I use a desktop all day, every day (Arch, btw) because I work a tech job.

Android is based on Linux, true but it is hardly a desktop environment (and is mostly controlled by the carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective).

I think the Steamdeck is a better example. It’s converting console gamers into Linux desktop users and showing people that Linux gaming is very much possible.

Nobody strap laser beams to their heads

Made in Britain, uhg typical

The short answer is no.

There’s a lot of study on this topic from the cybersecurity perspective. If you could create an undetectable virtualization layer then it would be used for real-world cyberattacks to steal money and the existence would be quickly noticed by security researchers (and future hardware would include changes to mitigate the vulnerability). It wouldn’t be used for creating aimbots for video games.

If you want to read into the technical details, this stackoverflow thread has a lot of links to various papers and articles on the topic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39533/how-to-identify-that-youre-running-under-a-vm

I never suggested or implied that copyright laws need to be removed.

It does appear that OpenAI’s position is “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed” which, during the Aaron Schwartz story, was the position of the community.

Now, since the entity involved is an AI company, we’re seeing people who’re on the side of using copyright laws to punish infringers because they don’t like AI.

Either copyright laws need to be changed or they don’t need to be changed. Someone’s position on the topic shouldn’t change based on who is being negatively effected by said laws.

When Aaron Schwartz was in trouble for downloading copyrighted articles everyone was on the side of “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed”.

Now it’s more popular to hate on AI and so now people want to see strict adherence to copyright law.

It Mmkes it seem like people lack real convictions on the issue and are just being led around by memes.

Copyright law is terribly implemented and needs to change. This isn’t new and doesn’t become less true because your favorite memes want you to dunk on AI.

You mean using the power of the government to suppress dissent?

The War on Drugs was largely used as an excuse to target anti-Vietnam War protestors.

We had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism where the government targeted the left, accusing them of supporting Communists.

Or, more recently, the government arrested and is attempting to deport a lawful permanent resident and Colombia University student explicitly (from Trump’s own mouth) for protesting against Israel:

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many people were arrested for donating to charities which were ran by groups that the US designated as “supporters of terrorism”.

There’s no end of examples of governments suppressing dissent and protest using the violence of the State.

The law isn’t automatically moral.

This issue just exposes how ridiculous copyright law is and how much it needs to be changed. It exists specifically to allow companies to own, for hundreds of years, intellectual property.

It was originally intended to protect individual artists but has slowly mutated to being a tool of corporate ownership and control.

But, people would rather use this as an opportunity to dunk on companies trying to develop a new technology rather than as an object lesson in why copyright rules are ridiculous.

Thank a lot Obama

And for some reason suddenly everyone leaps back to the side of the FBI and copyright because it’s a meme to hate on LLMs.

It’s almost like people don’t have real convictions.

You can’t be Team Aaron when it’s popular and then Team Copyright Maximalist when the winds change and it’s time to hate on LLMs or diffusion models.

Dang, that sucks.

My OSMC box doesn’t do any of this, is completely open source and is just Linux under the hood so I can customize anything I can imagine.

Roku has been shit since inception, they’re only now starting to become obvious in their shittiness. In a few years it’ll be right in the “scam purchase” territory.

Is it year of the Linux desktop yet?

I read it on the Internet and so I know it’s true

Nobody here can afford to speak to Congress

Ah, I see you’ve worked on the F-22 as well

Anti-cheat just detects that it’s running on virtual hardware (VMs don’t try to lie to the kernel) and will refuse to allow you to connect.

You won’t get banned but it’ll either stop you when you try to launch the client or it’ll kick you when you try to connect to a game instance.

Ya, I got Audible credits from forgetting that it existed for a few years 😔

That would let you hide things from the kernel anti-cheat but the AC can detect that it is running in a VM and just won’t let you play.

Enjoy each panic attack equally

When you’re old, you stop giving a shit what people think and you can just be weird