When I was a kid, my first introduction of any kind to David Lynch was the Twin Peaks segment on one of the I Love the 90s series that VH1 did during the early-to-mid 2000s. The handful of clips they showed left me fascinated for years, but with a lack of syndication at the time and streaming still being years away it wouldn't be until the very late 2000s/early 10s when I would download the entire series and binge the entire thing in like a 48 hour period on my computer.

The mix of mystery, humor, surrealism and soap opera spoke to me in a way that nothing else ever really had and so little else to that degree has, I could barely make myself sleep while watching it. Of course quickly after that came Twin Peaks: FWWM, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr, Lost Highway, The Return years later etc. As somebody who has a schizoid disorder that at that point in my life I was still very much struggling to keep a hold of, these films seemed like the answer to a question I still don't quite know, but kept and still keep searching for. Suddenly my entire concept of cinema changed, films I had loved for years quickly seemed really lame as I dug deeper for things that emotionally resonated with me more than the entry level indie films that had made up so much of my tastes in my teens and even early 20s.

As I grew up, my love for David Lynch and all his work only deepened. He drastically had a great effect on my taste in music as somebody who these days listens to more dreampop than anything else, my taste in film and TV it almost goes without saying as I explored his favorites and influences, my taste in artwork, my greater acceptance of other people, my use of meditation to manage my mental health symptoms day to day, my life of constant coffee consumption and so much more. He is the the personal embodiment of art for the sake of art in any form. My life will be so, so much less rich without him even if his productivity as a filmmaker had slowed considerably in his final couple decades.

I don't really have any original tribute that people are lot more talented than me haven't already written, my story is the story of so many people living on the fringes of society who found Lynch when they most needed him. I loved him and will continue to for the rest of my life.

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Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggering.

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‘The idea is for every digital platform – from Facebook to Signal, Snapchat and WhatsApp – to scan users’ communications.’ Photograph: Artur Marciniec/Alamy.

In my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important – and yet so widely unnoticed. I’ve been following the attempt to create a Europe-wide apparatus that could lead to mass surveillance. The idea is for every digital platform – from Facebook to Signal, Snapchat and WhatsApp, to cloud and online gaming websites – to scan users’ communications.

This involves the use of technology that will essentially render the idea of encryption meaningless. (...)

Cybersecurity experts have already made their opinions clear. Rolling out the technology will introduce flaws that could undermine digital security. (...)

And the question of whether circumventing encryption to scan our personal data would benefit child protection online remains a contested one. (...) “Encryption is key to protecting kids as well: predators hack accounts searching for images.”

The great concern, of course, is that states that acquire the power to order the scanning of our messages searching for child abuse content will also use those abilities for nefarious ends. In a joint opinion about the CSAM regulation proposal, the two key European data protection watchdogs have warned that in practice the legislation “could become the basis for de facto generalised and indiscriminate scanning of the content of virtually all types of electronic communications of all users in the EU”. (...)

“The security and intelligence community have always used issues that scare lawmakers, like children and terrorism, to undermine online privacy.” (...)

At the moment, the legislation is stalled due to a blocking minority of EU member states. (...) But no one doubts that soon there is going to be another attempt.

It is this persistence to push through regulations that could make EU citizens less safe online that makes the general absence of progress on other actual growing cybersecurity threats in Europe so frustrating. (...)

It seems like many policymakers in the EU want to prioritise a controversial law that could lead to more surveillance and worsen digital security, instead of more straightforward solutions that would create a safer internet. (...)

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Sharing here because this is an idea I've floated in my head for some time now and might be fun for some folks to tackle, my spacey brain tends to not allow me to execute on these ideas that much.

Obviously you could make a video game console out of a Raspberry Pi using an emulator OS and a controller but this gives you everything in the Pi itself which is convenient, but misses some of the fun vibes of having a console by not featuring actual collectible media and box art, etc. So the idea I was toying with was to take individual SD cards and make them single purpose: boot into a very minimal OS with Xorg and Matchbox Window Manager, have it run a single emulator and have that emulator run a single game. This way there is a "one game to one card" ratio. It's now a plug and play game cartridge!

So you could then set up an enclosure, wire an SD card port connecting to both the real port and the case. Do something similar with a controller port so you can just use what you like, i.e. SNES or Playstation or something. 5v power jack connecting to the Pi as well and a power button.

Could even go the extra mile and incorporate some cool designs for the Pi case, and make box art for your games. If it's a full sized SD card with an indent you could make a box art label for the "cartridge", and there's likely cases for SD cards similar in style to a DVD case. Develop and print your box art, maybe even make a manual, and you have a nice collectible "complete-in-box" little game for your little console.

Is this wholly unnecessary? Absolutely, but it seems like a fun project.

Only kink I haven't worked out is saving. Would be cool if you didn't need to shut down the Pi to save it appropriately - load the SD card to memory instead and only use the game in memory, shut down whenever and you're fine. But then the game still has to save somewhere. Hm.

Maybe I should just build an Uzebox...

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