Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Don’t be a dumb fuck, do not trust Zuck.

Yes, there is a high demand for SpaceX to be less insolvent.

Yep.

The absurdity of it all… I do not see how any thinking person could understand, and not be enraged.

I did a bit of a stealth edit, wrote more after you replied here, but basically:

Anger is a gift, when it is righteous, it motivates just actions.

But it is also a danger, because too much anger makes you stupid, makes you do things that will not help the situation, potentially make it worse.

All I can say for myself personally is that self-discipline… must be strong, and diligent.

When death can visit such a dispossessed (or dispossesable) person so easily, making mistakes needlessly is just going to shorten your lifespan, and you must be alive to be able to enact or spur any kind of real and good change.

Thus the anger must be controlled, otherwise, you will lose yourself, in one way or another.

If I can offer a seemingly stupid but effective trick:

Box breathing.

Inhale for 5 seconds.

Hold for 5 seconds.

Exhale for 5 seconds.

Do that at least 3 times, if you need to, wait 30 seconds, do 3 of em again.

By some quirks of our biology, with most people, it does help lower cortisol, and help you maintain focus, be more rational.

Sometimes, in a particularly enraging or terrifying situation… which is still ongoing, you still need to be able to think, or you may die.

Or, just generally, when you’re not in a life threatening situation, it works too.

Well without going too much deeper into my own story:

I then got very badly injured, got fired, got evicted, spent years crippled and homeless.

… So I know I don’t count.

And, having been something of an impromptu … effectively a field medic … oh yeah, I had ODs die on me, had people with necrotic, long untreated wounds, exacerbated by drug use… that I could do a basic field dressing of, beg them to go to a hospital, then never see them again. Sometimes I was treating minor gunshot wounds, stab/slash wounds. Sometimes I was dodging drive by shootings myself.

I’ve now very directly personally saved some, at least temporarily, and lost friends.

To the point that I have PTSD now too, and can tell you there is an entire second world behind the facade where a low level war is playing out, all the time, that most ‘normal’ people just … want to go away, whatever it takes, whatever it costs.

… To the point that I’m not able to be clever, or philosophical about it… I’ve fully experienced the horror of it, and can frankly only conclude the reason I am still alive is … basically, dumb luck.

All I know is that it doesn’t have to be this way, and that it is this way… causes me great anger.

My current goal is working on controlling that anger… pure rage makes you stupid, thus useless. Also makes you into a just generally unlikeable asshole.

I’m really still just recovering, physically, and mentally.

… yeah, don’t even know where I’m going with this, like I said, it broke my ability to … consider the implications of ‘the whole thing’. ‘The whole thing’ did too much damage to me.

You are correct.

Like, I actually don’t think I have any notes, at all, for once, hah.

No, yeah… once upon a time I was naive bright eyed idiot that thought the system was fucked, but at least theoretically could be fixed.

Worked for a few corps. Some genuinely good people, management never has any humanity.

One day… I walked past a crumpled lump, in the alley, just before the block with my building.

It was a person.

I’d… never actually seen that before, a homeless person, just sheltering under a blanket.

I could not shake this… it bothered me immensely… what was the point of this whole city, if that can happen? What the fuck am I even doing this for? Who am I trying to impress?

… Go out for lunch, walk past the same spot.

The lump is gone.

Men with essentially flamethrowers are burning the… spot, on the ground, where he was.

I had a complete break down, panic attack, whatever.

The existential dread became fully realized in the same moment I realized… I am part of this machine that eats people. I pull its levers. I am having a pathetic break down, whereas that man died.

That was it. That was what radicalized me.

Quit, worked for a non profit helping the homeless, after that.

Oh, but I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist when I tell people something like this almost certainly exists…!

… god fucking damnit.

Yeah. Yeah this is what the TPMv2 push was for.

This is why dual booting is always impossible in practice, because Windows can rewrite the boot sector, whenever it wants, and the Pluton system allows Windows to have an effectively below ring 0 level of access to the kernel, and… you cannot audit this.

https://en.ittrip.xyz/windows11/pluton-firmware-event

Windows 11: Bonus Combo Bundle with unremovable NSA rootkit!

Its for your health!

… they never needed to do this, it makes and it made no sense to throw away so much goodwill/reputation by just declaring the vast majority of the worlds pcs are now e-waste, upgrade to our new hardware standard for secure computing!

The only explanation that could ever make sense was that they wanted total control. Because its insane brand suicide from a purely capitalistic pov, the juice is not worth that hard of a squeeze.

