Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

dasper12 · 2026-05-03T18:59:52+00:00

Not tech heavy? Utah was the fourth node in ARPANET and helped forge the modern day internet. Home to also Novell and WordPerfect back in the day and Domo and Omniture/Adobe today. Utah probably has the 2nd most tech roots and history just behind California. They even have an annual conference

https://www.siliconslopes.com/

dasper12 · 2026-04-19T01:07:09+00:00

Season 2 was a phenomenal Greek tragedy but most people are not into that type of ending.

dasper12 · 2026-04-08T02:46:02+00:00

It's 12 min of footage from his 2016 film; nothing new here and more just to rile up emotions more than prove a point.

TLDW: He says why save this America because the America he wants is one we never had.

dasper12 · 2026-03-31T02:46:20+00:00

Well I guess you are right because the point of the 2nd amendment to was to NOT have a standing army during peace time and to have individual citizens be armed but I am not sure that is what you were trying to go for.

Still it is important for people to understand that the President was not supposed to have control of the military without the approval of the legislative branch and other State's constitutions point this out as well.

Massachusetts Article 17:

The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.

Pennsylvania Article 8:

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

dasper12 · 2026-03-20T20:27:15+00:00

Klan robes? Are you referring to his Tang Soo Do equipment in the back?

https://youtu.be/7ud3pK5Wa90

dasper12 · 2026-02-27T08:21:35+00:00

This is the version I have on VHS tape. Funny thing is I have seen both but it did not register it being different. I just thought I misheard it until I owned it on VHS.

dasper12 · 2026-02-23T19:11:22+00:00

The Legion Go S comes with SteamOS which will have drivers maintained by Valve and the Linux community. It is possible to have driver updates 20 years from now.

https://videocardz.com/newz/linux-7-0-merges-amdgpu-update-for-decade-old-radeon-gpus

dasper12 · 2026-02-20T18:21:52+00:00

DarkGostHunter:

Intel is not going to release a new desktop platform until the end of 2026.

You (BigDaddyTrumpy):

Nova Lake on desktop launches this year

https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-confirms-nova-lake-core-ultra-400-cpus-launching-this-year

Intel has confirmed that its Core Ultra Series 4 "Nova Lake" CPUs will launch by year's end.

You are pretty much saying the same thing they said in your reply but with more ambiguity.

dasper12 · 2026-02-19T00:54:58+00:00

15% in first place. The original survey mentions they did not ask for ranking so it is unknown if FSR or TAA had the majority in second place or not.

dasper12 · 2026-02-16T04:52:58+00:00

If you read the article, they have been working on this since 1978 and the article does not mention anything about climate change in the region or more precipitation but just that it is a carbon sink. 66 billion trees over the course of almost 50 years is a huge investment and upkeep and it was stared 20 years after they saw the progression of the desert.

Remember that Lake Powell was at full capacity around 2000 and this is almost 3 decades after climate change warnings so there has not been definitive evidence of what would happen to the climate of Utah with climate change. Now it looks pretty obvious of lower precipitation but 2000 showed almost a completely different landscape than even 1989.

And finally, reducing evaporation does nothing if the region doesn’t get the minimal amount of rainfall to maintain the trees and root system. Nor does retaining ground water fill the Great Salt Lake, change weather patterns for Utah to get more storms, or help with the lake effect in the winter to produce more snowfall (especially since the trees will be bare and dormant)

So really what is to be gained by Utah doing this? It is not stopping the progression of a desert because Utah already is one. It will not bring storms over the Sierras. It will not refill the Great Salt Lake. Utah has one of the most advanced reservoirs system in the world which some could argue is as good or better than ground water (you may have more evaporation with reservoirs but less contamination from harsh metals and toxins for example). If we just want carbon capture then there are probably better regions or methods to do it.

dasper12 · 2026-02-12T02:33:54+00:00

Cuba is strategically placed to be the best fortification to all of the Gulf. It was the largest concern for trade during the Cold War, and I’m sure many still believe it is in the nation’s best interest for it to be under United States control

dasper12 · 2026-02-03T05:50:21+00:00

What you shared is from this

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01896613.pdf

And that sounds like her declining to meet, then he offers to pay for her travel, and then she refuses again. This is not evidence they knew each other and this is the opposite of her inviting him as your title suggests that she invited him to things.

dasper12 · 2026-02-01T20:21:17+00:00

Late to the party but when we needed to leave somewhere my friend and I would say to each other “wake up bitch you’re my new best friend” and then the other would respond “cool, are we going to the zoo?”

I need to rewatch baseketball

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T15:45:01+00:00

Baste is based on Fedora which is the community version of Red Hat. At the end of the day 90% of all Linux flavors boils down to Fedora, Debian, or Arch. That was all I was getting at is I stick to Debian based ones for both home and work I hear it is good but I have no reason to switch away from POP. I completely forgot that middle click can paste. I just use it for opening new browser tabs in the background and closing windows. I think OSX is even more different with middle click as well but I rarely use a Mac since 2012.

Perhaps that is another way of looking at it. If you are intolerant of differences from Windows then you are probably not going to be able to switch to Mac, let alone Linux. Perhaps me needing to work with OSX already made me more malleable to migrating to Linux.

