bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 7 minutes ago:
I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.
Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.
- Comment on You received a like! 3 hours ago:
When I lose my phone in my couch.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 3 hours ago:
Light sabers follow a similar overall principle of ‘plasma bolt contained by some kind of coherence field’… but they use totally different internals to generate both the plasma and coherence field, and can seemingly just… do this nearly infinitely, never needing to ‘reload’, never running out of energy.
In the comics taking place tens of thousands of years before the movies the Jedi have to carry large energy cells with them. They are attached with long cables to the hilts.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 7 hours ago:
They aren’t lasers, though. That’s just a colloquial term. Like how we call large language models AI.
- Comment on Riding the bus to the underworld 23 hours ago:
So bus is really pronounced beece. Thank you.
- Comment on Riding the bus to the underworld 1 day ago:
Now I wonder if I pronounce bus or Anubis incorrectly.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Adding the games to Steam and running them through SteamVR usually works. At least it worked for me with Hellblade.
- Comment on meal 3 days ago:
When I scrolled past this earlier I thought it was maggots. i don’t know if I should be more or less disgusted.
- Comment on B.I.R.D. 4 days ago:
Bundesinformationsreportdrohne
verdeckte Operation: Große einheitliche Luftraumüberwachung
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 5 days ago:
Put it on Amazon Prime! With ads!
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 5 days ago:
Currently before establishing an encrypted connection to a webserver the domain is sent to the webserver unencrypted so that the server can choose the appropriate certificate to use for encryption. That is called SNI, Server Name Indication.
Of course that’s a privacy risk. There are finally protocols to fix this but they aren’t very widespread and depend on DNS over HTTPS.
I think issuing certificates based on the IP and sending the domain name encrypted based on that certificate could have fixed this issue ages ago.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 5 days ago:
I never understood why we don’t use IP certificates to encrypt the domain with SNI.
- Comment on What is the "dip"? 5 days ago:
I heard you should always buy it.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 5 days ago:
Wasn’t that a stupid study where they didn’t cover the heads and then concluded that people lost most of their heat through the head?
- Comment on How do you even find companies to work with ? 6 days ago:
Is there some kind of employment (or unemployment) office from the government in your country? They could have their own job board. It might suck, but sometimes you’re lucky and find something.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 1 week ago:
They don’t pop as quickly as water bubbles.
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- Comment on For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing? 1 week ago:
Due to Long Covid I can only lay in bed and most games are too intense for me. So I actually do watch let’s plays.
I really like Welonz. She has a really nice mix of indies and big titles, regularly tries out a great variety of games. She is very thorough and while she might not find all the secrets she will go out of her way to show alternate endings and stuff. And she has an interesting voice, so rumor has it that she is actually a ten year old boy.
- Comment on Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations 1 week ago:
“Despite”?
- Comment on Hmmm who could it possibly be? 1 week ago:
I was once at some children party thingy where they had free cotton candy. My friend and I ate so much that we completely swore off of the stuff for all eternity.
Then I went and got married to a gal with a cotton candy machine…
- Comment on The Really Dark Truth About Bots 1 week ago:
1 out of 3 are actually a myriad of Indian engineers?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
My son bought Cyberpunk 2077 on sale. I got hooked immediately.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Keep going! Who knows how many signatures will be ruled as invalid.
- Comment on 🧊🧊👶 1 week ago:
High-speed train in Germany.
- Comment on ‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers 1 week ago:
She literally talks all the time about how she doesn’t get any offers all of the sudden. She probably did at least once in one of her last four streams. She just has become pickier with what she auditions for. But she still has to audition like everyone else.
- Comment on ‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers 1 week ago:
Yeah, apparently the director and writer of E33 were actually playing BG3 at the time of the casting. But they didn’t recognise her voice at all. They just knew that they had found the right one for the role.
It’s also saying something that they cast Andy Serkis and didn’t use him for performance capture. That was all done before the voice recordings. Recording over already finished performance was an entirely new experience for him.
- Comment on Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem. 1 week ago:
Probably. And with the next version Lemmy as well.
- Comment on drugs 1 week ago:
Drugs are good!
They let you do the things you know you not should! - Comment on Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive] 1 week ago:
GPS and similar systems are just big atomic clocks flying around the earth, shouting their time down to earth. A GPS (or other) device just needs to know the current time and the position of the satellites to calculate its own position.
The most control the US ever exercised over GPS was to encrypt the more precise parts of the satellite’s timestamps so that only military devices could get really precise positions. They stopped doing that when other systems went online. That was for the whole world, including its own citizens.
- Comment on Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive] 1 week ago:
China’s system can’t be used for spying. It’s as passive as GPS. These things are harmless. No amount of control can be enacted through them.