Nibodhika
@Nibodhika@lemmy.world
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 9 hours ago:
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I pay for Spotify, price hasn’t raised in years. I pay for a family plan so mother people from my family (that live in different countries) can use it too.
I work on my computer, so I’m usually listening to music all day long, I have multiple playlists I alter depending on my mood, plus several albums as well. So, yeah, I think it’s worth it for me. That being said if they removed the family sharing or increased their price drastically I would definitely consider alternatives.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
How is a password protected zip file different from an encrypted blob? And a quick Google will show you dozens of devs asking how to do this in different engines, because it’s a very simple way to delay access to something, it won’t be permanent, but it can allow you to do stuff like pre-loading that game/DLC and activate them remotely.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin.
I bought the Argentinian Peso because I am Argentinian, and lived through the devaluation of our currency, and the Patacones and Corralito, maybe because you haven’t experienced something similar you don’t understand just how much of “money” is based on trust.
People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is.
You can speculate with anything, the fact that people speculate with crypto has no bearing on it being money or not. Also you might be unaware but people do speculate with dollars/pesos in Argentina, that does not disqualify either of those as money.
But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars
No, you’re wrong, outside of Argentina and the US (and a few tourist heavy places) I have never seen stores that accept dollars. This is a misconception Americans have, dollars are not accepted worldwide, you need to exchange it for the location currency, just like how trying to pay for stuff in the USA with Euros or Reais would not work.
it’s the most traded currency in the world.
Bitcoin is more traded than some small countries currency, if that mattered then Bitcoin would be more of a currency than that one.
It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.
Also possible to exchange Bitcoin, that has no bearing.
If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.
Than the designated currency no, but than a specific currency absolutely, I’m 99% sure every city I’ve lived for the past 5 years has more places that accept Bitcoin than Argentinian Peso.
And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.
Still, it’s a problem of definition, money is an abstract concept, one where is very hard for you to find a definition that includes all of the countries currency but doesn’t include Bitcoin.
But here’s the most important thing that goes through everyone’s heads, just because something is money doesn’t mean it has inherent value. People who invest in crypto, be it FT or NFT, are no different from people who invest in gold or art. And scams involving crypto are no different from other scams, you don’t go around saying emails are scam because people use them to scam others.
All of that being said, crypto bros are the other extreme from you, thinking that crypto is a magical solution to everything and can’t see the glaring issues that will make it impossible from being adopted in any meaningful scale (and it boils down to cryptocurrencies having the same attributes than paper money, bit people not taking digital security seriously the same way they do with securing paper currency)
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a steam forum of someone asking why some devs do that from a year ago: steamcommunity.com/…/4423184558852867037/ so it is done by other devs.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
By that definition the Argentinian Peso is not money because it’s not stable, nor is the dollar since the majority of stores in the world don’t accept it (mostly just the ones in the USA do, and a couple of others here and there, but definitely not the majority worldwide). And if you’re going to start randomly limiting locations, I’m fairly confident you can find a specific neighborhood or city where more stores accept Bitcoin than dollars, and worldwide I’m fairly confident more stores accept Bitcoin than Tuvaluan dollar, does that mean that that is not money?
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
Password protected zip file is also a way to deliver content an indie dev might use to lock content, so that on its own is not enough, but also the “payload” was connecting to a remote server, which is not indication of bad behavior, lots of games connect to remote servers and receive commands from there, e.g. event X starts now, or something. Except in this case it allowed a reverse shell.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
No automated scan would have captured this, only a paid professional dedicating some time would (and only because this was an obvious attempt, a more subtle one would go unnoticed even by an expert) and that is not feasible.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen the malware? It would have passed that test.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
And it is very easy to detect you’re in a virtual environment and not do those things, or have a date to trigger the changes or something. The game had been out for a while when this happened without any issues. I just dug a little bit and it was opening a back door apparently, so as long as the attacker did nothing at that time it would have been impossible to detect. You had to know that it was malicious to look for it, then it was quite obvious, but with Valve needing to vet millions of games it’s not feasible to do a full scan of every update of every game.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
What is your definition of money then?
