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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have an Nvidia GPU so I don't have any experience with it but a quick search brought me to Nvidias website and the instructions seem to line up with users answers on other forums.

Disable it here https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/deployment/vmware/latest/nouveau.html or apparently installing Nvidias proprietary drivers automatically blacklists Nouveau.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I had this issue: failed to finalise remaining DM devices. Which led me to here https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/15004 and Skinner927 mentions your issue in that thread

I'd try uninstalling nouveau completely and see if the issue persists for you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use OpenSnitch https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

It prompts me each time a game attempts to make an outbound connection. I can allow or deny the connection from the process or to the host etc and it can set it as a rule with different time frames like once, until reboot, permanently etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The ePrivacy Directive from 2002 already covers this so each EU country should have their own laws regulating cookies with regards to this directive.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058

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Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment.

So this should have been a thing since even before GDPR was introduced. Cookie banners or some other form of informed consent like Do Not Track should have been standard and enforced at a country level even before Facebook, Youtube and co even got off the ground.

The story above says its a violation of the German TDDDG law that seems to be based on the ePrivacy Directive so this is them finally using the regulations of cookies that was established over 2 decades ago.

The legislation does exist, it just looks different in each country and no country was bothered to really enforce the law but now it seems GDPR has enabled countries to throw around the whole weight of the EU as opposed to just one country's weight since its unified across the EU.

I've only had to complain to 2 websites (One pretty big website and one small local website) about not having an explicit option to reject specific cookies as outlined in the ePrivacy directive and both websites are now compliant. So it does exist and it does work but nobody is willing to or doesn't know they can make complaints about websites that don't comply with cookie consent.

The EU can't monitor every single website, its just not realistic so its up to users to be informed of their rights and be willing to complain to these websites and then to their local regulator if those websites don't comply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cookies can be divided into subcategories and depending on what type they are, they may or may not be covered under this ruling.

Heres a nice breakdown of what does and doesn't have to be included in the reject all option https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ and also a bit of info about the ePrivacy directive that seems to be what the TDDDG law is based on.

So websites with competent cookie management shouldn't break if a user "rejects all"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Link to where the archive is https://zenodo.org/records/15170676 but its been restricted from downloading

Note: Download access has been temporarily suspended at the request of the ICWSM program chairs.

EDIT: lol I love the Internet Archive Its 120GiB if anyone wants to try download it and see if it works.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250521011912/https://zenodo.org/records/15170676/files/dataset.zst?download=1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I loved The Talos Principle! I haven't played the remake, I didn't realise they added new stuff I thought it was just updated graphics which didn't interest me.

The Talos Principle 2 was great, the puzzles were fantastic, some of the new concepts totally broke my brain for ages and had me trying the dumbest stuff because I was fully lost lol but it was so fun! I recommended the DLC too, I loved the Hexahedron in the Isle of the Blessed and I hope they do more puzzles like that in the future.

I just wish the world was smaller and there was less emphasis on the story, when it comes to puzzle games I just want to get to the puzzles asap I don't want to run back and forth across the world just to sit through cut scenes. I do kind of get why it was so big for the bonus stuff outside the main puzzles and also

Tap for spoiler

on my first playthrough, I did manage to finish the whole game without completing any puzzles,

which was pretty funny.

I've been playing Balatro for what feels like the last 84 years and I constantly rage quit and say I'm done with the game when I know my run is over then stare out the window for a minute and start the game again, its painfully addictive.

I've also been playing Angry Birds on the 3DS its so fun. I haven't played it since it first came out on mobile 15 years ago, I didn't realise how old it was! I've needed games like this for the past few weeks with life being so busy, they're so easy to pick up and then just pause whenever I need to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Huh I thought the right were blaming gamers for taking benefits from single mothers, the elderly and disabled.

"No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed—what we've talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.

"So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing videogames all day."

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/young-men-are-playing-videogames-all-day-instead-of-getting-jobs-because-they-can-mooch-off-of-free-healthcare-claims-congressman/

Get back to work gamers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQLMo2A1ous

Men aren't finding their home in the political right because of their love of videogames, they're being manipulated by companies like Cambridge Analytica and losers that complain about not having sex on their weirdo podcasts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The website uses google services while promoting a phone that advertises avoiding google services... And it seems to be completely broken for me on any android browser I use. Also his main website seems to use the Microsoft store logo for his store logo lol

720 display?, it doesn't say it has a removable battery? and can somehow promise years of software updates when they rely on third party custom ROMs for their software..

Also I don't know of any android phones that block replacing the battery?

