Moose
@Moose@moose.best
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- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 4 weeks ago:
That’s what worries me a bit as well. As far as I’m aware, they seem to be pretty safe for now? Nostalrius WoW was a big private server that got shut down by Blizzard, but they were located in the USA. Turtle WoW is based in Europe (UK if what I found is accurate) and has done transformative work to the game, including working on a whole new compatible client in UE5 that should be releasing this year. But the issue still remains that they primarily have Blizzards assets, story, etc as the base of their game. I guess time will tell, I’m hoping it sticks around though.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 4 weeks ago:
Depends what you like, but I’m still nostalgic for old school WoW and find myself wanting to play every now and again but don’t want to subscribe for a whole month. My recommendation for that would be Turtle WoW, it’s an expanded vanilla private server that has it’s own launcher and everything so it’s pretty simple to get started with.
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 5 weeks ago:
Congrats, it’s been fun seeing these posts!
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
Man, I remember when WestJet was like the best of Canadian airlines, but that was when it was owned by employees. Guess who owns it now? Private fucking equity. Not a single thing they don’t ruin.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
Turtle WoW is great, I’m dreading Blizzard shutting it down though. I’m hoping they avoid them but I feel their upcoming remastered client might attract too much attention.
- Comment on yum 1 month ago:
Where’s the “For rectal use only” stickers when you need them.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 month ago:
Yeah that egress training is horrible, never done it myself but know a few who have. Starts off relatively easy, until they flip it upside-down and turn off the lights to simulate night. Even the strongest swimmers have trouble.
Also lost a high school friend when they jumped in to save someone struggling in a lake and were pushed under. The person they were trying to rescue survived but they didn’t.
- Comment on what 1 month ago:
A friend of mine put in a offer on a house a year ago - at their asking price - and got a similar response. Like don’t make that your asking price if you’re going to get angry when people offer that? But I guess all the houses around that area were selling above asking and they probably already had much higher offers, still doesn’t excuse them being a dick.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 1 month ago:
Yeah but I feel like that only worked because YouTube was still fairly new and a niche market compared to groceries, which everbody needs. I don’t see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.
- Comment on ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update 2 months ago:
Heck yeah, I remember building out and optimizing my PC to squeeze every frame I could out of Arma 3 back when it released. I have such fond memories of that game, I played tons of casual multiplayer games and Arma 3 Project Life which was a really well done invite only life roleplay game mode (before the developers killed the community by being dicks).
- Comment on Pimax: one more brand exposed for promoting "positive reviews". 2 months ago:
This doesn’t really surprise me, I’ve gotten weird vibes from Pimax for years. Not so much to do with their hardware, but how their sales / promo team operates. A while back at my old workplace we randomly got contacted by Pimax trying to have us carry their headset, which was weird since we didn’t sell VR stuff or computers even, just other electronics. It was a very out of place request which we basically said we wouldn’t consider it until we can verify the quality of the headset, after which they never replied.
- Comment on ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows 2 months ago:
Add any that aren’t shown by submitting them to OpenStreetMap.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 2 months ago:
No, they changed the pack colour for the camping stuff last time this happened. Unfortunately they forgot to change the pack colour for the portable anvil as well…
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 2 months ago:
If Ubisoft can convince themselves that Skull and Bones was the first “quadruple A game” and worth $70, then I doubt most studio execs can pull their heads out their ass for long enough to properly ask themselves that. Studios have completely lost touch with what people actually want and are willing to pay.
- Comment on Can you scare a flamingo? 2 months ago:
AHHHHH!!
Don’t do that!
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 3 months ago:
Ah yes, I think that was when a FOSS maintainer had to step down and handed it off to someone else if I remember right? See this XKCD for relevance. It’s pretty ridiculous how much we (and companies with billion dollar revenues) rely on the free work of others for such important systems. But yes, an important distinction to make is that certain Linux distributions may use code by others that is not open source and malicious without them realizing.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 3 months ago:
I mean, but we pretty much do know? The difference between Linux and Windows / MacOS is Linux is open source and can be checked and audited by anyone. If an exploit exists, it will be visible publicly and just needs to be spotted by those knowledgeable enough. Windows and MacOS are more than likely audited too but by private companies under NDA, so then it’s left up to Microsoft or Apple to decide what exploits are fixed.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 5 months ago:
I don’t know if I would call it lying per-se, but yes I have seen instances of AI’s being told not to use a specific tool and them using them anyways, Neuro-sama comes to mind. I think in those cases it is mostly the front end agreeing not to lie (as that is what it determines the operator would want to hear) but having no means to actually control the other functions going on.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 5 months ago:
Amphenol connectors. Used a ton in industry, military and aerospace. They are actually really nice when you get down to it, but you need expensive tools and the connectors themselves are usually quite expensive. I once had a client ask for a specific 6 pin one, only about the size of my thumb, it was $800.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 months ago:
Yup, heard about it a week or two ago. Found it installed on my Samsung phone, it never asked for permissions or gave any info that it was added to my phone.
- Comment on Question about (what I think are) gay selfies 5 months ago:
Hi, not gay but bi and I spend a lot of time in LGBTQ spaces. I personally have not heard of this meaning anything specific. Chances are that it’s just a quirky / goofy expression that they like. I have a few friends who are not gay where every photo has a similar expression, it’s just something some people do I guess 🤷
- Comment on What Exactly is the Issue with my Bambu P1S...? It Both Under and Overextrudes in Batched areas and sometimes leaves what looks like Overheated Ripples? 5 months ago:
Has it always done this or is this a new issue? I agree with what someone else said, I think this is likely a bed leveling issue. The P1S uses pressure sensing using it’s nozzle for bed leveling. If the screws holding the hotend in place aren’t tight enough, it might be giving you poor readouts. This could happen after a nozzle swap if you’ve done one before. Same if the print head itself has a lot of play in it for some reason, it would throw off the results.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 6 months ago:
It’s just the chassis, screen, battery, and keyboard. You would just buy one of their boards separately to go in it, or make one yourself I suppose.
- Comment on Help 7 months ago:
Ah the Trevor Jacob approach to aviation.
- Comment on Help 7 months ago:
It’s CFIT, controlled flight into terrain.
- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 7 months ago:
I saw it this summer while on a trip, the British Museum is massive.
- Comment on Shit Post 7 months ago:
You’re a rabbit.