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Just doing a simple transaction. I need new tires for my car. Do you know how annoying it is that places will REFUSE to simply... take cash and put new tires on? They want my email, my name, my address, etc. Stop fucking datamining me and provide me a service!

Discord is less a messaging platform these days as just like an open source data aggregation service for cyber criminals. It's like they have a huge data leak every 6 months or so.

Well I can't speak to what its like in places I've never been.

Stop being willfully obtuse. It's obviously about the major recent news event.

"Oh well what if they just coincidentally made a post about a russian biolab worker making a mistake at the same time as this massive international story being in the news?"

without telling me you’re from the US.

I... mentioned the US in my comment?

Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.

Oh for sure I just wouldn't want anyone having my face scan personally. I'd love to have a law passed that designated biometric data as personal property requiring a warrant or explicit consent to collect.

Also something new people don't realize is that Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. If you can't solve your issue by searching for mint you can usually find a solution meant for Ubuntu or Debian that will work.

Some of them they don't even ask anymore. When you enter the US at certain ports of entry now they scan everyone as you walk up and they won't even ask to see your passport because they know who you are and will just wave you through. Because that's not fucking creepy at all.

Sadly if you want to travel these days face scans are unavoidable. I still avoid them for commercial services, but yeah. Fly to europe or any major US city and you are going to be made to submit to a face scan to get through security.

So what does "1.5mil$ in CPU/GPU time" mean then? It doesn't make sense. That's not a standardized unit of time. Are we talking tokens like with AI? Whatever SpaceX's going rate is to use their servers? Some other commercial service? That's why I don't like it being used like this. It would be like me saying I am donating 1.5 million dollars of "food" to the homless. Like that's great right, but what the fuck do I mean by food? I could be giving them rice and beans, caviar, or anything in between. Meal vouchers to mcdonalds, or working with soup kitchens. It's just vague.

I hate the phrase "X$ in compute" so much. What does that even mean? It could mean a 1.5 million dollar value worth of donated time on one of their servers, or it could mean a hardware donation, or it could be a cash donation that is earmarked for server upgrades/chip purchases. Ever since AI took off it's become such a common turn of phrase to use "compute" like this. As if the amount of money spent tells you anything useful about the amount of things they can "compute" now. Costs are so variable and spread out across many different areas that it changes day by day, and by which vendor you use, or what part of the world you are in, or all kinds of other things.

Maybe I'm just behind the times and it has some specific meaning now I'm not aware of. Either way it annoys me.