Their explanation for why it can’t be on Android is that the nature of Android push notifications is such that they (the developers) would need to maintain a database of device IDs that could be tied back to physical devices and potentially be used to deanonymize which users received which alerts.
To me, this sounds lazy and like something that could be mitigated with End-To-End encryption.
Lando warned Ackbar, THEN Ackbar warned the fleet. Jeez.
I mean I’m here to do just that.
Do you have a plan to change Democrats?
I can tell you how to change Democrats and not voting for them won’t work. You don’t have to like it, but we ALL have to live with it. It’s not just you and your principles on the line here.
https://runforsomething.net/ or STFU. Literally lives are on the line and being mad at the math doesn’t change that or wash the blood off your hands when Republicans literally kill people and destroy lives. Sorry not sorry. Hating me for saying so doesn’t make me wrong. Hating Dems for predictably being what they are and doing what they do doesn’t mean they’re not the ONLY weapon we have to defend ourselves and others against Republicans. That sucks, I hate it, but I’m not going to hurt the world and the people around me by giving into that and making objectively bad decisions and encouraging others to do so. In fact, I’m going to be here to call you out for it.
If you’re actually doing something to change Democrats OR have a realistic idea of how to start an actually relevant third party in a country with first past the post voting, you might have a leg to stand on saying that, otherwise seriously STFU, I will die on this hill and come back for more.
EDIT: This is how you change the goddamn Democrats.
Is there a list anywhere of lawmakers and organizations that need to be specifically called out for their hypocrisy? If any of them show up, they should be made to feel unwelcome.
All hail Friend Computer. Death to Commie traitors and glory to Alpha Complex!
Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual synapsis in my area.
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I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have technobabble consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even like, bother man… rule of cool in a Hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care… hey can we get mocha lattes to the writers room ASAP?” Major pet peeve of mine.
Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that. It feels out of place, but shoe horned in anyway.
Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god) and just gratitude that at least they’re trying to make something LIKE Star Trek.
Lower Decks was a better show. So was The Orville.
I made a pretty nasty undead bbeg in a 3.5 game by applying both the lich and vampire templates to a necromancer, then giving him levels of the Vampire Lord prestige class from Libris Mortis. He also had the Swarm Shifter template, with swarm of undead parts. His skull would hover in the middle of basically a whirlwind of bones. I let the skull make Vampire drain attacks too, but also it was vulnerable to PCs trying to target it directly.
The nastiest thing about him though was how many other undead he could control.
There’s a world coming in which every appliance and automated system you can imagine will have had it’s onboard OS pretzled together by vibe coders. Good coding by real human engineers will be considered a luxury process for high-end products while the masses live their lives in a sea of glitchy, unreliable, deeply insecure, highly networked cheap consumer goods, vacuuming up and reselling every byte of data they can get their claws into. This will be heralded by the tech oligarchs and their pet journalists and politicians as a great and revolutionary stepped forward on the March of Progress.
Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).
So much cybercrime. All the cybercrime.
It sounds like the real issue for these fuckwits is that script kiddies are running jailbroken models with darknet edgelord sounding names (WormGPT roflmao). This whole article is like some security company execs generating clickbait and citations to get attention by saying scary shit about a nothing burger.
Oh man, I hate the use of all the scary language around jailbreaking.
This means cybercriminals are using jailbreaking techniques to bypass the built-in safety features of these advanced LLMs (AI systems that generate human-like text, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT). By jailbreaking them, criminals force the AI to produce “uncensored responses to a wide range of topics,” even if these are “unethical or illegal,” researchers noted in their blog post shared with Hackread.com.
“What’s really concerning is that these aren’t new AI models built from scratch – they’re taking trusted systems and breaking their safety rules to create weapons for cybercrime,“ he warned.
“Hackers make uncensored AI… only BAD people would want to do this, to use it to do BAD CRIMINAL things.”
God forbid I want to jailbreak AI or run uncensored models on my own hardware. I’m just like those BAD CRIMINAL guys.
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
it gives an example of the GM removing XP from a PC because their player IRL asked a question that in-game would be considered treason.
I’ve run lots of Paranoia (most recently last weekend for my 15 year old son and his friends) and I would never do this. It’s perfectly adequate (and makes much more sense) to have the Computer (and the other players) threaten the character about their treasonous behavior (the other PCs WILL just do this).
I have never once had a Paranoia game last long enough for the characters to earn XP and level up. My last game ended with the two surviving PCs, on their last clones, being captured and “reeducated” by commies (one clone was permanently blind too, after two other players used a device on him that triggered his “laser eyes” mutant power on super over charge… the funny thing was, he wasn’t even the intended target… they were trying to hit the PC who’s mutant power was “making things explode” and they misguessed who that was). The commie PC absolutely won that game, though she explosively sacrificed her last clone in the process. From character creation to this took about 6 hours.
so the GM prints out a sheet and makes the player fill it out under a time constraint.
I have absolutely done this. Here’s some other ideas from my games for you.
“Reward” the characters for good behavior and punish them for bad behavior with drugs (happiness is mandatory and chemically enforced). Bonus if the drug dispenser has been hacked or sabotaged and the drugs do something other than what the computer thinks they do. Failure to take your medication is treason.
I ran a game once that included a Pokemon GO mechanic… the computer had created a “training simulator” where the object was to catch commies. You could play it on your com device and various “commies” would spawn around the world as they were playing. The Computer assumed that whoever had the highest score was the best at catching commies, so that clone was automatically promoted to team leader… giving the players a huge incentive to drop what they were doing and try to catch high value commies, even at stupidly inconvenient and dangerous times.
I ran a game where the characters were all Green clearance and were part of an “elite” team of troubleshooters called Team Eagle Justice. However, 1) Team Eagle Justice were actually just actors, who do a patriotic “reality” holoshow to inspire the citizens of Alpha Complex. 2) Team Eagle Justice had actually just been lured into an ambush by Commies and massacred and their clone vats had been sabotaged. So the Computer just promoted a bunch of random Infrared clearance clones to Green and made them into the new Team Eagle Justice. A bunch of secret societies took advantage of the situation to hack the Computer and have their own agents put on Team Eagle Justice. Mayhem ensued on live holovision.
I also usually throw in some home brewed secret societies.
Examples:
In the Pokemon game, I had a secret society called the Trainers who’s goal was to “collect” members of other secret societies and “train them” to unlock advanced mutant powers (highly treasonous).
In the game I recently ran for my son, there were two PCs who were members of the Philosophers and the Historians (they also encountered the NPCs Arist-O-TEL, Sock-R-TIS, Xen-O-Fon and Herod-R-TUS). These two societies were both trying to get an ancient text… but they were also fighting a brutal gang war between each other.
In one game I ran for a friend’s birthday, I had a secret society called the Cultists who were trying to summon Cthulu from the nutrient vats. Of course, this was what actually ended up happening and the party went insane and died. (I assume IIA sector is now just permanently off limits).
Also, remember that knowledge of the rules is treason (as is knowledge of the existence of Role Playing Games). That means the rules are what you say they are and if a player wants to debate them with you or rules lawyer, that player is committing treason and treason is punishable by death. That means you can run Paranoia however you want. The important thing is having fun. Paranoia is silly and goofy. Play it that way.
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And I went to Venus, to get more…