Oh, sure, whatever corporate overlords are involved have unfettered access, but they’re unlikely to analyze that data from a public safety perspective. Unhinged players are addicted to their products and no interest in making anything public that could cut into their profits.

There’s nothing quite like not getting laid for fueling a wellspring of easily manipulated misogynist anger

That’s why I want someone to summarize a sanitized version for me … so I have some sort of heads up on the next trend in stochastic terrorism without having to pluck my eyes out.

To me, this is the most interesting bit of the article

They targeted gamers and chatroom users, who they described as the “backbone of the right-wing trends in the US segment of the Internet,” [ … ]

We can kind of keep tabs on X or Facebook, but what goes down in Discord gamer chats is largely out of sight. I wish someone could drag more of this content out into the light of day where we could all see it.

Yeah, it’s gotten so bad I eventually ordered a USB cable checker to figure out what any given USB cable is capable of (and to see if the cable has gone flaky, which seems to happen a lot). I haven’t received it yet so I don’t know if I can recommend this item, but … gosh darn you sure need something like this.

You’re going to make me look that up, aren’t you? Here’s a good summary of said ‘groomer mod’ scandal.

Not disagreeing with your general point, but music production in Linux is not “stuck on LMMS”. Reaper runs natively, and there is plenty more.

It seems to me the term “tech bro” has always had emphasis on the “bro”, as in the type of toxic masculinity that made Gamergate blow up. I have always preferred the term “geek” for myself; now doubly so for its gender neutrality.

It’s kind of a shame that Jonathan Mann got wrapped up in all this NFT grift. Many of his songs are quite catchy, I recommend checking him out on YouTube if you haven’t already.

Young people need to get enthusiastic to vote; and Hillary didn’t do that for them. Hillary didn’t do that for me-- because she’s best buds with Jamie Dimon and his ilk, and would only be joining a picket line when hell froze over-- but I still got out and made the only realistic vote against Trump because I’m a grownup.

It’s different this time because Democrats are finally being convincing that they’re not aligned with the billionaires, and because we’ve seen what a Trump presidency was actually like now. I think that will get more of the youth vote (with lots of GOTV effort, of course).

The coroner could rule on whether a death is suspicious or not. Like if a brown person dies in custody, the coroner may or may not chock it up to “natural causes” depending on their political leanings.

This is just wild conjecture on my part – I don’t think I get to vote for coroner locally – but I could definitely see that happening.

… and his past cases need to be reviewed. Is someone serving 10x the usual jail sentence for some infraction because of this judge? Probably.

This is great, but I want to see auto-renewal be something you have to opt in to when you sign up for a subscription service. It should never be the automatic default (as it always is everywhere now).

Never heard of “politicsusa.com” before, but now I’m making it a point to never go there.

Idunno, man. I thought I heard of some of this shit going down in Georgia, which was an important swing state for Biden in `20. Arizona was also important, and I’d be surprised if there aren’t MAGA crazies installing themselves into the election machinery there. Pennsylvania is another state to worry about.

edited to add this link to a story about this, even though it’s paywalled and I can’t read it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

Debian unstable doesn’t break all the time, tho. There’s only been a handful of times in my 27 years of using it that something got truly borked.

(That’s not counting times when two packages have the same file and there’s a conflict. That’s trivial to resolve once you’ve seen it a few times. Even that is relatively rare.)

Yeah, the one type of keyboard I haven’t tried yet is a dactyl-style curved one. The Glove80 has definitely caught my attention.