A nerf was expected, the fact that they treated it this carefully is a testament to how much they care about this game.

I don’t know who or what reigned in the former seeming flippancy and casual disregard we used to expect to receive as members of the player base years and years ago with regards to any issues that would come up, but this is much nicer.

It’s from the “Scandinavia and the World” comic, drawn and written by Humon, a Danish artist.

https://satwcomic.com/

Amazing comic, I’ve been following it for years. The creator is responsible for some other high quality work, too.

How do the pin outs on the USB line up?

When doing this the old fashioned way, you wire the transmit pins on the RJ-45 to 110v AC HOT and the receive pins to common.

(That’s an etherkiller, don’t make that, it will fry any networking hardware you connect it to)

Interestingly, that was the episode that made me stop watching.

I suspect I just don’t normally like watching shows about miserable people making other miserable people even more miserable, which made the fact that I really enjoyed Boardwalk Empire a surprise.

Guess there must be some other element to it.

PIN is the best way to go there. It only works on that one machine, although you can technically set the same PIN again on another computer.

I believe the typical intent is as follows:

1. It is now possible to brute force things that were previously considered “complex” passwords in a semi-reasonable amount of time.
2. This necessitates longer and more complex passwords
3. People can’t remember those so they have a tendency to write them down or do other relatively insecure things with them.
4. Forgotten passwords can generate a lot of helpdesk calls and are also an attack vector
5. If we insist on really complex passwords that are too long to reasonably brute force with current technology, we need a way for users to log in that’s not going to make 3 and 4 a major issue.
6. If the simpler PIN method is locked to a per machine basis, it matters a lot less if the PIN is compromised because you also need physical access to the computer or the PIN is useless.

This should, in theory, allow workplaces to set requirements for really complex passwords that only need to be reset once a year or so, without breaking helpdesk, inconveniencing users, or leaving gaping security holes.

Whether or not that all happens depends on the workplace, but that’s the general thought process in most of the places I’ve worked where a modicum of sense prevails

Suspect?

I’m curious as to whether the use of that word was purposely deliberate or not.

I’m also curious as to how closely you’ve been following the subject and from where.

For reference, he’s been confirmed by multiple presumably trustworthy sources who, until reading the unredacted files, had no overtly stated agenda on the subject, to be in them VERY frequently.

The adamance with which these people have mentioned the frequency of his appearance in the files makes me suspect he’s in there on an order of magnitude more than anyone other than Epstein himself.

Yeah, my first thought was “harblz”.

TREK: Total Interface

It’s Total Launcher with an LCARS theme.

I’ve been using it for 4 or 5 years now across two different phones.

I absolutely despise the entire smartphone menu paradigm so this is as close as I can get to departing from it and sticking with something static that doesn’t move about or spontaneously change behaviors every third update.

That’s a static menu system sorted, now if I could just get my pixel 8 pro to stick to 30 minutes screen timeout after I set it once, that’d be great. It flips back to 30 seconds nearly every time I put it down and sometimes while I’m holding it.

Why isn’t there a developer option for “never let the phone change settings on its own”?

good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.

I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.

That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?

I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…

I’m curious. Economically speaking, what would happen if Nvidia pulled a “Steam” and had a “February sale” where some models of video card were discounted enough to lead to a massive spike in sales numbers? A big enough discount to generate a greater total net return on sales for the quarter despite the fact that they were sold at a lower profit margin per individual sale? Assuming limitations like “you must create an account with a residential shipping address that can receive no more than x cards at the discounted price per street address” or some such to limit scalping, would simply showing increased profits do them any good?

Or is the problem due to a lack of product quantity?

If nobody can afford anything with more than 8 gigs of ram for their office workers, they’ll all just pay for more AI tokens because otherwise the 900ms keystroke latency in MS Word would make it impossible to work, right?

I would be shocked if that wasn’t on some AI company’s brainstorm board as a positive side effect (for them) of all of this.