Fucking… Windows is malware, by the FBI’s own guidelines for that from not too many years back.

… they just applied the same approach they did to making Xboxes non hard-moddable… to all PC hardware.

Make it so the system physically cannot function if you remove or even poke the part you’d need to poke or remove, once it has their software on it.

People think the Israeli pager thing was a well done supply chain attack.

… MSFT invented this shit.

Used to work for em, had a veteran co worker tell me about the one time he got deployed to Saudi Arabia to flash the bios of hardware destined to be installed in Saddam’s CnC/Air Defense systems.

And that was for Gulf War 1, by the way.

As far as I know, that is still fucking classified, because I’ve never heard anyone else talk about that, anywhere, ever.

… fuck.

Doesn’t matter now, I guess.

Freedom.

Oh god, I would need popcorn for that.

Yeah… Todd and Emil… are gonna have to… actually make something good.

For the first time in a decade.

Right so like Asha’s statement said that no publically announced games have been cancelled.

… Does Elder Scrolls 6 … actually count as publically announced?

Its never had a release date or window, its only ever had one trailer, basically just a panning landscape shot…

FallOut 5 certainly isn’t any kind of actually ‘publically announced’.

Yeah I can see enough wiggle room there that Asha can basically be a fascist and just straight up tell Todd and Emil exactly what to do, and threaten to fire them if they don’t.

Also just… as a former MSFT employee… I do not have enough lols to type in response to ‘we’re going to make sure there are no more than 5 layers of management, and also having a COO is probably a good idea’.

Yeah. Yep. I … actually just straight up agree with that one, yep.

Too bad expressing such sentiments a decade ago wasn’t exactly uh, well reviewed by my superiors at the time, oh well, cest la vie.

So one particular example of this is… grants studying how flies breed.

Yep, face value, no investigation, sounds kinda silly.

But, what its actually for, is for learning how to introduce sterile bugs into populations of them that are actively spreading some kind of plague.

… Like the screwworm outbreak that is currently ravaging the southern US and central America.

Yep. Yep, we had people and stuff and systems in place to be able to handle that.

But then Trump and Elon’s DOGE boys just… wiped all of that out. And our reward from that, is a plague.

… do we a have a confidentlywrong lemmy comm yet?

Excellent!

If Dr Who ever randomly abducts you, you’ll be slightly better suited for the experiencd than most!

Which of course is why we need kernel level anti cheat.

Because they stop all of those hacks!

…That are still rampant…

…despite the kernel level…

Wait a minute.

Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?

Don’t worry if you didn’t, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.

But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. … and more confusingly, it wasn’t like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.

Its almost like a game that requires or significantly involves regular monotonous grinding is … like, definitionally, a poorly designed game.

You can have a regular, repeated activity or loop.

But if that loop itself is boring, rote… the game has failed at actually being engaging, thus rewarding.

The loop itself should be what offers the potential for reward, and that reward should be experiential, not… systemitized sequential progression.

Entirely seriously, look into sets of ‘post surgery recovery pillows’.

They’re usually made of something similar to a dense foam mattress, and they’ll be in modular, arrange able shapes to make it easier for people with serious injuries to recover at home, in a supported, semi reclined position.

… You can rearrange these into shapes that support positions other than sleeping/sitting.

Usually, these are cheaper than … basically the exact same things, but explicitly sold as ‘sex aides’ or what not.

Sometimes there is junk in both the trunk and the frunk.

Being called an NPC used to be a joke/insult.

Now its just actually real, people offload all their thinking to an LLM… thats as close as you can currently get to just being a literal real world NPC.

I guess the next step would be brain implants that just make that it an always on, straight mainline into your brain.

Reddit hivemind trains the LLM, LLM trains the people, hivemind is now basically actually real.

Godot actually has uh…

https://github.com/func-godot/func_godot_plugin

Basically… works to both rip and also create Quake, Quake 2, Half Life 1 maps.

Its also a pretty extensive framework.

If you wanna step up a bit from a Doom clone, to a Quake clone… you could do it with this.

There’s also Godot VMF…

https://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF

Can actually rip and convert HL2, TF2, L4D… basically Source up to roughly 2013 maps.

I don’t think its much of a map creator/editor though? I think the idea is you just actually make your map in Hammer, and then basically import it into Godot.

I managed to … mostly correctly … decompile.or convert or whatever, some maps.from NeoTokyo, an old HL2 mod, so… will probably at least mostly work for HL2 mods?

It does rely on the actual SourceSDK though, so… probably not ok for commercial use?