EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 12 hours ago:
I just checked and they were definitely on the passport application in the 2000’s.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 12 hours ago:
No, they’re legitimate questions on the form you have to fill out for a passport in the United States.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 12 hours ago:
It is not. Those wuestions have been on the DS-11 since before 2021.
- Comment on AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3) 4 days ago:
He used AI to write the anti-AI tool
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 6 days ago:
I often preorder games that I know are sure bets. I won’t preorder games that I’m not sure I’ll like or by a developer with a rocky reputation (Ubisoft, etc).
I love buying early access games. Many of the best games ever made spent a lengthy time in early access, and it was worth every penny. Some I’ve bought 2-3 times in early access on different platforms just to support the developers (Satisfactory, Factorio, Rimworld).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Right but what about it do you think is complex?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
True, but with passkeys they’re never sent, by design.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Complex how exactly?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No. When you log into a website your password is sent to the server. A passkey is not.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 week ago:
I hate buying from Amazon and avoid it as much as I can, but one thing I’ve noticed in the last 5-10 years is that brick and mortar stores seem to have given up completely. It is shocking how many times I’ve wanted to buy something, often very common, from popular brands, and I try and find a local store to buy it from only for that store to be out of stock or just not stock it at all. It feels to me like these stores are filled with “stuff” but none of the things I want to buy.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 week ago:
Many years ago it used to be very obvious when you were buying from Amazon vs 3rd party sellers. Today the only difference is a small bit of text that says “Shipped and sold by Amazon”. The fact that you can even get prime shipping on items from third party sellers makes it so that people often don’t realize.
- Comment on AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims 1 week ago:
Global aviation is generally more efficient than traveling by car is it not? Not accounting for the use of private planes.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the coarse of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
Evolution 2 was pretty good. Much better than the first game.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
Only if the site they’re visiting isn’t using HSTS, but it’s possible
- Comment on Unifi Anonymous...? 2 weeks ago:
As much as I dislike UniFi, it is true that there isn’t really a competitor in their tier of equipment. Upgrading would be a good choice, but if you end up choosing to the with UniFi, I’d highly recommend the UCGs.
- Comment on Unifi Anonymous...? 2 weeks ago:
The UDR and UDM line are so horrifically poorly designed it’s frankly astonishing they ever left the drawing board. Not only is the shape unwieldy and awkward enough on its own, the thermals on those things are terrible. I used to wake up to no internet every few weeks because my UDM would overheat and would be unable to boot until you cooled it down. I learned to just stick it in the fridge for a bit to cool it down so it could boot again.
The UniFi UCG ultra and the Max are far better machines, capable of doing just as much if not more than the Pill shaped routers while staying cool and not sounding like a jet engine every time you send a text over wifi. The only thing you even lose is the integrated Access Point which sucks compared to the discrete ones anyway.
- Comment on Unifi Anonymous...? 2 weeks ago:
This will happen automatically if you buy enough and start experiencing their true hardware failure rate lol.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 weeks ago:
Ngl that is a stupid ass name lol
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
You can definitely turn Apple Intelligence off
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
A separate box with apps that work better and just use the one remote.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 2 weeks ago:
Yeah “changing”, sure. But “evolving” implies things are changing for the better ”better”
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 3 weeks ago:
Reading between the lines I feel like when you say “Targeted towards self hosters” what you mean is “John Q Hobbyist who doesn’t know any better”
And in response to that I would contend that Gitea is not actually targeted at those folks, though they obviously use it. Gitea is FOSS but it’s still “targeted” at professionals.
- Comment on Umami is compromised - upgrade immediately 3 weeks ago:
It was not
- Comment on Umami is compromised - upgrade immediately 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but Umami is an analytics engine power by client side tracking. If it was behind a VPN it would be useless.
- Comment on Umami is compromised - upgrade immediately 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about “all umami instances being infected” but they were certainly all vulnerable.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 4 weeks ago:
Unless both 10 years ago and 1 year ago you replayed them on a computer from the late 90’s, you didn’t get as many random events as were intended. Your doubt isn’t a factor, it’s just how the game works.
The very fact that you think random events were such a small part of those games also confirms you weren’t getting as many as you were supposed to lol.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 4 weeks ago:
Well you got me there.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah I’m aware of that. It’s just that foundational game mechanics are still broken to this day lol. Like the game never really reached a polished state, without mods.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 4 weeks ago:
That’s why lol. The random events were tied to your cpu speed, and with faster more modern processors you wouldn’t see nearly as many random events.