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- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 days ago:
Kingdom Hearts
Yoko Shimomura is outrageously talented. Obviously there’s a lot of Disney-esque stuff mixed in, but there are a bunch of original tracks that are epic af
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 1 week ago:
Very thoughtful and informed reply. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 1 week ago:
These conservative warnings exist for a reason, though. That being hundreds of lives at stake. What I think would be now interesting is to hear how often these types of events occurred before and after the layoffs at the FAA
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 3 weeks ago:
I’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing
- Comment on Good guy moth 1 month ago:
Someone make a “grand moth tarkin” meme for me, please. I’m too lazy.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t the legpit be the pocket created at your hip when your leg is folded against your body?
- Comment on "Re:Zero" Season 4 New Teaser Visual 2 months ago:
Light novel readers looking at this image going “If you know, you know. And wow, they nailed it.”
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 months ago:
This is misleading and dangerous rhetoric.
Autonomous vehicles - actual autonomous ones, not Tesla bullshit marketing “self-driving” - are already significantly safer than human drivers. Yes, they are limited to certain conditions (they don’t handle inclement weather very well yet) but the point is that they are already improving safety over human drivers.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Additionally, once autonomous vehicles become the standard, you will see a dramatic shift in how the insurance industry operates.
Think about it: if I’m not the one driving, why would I be the one taking on liability? I wouldn’t. The manufacturer would. Suddenly, the insurance industry would be targeting vehicle/software producers instead of individuals. And anyone who chooses to drive themselves anyway? They would almost always be liable by default. Premiums for drivers would skyrocket and this would be a huge disincentive to getting behind the wheel in the first place.
Don’t. Let. The. Perfect. Be. The. Enemy. Of. The. Good.
We all lose out. And it costs lives.
- Comment on Rawr 2 months ago:
While this is good advice, best practice is to always get your yubikey in pairs and keep them synchronized. One should remain in your home, in a safe place (as you described) while the other should remain on your person or outside the home (e.g. in a safe deposit box)
It’s more of a pain in the ass for sure, but handles the theft scenario more effectively
- Comment on YSK: Mint Press News is Russian propaganda 2 months ago:
😍🤩 Contextually relevant Depeche Mode 🤩😍
- Comment on YSK: Mint Press News is Russian propaganda 2 months ago:
I was wondering wtf you were talking about until I remembered I have the entire tankiesphere blocked. Oh the blissful, golden silence 😁
- Comment on No I will not take risk 2 months ago:
Absolutely not. Nope. Nuh uh. Not worth the trauma. I’ve got enough horror from just Nina.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 2 months ago:
Called this a while ago urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 4 months ago:
Exactly this. I work in the games industry as well and even big studios are falling over themselves NOT to release anywhere near GTA6.
Nobody believes there won’t be people playing other games at that time. But it’s going to dominate the media cycle for a month, especially if it is either better or worse than fans hope. And the reality is that many, many people have limited gaming budgets. If you’ve only got $100 to spend, GTA6 is very likely to be the default pick at that time.
It’s a behemoth in terms of grabbing attention from both the media and players. All the best laid plans for a successful release can be completely derailed by a game like GTA6.
- Comment on Cute People don't backstab Twice 5 months ago:
Is It Wrong to Solo Cuties In a Dungeon?
That Time I Rizz’d My Would-Be Killer
Gawd this show is off the rails and I don’t even care
- Comment on What is this, a crossover episode? 6 months ago:
There are so many different images you could show in panel 2 and it would work just as well
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 7 months ago:
Interestingly there is a body of research that suggests enjoyment of music comes from having exactly one of two things, never both:
Familiarity and predictability
If it’s neither familiar nor predictable, it is inscrutable and therefore discomforting to listen to
If it is both familiar and predictable it is boring
If it’s familiar but unpredictable, it feels like a journey through known emotions
If it’s predictable but unfamiliar it feels like ‘logical discovery’ and is fun and satisfying
A bit reductive but I love this idea
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 8 months ago:
I’m curious what you mean by “better moderation”? Are you comparing to specific instances? Or do you mean consistency, because it’s more centralized?
- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 8 months ago:
Unfortunately, no, not really. They are absolutely able and willing to confiscate your devices at any time once you’re on Chinese soil, and once you’ve lost physical control, that’s the end of trust for that device. Even beyond that, it’s not unheard of for there to be vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc that make your device susceptible to wireless attacks. IMO it’s not worth the risk.
Here is just one example of this type of thing uncovered by The Guardian, New York Times, and others in a joint investigation: theguardian.com/…/chinese-border-guards-surveilla…
- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 8 months ago:
Do not bring your normal personal devices to China. They are notorious for injecting spyware on foreign devices at every opportunity. Use a freshly formatted device and create all new accounts to use with it.
Regarding services: do not use self-hosted services unless you are extremely confident in your network security OR you spin up fresh, isolated instances of your services for use while abroad and spin them down afterwards, including formatting any OS they were hosted on.
Regarding VPN: because we are aiming that any device used in China is compromised, do not connect to your VPN unless you have set up a segregated VLAN and are connecting through a VPN server instance created specifically for use while in China.
Basically, assume anything you use in China is compromised. And assume your connections are being monitored. And assume that any device you are connecting to from China is at risk of being compromised. So everything needs to be segregated from the rest of your network and set up specifically to be deleted after you’re back home.
- Comment on Half as Hot 9 months ago:
For anyone questioning this logic, try running your “idle” CPU without a heatsink of any kind.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 9 months ago:
Hahaha I figured something like but couldn’t resist the opportunity :D
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 9 months ago:
For those following along: SEAWATER IS NOT SALINE EITHER. Just making sure we’re clear on everything