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- Comment on Had to look this up 7 hours ago:
That one was on purpose:
In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname “Spearchucker”, ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.
They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism in the show:
The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.
- Comment on Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now! 11 hours ago:
Worth waiting for reviews. The last DLC was a clown show for months.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 4 days ago:
That and brand loyalty. If shopping was just api based, you could have your ai agent just buy X product from wherever when the price was right and never care about the brand or marketing or anything.
It would be hugely empowering to be able to make a non website based shopping list and just have “something” sort out all the logistics, biased towaeds reducing your costs and inconvience, but that is never going to be what even the ai companies are selling. They will funnel you to their “prefered partners” and find every possible way to extract money in the process.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 5 days ago:
Crowdsec is absolutetly the way to go. Jhst be aware you need the engine and what the call a “bouncer” both running, but they have easy instructions about how to install both.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 5 days ago:
I randomly kept my orange box case and found it recently. Lets find out if i can mod the machine to fit inside of it.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 6 days ago:
Im guessing Vive prices. Id be suprised at less than 1k, but no word on it yet.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 6 days ago:
Its both, based on their article. Its an ARM chip they have a translation layer called FEX to handle, so it should be able to play most any steam game. Native vulkan games will apparently run even better.
In standalone mode, the intergrated chip will use about 20w, so you will get about 1 hour of playtime on it because of the 20wh battery. In streaming mode, the graphocs will be better, and the power use cuts to about 6w, so it can go 3-4 hours.
- Comment on Milk 1 week ago:
You can drink broth by itself, which makes it a beverage.
- Comment on Milk 1 week ago:
Need butter for a roux.
- Comment on Rush 1 week ago:
Pearty good.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
The question is he going to do it again for the next charaltain that offers him mean, easy answers that just hurt everyone?
- Comment on One Piece anime TV series will release a maximum of 26 episodes per year 2026 onwards 3 weeks ago:
The whole arc was basically 6 minutes of intro/outro and 15 mintutes of zoomed in reaction shots with maybe 3 minutes of plot/action that mattered. It was pure pain.
- Comment on One Piece anime TV series will release a maximum of 26 episodes per year 2026 onwards 3 weeks ago:
As long as you include at least up to Zou the elephant, i agree here. That was the worst season in a show that has had many bad seasons. Just insanely tedious filler that served no purpose and had no actual stakss.
- Comment on Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs) 3 weeks ago:
Can you highlight where you link this steam deck advice? There are no references to steam, steamdeck or linux in the article, and the only linls aee to the projects websites. Do they have a steamdeck guide?
- Comment on Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs) 3 weeks ago:
Why? It sounds like an old link description that they didnt update. Webdev likely isnt their top priority being emulation devs, and frankly, they may not care.
Github/codeberg are both git, so its pretty irrevelant which one you link to. They just host the git repos, which give no shits about what web platform they live on.
- Comment on Restroom Location 3 weeks ago:
A lot of these stories are about, 2 or 3 streets, generally some dense blocks in the core of downtown that either have homeless services nearby or are tourist areas where you can panhandle succesfully.
No city has hundreds of streets and thousands of blocks just full of human shit. It happens in high traffic/high visibiilty areas due to poverty, the lack of accesable public bathrooms and drug use in the US, and even then, is minimal. Social media and right wing hysteria pump up minimal issues into quipy mania.
- Comment on Nokia solos 3 weeks ago:
I had one. It seriously was that tough.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Another example : roddenbury wanted the 1st officer to be a woman on TOS, and shot the pilot with her in the role. The studio shot it down.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The charector arcs in the show are complex, especially for the early 90s. Sisko is largely an honorable man, but the nature of the roles he assumes strain him, force him in difficult directions.
The marquies in a lot of ways are personal to him. A dear friend defects to them early, and then he gets rolled later by others he trusts. He basically has direct bad blood with them.
Some of the other choices he makes? Fucked up, but to the shows credit, they lean into it and dont pretend hes the good guy when they happen.
- Comment on Pokemon cards > Money 3 weeks ago:
Good call out, but it looks like they didnt include their name on the wallet stamp, which is an odd choice.
You’de thing if you were going to brashly embed an ad for your patreon in the panel, it would include your name to prevent it being cropped.
- Comment on New Special Art to Celebrate the 26th Anniversary of the One Piece Anime 4 weeks ago:
I love the loony toons personally. It fits the slapdash nature of the show. The color of arms felt like “I’m a serious thing that you should take serious” except that one piece is too ludicrous to be serious. Even when it’s serious it’s so bombastic as to be unbelievable, so fuck it.
“I’m a god damn cartoon” as luffys actually power is just a love letter to the whole theme of a ridiculous show.
- Comment on Metal bands 4 weeks ago:
Pile of blugeons, burnless pyre, fallen limbs, on and on.
We got options here.
- Comment on What a welcoming party 4 weeks ago:
They can watch video of live births at anytime without all the effort of coordination.
- Comment on OPM S3 is going to be great ok? 5 weeks ago:
The meme above out classes season 2 all by itself.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 weeks ago:
Kobo is a nice alternative to kindle as well. They have excellent devices and support all of the open formats. Works well with calibre, can sync to your local library, etc.
- Comment on Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend 5 weeks ago:
Apparently it was supposed to be. They have the core functions in a “can’t OTA” container, with less important functions like AV/etc in a “can OTA” model.
This update was pushed to the “can update” side and fucked the “can’t update” side, which is its own can of worms. Another can? Jeep pushed a silent, emergency update “to all Jeeps even those who have automatic updates disabled.”
So the issue is not that they have no security model, it’s that it clearly doesn’t work and they can and will push secret updates even when you decline all updates.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 5 weeks ago:
Brain Krebs on Mastodon:
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 5 weeks ago:
Some companies do “internet only” wifi where there is no routing to internal services for anyone. A VPN is required, even when at work, to access anything internal wirelessly. Its a perfectly reasonable config that lowers the risk of breach of your internal network by exposing less of it over the air.
This is also the nominal config for most zero trust networks, but that’s more a consequence of the “always on” nature of those VPN connections.
- Comment on If Peter Molyneux had a time machine to remake his cursed cube game, 'what you would give, now, would be a cryptocurrency thing' 5 weeks ago:
The “win” was to become the first god king in his next actual game, which let players compete/pay in a shared world for nobility/etc.
That game was never released, and they entirely ignored the “cube” game winner for years.
- Comment on OLAY! 5 weeks ago:
A few weeks ago, his wife made some unprompted comments about him being a “sexual matador” in an interview. Concurrently, there are rumours that he’s been literally cuckcolded by Elon musk in a consensual context.
So these memes are just riffing off these two pieces of news.