Oh they would!
And then make it mandatory for everyone with a penis.
For child protection, you know.

Just noticed Child Protection.

Meta learning what the meme-CIA agents had been subjected to for years.

Schematics or die

Psst I also changed some behaviour in my GPL editor for personal use once without sharing my changes and also I also used that version a few times while writing proprietary commercial code… Pls don’t tell Stallman

As long as you didn’t ship the edited binary of the GPL editor with your proprietary software, you are safe here.

I did.
Since I don’t know what else Epstein was up to, it might as well could be some other form of pursuit of knowledge.
And while everyone has their times of foolishness, why would someone want to broadcast having been a part of those acts. Alright, maybe he had a “show off but not get caught” fetish of some kind, but still.

Yeah, I have played Diablo II
It’s more fun thinking about it in hindsight than it was, actually doing that

What’s the chance that the US govt. is deliberately fabricating mails with anyone who had hinted having talked to Epstein?

You are also allowed to say dick if you feel like.
No idea how you pronounce that though.

Yeah, it might be optimal for that specific case, but that doesn’t really make it so everywhere.

The item in the post would be fun for novelty though.

I love how short sighted they are.

That might not be the case.

Ever since Windows 8, MS seems to be shifting the bar for what users will keep using Windows each version. This should get all but the most compliant ones out of their system.

Next, they might have multiple time bombs in the Linux ecosystem. xz might have just been a POC.

So what we might have here:

1. Keep all easily surveillable people on the system and tighten the leashes.
2. Use the multi-point security compromisations all over the Linux ecosystem at opportune moments before they are caught, robbing the users of their systems in some shape or form.
   • I feel like they might have had to speed up their plans due to the reduced control they would have from RISC V proliferation.
3. – a. Use the opportunities from step 2 to neutralise HVTs and do whatever they want from those who become powerless (jobless/moneyless).

IIRC, it had already started taking too much RAM.
I had to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB just to be able to open more than 4 documents at once,

Oh, is that all there is to it?
I thought it might also have something to do with the personality of the character on the right, or that you get a smaller inventory box when playing as that character.

More holes = less area of waffle to dip!

You lost me at the first part.
Are we talking about the same kind of hole and same kind of area?

What’s the other reference, for someone not much into Resident Evil?

Most probably what went on was…
DoW decided to go with OpenAI for military stuff and Anthropic for covert surveillance.
So they are now giving a PR boost to Anthropic, to increase market permeation and increase their short term effectiveness.

Maybe because anyone else that wants to use that needs to become them.

I’m pretty sure that won’t be the case.
Their real intent won’t be to enforce it on self-installable systems, but more like, to enable companies to make that thing mandatory on systems that they sell.
And since the companies want to do so, they will use it to create a “verification” system that helps them feed people’s everyday face data to AI, to enable doing studies on people’s face changes depending upon various stimuli that said companies will be collectively applying to those people.

e.g.

• if you have a period and it is showing on your face, then the next time you need to pick up your phone, the AI will know you have one.
• you got a tattoo anywhere visible, now they know that
• they know the rate at which your facial hair grows and how much you get it cut, so when you open your phone after shaving/trimming/salon-stuff, the company now has that in its database

This is corresponding to PayPal et al. starting with requiring a selfie to “verify” that it’s you.
Well guess what happens when one of those AI companies gets an order from someone that wants to systematically frame you for paying for something illegal via PayPal? They get the highest quality AI selfie generated such that even your mother won’t know it isn’t you.
Oh and don’t go on saying they won’t want to do that. Cell Phone service providers will make fake claims of their customers having activated VAS, just for a few extra pennies a month (this is already happening, even without AI).

if the govt is mandating something

I’d rather the govt. not go around mandating stuff that only empowers those who want to use it as an excuse for mass-AI-voyeurism.

Yeah, and the AA capabilities of Saruman would mean that even a highly manoeuvrable hypersonic cruise missile would have pretty low chances to get past, while the Sauron’s eye seems like it could mess with onboard electronics.

So as a parent, you want every person on planet Earth, making a software, to bear the burden of making sure your child cannot use their software without your consent?

You already have the option to buy something with parental controls.
You can also pay someone to add a parental control feature into an Open Source OS and install it for you.

But you’d rather use the politician?