It was first uploaded to youtube, it is possible that your friend downloaded (I am sure it was possible even back then) or simply showed it to you and you weren’t aware it was YouTube. I didn’t even know what YouTube was when I was first saw it in 2006.
The sheer barbarity of Israel is incredible. What is even more incredible is how this is actively fucking over western democracy. Israel is willing to throw down every single freedom in the West (from electoral freedom, to freedom speech, to privacy rights… everything) just so they have a few more settlements built on the graves of people they want dead.
The entire war on terror is Israel’s fault. I am going to say it. Modern Islamic fundamentalism is a product of the Cold War, but almost every form of modern international terrorism has its roots in Israeli action and the blowback to that.
That makes sense. But maybe there is something else… Hollywood exaggerated what could be done too soon.
Take the classic 1995 films The Net and Hackers. (I love hackers now in a bittersweet way because of just how sincerely positive they felt towards the future and the future of the internet. Genuinely believing that it will forever be a place of a freedom and ruled by wild west cowboy hackers who will not only do things out of curiosity, but also never sell out. To be fair, they were going by The Hacker Manifesto ).
In The Net, you have a terminally online cybersec specialist (a female cybersec specialist, and terminally online… in the mid-90s. The former is believable, the latter is not… there just wasn’t THAT much to do online at the time) who gets her life torn apart when people erase her very existence using the internet. They state that ‘everything is online now’ meaning everything can be accessed and destroyed, thus rendering her a non-person with no records of who she because they purged all databases of her records.
In Hackers, you have somewhat the same thing play out… but it was done as a gag and clearly undone later. There is a US Secret Service agent causing the protagonists some trouble, so they make trouble for him by creating online dating profiles with his name and contacts (and putting extreme fetishes he does not have, thus having him be called by all manner of weirdos), cancelling his credit cards, and the funniest part: They have him declared legally dead somehow. All of this is undone of course, and the whole sequence played for laughs, but it greatly exaggerated what was and what wasn’t online at the time.
One thing that absolutely COULD have happened that I didn’t think was possible was in the 4th Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard… in the movie the bad guys hack a city’s traffic lights and make them all green all the time, thus causing numerous traffic accidents. I rolled my eyes when I saw and said ‘nah, that can’t happen’… only for me to read later that not only could such a thing happen, but it could happen in the stupidest way possible. Some hacker managed to find a clear-net website of some town that had their traffic light control on… and it was 100% unsecure. Meaning anyone with the URL could have just gone on and caused a lot of damage. The person who discovered it, thankfully, did not. But the fact that it COULD have happened was astonishing to me.
Now you have so much shit going on it isn’t funny. I can’t keep track of all the major hacks that just keep happening. From the Tea hack, to Las Vegas being compromised, to all sorts o shit. It is just incredible.
I remember there was a time when I would look at Hollywood hackers and say ‘nah, that’s unrealistic. Doesn’t happen that way’ and then in 2020 when I started reading about actual hacks i came to the realisation that not only is Hollywood hacking real, but the movies understate what can be done. It was like the opposite of learning that Santa Claus isn’t real.
As it stands right now, due to Just_Another_Person’s link (https://itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/) pretty much took care of most of the issues. There is a minor issue with using LM studio and trying to load LLMs offline (privacy… if there is anything I miss about computing in the 90s is that there was very little in terms of any outside company looking into what you were doing on your comp), but that is not a major deal for now. I can use LLMs with small context windows. The large context windows were painfully slow anyway.
Well I am in Canada, and nation with only 30+ firearms per 100 people. Maybe… maybe… maybe…
Sadly he isn’t. I drank the beer i bought in disappointment and not celebration. He showed up for another golf game recently and didn’t seem any different. He is in terrible health no doubt and JD Vance would not say that he is ready to step up as president if nothing was the matter.
When Trump dies, no matter how, it will cause a fracture in the MAGA movement. The only reason why Trump is tolerated is not because of any intelligence or expertise, but he is absolutely able to command a hardcore fanatical base. Even Steve Bannon said that. They simply dont have a replacement for someone as charismatic as him.
Well it seems that Trump is not dead… at least for now. There is no saying he won’t be dead soon, given his clearly failing health. Might as well drink to the fact that they at least hinted strongly that he is not long for this world. They can stop an assassin’s bullets, but not mother nature’s course.
Also Kudos on your fine taste in beer.
The absolute first video I saw on YouTube was the evolution of dance… which was one of the first ever viral videos ever…
I’d rather have Kilkenny. It is a true Irish beer that is owned by Irish people, and I support the Irish and their support of Palestinians.
Buddy, you are a lifesaver! I do believe that fixed my issues!
Thank you so very much!
I suppose I can change things… I mean I haven’t been on linux mint that long… I didn’t hear about Bazzite. Let me try to fix this before I try to use a different distro.
I went on the default driver manager and I selected the latest one there. It was Nvidia-driver-575-open. But that gave me issues and didn’t allow me to use all 3 of my monitors. The one that it says s selected now is the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
I tried to go directly to Nvidia’s site, but I ran into some issues that it did say X server was running, then I had to go on… man, I don’t remember what that was one called, it asked for an admin username… and was it the one I chose at the very beginning? the password I am using didn’t workout for that. It is kinda weird. I’m really needing to learn a lot to get this to work properly. It’s exciting, but I’ll be very happy once it is over.
So I installed using
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525
And then ran nvidia-smi, it told me:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Now I am kinda worried, because I had a very hard time installing the drivers…
Really? No driver? That explains a lot…
My GPU is an GeForce RTX 4090. Top of the line shit, that’s why I want to make sure it is put to good use.
It gave the following
Command ‘nvidia-smi’ not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525 # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470 # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535 # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server # version 535.230.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.3 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550 # version 550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-570-server # version 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-565-server # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3 sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server # version 550.144.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Trump is dead, or going to be very soon, isn’t he?
What beer should I buy to celebrate?
These people know the CWCwiki exists, right? I mean I was obsessed with CWC a little over 10 years ago, too, but I have long since lost interest in the whole matter.
And they will still talk about defending children and women from rapists and pedophiles without the slightest hint of irony.
Why am I not fucking surprised?