On a possibly related note:

https://github.com/rauchg/doom-captcha

(via https://canitrundoom.org/ )

That tells me that you didn’t listen to enough metal.

I’m disappointed that you can’t narrow it down more.

I thought it was a good fit for this community. Good to know my repost wasn’t just spammy.

What do you expect from a train that stops at a place called “student city”?

It provides a convenient connection between various installations of the technical university, like the hospital, the nuclear reactor, and the research brewery.

That took me way too long.

No. Not imagery and not intimate as defined.

For the lulz!

It looks like an emperor’s new clothes scenario to me. People agree with each other that the US should manufacture more because they have picked up that that’s the respectable answer; not because they see any actual sense in it.

Or maybe it’s some sort of nostalgia. I guess people used to say that more people should work in agriculture, because that was somehow their idea of a proper, wholesome country.

People who play medievalist games somehow never pretend to be serfs or farm-hands.

There are a few areas where you would want manufacturing in the country. Defense, some medical supplies, … Just in case things go bad, you’d want some capacity, some expertise in the country to be less dependent. You’d spend extra resources just in case, just to be safe. But it’s never a rational end in itself.

Source: https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/econ/currentdata/?programCode=VIP&startYear=2015&endYear=2025&categories[]=20IX&dataType=V&geoLevel=US&adjusted=0&notAdjusted=1&errorData=0#line053

Humanity is the CEO of earth.

That’s a lot of parameters. Wow. I didn’t know they’d go this big.

It stands for Black Dragon Scale Mail, you bug lover.

I think I can contribute something to the “privacy” aspect. But I’ll say first that I have noticed the same thing. There are some toxic behaviors that feel more common in these circles than what I have experienced elsewhere.

There is a lot of confusion around European data protection rights and privacy. EG the GDPR is often wrongly called a privacy regulation. In reality, privacy and EU data protection rights are entirely separate.

In the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, you will find privacy in Article 7 and data protection in Article 8.

EU data protection works similar to copyright in that you have rights over data. Personal data is defined as any data that is “directly or indirectly related” to you (GDPR). It does not matter if the data is public or private, sensitive or banal. It doesn’t even matter if the data can be connected to your real identity. That’s quite unlike what one would think of as privacy.

So, it does not matter if people expected their communications to be secure or not. “Reasonable expectation of privacy” is a concept in US law.

Comments, posts and DMs are personal data because they are connected to a user who is a person. If any other person is mentioned, then this mention is their personal data. You could even argue that some post or comment also becomes someone else’s personal data when they reply to it. Such texts cease to be personal data only when the connection is irreversibly broken. As long as the connection can be restored, it remains personal data, even if that requires access to information that isn’t readily available.

When a DM is sent to some unauthorized recipient, that is literally a violation of the senders fundamental rights. In truth, this is relatively serious compared to some other stuff that causes outrage or gets the authorities involved.

It might have been legally required to notify the authorities of such a data breach within 72 hours.

Look again. The explanation is that these images simply don’t look like any kind of CSAM. The whole story looks like some sort of scam to me.

When I saw this, 2 questions came to mind: How come that this isn’t immediately reported? Why would anyone upload illegal material to a platform that tracks as thoroughly as Meta’s do?

The answer is:

All of those accounts followed the same visual pattern: blonde characters with voluptuous bodies and ample breasts, blue eyes, and childlike faces.

The 1 question that came to mind upon reading this is: What?

Bullshit. Mentally ill people rarely commit assassinations or mass shootings. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight; a degree of functioning in society that mentally ill people are rarely able to perform by definition.

The perpetrators might be “crazy” in a colloquial sense, but so is the typical right-wing celebrity.

1. Get humped by a dog.
2. Whine like a bitch.

That was a deepfake. They did a dirty on him.