well depends on your definition. In short it means attempting to make justice without authorization.

In the case of doing legal research, accessing things that are happening in public, and turning them in to authorities (be it community wise, or law enforcement. I would say very few have any opposition to.

Where it gets far greyer is when you are doing things that are illegal or imoral in and of themselves without evidence of what you are dealing with.

IE say you hack someone’s computer to discover they have been doing illegal actions etc… In the case of the guilty person most people are good with that… but it begs the question, did you hack a bunch of innocent people, to find that one guilty person. How did you know they were guilty etc…

and then of course the more absolute extreme ones, when you apply the punishment yourself in spite of that being a crime in and of itself. Say you beat up, kill, kidnap, destroy proporty etc… That’s generally frowned upon, except in instances where most people can agree on the horror of the crime, and completely lack any faith in the legal channels to appropriately enforce it even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. IE why fictional superheros like batman are popular (and why making him popular mostly involves the story implying that gotham’s police are either incompetent or too corrupt to enforce the law), as well as say in the real world people like Luigi are loved.

I mean that’s mainly it… it’s amazing at clearing adds off of news articles general viewing pages like blogs etc… but yes as you said, it’s not particularly great for things like youtube/spotify etc… things that deliver the ads through the same source as the main content.

Well they make some great puns/jokes.

A man regularly was feeding crows in his yard in an attempt to get them to follow and protect him.

He was arrested for attempted murder.

The only “grain of truth” I would say to the “woke movies” claims etc… Is that sometimes, studios will use minority casting, as a substitute for coming up with a good story or doing anything actually original in the plot. IE a shit movie with a diverse cast is still a shit movie.

I would suppose it also ties down to the fact that, actually trying to represent more people as a push, also started around the time that, movie costs scaled up so much that investors aren’t willing to go in on a movie that isn’t a sequel or remake of something that everyone has already seen. Movies now are more diverse, and 90% of them are crap, but the correlation isn’t causation, and that’s demonstrable by the fact that movies that have all straight white characters, are as bland and unoriginal as the ones that the right blames DEI for why they suck.

But yes… in short DEI, affirmative action, and whatever they called it before has always been the scapegoat for why everything gets worse.

THE CRIPPLE PEOPLE JAR!!!

is that harmful for my future job opportunities?? what if a company wants to see my iq and they see 86

Has any job interview you’ve ever gone to ever asked for an IQ? I’ve never heard of it, and it sounds like a crazy stupid idea for anyone to go for. You like linux, you’ve programmed websites. The bullshit test that your employers are going to care about are certifications. Look around at job opportunities in your area (or if you are lucky remote), see what certs are most commonly demanded, and focus on getting them. In addition whatever you go for, try and get some hands on experiences in them, projects etc… whether it’s personal.

Or say if web development is the direction you want to go… then try and find a friend or family member that needs a web site or project made… make them a “client” so that you can claim it as “work experience”.

Honestly in my experience in IT… generally speaking when it comes to getting a job, in order of value “work experience” > Certifications > Primary education (IE Degree/diploma).

IQ test, I’ve never once in my life come across that question coming up… just don’t advertise it and most likely no one will ever care.

Not a bad list, one thing I would say though, for self hosting, vaultwarden is a far more ideal server than bitwarden (same clients work, but faster and all features are unlocked).

I’d second this… IMO it’s probably good for the students to moderately hear about… but it just takes one curious student to ask follow up questions, and one super conservative triggered parent to blow everything sky high, and tank your career. So IMO… probably not, unless you are looking to get out of teaching and want to do some good on the way out.

I’m sure some are… but I would say certainly seems to be a much larger percentage that prioritize their hatred of trans… and don’t seem to do a lot of actual reach in protecting women.

Big thing is the terf label or stereotype is generally assumed to try to make it look like you are fighting for a group, rather than fighting against. Lets say hypothetically I’m claiming to be super in favor of protecting birds, and say that I hate wind farms because they kill birds

If you never once hear me talk about house cats, or poachers, or any of 500 other things that can kill birds, you’ll pretty quickly catch on that I’m not actually pro-bird. Especially if I start reposting statistics about wind farms that have already been debunked etc…

It’s effectively pre-order for DLC.

