I have been encountering it more lately, but that’s because of the types of sites I was using.

The ones that may not work tend to be; banking (usually okay though), work-related (ranging from applications to gig work to job specific), and then if you happen to run into something that requires chromium as a way to function, such as some specific extensions or most functional web music creation tools, like MIDI support.

B-b-b-buuuuut I only use Firefox and all my stock and banking sites work fine on FF, those job sites that needed chromium can get by with Edge, and if you’re using web browsers for MIDI tools, really, what are you doing?

Linking my first post on Lemmy regarding Meta Services having a service on your phone. Worth checking out.

Which inherently makes it so that specific demographics of people will never be able to use it.

You save and shut down, silly.

There’s a lot of good suggestions here.

As someone who uses Linux but doesn’t love it, be prepared to restart from scratch a lot. Keep the OS on a blank drive and just point the OS to your storage drives once it’s up and running.

Otherwise you are going to be losing data every time you break something in the OS, and that is really no fun.

Create a script to send important data records (if you need that for taxes or inventory data etc) as a nightly routine, that way you have a consistent database for any important records.

Then just create a restore point. If it breaks in 2 weeks, then you just relaunch it and know that it’s going to kill itself in 2 weeks. A simple restart to that restore point solves everything.

Sounds 100% functional to me!

Storyboarder is definitely great, although I wouldn’t say it’s geared towards 2D animation. You could use it like a flipbook, but I think it’s more suited towards Storyboard planning.

There’s 2 modes, 2D sketching and 3D modeled posing, the latter of which is far, far faster to plot out scenes than hand drawing each one. Again, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use it for 2D, just that it’s not inherently designed for that process. Still, it’s a great program that lets you add voiceovers, has multiple text boxes for details, and has a pretty decent selection of art tools.

2 days ago was Friday, it’s likely they don’t work the weekends.

I once robocopied 16tb of media

This is real time and based from one image.

Deep fakes up to this point are generally not real time, and are generally trained on the source, then with different methods can be applied to the video. Say, making Kermit the Frog doing a dance as the final video, but it’s been deep faked to look like Ms. piggy.

There are tons of examples of AI that post process deep fakes. This is one of the few real time ones that you can link to a webcam, have a single photo, and you are the deepfake.

From my understanding, that hasn’t been done yet, at least not in the AI spaces I’ve been part of.

Seconding reafir, or really any audio silencing plugin.

Record silence for 5 - 8 seconds, turn on FX, set to subtract and then playback the silence with the checkbox.

You’ll see the frequency range it takes up. In some cases this can affect your source audio, for example if the clicking sound is in the same range as a higher pitched humans voice, they may become warbled or inaudible.

This can be done to take out car whooshing/air to some extent, and general background hums from line input or gain noise or fans.

something that is spurious, irregular, inferior, or of questionable origin

Leverage your username and make that money!

Gait is walking stance/personality of walking. So if someone walks with a limp, favors one side, slumps a shoulder, etc. Everyone’s is different, so it can be tracked.

This is very extreme surveillance avoidance, though anyone ditching their phone to go to a protest should also think about their gait and where they are coming to and going from. If you’re at this point of fear, you’d want a change of clothes in a bag, and maybe even different shoes. In like, 98% of U.S. situations though this doesn’t apply to us or our protests, it is just good to know. The night I’m talking about though and one other, it was honestly necessary.

Other than extreme circumstances though, these are tactics that only people who have legitimate reason to be paranoid. Such as Boeing whistleblowers, or journalists.

I mean, masking during Covid while there were a lot of protesting events going on was a common crossover. Protect your identity and your health.

Unfortunately these spies do not need just faces for recognition. Gait is analyzed as well, among other things, so I’m not sure how effective it really is.

Side note: if government surveillance wants eyes on us, and masks prevent surveillance, would they have pushed masking for Covid? I don’t really feel one way or the other on it, just a conspiracy curiosity.

