymore, use only uBo. Same for uMatrix.
    uBo is pretty good about not being detected, for obvious reasons.




  • TPM isn’t all that reliable. You will have people upgrading their pc, or windows update updating their bios, or any number of other reasons reset their tpm keys, and currently nothing will happen. In effect people would see Signal completely break and loose all their data, often seemingly for no reason.

    Talking to windows or through it to the TPM also seems sketchy.

    In the current state of Windows, the sensible choice is to leave hardware-based encryption to the OS in the form of disk encryption, unfortunate as it is. The great number of people who loose data or have to recover their backup disk encryption key from their Microsoft account tells how easily that system is disturbed (And that Microsoft has the decryption keys for your encrypted date).