Well yeah but no shortage of games have to be changed in order to cross country lines. Sometimes in small ways sometimes in huge ways. Off the top of my head the pokemon Jynx/Rugela for instance used to look very much like blackface. They had to change it’s color from black to purple to make it acceptable in the US. Or say Vivian in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year door, Vivian was a trans woman, but they modified it in the original english version. (though it was later added back in the remake)

Hell wolfenstein managed to sell in germany with a “remove all references to nazi’s” requirement.

Point being, video games are no strangers to removing things they too controversial in a place they ship to.

True, but the point of the simulations is basically debunking the idea that even when capitalism “works”. IE the hypothetical perfect scenereo where everyone starts off with the same, has the same chances of getting good and bad opprotunities, that the the fairness systematically fades out of the system the longer the game runs.

I recall an economics class once where they started out playing monopoly, but giving everyone different starting amounts of money… and basically demonstrating that well over 90% of the time… the advantages basically determined the game.

Realistically the everyone starts at a different value, is far more realistic to life… but even when you remove that realism, it still ends the same way, one person starts taking a lead… and that that inequality only grows the longer the game continues.

Another simulation… that’s mainstream in american society… Landlords Game – IE what’s now Monopoly. By definition everyone starts with the same amount of money, and it ends with one person massively ahead and everyone else going bankrupt.

The point is whether or not it happens, as a parable it’s validity is sound. Point is, if even if the current government has nothing but good intentions and would never use the information to do anything you don’t agree with, and you are in perfect agreement with the current government. There is always the risk of either the government changing or someone stealing the information from the government that could weaponize it in ways you would never want.

what’s crazy to me is the people who defend this type of stuff, are the ones that are also terrified of gun registration… because you know if one day a gun ban were put in place, having a list of where all the guns are would make confiscation easy and legal. But they don’t realize that it’s just as likely for them to hunt people who spoke out against the government, or were the wrong race… or hell, just possibly see that you have a gun because you took it home on a ring cam.

I can’t think of anything, that’s kind of the options isn’t it? Buy your neighbors switchbots or reolink cameras as a gift? Them switching by choice is persuasion… forcing them to switch without giving them a choice is vandalism. I can’t fathom a 3rd category, unless you can like… sue the hell out of amazon and force a recall, but pretty sure the legal system doesn’t work that way.

I believe chaos creates that smile… I think it’s a reference to the old troll face memes.

you can use voice and video rooms to my understanding of it, and yeah it can do calls. I haven’t really tested it much as my matrix server is just me and my wife, and neither of us are often out of eachothers sites very long.

True, I guess the process is the studios have deals/threats to sue the ISPs if they don’t do it.

Either way regardless of their reason or motives. The ISP is the one that’s in charge of sending the threat and dealing the punishment, and again the key point is (again region may vary, do research on your ISP), but typically they send a warning first. So in short, if you just want to get started quickly, you can just start torrenting with no VPN (you should probably seed things for as little time as possible), and hope you can afford a VPN before you get the threatening letter, if you do get the threatening letter… then stop all peer 2 peer based piracy until you can afford to do it safer.

True, I suppose maybe there’s an alternate route… like allowing WW1 to happen, but perhaps, finding a way to change the Treaty of Versailles to be less punative and leave more room for economic growth.

Of course there’s so many variables still. Without nukes being used in ww2, would the cold war have stayed so cold.

Also worth noting with that definition of time travel, logically it would seem, time travel would be self eliminating.

IE, I go back in time, stop whatever I would consider the worse event in history… thus putting the world on a trajectory where myself or whoever invented the time machine no longer happens, leading to someone else inventing it, going back for a different reason, also changing the trajectory of history also eliminating the events leading to his time machine’s creation. Effectively the dice keep re-rolling until we get a world where the time machine is either not invented or not used, most probably early human extinction.

At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.

Well I would say, actually a really good point there, though I wouldn’t say “everyone born after hitler”, I guess really depends on one if WW2 happens. IE you kill hitler, but Heinrich Himmler lead the nazi party and history played very similarly. then you could expect possibly generations to unfold almost identically to the original timeline.

But yeah it’s the variation of the art career concept, except that I find the premise that hitlers actions were the cause… Fascism and Hitler were, a symptom of a broken country. Prevent the collapse, and the germans don’t vote for Hitler.

