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What a detailed post, that was a fun read. You clearly live a much more interesting life than some of us

I got this super cheap camera off Amazon a while ago, it doesn’t have software or any special drivers. You just plug it in and Windows sees it as a generic video device.

https://www.amazon.com/d/B08VJ25PL1

I appreciate your optimism.
You can lead a horse to text, but you can’t make him read

I don’t doubt that he was an accident

It would be so cool to have time and money to mess around with this bleeding edge stuff.

I thought I was old, but I’ve only even heard of the 3dfx 😳

There was a 1999 PC game called Drakan: Order of the Flame which was a pretty good time. Third-person action-adventure sword and sorcery that had some fun hidden secrets, a variety of weapons with different strengths, dragon riding… To expand on that, and probably make the protagonist a bit more realistically dressed, would be enjoyable

this is so obviously a troll account that it’s painful to see no one else questioning it

Methinks your username is a little too relevant right now :p

Yeah it’s the front end of the week and Saturday is the rear end

The contempt and elitism coming off this post is so thick it could be cut with a knife. I sincerely hope this is just you in a bad mood and not routinely how you respond to people asking innocent questions.

As an outsider to that exchange, you DID reply quite nicely, at least until abruptly being quite rude in your very last sentence. :/

I have already seen this horrible headline posted (and deleted) from THIS community earlier today.

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As of now most of the top comments here are also in agreement with that take.

No, I think min() returns the lower of two arguments. If you had 4 cores, min(4, 8) == 4, and if you had 20 cores, min(20, 8) == 8

Eh. Gotta let them dig the hole long enough to eliminate all doubt, plus pushing back on their nonsense is potentially valuable to third party readers later. Thanks for looking out, though.

Thanks for removing all doubt that you are just here to troll. I wish you luck finding a more productive way to spend your time IRL.

Context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.

The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning ‘compare’)[1] is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed. Style guides recommend that “cf.” be used only to suggest a comparison, and the words “see” or “vide” be used generally to point to a source of information.[2][3]

So is it willful ignorance on your part then? Or have you some explanation for not paying attention to the myriad avenues of data collection and exploitation for the last fifteen years?

To use a very old example which pales in comparison to things which are possible now, here’s a story from 2012 wherein Target’s marketing efforts outed a pregnant teenager to her family with targeted coupons. Luckily her family was supportive in this case, however it’s not hard to imagine real harm being done if the circumstances were different.

“[…] we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”

So to bring this to a slightly more relevant topic for 2023: are you really okay with mass surveillance being used to uncover and prosecute women who have been forced to travel out of states with abortion bans to seek lifesaving medical care? Just because you don’t have to worry about it personally?

This is just one of many, many examples of the abuse of data collection in the modern day. Before you try and discard this post as an alleged strawman (or some shit) I encourage you to actually open your eyes and look, because these entities are not nameless, many of them are household names. Your “spooky bedtime stories” argument is an absolute farce and I honestly would prefer you to be trolling than genuinely this ignorant.