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There’s a source port of Black and White that is in early development. Just had it’s first alpha release.

So there might be a modern way to play it in a year or two. Hopefully modding too!

Yes, as I already addressed. But it’s important to understand the way the other side frames this shit, and they absolutely framed it as attempts to cancel him.

They asked for an example of “cancel culture” and I gave one of the few these people cite that isn’t absolutely batshit or racist.

You’re welcome to your opinion, but I feel the bolded section is distinctly relevant.

If you want privacy, don’t admit to a crime and tell the cops where to find the evidence. Privacy starts at home with proper OPSEC.

That’s the story. It has very little to do with the specific crime committed.

The cops did as the cops do: if they are given a lead, particularly by the perp themselves, they investigate. To not do so would be to not do their job.

There was no new precedent here. This was not some brand new enforcement of a new law, and the chats were not the definitive evidence in the trial. Cops using Facebook chat transcripts were likewise not something newly established in this case.

The rest is me emphasizing that this lady was not a martyr, with the jeans comment being the least damning part of it all. Meant as a lead up to the bold.

She overwhelmingly had the ability to do what she needed to do, safely and legally. That has to mean something. And if it doesn’t mean shit to you, I know for a fact it means something to the people who want to take your reproductive rights away, or to ignore the very real dangers you’re worried about.

That said this is not the first step down that slope that you’re acting like it is, and it is not some datapoint on a downward trend towards what you are afraid of. This is a intersection of already existing problems that someone thought they could spin for clicks and emotion bait, and it overwhelmingly worked.

Stay safe, take steps to prevent ending up in that situation, only discuss dangerous shit using safe protocols, and for fuck’s sake don’t tell the cops where the evidence is.

Shitposting?

Example: Terry Crews speaking out about his own experiences with sexual assault. Also him calling for black men to step up and be father figures in communities lacking them.

You can argue that he wasn’t truly “cancelled”, but he drew a lot or fire for those. People claiming that he was somehow taking away from womens’ experiences by speaking about his own, and people saying that his statements about a lack of father figures in the African American community was racist.

It’s not just white people wanting excuses to be racist. Just mostly that.

Uhhh… if that’s the situation that blew up on lemmy shortly after the reddit API-pocalypse, that specific one probably isn’t something you want to rally behind.

That situation occurred in Nebraska, before the messy Roe v Wade repeal. At the time, abortions were 100% legal and available until the end of the 20th week (5th month) of pregnancy, far past the point that anyone shouldn’t be aware they are pregnant.

Beyond that, fetuses are considered viable outside the womb at 24 weeks (6 months). They show clear signs of conciousness before this point.

This woman waited until week 28. Two months past the point it could have been done legally and safely by a doctor. One month past the point of being viable to survive outside the womb. No US state has ever allowed abortions that late into the pregnancy.

The way she performed the abortion was to take medicine to kill the fetus. She still had to go through the normal process of labor and delivery (of the stillborn) afterwards, without any medical assistance. She and her mother then burned the stillbirth and buried it on a farm.

At that moment, if she had had labor induced, she could have went through the same process in a safer manner, and given the resultant baby up for adoption. She had roughly two months left until she would have given birth naturally. Going through labor in the manner that she did does not sidestep any of the postpartum medical and health stuff that happens after a normal pregnancy either.

This also ignores all of the many contraceptives available to help prevent pregnancy in the first place as well.

The only change was causing extra danger to herself, two months of time, and whether or not a living baby existed at the end.

She and her mother discussed their plans at length on Facebook messenger, before Facebook implemented end to end encryption. One of the last comments is of the woman stating she couldn’t wait to wear jeans again.

When questioned by police, they admitted to their actions, and admitted to discussing it on Facebook messenger. That is the reason the cops even got the subpeona for the chat logs. They told the cops where to look for evidence of their crime, and the cops followed normal investigative protocol.

Don’t talk to cops.

Privacy is important, but that was not the narrative of some downtrodden freedom seeker’s rights being infringed upon by regressive right wing policy, the surveillance state, or anything else that a lot of people took it to be.

Too late. If you’re in the US, it is officially known that the feds already can record roughly half of all national internet traffic. AT&T room something or other.

The current saving grace is that the amount of data generated over time is outpacing increases in the ability to store and analyze it all. God forbid that ever changes.

Also, people change over time, and more and more of our lives are ending up online earlier and earlier.

Do you really want some stupid “hot take” you were passionate about as a teenager effecting how someone sees you a decade or more down the line?

Everyone deserves the right to change their mind and not have old beliefs hang around their neck forever.

How is this a shitpost? There are plenty of better communities for this stuff.

Maybe I’m too used to consoles and low powered computers, but with a VRR screen I don’t tend to notice slowdown until it hits 20fps.

Assuming this is anything like the previous games, this is a massive open world shooter/survival game that simulates events and npc/faction interactions map wide. There are loading zones, but each area is massive. And shit isn’t just sitting waiting for the player to appear, shit is happening in the world constantly.

I don’t really blame the devs for struggling on performance on a game like this with a multiplatform release on console hardware. Especially when this generation of consoles is getting long in the tooth. The previous games were PC first (if they ever got a console release at all, not sure they did).

If they release it in this state, yeah yuck. But being open about the process isn’t something to be derided.

Honestly that’s most things in life.

The more complex your project, the more likely you are to run into the rough patches or quirks of whatever it is you’re working with.

It’s a reference to the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. It’s a wonderful series of classic british humor against a sci-fi backdrop. I’m most familiar with its incarnation as novels but there is also at least one radio drama, a tezt based adventure game, a tv show, and a movie adaptation of the first book.

In the first book, due to shenanigans with a ship’s “infinite improbability drive”, the main cast attempt to hyperspace jump away from two nukes, and instead manage to spotaneously transform them into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias. I won’t do the scene justice, so here’s the excerpt:

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

As hilarious as this is, how in the ever loving fuck does this post belong in the shitpost community? There are plenty of more appropriate comms for this.

I agree that reproducible builds would be ideal and modifying binary releases is trivial, but any step forward is better than no review process at all.

There’s no such thing as a perfect system. It’s all about increasing the number of hoops for an attacker to jump through. This is at least a step in the right direction.

Assuming the latest version of OpenOffice doesn’t work for these files…

My next course of action would be using the Win 10 machine with Word, or a VM with Win10 or 11 and the latest version of Word. Use MASGrave to trick M$ into considering it licensed if you need to.

Use a Powershell script to interact with Word through the COM object interface and automate opening Word, opening the file, saving it as a different filetype, and closing. Here’s a snippet of Powershell from Reddit for going in the opposite direction (odt to docx) for a single file. I wouldn’t try to do this through Linux, just suck it up and use Windows so you don’t have an extra layer of mess to deal with.

Going off M$ documentation of the save types enum, I would replace “wdFormatDocumentDefault” in that snippet with wdFormatOpenDocumentText or wdFormatStrictOpenXMLDocument, then test it with a single file to see which gives the output you need.

Getting all the files of the starting type from a folder can be done using Get-ChildItem. Store those in a variable and use a foreach loop over the initial file list.

Corporations will notice extra data over their network, etc and act as an unofficial audit. That’s also the way problems with updates generally get found.

This can also be mitigated by using a username and/or hostname that doesn’t leak private data.

No need to make your username your real name, or make your hostname contain anything more revealing than say “living room thinkpad”

Why not? They’re cheap as fuck now, and if you have a xbox one or ps4 or newer (one that still has a disc drive), you already have a fucking blu ray player.