IE you pay us now… when we release the DLC you get it… If the DLC turns out to suck… well that’s on you, if we release a different DLC then the one we announced, and delay or downgrade all the resources from the DLC we announced, sucks to be you etc…

Bottom line, at best it’s kind of a kick starter done by companies with more than enough money to not need it.

Hate to say it, but I cannot find an alternate front end to it. There might be one, but documentation on it is pretty scarce, every tutorial I’ve ever seen has just told how to let nextcloud use it.

I mean it’s true, but the same general concept could be said about the internet. Everything runs on IPV4 or IPV6 so they can’t use names. OP’s concept is why isn’t there say, a universal phone book that say if I punched DHORK into my phone, it would go to a server where you are listed on, return your phone number, and then my phone automatically dials you.

To which I suppose the reality is… it wouldn’t really be much of a helper. everyone would have like 3-4 digits in their usernames anyway (because any combination of real first/last names, and english words would be gone in hours of the systems introduction). So your typical registered name would be JohnSmith3821 Which isn’t that much faster to learn, write or dial than a normal 9 digit number.

Haha, suckers… I’ve got all the games in the world… and I’ve got about 5 hours of laptop of battery to play them in

I mean if you put those HDDs into like a synology NAS or something you could run nextcloud or syncthing or several other network hosting file tools.

Care to even explain the question… if it were serious and simple I’d make the POST for you… not give you an account lol

Giving you the best benefit of the doubt, and lets say your bans were unjustified, and the reddit admin’s are power tripping. You are IP banned, any account you get, is probably also going to be auto banned from scratch as well.

In general speed limits are enforced IMO, just within a certain level. IE yes everyone exceeds the speed limit… but typically by set amounts. IE I know myself I generally go 9 over the speed limit. I expect to get a ticket if I go 11-20 over the speed limit.

That being said, yeah the social construct is probably intentionally encouraged by cops, so that say when they are pulling over random minorities for an excuse to search the car, they have an automatic excuse for why they pulled them over.

Umm… correct me if I’m wrong, but why are we acting like license plates is some super duper fancy tech.

I can hack my physical low tech license plate too… all I need is paper, a color printer and some tape.

Or if we want to go super high tech and expensive, get an LCD screen or tablet to cover the license plate so you can change it on the fly.

License plates aren’t some super duper complex thing… people have been forging, and stealing them off of other cars since they’ve come out. The actual hinderance is that if you are pulled over and your license plate doesn’t match the vehicle you are in, you are likely in a world of extra charges.

and I would also note the sad thing of the blue shell as the analogy, is it fits very well in orwells analysis. (going majorly from memory so, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong), but in short if I recall, the outer party could use the proles to become the new inner party, however no matter what party was in power, the proles position as the bottom rung of society remains constant no matter what they do.

Sadly the blue shell is a very similar analogy there. Why so many people hate the blue shell in mario kart is it’s typically only obtainable if you are in 7th or 8th place. and it’s effect is typically to knock first place into 2nd or 3rd place, but if the race isn’t particularly tight it has little impact on the outcome of the player that threw it. (he’s still in last place).

The gist is… streamers are gamer role models. The streamer itself is a drop in the bucket… but either they encourage people that like their behavior to play the game, or they encourage people who play the game to act like them.

I used to play town of salem, the social deduction game… the community was relatively small, but when a mainstream youtube channel like pewdiepie or someoen played the game there’d be a collective groan from the community. As it would always follow up with a huge spike if players who start up the game with zero interest in learning how to play (because the youtuber also didn’t learn how to play)… now in those cases that generally was only a week or 2 of annoyance as the obnoxious players either moved on to the next thing, or started actually trying to learn the game instead of just trolling everyone.

More accurately why are they bothering? Question is what exactly is their end here? This just a “lets have a laugh as our business burns”. Their service was a download manager and torrent downloader… that just seems on par with say the nitros sellers that pretend to think their products are used to make whipped cream.

I get it, the law cracked down on them, they can’t continue to provide the service they were providing, and they know they cannot provide the service that 99.9% of their users use them for. I also get that they aren’t offering refunds because… well their money is about to dry up really fast. But what’s the point of the trolling etc… I have no comprehension of