The website says 6GB RAM and the indiegogo page says 8GB RAM

The hardware seems meh and the software is based on FOSS ROMs that support a wide variety of devices that actually exist. Ubuntu touch is advertised as Coming Soon™

The BraX3 phone offers the most privacy-friendly location service through the Lunar Network

Please anyone who can find the Lunar Network website, link it because right now to me it seems they're using a now defunct minecraft server for location services

I've got scammy vibes from this guy for years, even when I was new to privacy I never felt like he was reliable. Did he dub himself "the internet privacy guy" lol

Overall, I think the phone will probably come out at some point, it'll be kinda sucky from a hardware perspective for anyone who is used to mid range phones and the software could be fine or it could be buggy AF but I don't think it'll be anything special or offer anything unique enough from a privacy perspective to bother with.

I don't think he can guarantee software updates as he has no control over the ROMs he relies on and I would not expect any sort of support for bugs etc. I don't think he is knowledgeable enough to trust not to have privacy/security issues with the phone, especially when his whole shtick is "privacy"

It sucks that headphone jacks and sd cards are so hard to find in phones today but I'd prefer to use a dongle and external storage or self host and have a better refurbished phone running LineageOS or any other degoogled ROM than trust this guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought this was ADS since I can't hear the sound in any of the videos of this protest I've seen, like in this LRAD video and in this LRAD defense video its super loud.

So I don't think headphones would help here since ADS just heats the water in your body but a riot shield would help just on the parts of the body it covers since the ADS can't penetrate very far, not sure if conventional clothing would work or if you would have to cover your body in something like aluminium foil to stop the millimetre waves penetrating skin.

Edit:

Seems like it was some form of LRAD, the speakers probably weren't focused on any of the microphones from videos I have seen.

https://apnews.com/article/serbia-sonic-device-protest-vucic-e5a6f8c2aad995764c424a6f0d619887

Those exposed to the weapon experience sharp ear pain, disorientation and panic, security experts say.

Many who say they were in the epicenter of the alleged attack complained on social media about strong headache, nausea and disorientation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/21/calls-serbia-investigation-claims-sound-cannon-targeted-protesters

More than 3,000 reports had already poured in, with witnesses detailing “a powerful sonic impact, accompanied by a wave of heat or wind”, the organisations said in a statement.Some described the sound as a “deep roar” akin to a jet engine or a train in a tunnel, “combined with a high-frequency whistle, a cannon blast or an explosion”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Wine-ge was archived back in January, https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom is the preferred option and is supported by Lutris by default. Or try newer versions of wine or wine staging. Or try installing it as a non steam game.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (3 children)

“Plaintiffs do not plead a single instance in which any part of any book was, in fact, downloaded by a third party from Meta via torrent, much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta,” the company writes.

Another reason to hate Meta, now they're scummy leechers even though they could afford the bandwidth to seed back

 

Teeline 4 shrthnd mtd, Pitman hs smbls, cnt use nw obviously

 

Like seriously, did you really think you could suppress my posts with these rules???? I'm going to continue to post informative posts to the proletariat while still abiding by your restrictive rules until your day of reckoning comes and we're no longer suppressed for having our own thoughts and ideas.

I want to talk about Venus but I don't know a lot about it except for some video I watched years ago about how 2 engineers came up with the idea of floating cities that could sustain life on Venus.

Venus' athmosphere has loads of sulphuric acid and carbon dioxide but apparently we could bomb the planet with hydrogen bombs to make graphite and water from the reaction with the CO2.

Also, at 464C, we'd probably be burnt pretty bad and squashed down because we would be like 90 time heavier. 1 day is 117 earth days so can you imagine how long a typical work week would be?

Even with all of these negative points, I would still prefer to live on Venus than to be stuck here, forced to adhere to these ridiculous rules that attempt to keep us oppressed so that the 1% can live all fancy in their castles and eat their fancy cheeses

 

Macrophages play a role in both innate immunity and adaptive immunity.

In innate immunity, they phagocytise the pathogens and they also release cytokines that promote the recruitment of other immune cells to the site of infection. Some of these cells are Natural Killer cells and basophils but they don't start with M.

In adaptive immunity, Macrophages have the ability to breakdown the pathogen and find specific markers on the pathogens that can be used as a target by the adaptive immune response. This marker is called an antigen.

They then take the antigen and present it on a receptor called MHC Class 2. This MHC Class 2 basically holds the antigen while the Macrophage makes its way to a lymph node, where T Helper cells are located.

The T Helper cells can then analyse the antigen on the MHC and promote the proliferation of T and B cells which will specifically seek out that antigen in the body and destroy any cells that have that antigen present.

Here's a video of phagocytosis in action, its pretty cool that this stuff is just happening inside of us and we have no control over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlPlgGbb2IU&t=114

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