Honestly I oppose the idea of going back in time and killing hitler. To me butterfly effect and everything. Just break into the hospital and swap hitler and another babies places, and poof you won’t get the same combination of nature and nurture that created hitler.

Or even more important, wouldn’t stopping WW1 be the key there. No historian here but there’s a lot of complicated economic stuff that happened after WW1 that leads to the rise of facism. Would seem to me killing hitler (or preventing his rise in other ways), would just wind up with a new guy in the same roll.

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Well first off, torrenting doesn’t “require” a VPN, you may want to look up your area etc… in most of the united states, basically if you torrent without a VPN, there’s a chance that your ISP will detect it and typically they will send you a letter saying “we know you downloaded _____ illegally, if we catch you again, we will cancel your service”.

which depending on what you are going for (like say new releases and big name targets are what they will be watching for the most)… that could take years to even happen.

Now as far as safe, and lower risk… you could always look up pirating on the IRC… it’s not the most user friendly route out there, but that’s kind of the point, it’s ancient technology and for the most part no one bothers to monitor it.

and then of course there’s just tons of bootleg streaming sites. bottom line anything that’s not peer 2 peer, is pretty much impossible for ISPs to identify what you are doing on… and thus are pretty safe.

and what isn’t… pretty sure in a Ross Ulbricht situation… there was more than enough stuff he needed to remain private currently open, and in the main files. Ulbright could have been on a live CD on a computer with no physical hard drive, and it wouldn’t have helped him since they nailed him after he had logged into the silk road.

and security on pages is useless if you are logged in.

We’re already talking the least of security problems (IE the device being physically confiscated).

In ross’s case which hurt him more do you think, the fact that his system probably had logs of what he installed… or the fact that it was taken while he was logged in as administrator to the silk road? and it supposedly contained a journal… not system logs, but activities that he specifically wrote out detailing his daily activities.

The point again is someone gaining physical access to the computer itself, while you are literally in the process of doing things that you don’t want known about, what you are currently working on is 100x more valuable to the thief, feds or whatever, than any of the low level stuff that the logs are likely to be recording.

You posted this same silly thing about 3 days ago.

anyway why isn’t the advice “encrypt your drives” instead of “disable all logging”.

I mean your own examples are like the least serious problem.

Who is logged in and when? So we’re talking a multi user system that’s clearly hosting a lot… that’s kind of important for an administrator to be able to track who is logging in when, to know if something goes wrong.

Package manager logs what’s installed. well duh, what’s the scenerio that this is even a factor? I don’t want big government to know I had, qbittorrent or whatever? There’s no program that’s likely installed via apt that’s illegal to have.

So yeah in short, stuff that’s vital if you ever need to troubleshoot, useful in general, almost unthinkable to imagine situations where this is a problem (at least in situations in which someone has your user account, or root access to your system for these to be the high priority.

On the whole the idea there is like.

“If someone steals your car… they could also steal the car users manual”.

Just switch to physical pen and paper…

Wait, CRAP, did you know that a pysical notepad logs every pen stroke? not only on the paper it’s written, but it puts traces onto the next page as well.

Sure it’s not sending it to others… but if the police cease the notepad they can recover everything currently written in it, and possibly even some of the pages that were torn out from the indentations on the other pages.

Did they actually honor it? I recall quite a few people tricking AIs into like, saying they will sell a car for $1, but the company not honoring it.

Or is it likely just car salesman negotiation tactics… IE the matress is actually inflated 75%, AI is given a hard minimum of how low it actually can go, but obviously instructed to do everything possible to close the sale but at the highest price the user will be willing to pay.

Holy frick, actually that sounds like the real hell now that I think of it. Will AI bring haggle pricing to online stores. We have to spend 20 minutes trying to give a story to an AI to get the best price on, something… which of course will then lead to someone developing an AI for shoppers trained to haggle with these for them. End result we burn up an ocean, with 2 AI’s making up bogus stories about how badly they are suffering.

You know, in IT security, the weakest link will always be the users… they are easy to fool, they just blindly trust whatever you tell them.

But now, thanks to AI, computers will finally catch up to humans in their ability to be tricked. No longer will you need human users to set their password to easy things to remember. Our new AIs will actually be capable of shortening their encryption key to a common name, and leaving them on post it notes on their desks.