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a us citizen, and there’s a big difference between the government uses my taxes for war to a game will use my money for war. You have no choice over the taxes, but by knowing this and still buying the game, you’re saying that your hours of entertainment are more valuable than people’s lives. And yeah, not buying the game won’t bankrupt the Kremlin, but it’s like throwing gasoline to a fire, you’re fueling the war, imagine someone whose house is on fire and throws gasoline in it because “the fire won’t extinguish if I stop throwing gasoline in it”
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Like MurrayL@lemmy.world said in other comment:
Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
That’s fucked up, games should not be removed from your library.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for this. I wasn’t planning on buying it anyways but now if I ever do want to play this I will sail the high seas before giving them a penny.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so, there are multiple things you should be aware.
First of all you’ve set that DNS to be
10.0.0.41, that range of IPs is reserved for lan, similar to192.168.0.41would be. Only people in the same local network as you might be able to access it.Also, usually your home router doesn’t use the 10.x.x.x range, but some ISPs might do it in their internal network, which means your router doesn’t get an internet IP, instead your ISP router does and it shares the same external IP with different houses, so you would need to use something like www.whatsmyip.org to know what your external IP is.
But there’s more, since you don’t control that router putting that external IP in the DNS won’t work either.
You need to do something more complicated, I recommend you read on cloud flare tunnels for example.
And one final piece of advice, don’t share your urls with randoms on the internet, security by obscurity is not security and all, but publicly advertising your url is asking for trouble, even without doing that you will see several attempts of logging into your servers constantly.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
The same reason why there are many political parties, or restaurant brands, or even games: everyone thinks that their way is better, or are trying to improve on something that they like.
I get that it can be daunting for someone wanting to start, but just like with other topics you should start with something simple to dip your toes and move on from there. My personal recommendation has been Linux Mint, it has sane defaults, works out of the box for most cases and it’s popular enough (and based on another popular distro) which makes getting help easier.
Trying to pick your distro from the sea of available options might feel impossible, but 99% of the stuff is the same, so picking something that works out of the box for you is a great start, and you can learn what you need to make a meaningful choice afterwards.
Let me give you an example on the sort of differences you can expect: do you think that updates should be delivered as soon as possible or leave some delay to catch bugs/issues? If a delay how big should it be?; How much stuff should come installed by default with your system? Should you get a bare ones system to build up or something at least functional for everyday tasks to adapt?; Should you be able to edit your system files or should they be locked so it’s harder to break stuff?. These sort of questions might seem pointless, but they’re the core differences between Linux distros, and if you’re answer to them is I don’t know/care anything that works out of the box would be good enough until you develop an opinion on the matter.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 3 weeks ago:
I think an important question is what is your current desktop? You might be able to upgrade a single piece and get better performance than that micro PC. Also note that micro PCs tend to run hot (which causes performance issues) and you can’t replace or sell used parts easily.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, things like original email and Nickname are some of those questions because after they change the public might have no way of figuring it out. Notice the support tech asked for those informations and when provided with it he said that he couldn’t verify ownership, this means OP reported wrong information for the identifying questions.
I’m not saying the service is great, asking him to access an email he claims to have lost access is dumb, but everything after that the tech support person did his best, and I don’t think he should have disabled 2FA, since it could be a social engineering attack.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 5 weeks ago:
It all depends on your threat model, what is your fear? I personally would be very comfortable noting stuff down on a notebook, or even having a random text file on my PC, neither of those is likely to get compromised/tampered. Let’s assume you have someone living with you that you can’t trust, and you don’t want them to either be able to alter or read your entries, notebook and text files are not enough, but you can encrypt the notebook using any multitude of ways (including inventing your own language and symbols) and you can password encrypt the file in your PC. They could still destroy entries or the entire thing, if that is more of your concern then having backups might be more important. If you’re worried about altering past entries you can use something similar to a Blockchain, where the hash of your previous message is used in the new one so it’s obvious if someone erased a message, in the notebook you can do something like starting each message with the 5th to last word from the previous one or in some other way reference it.
