Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 22 hours ago:
Well, while I agree with that sentiment, you may be looking at it the wrong way.
It’s not that locking your doors gives them permission, it’s that they’re just doing it whether you lock your doors or not.
Imagine you’re the NSA, imagine you’re already spying on every American who isn’t using a VPN (not because you have any legal right to, but because you can). Now, where’s your biggest blind spot?
This is why they want legal permission to spy on people using VPNs. If they can do it legally, they can just walk right into a VPN’s server room and install whatever they want to put eyes on the inside.
All I’m saying, is that there is no legal justification for this, they don’t care. Their plan is simple, spy on everyone, fuck the law.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 3 days ago:
That’s how Handsome Jack runs a company!
“I’m… not… choking you! This… is called… strangulation.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You know what, I remain not at all sold on Firewatch, or Edith Finch. I get that it’s a new genre, but they just didn’t do anything for me. Weirdly, Come Home did work for me a bit more, despite not being all that different.
Oxenfree on the other hand, I thought that game was really brilliant. It really evoked that feeling of being 16, hanging out with friends trying to be cool, sussing out who likes who. There’s a sense of adventure and terror in being that age, and with the addition of just a little bit of creepy mystery, you’ve got a real great recipe for a unique experience.
I also really liked their system for interrupting characters’ monologues and being able to get back to them later with a quick “oh, what was I saying?”, it’s essentially like being able to pause a cutscene, actually play the game for a bit, then return to it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I couldn’t finish it.
This is certainly on me, but I just couldn’t handle the story. Without too many spoilers, the game’s story includes a tragic death, and when I played the game I was actively dealing with a recent death in the family and when I got to that part of the story… I just couldn’t go any further.
And while this is a special case, it’s also typical for how I play games, I play to escape the emotional social dilemmas of my life. Give me a strategy game, a puzzle game, a factory game. Give me some abstract puzzle to solve, a system to optimize, an army to outmaneuver; the last thing I want is a deep story with complex characters. Emotions just add weight to the experience, and my whole objective is to try to shrug off some of that weight for a while.
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
It’s sad, but this is the world we live in. It’s constantly disappointing.
But I do want to push back a bit, the people getting scammed are not incredibly stupid, they’re incredibly vulnerable. They’re often people who are generally less tech savvy, but also they’re people who don’t have a lot to lose, it’s a bit counterintuitive, but it’s easier to scam people who take money very seriously.
- Comment on xkcd #3221: Landscape Features 1 week ago:
Well, to my exceedingly untrained eye… this all seems to be in order. Great work here. You really made an open and shut case out of it. I guess we’re all leaving the office early today, first round’s on me!
- Comment on Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data 1 week ago:
Trust the math. You don’t need to accept risk if you can check the math yourself.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 1 week ago:
Titan for instance is a really interesting moon. The entire surface, everything that looks like rock, is really water and ammonia ice. That’s just what their rock is made of.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
I understand this happens to a lot of apps…
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, what does that even mean? And why would anyone want it?
- Comment on Security engineer ports Linux to PS5, runs GTA V 2 weeks ago:
Should someone tell him you can already play gta V on the PS5?
Now if he used it to play Baulder’s Gate 2 or Ski Free, that would be new.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 weeks ago:
While I don’t have an answer for your first question, there is a really good answer to the second.
A delay is a perfect solution for eliminating the tactical advantage that its imagery could offer, while still maintaining an eye on the region, not letting war crimes go unnoticed.
The delay rather than a blackout actually reinforces the idea that this is really about not providing intel to Iran. Three day old troop positions are totally useless, those troops are somewhere else now. A delay is totally sufficient to make their imagery non threatening. But if they were trying to hide the actions of either side, a delay wouldn’t be enough, they’d need to hold those images back forever. Meaning, they aren’t trying to hide the truth.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s actually a really good point. We already know that Russia is sharing intel with them and even if China wasn’t doing the same, I’m sure they have no problem with sharing that intel at a price.
With this perspective I’m actually relatively convinced that the move could have more to do with outside perception (be it for Americans or for the rest of the world).
Still, there’s no telling what the quality or timelines of the imagery they’re currently getting is like, they don’t need one more avenue to get that data.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 weeks ago:
That’s completely detached from reality. You could confirm that by talking to anyone in the military.
Probably half of our service members joined up just to pay for college. They’re not in the military because they’re psychopaths… it’s just a viable option for moving up in life. Many Americans hope to pursue advanced careers, but they can’t afford college and don’t have many job opportunities in their home town. Well regardless of what your town is like, the military is always hiring; and the recruiters are convincing. If you’re 20 years old and stalled out in your career, it sounds like a real good deal. Again, that does not make you a psychopath. AND regardless of what you think of service members, the effectiveness of the US military is exceedingly evident, they hardly need me to speak for them.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you could have that opinion I guess. But the stated reasoning is perfectly valid. After you launch a long distance attack, it is in fact important to know how effective it was. This is a very strategically useful ability. Leaving your adversary in the dark has always worked to your advantage in war.
Look, we all know this war is stupid, there aren’t many who would deny that. But to be perfectly honest, despite the political leadership at the very top, the US military and it’s leadership are actually pretty good at what they do. I doubt they’re trying to cover up a failing war. To me, this looks more like operational security than a cover up.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
Buy a fairphone
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
Historically, the problem with Motorola hasn’t been their os, it’s been their hardware, it’s just usually not very good when compared to the competition.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
Looking back now, you’re right, you didn’t say anything about Apple’s build quality.
