Okay, cool. That sounds like the way to go. I’ll just use a different account and email for the free trial, then switch back to my main if I ever start a subscription.

I mean, I’m currently already 650 episodes into the main anime already, so I may as well keep going. 😅 One Pace sounds great though, so I’ll probably try that for a rewatch someday. Maybe after reading the manga for comparison.

I remember buying Final Fantasy XIV on Steam some years ago, and something about doing that made it so I completely missed out on the free trial. So now I’m not sure if I want to try to disassociate my Steam account from my Squeenix account and make a new one for the latter and see if that gives me access to the free version; or wait until I’m either comfortable paying the subscription or if a private server gets off the ground.

Final Fantasy XI private servers are alive and well in the meantime, and that’s a game I still need to experience as well. Also PSO Blue Burst.

To be fair about One Piece, there’s so little unique content in each episode, sandwiched between a lengthy theme song and recap, and next episode preview, that 37 episodes is more like 15 episodes.

And I love all of it.

I remember reading that light mode is better for extended reading, so that’s what I lean toward. My personal experience is that reading white text on black background can be a little more straining, but it wouldn’t surprize me if others feel differently.

The concepts they’re referring to have more to do with Ken Thompson’s Trusting Trust essay. Laurie Wired recently came out with an episode about it. It’s a rather intractable problem in computing, and unfortunately, even with the best practices to overcome it, you can never be 100% sure that your system is completely free of compromise.

I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, the Thinkpad x61 was the last version to ship without Intel ME, and I assumed the meme was a nod to that.

Tower’s explanation of blobs is kind of strange and not really correct. In a general sense a binary blob is just a situation where you have open-source software that is combined with proprietary components.

Most relevant example to the meme is that the Linux kernel is open-source, but can sometimes contain drivers that are proprietary and don’t have source code available. Those proprietary drivers would be the blobs.

As a counter-example, the linux-libre kernel that devfuuu linked to, is a version of the Linux kernel that has had all the blobs removed.

The Snowden docs proved that the NSA was intentionally weakening some encryption standards to make them amenable for cracking.

Then there’s also the constant pressure from the FBI to make it law that encryption technologies must have backdoors. These are both public record.

Use a long series of spaces as your password. At least that way they’ll have to do a double take when they crack the hash.

Fragile masculinity.

I do find it weird there’s been this resurgence of fixation on superficial motifs being associated with masculinity, but the guys who parrot these views all have an appearance that screams, “I want to blend in and be invisible!”

Nothing masculine about tepid conformity.

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Whoa, what are all those things you have?

Don’t forget the copies sealed in faraday containers.

Thanks for reminding me about this.

What is that?

My rationale with Debian is that distros are kind of like portals to entire compendiums of free and open-source software. With the increasing attacks on vpns in particular right now, I’m concerned there are any number of programs we take for granted that we might not have access to soon.

The internet is already deeply enshittified. There is a real possibility that it will no longer be a free and open web in any capacity soon. So it’s past time to make archives, and start setting up meshnets.

Nothing in particular that I’m aware of, just a growing recognition that things are very much not well in the US these days.

Curious about the mindset of the one (so far) person who has downvoted this post. What is there to dislike about archiving Linux and Wikipedia? 🤔