teawrecks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you watch to the end, he explains that the fake ending was so that he could also post a version that doesn’t get “partisan” for the people who want to share the first part about solar to people who may not recieve the second part well. But I don’t think there’s any risk of people not recieving it well here, and I think it’s important that as many people as possible see a typically non-partisan channel break the silence to denounce what is going on. I think if a huge swathe of internet “influencers” were suddenly this vocal, it would wake viewers up, it could change the course of history. It’s when everyone silently continues their regularly scheduled content that democracy silently dissolves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.

  Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?

  Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,

  habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine

  Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative activity or entertainment” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.

  If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.

  What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.

  Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.

  If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.

  I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.

  Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?

  Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn’t qualify as “statistically insignificant” no matter how you look at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.

  Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.

  Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it’s intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.

  Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn’t SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you backup your docker images?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like if that’s something you’re doing, you’re using containers wrong. At least docker ones. I expect a container to have no state from run to run except what is written to mounted volumes. I should always be able to blow away my containers and images, and rebuild them from scratch. Afaik docker compose always implicitly runs with –rm for this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just answering the question you asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they could view their cameras while they’re away?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1 is to do everything inside your network with data you don’t care about. Get comfortable starting services, visiting them locally, and playing around with them. See what you like and don’t like. Feel free to completely nuke everything and start from scratch a few times. (Containers like Docker make this super easy).

  Step 2 is to start relying on it for things inside your network. Have a NAS, maybe home assistant, or some other services like Immich or Navidrome. Figure out how to give services access to your data without relying on them to not harm it (use read only mounts, permissions, snapshots, etc.)

  Step 3 is to figure out how to make services more accessible away from home. Whether that is via a VPN, or something like tailscale, or just carefully opening specific ports to specific secure and up-to-date services. This is the part you’re feeling anxious about, and I think you’ll feel less anxious if you do steps 1 and 2 first and not even think about 3 yet. Consider it its own challenge, and just do one challenge at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and that they have official modding support, but neither has stopped modding communities in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I can’t share images and albums through Immich :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically you could do this with any two games, it’s just a matter of how you map the representation of one game within the other. And afaik, every important mechanic in mc was done elsewhere first, mc just put it all together in one sandbox.

  The only grounds msft has to sue on would be assets and likenesses, which hytale doesn’t (shouldn’t) use any of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, those are some tricks I didn’t know about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, yeah maybe not quite what I was asking for, but it does give me some stuff I didn’t know about that I could consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had one user that would work, but I have multiple.

• Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an insane claim to me. HL2 set the bar for worldbuilding. From the guy muttering “don’t drink the water” in the train station, to the people and vortigaunts building homes in the sewers, to the stick legged stalkers waddling around the citadel, HL2 took “show don’t tell” to heart. It was the most immersive experience anyone had played in video game up to that point, or for years after.

  I’ll grant you that other games have learned a lot from it, but I would say the vast majority haven’t. Games still come out today where everything needs to be spoonfed to the player literally, for them to stop and process what they’re looking at, rather than just running and gunning.

  When you say HL2 can be boring and nonsensical if played today, the first thing that comes to mind are all the people who turn subtitles on, and then for 75% of the runtime their eyes are in the bottom 1/3 of the screen, not taking in any of the visual information the filmmaker is putting in front of you. Like, yeah, HL2 is quite boring when you’re not looking at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you getting the term “visual capitalist”? And why did you learn about this phenomenon today? Misinformation has been rampant for over a decade now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people don’t have the luxury of being in the same place as the people they’re celebrating with. Jackbox games is a popular remote party game, but I am curious if there exists a similar, open, self hosted alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That just means it’ll be an officially supported conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the internet. No one knows each other, no one considers context, no one reads past the headline, everyone makes snap judgements based on half understood heuristics, and then rushes to the comments to grandstand. A job that could be trivially done by AI, and almost certainly is, but instead we’ll all pretend like we’re the last bastion of human sanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No one 👏👏 is 👏👏 excusing 👏👏 being 👏👏 shitty.

  The “cat” does not refer to unethical training of models. Tell me, if we somehow managed to delete every single unethically trained model in existence AND miraculously prevent another one from being ever made (ignoring the part where the AI bubble pops) what would happen? Do you think everyone would go “welp, no more AI I guess.” NO! People would immediately get to work making an “ethically trained” model (according to some regulatory definition of “ethical”), and by “people” I don’t mean just anyone, I mean the people who can afford to gather or license the most exclusive training data: the wealthy.

  “Cat’s out of the bag” means the knowledge of what’s possible is out there and everyone knows it. The only thing you could gain by trying to put it “back in the bag” is to help the ultra wealthy capitalize on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it normal for smart thermostat to rotate very often for no appearant reason?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am really having a hard time understanding what OP is describing. Does anyone have a video example of the phenomenon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe check out:

  • Dorf Romantik
  • Tiny Glade
  • one of the house flipper or power wash sim games
  • if I were sick, I’d probably play some RimWorld, or whatever open world RPG I have going, but those are probably more involved than it sounds like you’re in the mood for.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah yeah, I’ve definitely pulled the plug on my router before because I wasn’t sure what I was seeing.

  I mean, cybersecurity I would consider to be a research field. In practice, yeah, it’s a bunch of people just doing their best.

  I tend to keep everything inside my network and only expose what I need visible on non standard ports, one of those being a VPN. It’s not that I couldn’t run these services public facing, it’s that the people taking the time to constantly update, configure, and auditing everything full time to head off red team are being paid. I don’t need to deal with an attack surface any larger than it needs to be, ain’t nobody got time for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The ability to generate a bunch of traffic that looks like it’s coming from legit, every-day residential IPs is invaluable to disinformation campaigns. If they can get persistence in your network, they can toss it into a bot net which they’ll sell access to on the dark web.

  A sucker opens insecure services to the open internet every day, that’s free real estate to bot farms. Only when the probability of finding them is low enough is it not worth the energy/network costs. I think hosting on non-standard ports is probably correlated with lowering that probability below some threshold where it becomes not worth it…don’t quote me, though.

  At the end of the day, the rule is not to depend on security by obscurity, but that doesn’t mean never use it.