I guess you were just arguing that poor build quality of other products isn’t a big deal because you could just fix it. But you wouldn’t be able to fix the Mac if that breaks I guess? I don’t know, that party is a bit confusing.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
Uh, good luck with that repair.
I’m no fan of apple’s business practices, or the general non-upgradability of their machines, but i’d take apple hardware over cheap plastic any day. It’s overpriced and it’s locked down, but it’s also well engineered.
You’re free to hate Apple, that’s fine, I’m right there with you. But if you think their build quality is poor, you’re simply misinformed.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
I just checked out the specs, that model does not support NVMe. So yeah, there’s that.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ… would you drop the pedantry? It’s childish.
I mean “what is an Ethernet port? Did you mean a RJ-45 port supporting Ethernet?” “What is an ATM machine, did you mean an ATM?”
Don’t be that fuckin guy.
I wonder what he could have possibly meant when he said an NVMe port?
- Comment on Humanity's concern with the extinction of a species depends on its complexity and cuteness. 3 weeks ago:
What if they were necessary for panda breeding.
Side note, whatch what happens when this baby panda sneezes! Omg it’s so cute!
- Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be. 3 weeks ago:
For all of us we didn’t know there was a choice, we were all infants at the time. We were still figuring out which amorphous blob gives us the milk.
This is why others decide on sex for us through observation, that much is sensible enough. But we’re discovering more and more that this is an imperfect system and that more often than we realized the answer is not straight forward.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 3 weeks ago:
I would think that ripping 1000L of water out of an environment in a day is going to have more immediate impacts than you eventually pissing on a cactus is going to fix…
Well… It all depends on what you do with the water. Are you sequestering it in some way or are you releasing it? I mean, if the community drank 1000 liters of water, then their next piss is 100% going to fix it. Even watering crops is just releasing the water.
just as damaging as removing 1000L of water a day from a lake and thinking the ecosystem will be fine because you’re going to sweat next to the dry lakebed.
Again, if you’re going to sweat 1000 liters, then go for it, I fully endorse this plan. Use as much water as you want, it’s fine unless you’re shipping it out.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 3 weeks ago:
If you plan on drinking the water, or cooking with the water, it’s going right back into the air after you pee or sweat and the water evaporates. Literally no damage done.
- Comment on Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe. 3 weeks ago:
However we do come back to Fermi’s Paradox: the universe is 13800million years old. So far we have no evidence a probe has reached our star system. Where are they? Maybe we just haven’t stumbled across one yet. Or maybe life really is very rare?
Well there are actually some pretty convincing explanations for for the Fermi Paradox. The one I like most is that despite the 13800 million years, we’re pretty early for complex life, and we may just be the first technological civilization in the Milky Way.
The theory goes that while there are a lot of older stars out there, there aren’t a lot of 3rd generation stars. When some stars get to the end of their life, they collapse and then go supernova, leaving behind a dust cloud in which other stars can then form. Here’s the thing, many heavy elements are only produced through nuclear fusion during a supernova. (Basically everything heavier than iron, about 3/4 of the periodic table). So that second generation of stars contain more heavy elements within the star. When the second generation goes supernova, more heavy elements are created.
Life exists on earth thanks to all of the complex chemical reactions that can take place on earth. But all that may only be possible because we’re a 3rd generation solar system with all our fancy heavy elements, and 3rd Gen star systems are relatively new, we’re quite early on the scene.
So because of that, we’re certainly an early civilization, and we might be… the first.
- Comment on Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe. 3 weeks ago:
And even if they could, it’s hard to imagine a reason to travel to another star system.
The expansion of a species beyond a single star system for any reason is dubious, there’s really just no reason to do it, and the cost is extremely high (given known physics).
I say there’s no reason to leave the solar system, but I think that probably needs some explanation, because the obvious reason that may come to mind is probably overpopulation on earth and looking for other habitable planets. The thing is, in order to travel to another star system you need to really master surviving in space; if you can build a colony ship, you can build space habitats. If you can build space habitats, then you have enough material and energy right here in the Sol system to support quadrillions of humans living in space habitats. In other words, there’s no reason to leave for tens of thousands of years.
All that is to say, if you aren’t traveling to other star systems for your own species, you probably aren’t doing it for others.
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 4 weeks ago:
I mean… whenever a price is dropping, that’s beating the odds, and your scoffing at a 95% price drop? We’ve had our first forays into reusable rockets, preserving booster stages, occasionally fairings. But when we have fully reusable rockets, from competing providers in and in different payload ranges, then it’s a whole different ballgame.
But I guess to your point, we’re probably looking at another 95% price drop over 25 years. (But who knows, maybe just 10-15)
Still, I think that is extremely significant!
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s not the strongest argument at the moment, the launch is a one time cost, and that cost is in the process of dropping dramatically. But don’t worry, there are a plethora of other reasons this is a bad idea.
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean take advantage of geothermal heating/cooling. It does seem obvious. The only actual advantage to space is the 100% solar availability, but that’s actually not a huge advantage in the grand scheme of things.