AI is stupid, but to be truly outstanding at stupidity, you have to be human.

I’m going to turn this car around right now!

rsync, SyncThing, or Nextcloud. I use all three, often on the same machine at the same time, for various purposes.

rsync is great for scheduled syncs (but intentionally not TOO frequent – where blowing away one copy would almost instantly blow away the other copy could be a concern.) and outstanding for one-off syncs. With the right command line options it can even create a rough approximation of snapshots with copy-on-write rolling incremental backups. I believe this is the original documentation for that particular trick although it has spawned many genuine backup tools which operate very similarly using rsync under the hood, like rsnapshot.

SyncThing is great for large, intensive datasets that you want to keep perfectly synchronized across multiple computers at the same time. One example is my saved games, so without relying on Steam “cloud saves” or anything, I can just save my game and hop from gaming on one computer onto my laptop and pick up right where I left off.

Nextcloud is what I use for keeping separate copies of all my documents, photos from my phone, etc. It’s easier than SyncThing to setup and manage in my opinion, it’s simple and reliable and reasonably user-friendly in most use-cases, and seems to be more compatible with a lot of software due to its similar design to something like Dropbox. It isn’t ideal for handling huge numbers of files or very large folders in my personal opinion, but it does work if you want to try it.

Well, who are you going to believe, the government? Or your own lying eyes?

Agreed. I get so mad when people get all shitty about immigrants and religions and foreign countries and it’s like dude, they are people, like you and me, desperately trying to survive in a very different but equally shitty system to the one we are trying desperately to survive in. You can’t cherry pick honor killings and morality police incidents as the only evil in the world while you ignore school shootings and mass medicare denials. We’re all fighting the same fights against inequality and injustice even if we’re all stuck in different lanes. We’re all fucking people. We all want the same fucking things, we want a home, we want safety and security for our families, and we want some opportunity to make our future better. We can certainly argue about how exactly to do that, but demonizing other people is where evil starts.

I’m looking forward to the next update when they fix the 9,740 security flaws they created this week. It’s a flawless strategy, numbers always going up, just the way they want!

VMProtect is technically not a “virus” it is a heuristic detection saying that the program is implemented in a highly suspicious way that makes it impossible to confidently determine what it actually does, and thus it could contain a virus (and viruses often use exactly this technique to hide themselves) since there is no reason for a legitimate program to do it. That said, a crack is also not a legitimate program, and sometimes to avoid the defenses of the cracked program it has to do things to obscure what it’s doing too, and sometimes that results in a false positive heuristic detection like this.

That said, we really have no way of knowing which of the two situations this is, and neither do you, and neither does AppDoze.com really. I would personally not be willing to trust it, and if I had to run it, would do so on a dedicated and isolated machine with limited access and nothing of value on it, permanently, even if it seemed fine. Any program which needs to be cracked in such a serious way is software that I am highly inclined to find an alternative for if possible. It’s not worth the potential risk and headache to me.

As a teenager, playing doom was pretty much my dream job.

This is primarily a North American concern. A 15amp 120V circuit does not heat water fast enough for the pre-wash cycle to actually have hot water in it. The wash cycle will eventually get hot water but not until at least halfway through, so for half of it you’re washing with cold/warm water at best. Depending on what you’re washing, that may be okay, but the dishwasher will definitely wash better if it is connected to the hot water supply and the hot water pipe is pre-filled with hot water by running the tap at the sink. European dishwashers are often connected to cold, because they have 220V+ heating elements that can deliver a lot more heat energy and they are designed for this. North American dishwashers are not.

The drain does not matter, you can pour whatever you want down the drain. The concern is on the supply-side only, and only applies if the dishwasher is in fact connected to the hot water line (which it should be, in North American installations, but sometimes it is installed wrong)

Millennials just out here casually making the world a slightly less horrible place for people to grow up in, in very measurable statistics that only they have direct control of, and that unambiguously cannot be attributed to any other generation, despite getting relentlessly manipulated, economically rugpulled and politically sabotaged their entire lives.

