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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:
I see the subscription lasted the full lifetime of the subscription!

Victory!

Next problem please!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying. Best thing you can do do is sub to communities that don’t have it. As an example, the linux communities are pretty big and low on politics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Manual reviewers basically sort by ‘most flagged’ and start working down the list. By the time you get to just a few flags, it’s 99.99% BS flags, such flagged videos obviously would not be taken down and are in very, very numerous quantity. Videos that get flagged by more people are obviously more likely to be real flags and worthy of a reviewer’s time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Match to lay off 13% of staff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Why the hell does Match.com have 2,500 employees?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

What will you argue if I bring up the fact that they ripped off countless Pokemon?

The case case isn’t about character designs, the case is about patents Nintendo filed after PocketPair released a game with said mechanics. The idea that one should be able to patent a game mechanic someone else has already released in their games is BS. Japan’s patent system sucks and Nintendo sucks for abusing it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Summoning creatures from a sphere is hardly blatant plagiarism. Many, many, many games have the ability to summon creatures from an object. Pokemon was far from the first one to do it…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We are talking about gliding on a mount…a very common game feature…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I want coders to learn from trusted sources too. How do you authorize a user? How do you store the password (plain text, hash, encrypt)? Do you use MD5 or SHA-256? (Always hash passwords, don’t use MD5)

If you have to encrypt some information, do you use Triple DES or AES? (never Triple DES)

When authorizing with OAuth, should I send the auth url, client secret, scopes, and redirect url to the client machine? (yes, no, yes, yes)

These are basic questions with obvious answers that are easy to find…and many programmers get them very, very wrong. Mostly out of carelessness, even the question itself didn’t pop into their head.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Breath of Fire IV. A nice pixel art RPG I never played this when it was new. A few hours in currently and enjoying it quite a bit!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
As long as they let you turn off the upscaling I won’t complain about it. Unfortunately there has been a trend as of late to force it on; the artifacting drives me nuts. It’s always harder to to see in youtube videos though, since they are compressed quite a bit compared to live play.

Biggest thing that concerns me was their focus on pushing one into multiplayer in V. I’m worried that is going to intensify since it made them so damn much money doing that last time.

Either way, game isn’t out for a year, and it isn’t out for PC for probably two years. So, just going to go back to enjoying my Breath of Fire IV playthrough I’m currently doing. :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In the short term, custom tailoring seems like the best option. Yes it is expensive, but, if you want things to fit right, it is the best short-term solution.

Managing my life with these proportions has become nearly impossible, as every movement is difficult

However, the long term solution is to start losing that weight you picked up. You didn’t have this issue before, and you won’t after getting back to a more normal weight.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The gold standard is providing something you know (a password) alongside something you have (an OTP or fingerprint). This is two-factor auth in a nutshell.

using your face, fingerprint, or PIN

You leave fingerprints and images of your face everywhere you go; and in the case of someone spoofing those, there is zero way to change either. Such public information is not the foundations of a secure system.

And a PIN is just a shorter, shittier password. Why the hell would we replace a normal password with the least secure, most shitty version of a password?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kansas wants to use AI to spot guns in schools. One major company won’t say how often the system fails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You want to help people so they don’t feel murder is their best choice in life, and if they do, you need to stop the threat. Having a camera go ‘someone might have a gun, I promise this isn’t the 1000’th false positive’ right as they start murdering people isn’t helpful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manage things "To be Read"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just make a textfile you sync between your devices.

So tags and the option to filter them would be nice! You can tag them at will, just put “#TagName” next to it and later you can ctrl-f “#TagName” in the file. Notepad++ and other tools will even give you a list of everything that matched your search criteria.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we make lemmy have more relevance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just keep participating. Other platforms will occasionally explode, people will look here, and if they see activity, some will stay.

If you look at active user charts for Lemmy, basically every time Reddit explodes, Lemmy picks up permanent users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breath of Fire IV released on GoG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Picked it up, excited to try it out. :)

For linux people, if you are having troubles launching it, add the following environment variable to the game: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ddraw=n,b;dinput=n,b
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breath of Fire IV released on GoG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This game looks pretty solid. Worth playing?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, it’s a small enough problem everywhere that putting any real thought into “will people reject me because of my skin” (as OP asks) is overthinking it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Broad categories most would recognize are ‘asian’, ‘black’, ‘white’, and sometimes ‘hispanic’ or ‘middle eastern’. Most people aren’t going to get much more specific than that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The racism you see on the news certainly exists, but remember what you see on the news is news because it is rare. You don’t see every obituary, because such common occurrences aren’t news.

It is something I wouldn’t put too much thought into regardless of your race.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There are lots of places where the only impediment to additional usable water is simply building a facility to treat more water, facilities which these AI data center owners are themselves paying for (usually indirectly via a bill from the water utility). The article also doesn’t mention any reasons whatsoever why water usage is an issue. It isn’t like dehydrating crops in the Sahara will be impacted by water cooled data centers in Columbus, OH.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
GOG games work great as well, I have recently been playing my GOG copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on Mint. You will want to use the Heoric Launcher as GOG doesn’t have their own Linux client. That launcher also works with Epic and Amazon games if you have any of those.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
1. I personally recommend Mint as the out-of-the-box experience is very familiar to a Windows user and the OS comes with everything one would expect a desktop OS to have pre-installed. That said, don’t stress too hard over the distro. This isn’t like Windows vs MacOS where everything is completely different. No, basically all your knowledge of one distro is transferable to another distro if you decide to change it up in the future.
2. At this point, I just assume a game works in Linux unless proven otherwise. There are some that won’t, mostly games that use kernel-level anti-cheats and specifically disable the game if running in Linux. There are only a few dozen games total that fit this description.
3. Linux is less of a resource hog than Windows, so if your computer is strong enough for Windows, it will work fine on Linux.
4. Dual booting using two different drives is generally the way to go. Doing two different partitions works, but Windows really, really hates other OSes being installed along side it, even other Windows installs. Gaming is my primary pastime and I haven’t booted into my Windows drive in months. From my experience for the average person, a dual boot is only something you will want temporarily as you get used to the unfamiliar OS.
5. Good luck on your swap. I’m damn happy I did it and hope you will be too!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Almost every language does this. It isn’t colonialism, it’s connivence and practicality. Some sounds don’t exist or are awkward, so a different name is used instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can we not have the lying bots teaching people how to run a nuclear plant?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you. <3
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Would someone smarter than me explain the article a bit? I’m getting lost on what things like a ‘contained IP address’ is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
All I did for that one was search “Threadripper” and look at the pictures for ones with 4x x16 slots that were not hella expensive.

There are technically filters for that, but, I don’t trust people to list their things correctly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, forgot to mention Threadripper as well for lots of PCIe lanes. Here is one that has 4 x16 slots. And, note, I am not endorsing that specific listing. I did very minimal research on that listing, just using it as an example.