I’m active on a number of local communities, some of which are mostly English-language, and some of which aren’t. Demographically though, it’s pretty much the same people.

In the English subs the amount of Zionist glowposting is maybe twenty times higher. It’s staggering.

All because Israel’s troll farms and bots don’t speak my language.

the Torment Nexus is just a regular old torture chamber. it’s not really infinite. the tech has existed since the middle ages. don’t buy the VC hype.

I’m thinking of ditching it. It’s been pretty awful lately. A lot of the official extensions I relied on have regressed to the point of being useless.

Also, releasing a FLOSS editor and then forcing you to use a proprietary build with telemetry if you want to debug .NET code is the most Microsoft thing ever.

yeah a well executed punch definitely doesn’t need to have your whole body strength behind it in order to fuck someone up, and whatever lands is infinitely more damaging than what doesn’t

I’d also recommend training combat sports. even if you never end up in a violent altercation the compound benefits are fucking amazing

this guy punches

My left hand is named “semantic jab” and my right hand is named “ad hominem”

Cool comic and mostly good advice but I’d make some adjustments and additions :

• Don’t ball up your fist, keep your hands relaxed and flex your knuckles right before impact
• Exhale as you’re throwing the punch, you’ll get a bit more power and you won’t get tired as fast if you have to throw some more
• You shouldn’t lean into it that much, leaves you open to unpleasant things like getting knee’d in the face
• Best not to “follow through” like that either. Your punches should be snappy and practically bounce off of the nazi’s face. This is also conducive to punching more nazis, or punching the same nazi more

I’ve been using this adapter for both BT and WiFi and it’s honestly pretty good. Works out of the box and I’ve experienced zero hiccups in the past 6 months. So long as you don’t mind the big ass antenna that is

I’d still recommend getting an AMD graphics card and generally prioritizing hardware with upstream drivers. As in, drivers that are included with the kernel itself. The experience is always better. Overall it’s still a good habit to look up how any hardware runs on Linux before buying it.

Gaming in a Windows VM is possible but it was a big ordeal when I did it. You have to make sure your CPU and motherboard support IOMMU for PCI passthrough. It’s less of a problem nowadays but there are still some pitfalls with PCIe lanes and whatnot. You need two video adapters, one for the host and one for the guest (because the host has no access to the passed-through GPU) and if you want to game on both Windows and Linux that can be a pain in the ass. It goes on. I personally don’t recommend it. If you have to play trashy eSports that ship with built-in anti-cheat malware then just Windows for that.

There is no crypto peddler in this thread

Get off the trampoline you are not landing those dunks

Sure let me meaningfully engage with “dae le drugs amirite ”

No that’s pretty much on the money, but it’s also a problem with proof-of-work consensus algorithms specifically

I don’t know I guess it’s just exhausting how everybody has to have a crazy out-there opinion about every fucking thing in or outside their spheres of competence and just loads up that shit with twitter irony like it’s free salad at a salad bar

Man what the fuck am I doing on hexbear. Even the most inconsequential disagreements turn into this sort of bullshit, without fail

Completely fair. I’m mostly interested in what it can do for distributed computing and inter-organizational trust and most of that is being done outside flashy VC circles and not getting much media coverage. Naturally anything that allows organizing outside of bougie government institutions is good up to and including crime money

Distributed ledgers allow for consensus without trust. That is it.

That’s like saying asymmetric cryptography only allows for trust irrespective of medium. We still deployed it everywhere because it turns out that’s useful in countless ways. Blockchains are also not necessarily public, and generally most of the shit they get from leftists has more to do with stupid wasteful consensus mechanisms than anything to do with the principle of a fancy networked Merkle tree itself.

In the end it’s just another mathematical guarantee and we can do better than “concept is related to bad people and is therefore bad”

edit : Also worth noting that PKI was a huge gold rush when it started and still to this day lots of companies make utter bank on the sole basis that their certificate chains are trusted by default in your browser

The real kicker is that there are plenty of good theoretical applications for blockchain technology and all we get are shitty investment commodities and grifts

The technology never gets employed to a productive end because the entrepreneurs are in charge of deploying it

oh shit they went and made the amazon show into a book

save for the few who experienced the interactive documentary known as “stalker shadow of chernobyl”

then you’ll love my fanfic, harry potter and the lost cause

hey have you watched “the man in the high castle” it’s about alternative universe in which the nazis won, can you imagine if that happened, can you imagine if they just took over an entire continent and murdered almost everyone on it and installed a fascist christian ethnostate and went about playing world police for 80 years, that would be real fucked up