Fucking millennials are so obnoxious, amirite? lol avocado toast or whatever! /s

I only meant it came out of nowhere to me. I’m not trying to universalize my experience onto everyone else or attack the game, I’m just living and sharing my own experience, and this is how it works and looks from where I am, which I thought was the kind of perspective OP was asking for. I’m glad they’re enjoying it, but I’m going to be holding off.

The whole point of status pages is to minimize and deflate the impact. The pleasantly-high percentages even during absolute catastrophes is an intentional design feature. The percentages are not going anywhere. The percentages will continue until reliability improves. Which it won’t.

The temperature is too hot for me. That’s because I get suspicious of games that are mega-viral and seemingly come out of nowhere to have everybody talking about them all at once. I figure it’s often either a fad, a masterfully executed guerilla marketing campaign, or genuinely outstanding, or some combination of these things. Of course, sometimes it is just genuinely outstanding, and if that’s the case I’ll probably pick it up eventually. But there’s no rush, so regardless of which it is, I’m a patient gamer and I’m perfectly willing to wait and let the dust settle so I can get a better perspective, and very often I find these kind of games fade pretty quickly and are forgotten and in the clear light of day I’ll often realize they’re not really the kind of game I like anyway. And if they’re the kind of genuinely outstanding instant classic they seem to be at first, they’ll still be around once I’m ready for them, and potentially on sale. So, overall this strategy of suspicion-by-default and wait for more data has served me well.

There are plenty of games I’ll impulse-buy, but it’s never the popular ones, it’s the ones that have a dozen reviews. I’m always suspicious of popularity. I do not believe in the wisdom of crowds, at least for my own entertainment preferences. I have very specific interests and preferences, and frankly I know them when I see them, and this probably isn’t it.

I highly doubt you are a developer of this game, but if you are, well… that explains a lot I guess.

I absolutely can and do.

Nothing bad happened yet. Keep doing it, and something bad’s going to happen. An ounce of prevention is better than a truckload of cure. Some things can’t be cured. You can’t punish someone hard enough to undo road deaths. The victims are still going to be dead. They don’t come back to life once the killer goes to jail. There is no other reasonable way to handle road deaths than by stopping them before they happen. Drive at a reasonable and appropriate speed, or someone’s going to die. Those are your options.

No it’s not a perfect solution, people still die on the roads, and they probably always will, but we’ve chosen the speed limits at a point that prevents some deaths, you cannot realistically argue that, and that is all you have to know to understand that they are justified, and they do have an appropriate punishment.

Does that help you understand?

In software development this is called a regression, and it is why we have regression tests. If you don’t run or check the regression tests, the problems they’re testing for can (and do) come back.

Reminder that the mnemonic for the Great Lakes has changed from HOMES

… no it hasn’t.

Thanks, I hate it.

Yes, concerned (if not deeply concerned, or even appalled) would be a good initial stance until we have more information.

I don’t care about the robot, it doesn’t have feelings, it can’t, and it would take something profound to change in the technology that I’ve seen before I’m willing to even consider that they would ever be worth considering as candidates for my sympathy. I don’t grant the trait of consciousness lightly, and neither should anyone else.

I do care about the people using such robots for such purposes, and I think there are reasonable concerns about the safety of other real people that may come into contact with these individuals. And those other people do have both feelings and all the protections that consciousness and human rights entitle them to. I believe extreme caution is warranted about allowing the proliferation of such technologies at least until more supervision and psychological research can be conducted to understand the possible scope of benefits and harms to individuals and to society. There is no legitimate urgency driving these technologies to be allowed and adopted so quickly besides profit, and our failure to approach them with anything resembling caution is probably something we are eventually going to regret. I just hope it’s not an existential failure. It might be something close to it. Time will tell.