Possibly. Is your husband an ass man?

Pirate keys for sure. Not using one is just asking for a stranger to grab your booty.

Just built my first fully dedicated Linux machine. Still keeping my old Windows desktop around purely because I play League of Legends and they use a kernel level anticheat, so it won’t run on VM.

Fun fact, ever since Riot made it mandatory to install their rootkit if you want to play their games, every time I try to eject a flash drive, it says it can’t eject because it’s in use - even if I just plugged it in. And that’s super comforting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hIZfvvQTLo

I used to work for a company that did various kinds of biometric recognition. I unfortunately was paraded past these cameras many times for testing purposes, so my face was compromised many moons ago.

We had two kinds of products we installed in airports. When looking at large crowds most airports wanted cameras that would monitor the flow of traffic, determining if there were any bottlenecks causing people to arrive at their gate (or baggage claim) after their luggage.

The other product was facial recognition for identification purposes. These are the machines you have to stand right next to. There are various legal reasons airports did not want to use any crowd-level cameras for identification. They hadn’t obtained consent, but also, the low resolution per face would lead to many more false positives. It was also too costly.

But we did have high def cameras installed in strategic locations at large music halls. These private companies were less concerned with privacy and more concerned with keeping banned individuals out of their property. In those cases, we registered faces of people who were kicked out for various reasons and ignored all other faces.

My point I guess is twofold: first, you might not be facially tracked in as many places as you think you are. Second, eventually you will be and there’s not a whole lot we can do to stop it. For many years, Target has identified people with their payment card, used facial recognition to detect when they return to the store, and used crowd tracking to see where in the store you go (and sometimes they have even changed ad displays based on the demographics of people standing nearby).

Mostly, you will be identified and tracked when there is financial incentive to do so.

Haha, somebody did the math wrong.

* does the math *

Oh no.

When I first started playing Minecraft, I didn’t even know what the bed did. Every time I died, I came back at spawn. By the time I learned about beds, I was used to playing that way, which gave dying more consequence. Phantoms broke that play style so that’s why I’m sad. I guess I could just make my bed always obstructed.

I’d much rather have to worry about whether I’ve slept/reset spawn recently on the rare occasion that I go to the end than for it to always be on my mind when doing stuff in the overworld. Just personal preference.

I don’t care how long it takes as long as when it happens, they make it so phantoms only spawn in the end (I know it won’t happen please don’t squash my dreams)

This week’s episode is actually really good. You just have to watch the other 1071 episodes first and I swear you’ll like it.

Today, I’m celebrating my 109th birthday. Because when it actually happens I’ll be dead.

“Having legs” was always the most basic tool of bicyclist propaganda. If you have no legs, you can’t be fed bicyclist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-biker I knew in my childhood was a corn snake I found in my backyard. Bicycle propaganda did not reach him.

Yeah, my Linux is CLI, and I run Windows in VM. I just need to move further away from Windows entirely I think.

I tend to use Firefox for my media needs (YouTube, streaming platforms, anime sites), but I try not to have more than one FF window so I don’t have to select a window when clicking on the taskbar icon. So, I do all my other browsing on Chromium platforms (Chrome, Edge, Opera), each with a different purpose, like all of my research goes on Chrome and my social media/ utility apps go on Opera because of the workspace segregation functionality. Privacy issues notwithstanding. I wish there was a way to accomplish this without chromium, I just don’t see enough diversity in browser options. So, I settle for Chrome, which used to be pretty great but is becoming cruddier with each successive update.

Most browsers have this now. What I really need is an icon above the window with the sound coming from it when I’m selecting the app from the taskbar.

The Last of Us and The Last of Us. It’ll never work.