The command pacman -Qm will display every package from the AUR on your system. You can then search the list of compromised packages.

Using science to explain God is like using breakdancing to explain engineering.

People on the internet who complain about “censorship” only come in two varieties.

1. let’s hear the Nazi out

2. Please say the bad word, dog I’m begging you, just say it. Let me say it.

Came here to find out what P word was. Saw that this was England and knew immediately.

It’s comforting as an American to know that Europe is still in the running for who can be the most racist.

The article has instructions to do exactly that.

Users who regularly install AUR packages should take the following steps immediately:

Run pacman -Qm to list all foreign (AUR) packages installed on your system and cross-reference against the published list of compromised packages

Audit recent PKGBUILD history for any packages installed between June 10–12, 2026

Rotate all credentials — browser passwords, SSH keys, API tokens, and cloud access keys — if any flagged package was installed

Scan for suspicious processes masquerading as kernel threads using tools like rkhunter or chkrootkit

Consider using AUR helpers with PKGBUILD review prompts enabled by default.

The Checklist of infected packages

We don’t understand how the brain functions. Neuroscientists know that serotonin has something to do with it because some drugs effect serotonin production/ absorption/ re-uptake and they also effect mood, but they don’t understand the mechanism.

Even the idea that consciousness and the “self” are located in the brain isn’t as well founded as you might think. It might be a continuation of the concept of “duality” where the body and “mind” are separate. Same idea behind a soul.

Anyway, we don’t understand consciousness which would be prerequisite to explain altered consciousness.

I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.

The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.

Billionaires and policymakers have AI psychosis and they deserve our sympathy and help. Articles like this are a psyop to keep them calm.

I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.

What we’re seeing is the transition to techno feudalism. Capitalism’s final insult was to privatize surveillance-state authoritarianism.

$300 for a PC speaker? Madness.

I’ve used SAMBA shares for years, and it’s dead simple to map a network drive in Explorer. And mounting that drive on boot is a matter of a checkbox in a dialog.

The problem is that knowing how to do something in Windows teaches you Windows and learning it in Linux teaches you computers. For example if you know how to connect to a remote host through the command line, you already know how to connect to one in Nautilus, and vise versa. (via the command ssh://user@host)

I think this cross-pollination approach is going to be a learning curve for Windows users. It is for me. But taking the time has not only helped me understand Linux, I understand how to use Windows better, despite barely logging in for over a year.

If we ban space advertising, then only criminals will be able to advertise in space.

What we need to fight bad advertisers in space is good advertisers in space.

This could be solved if we only allowed astronauts to conceal-carry ad-copy.

(I like to use gun arguments out of context, because it emphasizes how dumb they are.)

Can I see it?

Later versions of Bluetooth do encrypt data, but not all hardware developers use the feature. Those 2.4Ghz keyboards usually broadcast your keystrokes in plain text.

If you’re going to buy a wireless keyboard, you should be aware.

I’m unfamiliar with AI chatbots that you pay for. What is a token?

This is just more proof that law enforcement doesn’t need age verification or backdoors to fight crime.

I strongly prefer games with fixed character(s). The biggest problem with open character creation is that it necessitates a narritive full of generic dialogue and events to accommodate every possibility the player might choose. Fixed characters live in a world where they belong, and that world regards them as developed and known individuals, rather than rudimentary flavor dialogue that may account for species, gender, faction, or class.

Roleplaying Geralt, Aloy, Arthur Morgan, and Cal Kestis means pathos, story, and character development. Vault dweller, Dragon-born, and the Tarnished One are coat-racks that you hang armor sets on.

Throw his ass in the volcano.

Makes sense, with hardware prices the way they are, a custom build is too much of a status symbol to hide under your desk.