At the end of the day it all depends on what is it you’re afraid could happen to your entries, so we’ll need more information on that.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 5 weeks ago:
The thing is, and I think you’re missing this, he got those wrong. After being asked for email and Nickname he provides them and the support person says “I’m unable to verify that you own the account”, that means he answered wrong, yes those might be bad questions because some random person might know them, but he didn’t.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
Are you sure? It’s made mostly of Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Methane, all of which would be lighter than air because they’re at a higher temperature than the air outside.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 1 month ago:
I have a TV, a projector and a VR headset, which essentially are your options, so let me run through each of them giving you pros/cons for each.
VR headset was a cool solution that someone mentioned here. It is an interesting approach, and the cheapest way to feel at the movie theater by yourself, it also allows you to play VR games which can be very immersive and it’s an experience. However it’s the worst visual quality of the 3 and you can’t bring anyone over for movie night.
Projectors can be really bad, but since you have a good budget a little research should get you a relatively decent projector with at least 1080p native resolution. If you’re looking for screen size, or have limited space for a TV, this is the way. However, even great projectors will struggle with daylight, your room needs to be as dark as possible, which might mean blackout curtains completely closed if watching during daytime. Also audio can be relatively bad, especially because some projectors are somewhat loud, but you should be able to get a quiet decent one for that budget, but you might want to consider speakers or a sound bar.
TVs are cheap and give you the best visual quality per price. They’re a pain in the ass to move (but not as much as you might think), but they don’t have any of the drawbacks of any of the other forms, but they’re also not great, however for 1k you can get an excellent TV and a very good sound bar that will allow you to view content in 4K HDR during daytime.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 1 month ago:
You can wear glasses under the VR headset.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s not magic, it’s just the shape of the glass that makes the focus point of images be slightly closer or further apart.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
No, scales don’t measure mass but weight, it is completely possible to lose weight and have the scale show a larger number because of buoyancy. For example, grab a helium balloon capable of holding up a 1kg mass mid-air and the scale would show 1kg less than when you release it. This is very simple to understand, how much would the scale show for a 1kg object tied to that balloon? 0 of course, the object is not even touching the scale, and a slightly heavier object would only be making that slight weight difference of pressure on the sensors, not the remaining 1kg.
So conservation of mass has nothing to do with the question here. It’s all to do with whether farts are denser than air while inside your body.
- Comment on Slicer software for a Linux system? 2 months ago:
I used Lychee, I haven’t seen it mentioned here and it is very good.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
Steam remembers my card, so I don’t have to input it there everytime. I get that you wouldn’t want to put your card info somewhere shady, but Steam is not that. Also, most banks nowadays have virtual cards you can use for that sort of thing, some even have one use cards that self destroy after a single purchase. So the safety that PayPal used to offer is not that important anymore.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 months ago:
It’s not though, in the current system everything must go through those shitty companies, so they can dictate anything, and if Steam disobeys they essentially block them from receiving money, and it’s impossible to jump ships because creating a competition is essentially impossible, no one will be able to handle the Volume of Valve’s transactions and it needs to be all done by one entity. Ñ
In the system I’m describing once you’re in the crypto space no one can dictate anything. The same people could try to act as gatekeepers, but it’s almost impossible because anyone with Ethereum can sell them to you, so if an exchange threatens to not buy Ethereum from Valve they can simply go to any other exchange, hell, they themselves could sell Ethereum to users who would then use the Ethereum to buy games returning the Ethereum to Valve to be sold again, and if not anyone with enough capital can start an exchange selling Ethereum to users and buying it from Valve, even with small initial capital you would likely grow very quickly doing this. And the best part is that Valve can sell their Ethereum to different exchanges in any ratio they want to, so it’s essentially impossible for one of them to dictate anything because 1 big exchange can be replaced by 10 smaller ones in a heartbeat without any disruption to the system.