Kazumara
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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 hours ago:
Metro Exodus. Opening up the map was a mistake. The linear levels were fine, that gives you tight pacing and you always know what’s next. The confined underground spaces were part of the soul of that series. I only played maybe 8 hours of Exodus and can’t be bothered to play more.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 hours ago:
Agreed, Fable III was a brutal step back. You couldn’t even equip clothing pieces individually anymore, and the whole “you’re king now, better collect enough money in time” sucked too.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 day ago:
Up to the third comma, yes, but all the rest seems to go beyond that pretty arbitrarily.
When they say anything that “may damage the goodwill of the corporation”, and qualify that with “in the sole discretion of the Corporation” that just means “anything we don’t want to be associated with, and we will be the judge of that”.
That’s what makes it so vague, how is a Merchant or an Acquirer supposed to know what Mastercard might find damaging to the goodwill? They have to guess, or use trial and error*. Most will just err on the side of caution, which means customers get blocked from even more purchases, just to be safe.
* Or talk to Mastercard, which Valve apparently tried, but they wouldn’t respond.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 day ago:
Brilliant, just make your rules vague and force everyone else down the chain to self-censor. Surely this will result in the best outcome.
Fucking mastercard
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 1 day ago:
Clever! So the first drone simply brings a self disassembly kit, a handsaw and some tourniquets.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 2 days ago:
The article says that one drone was shot down and one crashed under the weight of the ebike.
A soldier will be significantly heavier than an ebike. And you can risk them being shot down less than just the bike
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 1 week ago:
Fair enough. The proposed VÜPF changes suck balls.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
“I need it for my business plan to work out” is not a great legal argument for when you’re trying to override others rights.
- Comment on crypto investment 1 week ago:
1,000 x 365,000 = 1,000,000 every three years or so
Something is amiss there. Your years seem about a thousand times too long
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 1 week ago:
If I had to guess the omptimum would be around 26. Not too much younger, and looks not too much older. Good luck haha.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
“Select language” is to mark the language you are using in your posts and comments. Don’t know for what, maybe for others to filter stuff out?
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 4 weeks ago:
I think that makes sense too. Sure a drunk cyclist is less of a problem than a drunk motor vehicle operator.
But as the third party you still don’t want 100 kg (200 pounds) of dude and aluminium frame running into you at 20 km/h (12.4 mph), if you are a pedestrian, a second cyclist, or a biker.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 4 weeks ago:
Yikes. Did he make through?
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
The argument is utterly stupid.
Ignoring that the it’s building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.
- Comment on Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future 5 weeks ago:
I wonder how betrayed the people in the Appalachian feel when their supposed “own” Vance stood for this.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
They are hardly even in the US market. Only via Murena with their e/OS/.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 weeks ago:
Those are both way more useful than exploiting a lazy coder’s fuckup
I never said social engineering, physical breaching, exerting force on people, and other ways of compromising systems weren’t useful. They just aren’t hacking to me, otherwise the term is too broad to be very useful.
You’re free to come up with your own definition, I was asked to define it and that’s my best shot for now.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 weeks ago:
You know my first instinct wast to reply with: “No.”
Maybe I should have stuck with that. I had a feeling this would lead nowhere.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 weeks ago:
I’d start with the following, and refine if necessary:
"Gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer resource by technical means."
- Port scanning --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained*
- Using default passwords that weren’t changed --> Not hacking because the resource wasn’t protected*
- Sending spam --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained
- Beating the admin with a wrench until he tells you the key --> Not hacking because it’s not by technical means.
- Accessing teacher SSN’s published on the state website in the HTML --> Not hacking because the resource wasn’t protected, and on the contrary was actively published**
- Distributed denial of service attack --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained
* Those first two actually happened in 2001 here in Switzerland when the WEF visitors list was on a database server with default password, they had to let a guy (David S.) go free
** The governor and his idiot troupe eventually stopped their grandstanding and didn’t file charges against Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, luckily - Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t heard of a firewall failing open when overwhelmed yet. Usually quite the opposite, a flood disables access to more than just the targeted device, when the state table overflows.
But maybe there is a different mechanism I’m not aware of. How would the DDoS change the properties of ingress?
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
DDoS is not hacking
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 1 month ago:
Ist das beim TÜV
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 month ago:
Using 1 is fun. That means the circumference of a circle is equal to its diameter.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 1 month ago:
They do actually burn gas locally, I wasn’t trying to dispute that part. It has become a political discussion in Memphis. Apparently they wanted to start operations on turbines before the grid access was ready.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 1 month ago:
The linked video is a bit unclear to me. The don’t explain the modes well. Mostly it seems to just show heat. According to the description it’s a Teledyne FLIR G620, which should be able to detect Methane and other VOCs. But it’s not clear to me how we are supposed to distinguish hot rising CO2 and H2O from any potentially leaking Methane, in those pictures.
Video in question www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prazMVylRs
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 month ago:
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Coverage seems pretty okay so far
…cnn.com/…/nine-news-reporter-la-hit-rubber-bulle…
www.bbc.com/news/videos/c98p008kxn1o
independent.co.uk/…/lapd-lauren-tomasi-australian…
thehill.com/…/5340014-australian-reporter-hit-rub…
- Comment on I've got something special for you 1 month ago:
6 arc seconds, not a very well rounded individual
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Friend of mine had the same scenario in high school. The only one who knew was the twin sister of the girlfriend. The rest of the family would never have accepted a non-muslim. It’s probably the only way to do this until she’s an adult and can tell them to fuck off.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
it’s much easier to just substract 2 from 2000, “IIMM” duh!
For anyone wondering why this is wrong, there are two reasons:
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The roman numeral system only traditionally contains subtractions from the next higher five- and tenfold symbol. So you can subtract I from V and X, X from L and C, C from D and M
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The subtractions only generally allowed one symbol to be subtracted, with a few notable exceptions like XIIX for 18 and XXIIX for 28
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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
Given 4/6 x > 5/6 y therefore x > 5/4 y
Marty’s Pizza must have been more than a quarter larger than Luis’. The kid is exactly right. And the teacher is not flexible enough to engage outside their expectations for how the question was supposed to be answered.