WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.

  “Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.

  Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friends are a bloatware.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Silksong released at $20, which is a price point people are often waiting for older games to hit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also just buy digital downloads from sites like Bandcamp and Quobuz, and even iTunes if you click past the Apple Music streaming part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different

  The neat thing about math is it’s built upon universal truths that exist independently of how you describe them. 1+1=2 regardless of how you represent those numbers. Even among humans we have plenty of different ways of describing numbers.

  Also, the best thing about science is that physics works the way it does regardless of how you describe it. An atom of hydrogen will always have the same spectral peaks, regardless of what units you describe those peaks in.

  It’s these kinds of things we consider when trying to communicate with aliens. Take a look at:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

  These messages will probably never be received, even if there is intelligent life out there. But if something intelligent does find these messages, they will probably determine they are artificial, and hopefully manage to decode some of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing my first printer is driving me mad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a general rule the more you spend up front, the less you will spend (in time and money) to fix and maintain the thing.

  3D printers are finicky which is why they often become a whole hobby on their own.

  As part of that, I’d strongly recommend you stick to one of the easier to work with materials (PLA and TPU seem to be popular rn). Those are good enough 99% of the time, and printing more exotic materials is more work. If you really need a better material, prototype in PLA and then buy a professionally printed final piece (I’ve personally used Shapeways a couple times. I wouldn’t call it cheap but for small parts it’s reasonable and the quality of the end result is quite good).

  I personally am using an EnderV3 right now. It’s very customizable, and was one of the cheapest options when I bought it, but it tends to take a lot of debugging every time I want to make something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the “metroidvania” genre part of the game but, it’s not for everyone.

  That being said, both Hollow Knight and Silksong make the exploration a lot more streamlined than in older metroidvanias with the map features. When you don’t know where to go, check your map and look for paths that lead to areas that aren’t filled in yet. When you get a new power, see if you can remember any locations where that might be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with a lot of your commentary. A couple times so far a “good run back” has been the grind that let me buy some of the higher-cost items from shops. Sometimes it’s frustrating but usually once you get used to the path it goes quickly. There have been a few times where I didn’t realize there was a closer bench until after I already beat the fight lol.

  Double damage would suck a lot less (and be a better mechanic) if you had 6 HP to start, or if you healed 4 at a time, or if bosses didn’t always do 2 damage.

  Most of the bosses have 1-damage and 2-damage attacks. Also 6HP and increased healing are available relatively early (still a good way into the game but it’s a long game).

  Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.

  I have to strongly disagree with this. Especially when you start getting more traps/tools and upgrades for them, they get very strong and don’t require you to get dangerously close to the enemy like the basic attacks. Some of the bosses and many of the arenas I’ve gotten through mainly thanks to the consumable traps.

  Common enemies are spongy, bosses take at least 33% too long across the board.

  Like in most metroidvanias, you start off struggling against common enemies but as you get upgrades they become weaker relative to you. However I do agree that the trash mobs are a bit too tanky. Maybe somewhere between 50% and 25% less health would be ideal. I’m not sure I would adjust the bosses though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been several boss fights so far where I die to the path to the boss more than the boss itself and it takes way longer to get to the boss than actually beating it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GoG has been having issues too but not as bad as Steam ironically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GoG, Xbox, and Nintendo eshops are also having issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2nd act was my favorite! I liked all the different mechanics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Spontaneous” is actually the correct word to use here, using its definition in statistical mechanics.

  Here’s an example: …pressbooks.tru.ca/…/5-6/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough lmao Til

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Truck ⊂ Car

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁️🐽👁️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glasses/contacts offer better vision, no risk, and an easy solution to your eyes continuing to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cephalopod eye transplant!

  I wouldn’t be surprised if the brain could figure out how to use a cephalopod style eye, especially if it was given young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The server is sending me data and I’m choosing what program I’m using to interpret that data. That shouldn’t be illegal, regardless of the purposes of the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a nice CloudFlare ad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically.

  They slowly decay as hawking radiation, but there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shelter & Shelter 2

  You play as a wild lynx, and go through the whole life cycle, ending with having kittens and eventually dying.

  Then you play as one of your kittens, and the cycle continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played with it too much yet but Queen 3 seems better than GPt-OSS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also some games with active modding communities that can be played basically forever without getting boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My latest hyperfixation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard drives are cheap and are only getting cheaper! If you are talking about proxy media, AV1 might be good for that with fast enough hardware support.

  The noise synthesis thing is interesting. I have played with it, and it definitely works as advertised, but I’m not sure how I feel about relying on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My latest hyperfixation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really worried about the licensing of the codec I use for my personal archive. Even if I was worried, I would use h264 or VP9 before I used AV1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My latest hyperfixation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it looks much worse at higher bitrates. H265 can get decent bitrates and have no visible difference from the original. AV1 loses a bunch of quality right out of the gate. If you are wanting to archive footage I think h265 is much better.