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It may be down overall but I think the effects of it are still felt strongly where it is present, or more prevalent. Some issues are systemic, like where I’m living now there’s a chronic homeless population because my city is relatively supportive of the problem, but not in any meaningful way to prevent it. The issues of crime here are theft and assault and a not insignificant percentage is of people who are unable to help themselves and are refusing the little help the city is willing to offer. There’s a myriad of other aspects, but this is just one very solveable one I’m highlighting as an example, to be in stark contrast of

My home city, Oakland where there’s a gang that goes around making money from stealing catalytic converters. This is not as much of a systemic issue (it still is since it’s mostly resorting to crime due to lack of resources or opportunity due to other imposed restrictions) but the issue isn’t as easily solved. The thing is here, the effects of both of these crimes still feel prevalent in these communities because they are common occurrences due to the vast amount of unhelped people present, and the latter due to being repeat targets (if you have one, you get it replaced and they come back in a few months.)

2 years ago before I moved, my dads car got hit 6 times at least, with a cage, in a span of under 2 years. Every night I was up late and multiple times I had to shout I’m calling the cops fuck off get the fuck out of here. One time the dude looked at me through the window, pointed at me with two fingers, “shot at me”, and got in his car and drove off.

About 4 months ago almost 2 years after moving to Oregon (unrelated to the previous experience) my partners vehicle was assaulted by an extremely heavyset man wielding a walking-cane that he needed and started bashing the shit out of her hood, making massive dents. He was shouting the N-w at her (she’s Japanese…) and all kinds of other obscenities. Then he apparently lifted his cane up over his head to do one last massive strike, but toppled backwards and fell and she drove off with the cops on the way. He was actually charged since he had been harassing other people.

Unfortunately, growing up events like both of these are not at all uncommon. I’ve had so many experiences I could write about, and the core issue is always the same and the lasting effects are too. Every time the perpetrator (of the specific kinds of circumstances I’ve listed) is doing it because of a lack of support, resources, and wherewithal to see any other option than the crime. In any case, my point with all of this is not to diminish the drop in overall rate of crime nationally, but rather to extend the idea that despite that, the effects within the community are still felt deeply. From what I’m aware of, vehicle theft back home is still rampant and primarily targets already struggling to get by people. People in my city are getting attacked by people who are refusing to get the help they need, and lack the services or the opportunity in the first place. And well, it doesn’t wholly matter if crime rate is down if we’re still seeing and feeling it on a day to day basis locally.

Which just goes to show, voting locally matters if you want to see the policy enacted locally.

I highly recommend Pistol Whip!

Use a LiveBoot one, then you don’t have to!

I like TailsOS, which is an amnesiac system that runs entirely in RAM and boots from a USB hard drive. The goal for the operating system is to be a safe operating system for people who are in compromising situations - from international reporters to survivors of domestic abuse, it is a way to highly reduce your ability to be tracked.

The downsides of amnesiac systems are obvious - without enabling the setting for permanent storage, effectively everything you do on the OS is lost every time. And if you do enable persistent memory, well, that’s not exactly entirely safe if you are caught out.

What I like the OS for though is as someone who is not compromised or in a situation where I need these privacies (despite appreciating them), my usage of it makes it safer for others who are using it (since internet is through Tor), and I feel more comfortable using computers in the wild when needed, since I’m not logging in on the public operating system that will be used by everybody else.

Many people give these projects flack or diminish their values as a “daily driver”, but I think often times forget the important aspects of them. They may not be a daily driver for you or I by nature of our needs, but they are certainly important daily drivers for others. In addition to that, supporting a project that helps people in compromised situations and becoming another node to bounce off of (again, Tor, not inherent to the usage of this OS) is a nice additional benefit.

Tl;DR amnesiac operating systems because they’re simple, straightforward, and make you feel more like whitehat hackerman when you’ve done nothing at all.