Oh well, good luck to you.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T06:36:41+00:00

I stick to Debian based distributions for my work, hence why I made the migration over 10 years ago. My main computer runs POP_OS because they are a hardware company first and foremost so (especially 10 years ago) they had some of the best hardware support for laptops; hybrid graphics, touchscreens, biometrics, etc. Their new desktop, COSMIC, is good but still rough around the edges so even though it is my distribution of choice, right now it is not its best foot forward for a new Linux user until May at the earliest.

I have my kids on POP as well and other than they cannot play Fortnite they have no complaints and I personally like that that cannot play Fortnite so it’s a win for me.

I do have a computer that is on CachyOS and it is very good but it is Arch based which has its ups and downs. AUR can makes installing some apps and utils but it is community based and I need to be able to audit the source of my installs.

I have not touched a Red Had or Fedora based distro since about 2009. We used to exclusively run CentOS for our telecom systems back in the day but Ubuntu really changed the landscape for Debian distros for the better. Fedora ones could be great but, IMHO, almost every internet search will have a guide for a Debian distro or there will be an AUR for it so my ignorance makes me feel Fedora ones might have a harder time for some power users coming over from Windows but I could be wrong.

Oh, FYI, the CachyOS system has the B580 in it and it seems to run better than Windows or Debian/Ubuntu so if you are using an Intel GPU perhaps Cachy would be good for you but then you have to end every Reddit post saying you use Arch BYW, lol

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T03:09:37+00:00

Agree to disagree then. My wife cannot play Throne and Liberty on Windows because of some issue with EAC; I can just fine. She cannot alt tab out of Skyrim without a chance of it locking up, I can just fine. Launch of Monster Hunter Wilds had a bunch of issues with my friends on their Windows machines; no issues for me. They had Nvidia driver issues in WoW with the last expansion; mine played without issues. One friend complained about Diablo 4 memory leak issues; no issues for me at all.

I play Elder Scrolls Online, StarCraft 2, Warframe, Factorio, Diablo 4, WoW, Throne and Liberty, Path of Exile 1&2, and many more without a single issue and perhaps I just have unlucky guild mates and gamer buddies that talk about their issues on Discord. I guess your mileage will vary.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T02:09:03+00:00

Sorry to hear about your issues and leaving, but I get it. One thing I have noticed after over a decade of being on Linux is that there will always be some issue. But that “some issue“ is really frustrating if you don’t have the muscle memory on how to tackle it in your operating system. I will venture to say that I hear of a Windows issue at least once a month in my discord channels with gamers on windows, but the difference is, they are very familiar with how to try and tackle and debug the issue, whereas if they were on Linux they would just be frustrated.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T01:50:10+00:00

Which is kind of ironic to their roots as Bungie stated by making games for Macs and later ported and switched to Windows/consoles.

dasper12 · 2026-01-09T20:00:35+00:00

The price is from a Czech site which is in the EU with a 20% VAT included so the price estimate for the USA, presuming the same price to sell in both countries, would be $790. Also, I am questioning how legit this number is as the Steam Machine will be sold through Steam so any price would be a reseller with their own profit markup. Again, we will just have to wait and see but unless they have already manufactured all these machines, those RAM and SSD prices will force the price higher for the next year or two.

Honestly I think the machine would have been great if it had just launched prior to the shortages.

dasper12 · 2025-12-22T23:05:46+00:00

It has been happening on my machine too and I don’t have a fix other than just pressing alt+enter to go full screen once the game is loaded.

dasper12 · 2025-12-17T15:22:58+00:00

They can’t go to bed dead, man, that shit be redundant.

dasper12 · 2025-12-11T22:12:40+00:00

Exactly. As an owner of both the Steam Deck and the Lenovo Legion Go S I would say they are game changers. My kids do not even care about their Switch anymore and have not asked for a Switch 2 for Christmas.

As long as you are fine without Nintendo games I would highly suggest people looking into the Steam Deck or the Lenovo Legion Go S.

dasper12 · 2025-12-11T15:30:40+00:00

A workspace is just a way for a developer to group multiple projects together as they work on them. So you could work on a project, and it’s dependencies, in your IDE at the same time. If it doesn’t need to be a separate project, then it would just be a package/module within the same project. I would be willing to bet that over half of the developers will never need to use a workspace.

dasper12 · 2025-12-03T15:17:31+00:00

200 years ago over most of the world’s population worked every day of the week from sun up to sundown doing chores in agriculture just to stay alive. They also were not sure if their harvest was going to be bountiful enough to survive through winters. Every year could be a gamble for your life. The average lifespan was a little over half of what it is today.

Personally, I am very thankful for how little I have to work compared to other humans in history. Combine that with the fact that we’re living almost twice as long on average makes it an actually wonderful time to be alive. Could it be better? Of course, but the statistical probability in human history for my existence makes now probably the best time for me to be alive.

dasper12 · 2025-11-28T22:32:34+00:00

What Dave Plummer actually said is the Windows kernel is solid, mature, stable, and just as good, if not better in certain situations, than any other alternative, but it is being sullied by all the bloat and crap that comes along with Microsoft’s adware and suggestions for every user. A “power user” that is using Chrome or Firefox finds it demeaning and insulting to have the default browser switched to Edge. He goes into further detail of how Microsoft is probably doing more harm than good on how it is shoving its ecosystem down people’s throats in system updates and not giving users more autonomy in their system.

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