These features are unwanted by many, keep increasing, and the methods used to turn each individual piece off keep changing, growing, and moving, and that’s JUST on the user level.

It’s at least an order of magnitude worse to have to pull the unwanted stuff back out if you’re forking Firefox.

Mozilla could make this straightforward and easy.

They are specifically NOT doing that ON PURPOSE.

Why do you suppose that is?

Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:

Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.

In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison’s rope.

But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:

Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.

I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.

Cause a beaten dog never forgets.

Oh good. /s

Let’s push the idea that “good people are tired of being filmed by creeps”.

Start the narrative out nice and soft.

Countdown to "it’s okay to smash the phones of people filming ICE agents doing their jobs"or whatever agenda is most on the radar of people who are against video accountability when they’re in the wrong.

I don’t particularly like the concept of these glasses or the fact that creeps will use them, but this is not how we tackle a problem we already have with creeps being able to use cell phones and easy-to-hide body cams.

Puff pieces like this are how narratives get used to put bad things into law.

Remember Cambridge Analytica and note the current state of xitter.

My eyes are such that I can’t tell if the script on that cardboard container is Tamil, Thai, AI, or something else.

This is made more difficult by google search continuing to suck out loud and returning results that include nicknames for people and TikTok home recipe challenges instead of historical facts on international menu items.

Even “verbatim” barely works anymore.

Anyone know what other names the McTaco may have gone by in the past?

It’s also really bad for political optics.

It’s as bad as or worse than (according to the people treating it as a political issue) low birth rates. (From a human perspective it’s much worse).

So if you can suppress discussion of it, you don’t have to talk about solving the “problem” as frequently, you can downplay it, and you can shift blame to nebulous, faceless things like “social media” or “bullying” (both of which are real things and real concerns, but not things most places are willing to earnestly address politically, so in practically they function as a fits-all “evil” that allows redirection from the real problem, which includes things like lack of agency and security.)

If the U.S., for example, had a true grasp on the scope of this issue across all age groups, I think our political landscape would look a lot different. Despite being an issue across all age groups, each age group tends to stratify their discourse to be primarily amongst themselves, so online silencing becomes a ridiculously powerful tool in downplaying the issue, because there’s already a semi-natural cultural isolation in place for discourse in general.

We’ve seen the effectiveness of this silencing tactic when it comes to avoiding discussion of the problem for decades in one particular subset of humanity who, historically speaking, frequently seems to have regular horrible tragic mishaps while “cleaning their guns”.

terraria for minecraft + metroidvania

This…shines a totally new light on a bunch of decisions that originally made me fairly upset and caused me to quit playing the game.

I played the game with nearly every free moment I had between the time I bought it in 2012 and the 1.2 release in October of 2013. Multiple worlds. Multiplayer sessions with players in several countries possibly requiring port forwarding and VPN tunnels if I remember correctly, and all of it stopped dead for me when I had to quit focusing on creating and exploring and was instead spending most of my time struggling to survive.

There were enemies before, and you could find one of the three bosses and just… Not go there, but 1.2 really made combat the forefront of the game and killed it for me entirely.

In the intervening 12 years. I’d be surprised if had more than a couple of hours into the game.

Viewing it through the lens of a metroidvania where you craft your own progression is not something I’d considered before.

I might actually go back to the game on the rare occasion I’m in the mood for something like that.

Thank you for the insight, while it probably sounds silly, it gives me some perspective into something that was so jarring it still causes me to panic when a game announces combat where combat was not previously the focus (I’m looking at you, Dyson Sphere Program 😄) and I really appreciate that.

Thank you for the clarification

My first question, working only with the headline and the first paragraph of the post was “I wonder if I can flash this to a smart TV I currently own?” I was excited. Maybe we’d finally made progress and I could have something superior to my early experiments with serviio some 10+ years ago.

Then I got to here and stopped caring because this makes it worse than any Roku in my book:

This project uses various open-source components like Plasma Bigscreen, Mycroft AI, LibCEC

Why does it have AI in it?