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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • This is something I never understood with the idea that having a few different firearms makes it somehow concerning. Firearms can be very specialized tools and you might need a few different ones if you practice different kinds of hunting, target shooting or work around a farm. If someone decides to turn into a crazed killer they will only be able to effectively use one at a time so having 20 more doesn’t change anything unless they’re muzzleloaders that take minutes to reload like muskets

    That being said, if someone has a huge collection to a point that it makes it a particularly attractive target for theft and consequent misuse by the wrong people, some standards of security for their storage should be set.












  • The problem with that whole situation is the way the law is written the developer is the one held responsible if a child circumvents the check to access adult content. Therefore, developers will have to pay hefty fines unless they:

    -1: Have a way to positively make sure the person enters their age is telling the truth; and

    -2: Lock this value from being changed by the user afterwards.

    Or: Region lock the OS.

    One can see how incredibly problematic this is for both privacy and true ownership and control over your own machine. There is also a lot that needs to be figured out in the law such as what will happen when someone inevitably finds a way to hack the system to circumvent it, especially the region lock. Ultimately, big tech has deep pockets and can shrug off the fines but small nonprofit open source projects will be killed by them.

    This law is specifically designed to kill nonprofit-run and private software like Linux.








  • I know exactly the video you’re taking about and it reminds me of something that I find mind-blowing. Just like crocodilians, sharks haven’t evolved much in millions of years. But there can be a seemingly chaotic and fast paced feeding frenzy involving a dozen sharks all competing to grab a bite of something and somehow they don’t bite each other. How they manage to tell peer from prey in conditions like that I have no idea.