Cornelius_Wangenheim
@Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 2 days ago:
There are tons of great indie games that do that and still die in obscurity.
- Comment on ... 4 days ago:
Milk? He only drinks the finest Iraqi blood.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 4 days ago:
Be like a stone, brother. Sympathy for victims for gun violence is not what Charlie would have wanted.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
That’s essentially what Peter Thiel and his ilk that believe in the technological singularity are doing.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
No, but it is something I’ve heard actual shit-infested milk drinker say to defend their practice.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s that saying things that actual morons think isn’t funny. It used to be funny when it was considered so ridiculous that no one would realistically believe it, but we don’t live in those times any more.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Don’t forget CRISPR/Cas9 allowing reliable and effective gene editing in living organisms.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It still amazes me they took the worst feature from Humanity and made it worse.
- Comment on Where Roman coins have been found 1 week ago:
Aden in Yemen has been a major port for the trade route to India since at least the time of the ancient Greeks.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 2 weeks ago:
TNG didn’t have cohesive arcs and had its fair share of recycled plots. Are you going to argue it was also bad? Also, it’s a prequel. The entire point of the show is to revisit things but do it through the lens of an earlier and more inexperienced version of humanity.
Season 4 was when the writing improved and started feeling more Star Treky. Yes, there were terrible episodes, especially the series finale, but the average was substantially better. They finally started introducing the early Federation species and working to show how the Federation would form. The Andorian episodes in particular were great. There could have been a lot of great storylines about the Federation learning to work together or how relations with the Klingons and Romulans went south.
- Comment on Call me... 2 weeks ago:
I get it, but scientists don’t come up with common names. The name scientists came up with for them is Opiliones.
- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’ll almost certainly be an AI model doing it.
- Comment on Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Hopefully Kitten Space Agency ends up being a true spiritual sequel.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 months 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.