yeah that’s not good, may get you prosecuted under “material support” laws

if you can’t connect to a vpn using only open source software, that’s a crappy vpn

importantly it’s (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn’t tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

as long as we don’t have a time machine, Jesus’ existence is an unfalsifiable claim. Of course you’re not going to see definitive proof that he didn’t exist

Is there something I should be keeping an eye out for, or preparing for so everything goes smoothly at least with regards to this community?

On the 6th of May, 2028, travel to 2 Augusta Hills Drive, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, United States. At exactly 4 PM local time, place an orange traffic cone on top of the nearest garbage can and await further instructions.

ironically suyu is still up on github

and of course ryujinx hasn’t received any legal threats yet

Youtube actually uses 128kbps opus, which should be significantly better than 160kbps mp3

but the real problem is that you can’t know what quality the uploader used, it all gets recompressed by youtube.

They could do it without recompilation, but something like changing the obfuscation and recompiling for every copy would likely make it much harder to get rid of the watermarks even if you can compare several different copies

(though they could also have multiple watermarked sections so that any group of for example 3 copies would have some section that is identical, but still watermarked and would uniquely identify all three leakers. The amount of data you need the watermarks to contain goes up exponentially with the amount of distinct copies, but if you have say 1000 review copies and want to be resistant to 4 copies being “merged”, you only need to distinguish between 1000^4 combinations so you can theoretically get away with a watermark that only contains about 40 bits of data )

it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

Finally! I have achieved statelessness!

as far as I know, yep fitting the “raw score” of a test to a bell curve is exactly how it’s done. And often the score is sort of “localized”, for example only other scores from the same country and done in the same year are compared.

(one related example is the flynn effect)

IQ is in reality a very rough metric, I think the only widely accepted practical use is to detect developmental or mental issues (often associated with an IQ below 70), and even then you need to consider that eg. someone who never received adequate education may score lower than what they “should”

technically, IQ is by definition normally distributed with 100 as the center. But by the definition there would only be about 500 people in the world with an IQ of 20 or lower, so it breaks down because of the amount of people in an unrecoverable coma and such

Lawmaker, 5 minutes later: “Who is responsible for this farce??”

graphic design is my passion

bandcamp was sold to epic games in 2022 and again to songtradr this year, and half its staff got laid off recently. CEO said that it was not profitable enough - though it was already very profitable. So it’s likely to start squeezing every penny out of users and artists in the next few years

On windows 11 I’m having a hard time finding apps that it doesn’t work with. Firefox, paint.net, inkscape, audacity… all work. And every single application made by microsoft, it seems to work with