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- Comment on Not to mom shame... 1 week ago:
Being free from mind control means seeing idiots wearing tinfoil hats?
- Comment on Finally got around to checking out Mob Psycho 100 1 month ago:
S3 has some of the best animation of the series and is among the best work that studio bones has produced in recent times imo, if that means anything to you.
- Comment on Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? 1 month ago:
You mean hiding their public IP? I guess that’s a feature.
- Comment on Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? 1 month ago:
That’s what a firewall and a DNS service is for respectively, imho. As long as you get an IPv6 prefix from your ISP, you can expose as many devices or services to the public as you want, by just allowing incoming traffic to a listening port. That was sort of the whole point of having a large enough address space when moving away from v4. Maybe it’s just me but reading stuff about “private AI” on a website where the relation to the product is not immediately obvious, makes me question their legitimacy.
The more I look at their site, the more it reads like a sales pitch for IPv6, which sounds kind of expensive at $6-10 a month.
- Comment on Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? 1 month ago:
What problem does this solve? Do ISPs not provide IPv6 prefixes anymore?
- Comment on Carl? 1 month ago:
The snail has been taken over by parasitic flatworms that control it to seek out exposed spots and pulsate inside of their eye stalks to get eaten by a bird and enter the next stage of their life cycle, which they spend by living in the birds cloaca and spreading their eggs via feces.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 2 months ago:
I know. I’m not saying that this is a sound decision, just that quote doesn’t really represent the current situation.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 2 months ago:
You obviously need an AV1 hardware decoder to do hardware decoding of AV1. The GPUs you listed are the only ones with a builtin AV1 hardware decoder on the PC, though that list is also out of date. There are also multiple smartphone SoCs from Mediatek and Qualcomm that have an integrated AV1 hardware decoder. This is also not in any way an indicator for the level of hardware needed to do software decoding of AV1.
- Comment on Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks 2 months ago:
You could not have worded that more condescendingly. The issue here is that Rust is singled out for no more apparent reason than making for a clickbaity headline. The underlying Windows API function requires undocumented escaping to prevent this exploit, Microsoft won’t fix that because it breaks compatibility, pretty much every programming language with a standard library that provides access to it is affected - Java won’t even fix it, others have updated their documentation. Rust is the first to actually implement a fix for a vulnerability that’s ultimately caused by Windows and gets called out for it for some reason. Of course people are going to get defensive about it. As they do every time a stupid headline gets published.
- Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? 2 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but this feels like a weird question to ask in a community for selfhosting enthusiasts.
- Comment on The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement 2 months ago:
Cloud saves work fine between Linux PCs, but the devs seem to have misconfigured the save path for Steam cloud saves integration on Windows. That’s why it doesn’t work. That’s on the devs, not the Steam client. Apparently they were working on a fix since about half a year ago, maybe they finally released that fix now?
- Comment on Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope 2 months ago:
It’s a bold claim that they would become more interesting by making them more human.
- Comment on Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope 2 months ago:
Why is it that human characters that have threatened killing, or have killed in the past—Ubel, for example, happily tests out her destructive spells on people—are given complexity and understanding, while demons have not? Did we not also evolve from beasts?
The author seems very eager to leave the context of the fantasy world and draw comparisons to the real world, as if all fantasy has to be social commentary at the same time. The demons in this world are effectively aliens, tailormade in every possible way to be enemies of the other intelligent races. Why do they need complexity or present a nuanced moral dilemma? We’ve had that same exact setup just as many times as the “plainly evil enemy”. It’s a weird claim to me, that Frieren would be improved in any way by turning the demons into yet another plot twist about how all of this was really just the fault of humans or a grand conspiracy or whatever. The point about this being used to make a convenient punching bag in game-like settings to level up the heroes, doesn’t apply to Frieren either. Almost every confrontation against demons starts out humanizing them in some way, only to show how that is a misinterpretation of their outward appearance and empty words. It really hammers home the point that humans are incredibly susceptible to empathizing with anything that looks like one, which is exactly what makes them so dangerous and skilled at exterminating them.
Despite inviting us to empathize with strange and threatening mages—and inviting us into the headspace of an ancient elf who experiences life fundamentally differently from us mortal humans—the story doesn’t extend the same grace to demons.
The audience is constantly invited to empathize with demons, even if it doesn’t yield the expected result of a troubled, complex, but ultimately human character that the author is looking for. In my opinion.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End plays with the always evil race trope but doesn’t fully escape it.
Frieren plays with the “bad guy actually turns out to be relatable, maybe we can all just get along :)” trope very successfully.
- Comment on “You a—holes”: Court docs reveal Epic CEO’s anger at Steam’s 30% fees 3 months ago:
I refuse to believe Sweeney on principle alone after all the bullshit he’s been peddling for years. Is 30% too big a fee for a digital distribution platform these days? Probably. Is 12% not really profitable, despite EGS only offering a fraction of the features? Probably. Has EGS accomplished anything for “the little guy” besides alienating customers through exclusivity deals and increasing big publisher margins? Not really. Is Sweeney trying to use public outrage and weird arguments around morality and market fairness to try and get himself into the position of the profitable middleman? Definitely.
- Comment on No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill 4 months ago:
It’s not feasible to prevent it completely, but you can certainly make it harder for the average person and discourage usage by simply outlawing it. That’s what China is doing at least.
- Comment on Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections 6 months ago:
This reads like an AI generated news story about a reddit post.
- Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? 7 months ago:
USB 4 has both PCIe and Display Port alternate modes. Not all USB-C ports are USB 4 though unfortunately.
- Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? 7 months ago:
Almost none of the alternate modes or advanced features are required for USB-C devices. Most smartphones don’t support high data rates over their single USB-C port. There are are probably more USB-C ports using the USB 2.0 specs, for example peripheral devices like mice or keyboards. Beyond stuff like DisplayPort alternate mode, there still isn’t a big demand for more than one or two USB-C ports with high data rates or the full feature set.
- Comment on Sousou no Frieren • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Episode 10 discussion 7 months ago:
I noticed that drop in animates detail as well. It’s honestly a bit of a shame because the backgrounds were still highly detailed and (imho) it wouldn’t have taken much to make it unnoticeable (basic moving facial features for example would’ve helped). Maybe there were time constraints for this part of the production.
- Comment on Introducing user flairs (only for lemmy.basedcount.com users) 8 months ago:
Retard club back in full operation 😎
- Comment on Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose 9 months ago:
YAML is way too bloated of a standard and has a ton of inconsistencies between implementations, despite the widespread reputation of simplicity. It is easy to read as long as you limit yourself to a fraction of its capabilities and err on the side of caution when it comes to escaping characters (especially when number literals are involved, or booleans for that matter). As far as alternatives go, I prefer TOML for simple key=value configs, but it has its own issued and is nowhere near as featureful, for better or worse.
- Comment on Alternative to ClamAV? 9 months ago:
You can set up an intrusion detection/prevention system, that logs/blocks certain traffic. If you do have public services running, you could block access based on location, lists of known bad actors etc. I guess you could argue that this is beyond the scope of a traditional firewall.
- Comment on Billionaire grindset 9 months ago:
What else would it be?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Man this is some really interesting technology-related stuff.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 9 months ago:
That’s pretty much what Bitwarden does at its core. It will only synchronize the encrypted password vault and each client keeps an offline copy of it.