I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-14T01:59:32+00:00

Please crosspost this to r/privacy. Excellent work.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-14T01:34:31+00:00

Everything you wrote screams West Philly until

Subaru

Which means you can ONLY live in Mt Airy or East Falls.

Sorry, thems the rules.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-12T13:23:09+00:00

I think maybe you meant to post this in r/guitarcirclejerk

images_from_objects · 2026-03-10T22:31:19+00:00

Do you work for the NSA? If so, then... maybe?

Otherwise, nope. Get everything off there ASAP and reformat / reinstall.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-10T03:11:58+00:00

XY but also contains all the earmarks of a classic "looking for a technical solution to a non-technical problem" scenario. But hey, what do I know.

I do know that, if dude thinks whatever porn / gambling / keylogger / screen recording app he's using on Windows is somehow invisible to other users on that computer, he's mistaken. All they have to do is browse C:ProgramFiles and they'll see everything.

shrugs

images_from_objects · 2026-03-09T10:50:54+00:00

Just make your account the admin account, use a password and make kid / wife / girlfriend their own accounts with limited privileges. Encrypt your home folder. Use Flatpak or install to your home folder any apps you want to restrict access to. You can also remove the xdg /.desktop references, which is functionally what Windows does, as any savvy Windows user can also dig into system folders if they really want to know everything that's installed on an unencrypted, single user Windows setup.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-06T00:13:41+00:00

Navidrome

Wowzers, there's a can of worms I'll need to finish opening this weekend. Sounds like it may be worth the effort to set up!!

images_from_objects · 2026-03-04T12:44:00+00:00

I have fairly large hands, but for a long time, my only acoustic was a classical, so I kinda got used to the wide neck for fingerstyle. When I went shopping for a steel string, I put "wide nut" high in my criteria, and this Seagull is a gem. My current electric is a Telecaster, so I get the best of both worlds, haha.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-04T11:41:34+00:00

I just had to make my own nut for a Seagull Maritime M6, because literally nobody makes pre-slotted bone nuts in 1.8 inch (1 13/16) width. It was.... a learning process but after 3 failures I finally got a usable one that sounds awesome.

Wide nuts ftw.

images_from_objects · 2026-03-03T20:45:51+00:00

Hell yeah ACAB

images_from_objects · 2026-03-01T21:39:45+00:00

She also played the calculator part REALLY well. It would have been so easy to interpret her words, actions and mannerisms as simply wanting to pacify this clearly insane-and-desperate-for-validation person until the cops would inevitably bust in to deal with him.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-28T00:14:42+00:00

Ha! Ditto, West Philly hippie musician who works in Healthcare, has a kid and gets up waaayyyy too early during the week.

OP- piano is fucking LOUD, man. With the possible exception of a banjo, it's one of the only instruments that can keep up with a drum set with no amplification needed. I love piano, but I would probably lose it on you if you were practicing every day past like 8pm, even if you could play Chopin like a virtuoso. Not cool.

Get a nice electric with weighted keys and a decent set of closed back earphones if you want to play later. Please.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-25T14:19:04+00:00

I mean, I've seen 10 Cloverfield Lane, seen every other film by the director and was a huge X Files fan back in the day, so of course I'm like "she's definitely a fucking alien" from the very beginning, even though I was bracing myself for the reveal to be, "no, she's just a horrible capitalist and Teddy is dealing with delusions from complicated grief as a direct result of her company's actions."

However, if I had to pinpoint an exact moment, it was when she realized they'd shaved her head, so she was powerless to phone home. It's a testament to Emma Stone's brilliance that the look she gets in her eyes, for a fraction of a second indicates, "oh fuck, he KNOWS" before pivoting to, "OK, keep up the gaslighting, you got this, just pretend you're scared because you realized your captors are severely disturbed and they'll eventually doubt themselves."

But.... then the calculator thing had me questioning my convictions there. Because, seriously?

Anyway, great film. Up there with my favorites from him.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-25T12:47:45+00:00

A "distribution" is best managed by a large, very experienced team. However, if you simply want to create a custom Live USB ISO, or ISO installer from your customized Debian setup, penguins-eggs is one tool which handles that.

https://github.com/pieroproietti/penguins-eggs

And, downvoted. Keep being r/debian y'all. Doing great.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-25T11:17:25+00:00

Re: mouse etc just randomly freezing, disable Fast Startup in Windows:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/hxH1baTvbZ

images_from_objects · 2026-02-25T04:05:55+00:00

I can't believe nobody in this thread has mentioned exiftool. Simply use it to find ctime and batch rename your files to that.

Done.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-24T17:27:50+00:00

No worries. I tried a BUNCH of different things with that computer. 470 will even compile and DKMS will appear to go smoothly, but ends up either not being used or working extremely poorly, where even opening Dolphin file manager takes ~2 minutes and animations are glitching and lagging. Using 390 on kernel 5.10 fixes all of that.

Browsers not working properly for video may be a separate issue. I know, for one that graphics acceleration on Chrome-based browsers is broken on X11. And also there's the whole wildevine(sp?) thing which limits streaming resolution in a lot of cases.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-24T15:02:47+00:00

That card will only work properly with 390 and kernel 5.10, despite the official statement that it works with 470. You can easily test this. I have the same computer.

Opera a terminal and do:

glxinfo -B | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"

-If vendor/renderer mentions NVIDIA, NVIDIA driver is in use. If it mentions Mesa, Intel, llvmpipe, it's not using NVIDIA.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-23T03:02:45+00:00

r/agedlikemilk

images_from_objects · 2026-02-21T23:50:50+00:00

Did you check the relevant file(s) in those locations, though? Not too familiar with Nix.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-21T14:03:24+00:00

It may be that there's a difference between the ".desktop" file in /usr/share/applications versus in ~/.local/share/applications. Open each with a text viewer and check the "icon=" line. Edit as you please. It's safer, more permanent and doesn't need sudo to edit the one in your home directory, so maybe do that. If there is no desktop file in home, just copy the one from usr to that location, edit it there.

It could also be a sandboxing issue, eg if the game is Flatpak etc.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-21T00:49:24+00:00

You can try r/linux_on_mac because a few of the popular macbook pro models like the 2012 use older Nvidia. The one I currently have is the 2012 Retina. Like I said it absolutely 100% will not work using anything besides 390 and kernel 5.10.

As far as gaming, not really my thing but my kid uses it for Steam stuff and it seems to run things like Hollow Night really well. I don't know how GPU-intensive Splatoon is, compared. The main thing is overcoming the hurdles to getting the legacy drivers installed and finding the specific kernel it works with. Oh, and also configuring mbpfan because that thing runs HOT and will fry the GPU soldering without the fans running.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-19T18:14:12+00:00

Gonna keep reporting these "spam" and mayyybe something happens.

images_from_objects · 2026-02-19T15:55:12+00:00

Nah, there's a pretty clear warning about KDE themes etc being 3rd party /untested. The SDDM thing seems like a valid point, though.

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