Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 8 hours ago:
Many don’t have the capacity left to make conscious decisions about these things - either they are already living paycheck to paycheck or it is too abstract for them to realize it might bite them and everyone else on a future date. Even if i have ideas for the first group that I have no power to make reality, I don’t have a solution for the second group either.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 2 days ago:
A second possibility is the deduplication feature of BTRFS. If you made copies of files on your SSD, they only take up space there when changing something - thats how i keep 5 differently modded Cyberpunk 2077 installations on my drive while only taking up a fraction of space that would be needed - I wouldn’t be able to copy this drive 1:1 onto a different filesystem.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 days ago:
Atari 7800 Game Devs knew what’s up lol
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 days ago:
Same here, only exception: Baldurs Gate 3, because i loved the mindset of the devs and i knew from their prior games that they deliver quality.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 4 days ago:
Government assistance is simply the replacement for what society took from you, the option to sustain yourself by foraging. Society as a whole decided that they WANT people to not starve on the street. Get what you deserve.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 days ago:
I agree. I recently swapped out my aging 2600x6core for a 5950x32core processor and upgraded from an 3070ti to a 5070 (well actually more of a sidegrade - my vram was simply too small). before this, my system had already a few years where there wasn’t much difference regarding gaming - In the current configuration and the glacial speed gaming developed i’d say i have a decade before upgrades are really needed.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 6 days ago:
I switched between Gamepad and M/KB for inventory management because I haven’t seen an Inventory yet where mouse input isn’t faster.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 6 days ago:
You’ve brought me some ideas how to reorganize my space in the future - I do have some 5m usb cables lying around and a cheap USB hub. I’m moving in the next few months, and I’ll keep that in mind, thanks
I love my cables too and am security-minded (and , buy my gamepad input isn’t exactly worth protecting except from embarrassment when I’m failing comically.
- Comment on Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Hands China a $55 Trillion Economic Edge 6 days ago:
It’s obvious why and how Trump bankrupted two casinos. He can’t stop stirring the pot when he should let it simmer, and doesn’t stir it when needed - and the only thing that motivates him is when something shimmers golden, regardless of it’s worth, while the real valuable things don’t attract his attention.
- Comment on she also happens to be best girl 1 week ago:
Translated Japanese VN names are sometimes ridiculously long and nearly always overly descriptive when accustomed to english titles. I understand that’s because it’s easier to sell manga this way in japan where you pretty much only have the title to get someone to buy your creation.
- Comment on she also happens to be best girl 1 week ago:
“A hero was mentioned in the old scrolls, a hero who would end the war.
The hero’s name?
The Medium-Tit-Walker.”
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Yeah, i DO like valve, because they are as good as it can get for a company in the tech sector. But my comment was more from a “we need a replacement now"-perspective, where Steam is a top contender for sure (and the content there is actually discoverable which gives an out).
Hopefully the scare and the issue of getting out content of discord makes sure that there is a solution ready for the next time the shit hits the fan.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 1 week ago:
I would go for something like A - B - A:
- hide the links so the ddos gets migitated, and start replacing the links where possible
- when the malicious code is gone, reinstate the links, deprecate .today, dont stop replacing the links
- when the links in the most commonly requested articles are gone, hide the rest while it waits for replacement.
but i’m no wikipedian, just someone who likes reading talk pages lol
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 1 week ago:
No, the original blogpost did not dox the .today owner, it just unearthed some other alias and the general idea that the owner might sit in russia. Then Tucows (the domain registrar for .today) got a demand from the FBI for all data they have on .today, which caused news pieces where the blog post was linked.
The .today owner wanted the blog post not reachable from those news articles, and sent an email to the blog owner with the request to “take the blog post down for a few months” so that the news articles wouldn’t link there anymore. Sadly, that mail went into the spam folder and the blogger didn’t see it.
Because there was no reaction to his mail, the owner of .today put code into his captcha page, DDoS-ing the blog. The blogger and the .today-owner later did mail with each other, but the .today-owner seems to be a pretty unreasonable and rude person.
Wikipedia is now split: on the one side, .today is the actual best archive site, because it doesn’t care about copyright and employs advanced scraping techniques, which can bypass a lot of paywalls (which the internet archive does not do). This makes it great for citing sources. On the other side it’s not very trustworthy to insert code in your captcha page that makes your computer part of a DDoS attack.
So now there are 3 options for wikipedia. - a) remove all archive.today links: this would be very,very disruptive since around 700k links on wikipedia would go dead - b) phase out archive.today, so that no new links are getting added in the future - that implies looking for an alternative, which could even be the wikimedia foundation itself - c) do nothing
Hope it helps with the confusion!
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
because i can lean back and put my legs up on my desk this way. using the mouse in this position is super awkward (keyboard cable would be long enough, but no surface for the mousepad is an issue). But i wouldn’t bother with a cable for plugging in the controller, 2.4GHz and Bluetooth are a thing nowadays.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
It’s even a thing in our generation - my now ex was pretty stumped playing skyrim. 2d games were no issue.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Well, Valve hasn’t done so for about 20 years now, how long do people have to give a company that has proven again and again that they are not in the game for extracting maximum value out of their client base? I’d love for a FOSS solution to pick up the slack, but none are currently in a state where they can pick up millions of non-technical minded users in a heartbeat. Valve has those users already, so they are able to provide a solution NOW, not in a few years.
Should Valve eventually start enshittifying, which would require going public first, maybe there will be a readily usable FOSS solution. For now, it’s one of the easiest routes out of Discord (and the content on the Steam Forums is scrapeable over the web, so it’s pretty easy to transfer out, not like discord)
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
I don’t think that Valve has that game plan, as they have proven again and again for about 20 years now. Having no shareholders really keeps them grounded. But you’re right, a completely FOSS solution that is easy to use would be preferable - but in the short term Steam communities might get an upswing.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Or just use Steam - which the average Discord user has already installed. Supports Chats, Groups, Voice Chat, Streaming, Discussion Boards that are discoverable, solid 2FA authentication… only thing missing is Video Calls, which they could implement easily when looking at what is already there.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
I would have given Kristi Noem as an example.
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 1 week ago:
OUR KITTIES COULD BE SISTERS! :-)
- Comment on Death Toll Up to 128 People as Trump Pentagon Commits Two More Killings at Sea | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
US-Americans should be on their watch - foreign policy has the uncanny property of coming back home after a while.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 week ago:
I fully agree with you, but there is the issue of robotaxis crashing 3x as often as human drivers - and thats with a human supervisor on board. So if we switched completely to AI cars with the current level of integration, thats 120000 people killed.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s just crazy talk.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 weeks ago:
cool, thanks! funnily enough a single game on steam features this monster - i just had to look if its featured somewhere - and it released this january… but it looks pretty bad
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but funnily enough it’s still used in counterintelligence
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 weeks ago:
what is a manamanagal?
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 weeks ago:
It’s Melania’s magic power - but will it be enough to get her husband back from Peter Thiel’s claws?
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 weeks ago:
I bought it because i appreciate the gesture of making his melania fanfic free for this stunt lol
My Amazon recommendations will never be the same again
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a kindle and just bought it!
