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  • black0ut@pawb.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBible rule
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    15 days ago

    Transcription for those who need it:

    Matthew 5:43-48 New International Version

    Love for Enemies You have heard that it was said “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.



  • It doesn’t. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.

    Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.

    (Of course, I’d never consider a Microsoft “security co processor” secure, nor an apple or google one).

    [edit] I also do not see your point of apple being better (or more virtuous) than google or microsoft for designing their own hardware, for 2 different reasons:

    • Currently Microsoft and Google have immense control over the software of PCs and phones. Apple wants to have full control of both the software and the hardware, and making their own hardware is a big step towards that goal. It means they’re restricting you (the user) from using the hardware you bought for your own purpose.

    • Making custom hardware does not make a company more or less virtuous. Manufacturing/designing capabilities are just spending money in the respective industry. As I mentioned before, both Google and Microsoft have designed their own chips, and they also have designed chips for their servers. I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don’t have human traits, they’re not virtuous, they’re just there to take your money and go.






  • Client side anti-cheat (the one installed on your PC) will never work, it’s just fundamentally impossible. They can restrict user freedom as much as they want, but the hardware still isn’t under their control.

    The only reason they push for those kinds of anti-cheats is because they don’t have to pay for the extra processing of server side anti-cheat, and they also get the benefit of a backdoor into your computer that you may never fully uninstall without buying a new computer.






  • Ask people from your country, or look online to see if torrenting is prosecuted there. If people don’t get letters from the ISP, you can just enable encryption in your torrent software and forget about it.

    I’ve been torrenting without VPN for a decade (Spain), and never had any issues, not even traffic slowdowns.

    Edit: You’re probably gonna see a lot of advice to always use a VPN. Most of this advice is from US users, who are not used to torrenting without VPNs. The truth is, as with everything, it really depends. I’m not a fan of generalized answers to questions, and the same advice isn’t as good for every situation. VPNs are a barrier of entry, and they also come with a slowdown. If you’re starting to torrent and VPNs are not necessary in your country, don’t be afraid to torrent without one. But of course, if you’re from the US, you’ll have to use one!


  • I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I’d say you’re wrong, because it’s 10/10 times these things don’t work. I’ve seen many similar projects get proposed, funded and abandoned (even some that really did sound more efficient than this to me). The truth is, standard trains are still the cheapest thing you can put on those rails. They’re simple, repairable, predictable, they don’t break easily, can be easily driven by anyone or automated with standard systems that have been around for decades. Even if a small govt can’t buy a new train, they can get second hand trains from other cities, which will still work perfectly for decades.



  • Minecraft, the game that sold the most copies in history, has a huge infrastructure of community-hosted servers, some with tens of thousands of players playing at the same time. The community has created different flavors of the server software, optimized it, added mod support and even reprogrammed parts of it.

    At this point, it’s hard for me to believe how someone could say a community can’t run game servers with a straight face.



  • black0ut@pawb.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldWho's in charge?
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    4 months ago

    Linux apps follow simplicity principles. If you don’t have permission to delete a file, why assume you may know the password of the user who has permission?

    You can preface sudo to any command to execute it with root privileges, which would be similar to running as admin in windows.

    Graphical apps do tend to ask for authentication if it makes sense. No userland apps should need more permissions than the current user’s in order to run.


  • Spain used to have a budget of around 1% of their GDP for the military. It was so much that they actually could not spend it. Now that the budget has tripled almost overnight, they are having an internal crisis because there is no way they can use up all that money, even if they overbought 200% of supplies and overpaid for them.

    Increasing military budget is useless, because the service will not improve with it, just the useless spending and inefficiency. And because of the rushed spending, I’m sure the move will increase corruption.