wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 week ago:
Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup
- Comment on I can't stop 1 week ago:
Wow, that’s just stupidly edgy. Definitely like this edit better.
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 1 week ago:
I feel like some words may have been added to that “quote” over time
- Comment on I can't stop 1 week ago:
What the fuck else could it have said except “my meat”?
- Comment on good morning 1 week ago:
Given the spongebob comics being posted lately, I truly believed this was going to end with something heinous.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 week ago:
I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can’t remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.
- Comment on Worth it 1 week ago:
I haven’t had that kind of stamina since I was 20.
Hit me up around 9pm so I can smoothly transistion from after sex cuddling and pillow talk to snoring in your ear and drooling on the pillow. Don’t ever say I don’t know how to treat a lady right.
- Comment on Terraforming mars 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s not even entirely wrong. That’s why his companies keep focusing on the “cool” stuff: making rockets.
- Comment on Why aren't we doing this 2 weeks ago:
Where do I invest?
- Comment on This tiki mug my friend made me 2 weeks ago:
WOAH
- Comment on The worst Italian mobster names you can think of 2 weeks ago:
Not seeing a lot of short ones: Sleezo Skunk Weenie Dogfucker Spaz Pork Rinds Shakes Depends Stank Gassy The Feet Cranky Pants
- Comment on jim carrey 2 weeks ago:
jim carey.
- Comment on jim carrey 2 weeks ago:
jim carrey!
- Comment on jim carrey 2 weeks ago:
jim carrey
- Comment on So what's your take on Pokopia? 2 weeks ago:
I think you just might have sold me on DQB2.
One of the mods I miss from older versions of Minecraft is the Millenaire mod, where villages were actually somewhat simulated, including builders making new structures out of blocks actually around the area. They would sometimes give you quests to get them materials too.
- Comment on jim carrey 2 weeks ago:
jim carrey?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
“Hey, do you know where I could find more information on hammers?”
“Yeah, look for all the idiots with broken windows because they decided they didn’t like using keys! Hahuhaha”
It’s quite fun to assume everyone but you is an idiot, but I am in fact aware of that xkcd, and more importantly the myriad benefits of blending in. That doesn’t mean that having another potential tool wouldn’t be useful in specific situations.
I enjoy keeping up with red team style covert infiltration tools and hearing about what actually works in the field for the professionals that do this shit for a living. This video is mostly a guy having fun showing off how much of his own company’s stuff he can fit in a suit, but it gets the point across and touches a little on sureptitious use when he talks about his RFID cloner.
My specific interest in a group investigating this sort of thing was in the actual testing and investigation. To see if anyone had managed to actually test the “overwhelm them with IR” urban legend against any modern equipment, because the last serious test of it that I’m aware of was a decade ago, and the resulting “hat” was obvious as fuck like the hypothetical in the XKCD.
I’ve done a quick search and found a slightly more recent experiment done in 2018 attempting to fool facial recognition instead of just blinding it. Vice overview here, arxiv paper here.
The hat is still pretty damn conspicuous if you ask me: Image
But it’s also 8 years old.
I’m curious on if modern camera equipment like FLOCK has just spent the extra few cents per 100 units for an IR filter, and if the massive strides forward with LED tech might allow for something less horrendously obvious.
I suspect that the most easy and covert method (if you don’t care about adding property damage and the like to your rap sheet if caught) is still just to use a stupid high powered laser to burn out the camera sensor from outside the angle it covers.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 weeks ago:
Great callout!
I participate in the techtakes community on awful.systems, which is devoted to laughing at tech bro “takes”. HN posts and comments are almost too easy as targets for derision.
I was just trying to have a light touch here. Start with the facts. We can talk about the literal cults spun off from it later.
The site’s one of the clearest windows into the myriad and shockingly widespread ghoulish opinions that seem to fester in places that consider themselves important to the tech industry or attract people who think they are.
I really should start keeping a tally on shit like “how many times have I seen eugenics suggested on HN this month”.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 weeks ago:
Heads up, Hacker News is a social media site like here or reddit, it’s not a news outlet. It’s run by Y Combinator, a huge venture capital firm in the SF Bay area, and the users tend to be tech bros or aspiring ones. Many attach their user accounts to their github and professional identity. I think there’s only one admin and they tend to be heavy handed.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Where might one find that community?
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 2 weeks ago:
Oh, good. I was worried the balls were one of those butt rip cord starters.
- Comment on Uhh gotta shy my hulud or something like that 2 weeks ago:
You fight like a dairy farmer!
- Comment on Day 609 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
One thing that Mario Kart DS has that didn’t carry forward to other games is mission mode. Definitely worth a look.
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on relatable 3 weeks ago:
I have a playlist of somewhat relaxing (wife disagrees on it being relaxing) music I’ve heard a billion times before (mostly instrumental game music). Paired with a “soft” EQ preset that also drops the volume. Put it on with a sleep timer for 30 minutes.
Over top of that, a set of ambient relaxing noise, set so it almost, but not quite, drowns out the music. Basically I have to focus a little to pick out the music. Set that with a sleep timer for 45 minutes.
Into one headphone in whichever ear isn’t against the pillow.
All the noises are relaxing, and the need to focus to hear the music helps keep my brain from getting wrapped up in other thoughts. Once I focus on the music, it’s stuff I know intently so eventually it filters out into no thoughts and I’m out.
If I’m having a particularly rough night, jerk off first and/or melatonin.
Also, blue light filtering and reduced brightness on all screens starting at least 30 minutes before you lay down.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 3 weeks ago:
I am now vacuum sealed. This is, perhaps surprisingly, not one of my fetishes. Send help.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 3 weeks ago:
Man, I can’t be the only one that feels like it’s just a little creepy to talk about someone any of us only barely know through the internet like that. Especially knowing she’s literally 18 vs the average age around here seeming to start at the upper 30s.
Anyway, from what I can tell she doesn’t have much issue getting it, she’s just still horny. Having the collective of lemmy effectively cheering her on probably doesn’t help, even if her posts are legitimately entertaining.
I remember being a sexually active 18yo. Hormones are a motherfucker. Young, dumb, and full of cum. Had a long term GF who was just as much of a freak as I was. We used to try and beat our “high score” of orgasms per day. I was in no way “deprived” yet it was still easily 75% of what I thought about at any given moment. I found an old reddit account of mine from that time, and it is embarassingly horny as hell.
So cut the (quite) young adult some slack and don’t be parasocial about it please.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 3 weeks ago:
I assume you must have blocked the anime lemmy instance, or ml doesn’t federate with it. It’s not contained to reddit by any means.
There’s a small cadre of users posting fan art of various shows and games on lemmy too, where I regularly can tell at a glance that whatever artist they’re posting also does hentai. Sometimes what they’ve posted is even just the one SFW image from a set. Thank god for the block button.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Hearbeat notifications man. “Yes I am online” email once a day or so. Yeah it’s more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.
You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.
And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.
