I have the page with instructions for this prominently bookmarked because it was such a nightmare to figure out the last time I migrated my OS to a differently sized drive.

And you can use a keyfile separate from the database for even more security. If the database is backed up on Google Drive and the keyfile is saved on a USB or in a (non-Google) email somewhere for the rare times you add a new device, your passwords should be safe even from keyloggers or Google themselves.

Hey now, Trump appointed Musk and DOGE to hollow out all the regulatory agencies that could have prevented the AI bubble from getting so big, so he at least deserves the credit for how bad things will become once it finally collapses.

He was very open in interviews during/after his first term about how he didn’t actually care about his campaign promises, but went with whatever got the best response from the crowds. IIRC he directly stated this about the whole “lock her up” movement he spearheaded. Somehow those confessions never made headlines.

I don’t know why the Democrats didn’t simply run ads showing all the times he crapped on his own movement and supporters. There’s easily enough content for an entire series of ads and it’d be way more effective than anything they actually ran (aside from Waltz pointing out how weird they are, which the party made him stop doing despite it being the single most effective part of the 2024 Democratic campaign).

Poor old Resolute suffering one last indignity under him.

Many of them are, but most are afraid of the cult. They’ll put their own future electability ahead of any amount of damage to the country or its institutions.

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Windows went all-in on AI including for internal development, despite removing their dedicated QA teams years ago.

Yeah, but a small handful of American (or non-American but willing to pay bribes) CEOs will make tons of money off of this as the economy craters.

We’re already at the point where Windows programs sometimes run better on Linux with a compatibility layer (WINE/Proton) than they do natively. The stuff that doesn’t run is mostly games ladened with kernel-level DRM that Linux (rightfully) can’t emulate.

Linux even runs old Windows programs better than Windows itself, and long-term compatibility is supposed to be one of Windows’ biggest selling points.

Didn’t the PS5 boot signing keys leak recently? The word when that happened was that it blew PS5 modding wide open in a way that couldn’t be closed without new hardware, though I guess publishing anything that used Sony’s key would have their lawyers after you real quick.

Civil asset forfeiture is one of those things where when you hear about it your first reaction is that it must be some fringe conspiracy theory because there’s no way the police could get away with something like that, right? But no, it really is that bad and it’s done completely in the open. Cops can just steal your shit out of “suspicion” and the process of getting it back is deliberately labyrinthine and difficult.

I wasn’t disagreeing, just expanding on your point. :)

Bad news is the same framework that fucked us is almost guaranteed to be actively working to do the same in whatever country you live in. So use us as an example and prevent this shit from happening to you early before it’s too fucking late

The people that fucked us have already fucked a bunch of other nations. The rise of right wing authoritarianism in Europe over the last few decades was aided by political operatives like Paul Manafort, who then directed that experience towards domestic politics.

And then there are the missionaries and evangelicals whose indoctrination programs pushed bigotry and intolerance in various African nations, leading to some of the harshest laws criminalizing LGTBQ in the world.

For a culture that’s constantly complaining about “globalism”, they sure spend a lot of time and money spreading their influence overseas.

The last console I owned was the Xbox 360. Once I started seeing non-gaming advertisements on my home screen, I lost all interest in the product line.

Sometimes I think internet connectivity was a mistake.

There aren’t any repercussions for submitting a false DMCA claim. There are for pushing the claim after the target files a counterclaim, but it’d require an uphill legal battle that most people aren’t able to fight so they simply give in and pull their video even if it falls under fair use.

Then to add to that, YouTube’s own policy will suspend your account after a few copyright claims regardless of their merits, and getting strikes removed is nearly impossible.

Basically if you’re not a major corporation with a legal team on standby, you’re getting screwed by both sides.

IIRC it’s also one of the worst greenhouse gasses in existence, unfortunately.

Edit: the worst greenhouse gas. Why are cool things always secretly terrible?

But had bragged on tape about getting away with sexual assault.

They are visible, you can test this yourself. Open a password-protected zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering the password. The “encrypt file names” checkbox doesn’t even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I’m not sure the format supports it.

That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they’re easily read from the zip’s metadata.

Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords to decrypt data you yourself encrypted.