Cornelius_Wangenheim
@Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 7 hours ago:
$229? Fuck me, you’re not kidding. That’s over half way to owning a Steam deck.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 13 hours ago:
It’s a shame it was cancelled when it was. It really seemed like they had pulled their heads out of their asses by season 4.
- Comment on Impressive cock too 5 days ago:
HELL YEAH BROTHER. I’M GONNA CRANK MY HOG WHILE THINKING ABOUT YOU AND DAVE GROHL TOGETHER.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
Wait 3 weeks before applying updates instead of being a guinea pig. It’s usually enough time for things like this to be caught and withdrawn by MS.
- Comment on Wise words 1 week ago:
Nah, stupid people usually end up miserable because they’re too stupid to navigate life successfully, nor correctly diagnose that their own actions are the reason why nothing works out for them.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
I don’t know about that. I remember reading about the housing bubble in 2005 and it took 2 more years for it to pop
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Pass a law that removes the minimum wage exemption for “tipped” professions.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Flash memory stores data as a voltage level, with different values being a tiny distance apart. The voltage slowly leaks out of the cells and has to be periodically topped off.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
FAT12, and no it doesn’t work natively. I know this because I had to replace a floppy to fix a 40 year old computer earlier this year.
You can get a USB 3.5" floppy drive working with just some special software, but a 5.25" FDD was a huge pain involving open source hardware (greaseweazle) that reads the raw magnetic flux values that then have to be run through another janky piece of software to interpret it.
- Comment on $1 per play 4 weeks ago:
That and he sabotaged Jesse Ventura’s attempt to unionize wrestling to get more money for himself. Given how incredibly abusive the company is to its performers, that’s not a small thing.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
Apple’s entire software design philosophy is god-awful. There’s only one way to do things and if you don’t like “The Apple Way”, fuck you. “It just works” only works for very basic normie stuff. If you try to do anything advanced, it most likely won’t work and it’ll give zero feedback as to why.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy has 100k users and, more importantly, almost zero countermeasures against botting and influence ops. It would not be some huge undertaking to target this place.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 5 weeks ago:
Azure is a very close second behind AWS and nearly twice the market share of GCP.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
Modern facial recognition cameras project a grid of infrared dots on your face and use the distortion of them to sense the depth and contours of your face. You’d have to 3d print a head to defeat it.
That said, Reddit is probably doing the bare minimum to comply with the law and will probably just use an uploaded 2d image.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
They can force you to use your phone’s camera. Due to faceID, modern phones have fairly sophisticated cameras that can tell the difference between a static image and a 3d physical face.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
It’ll almost certainly be an AI model doing it.
- Comment on Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records 5 weeks ago:
When a remote code execution exploit is run, you often have a very limited payload you can deliver. Usually that means delivering a small downloader that then downloads and installs a backdoor from somewhere on the Internet
The standard counter-measure to protect your servers is to block all outbound traffic unless it’s to a known safe destination. Downloading the secondary payload over DNS gets around that since you can’t just block DNS. Tools to protect against this or DNS tunneling are still relatively new, so a lot of people haven’t implemented them yet.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Hopefully Kitten Space Agency ends up being a true spiritual sequel.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
To get the temperature probe data on your phone so that you don’t have to repeatedly get up to check it. It’s particularly useful for Turkey, because the difference between moist vs horribly dry white meat is only 5-10 degrees.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Traeger makes pellet smokers. They have a hopper full of wood pellets and a micro controller that feeds in pellets to maintain a set temperature. You can get ones with a temperature probe to stick in the meat and let you know when it’s done, which is what the Wi-Fi is for.
There’s a legit use case for them because they save a ton of time and effort over smoking the traditional way.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
It’s great for smoking though. I’ve done it the old fashioned way of staying up all night to feed wood into the smoker and I’ll gladly take the wifi-enabled pellet smoker with a temperature probe over it.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
The devs would probably prefer if their work for several years wasn’t thrown in the trash. It’s the publishers and suits killing games.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 2 months ago:
Also, the robotaxi has been live for all of a day and there’s already footage of it driving on the wrong side of the road: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-h0YXtF0c&t=420s
- Comment on Good job 2 months ago:
Also they changed the permission model and introduced UAC, but it took developers forever to update and stop constantly writing to sensitive OS locations.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 2 months ago:
Alex Acosta was the prosecutor that gave Epstein a sweetheart deal the first time. Trump rewarded him by making him Secretary of Labor.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
Quadriplegics.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 months ago:
You shouldn’t be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.
- Comment on Rawr 3 months ago:
Or buy a yubikey and set it up as a backup MFA on at least your email and password manager, then keep it in a fireproof safe.
- Comment on Republicans Want You to Die | Common Dreams 3 months ago:
Which is why I’ve always pushed back on the idea that Republicans care about profits over people. They care about enforcing the hierarchy first and foremost. They’ll sacrifice profits as long as it allows them to rub more shit into the face of the common man.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 3 months ago:
They do not in any way, shape or form beat borracho beans.