wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 15 hours ago:
Sweet! I did similar with backing up my DS carts and saves so I could play them all on 3DS off the SD card with Twilight Menu.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 15 hours ago:
Son of a bitch!
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 3 days ago:
Shouldn’t be much of a surprise. His family has always been eugenecists with a “benevolent” mask. Not knocking what his foundation has done against malaria, but I believe he’s said some very direct things about wanting lower birthrates in the global south.
- Comment on Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 4 days ago:
Just be careful. If a quest giver gives you a time limit, like a letter saying “get here in one month”, they mean it. It’s possible to silently fail the main quest this way, but it’s also possible to get back into the main quest line via some other quest paths into it.
It’s all fairly complicated. Thankfully failing doesn’t stop you from exploring the world, interacting with NPCs, or doing other quests. You can always use the console to restart the main quest line quests when you’re ready.
- Comment on Pope Joan 4 days ago:
Fuckin pansy ass participation trophy snowflakes think they’re too good for phrenology /s
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma anywhere by default, and as far as I know, no communities are using automated moderation to prevent “low karma” accounts from posting.
Not saying it isn’t, just that there’d be no point.
- Comment on Or a shrimp 6 days ago:
My wife and I used IVF, so our first picture of our daughter is a clump of cells (I think the term is blastocyst).
It looked like kind of potato shaped. She was dubbed our little spud by one of her uncles, and that stuck until maybe two months before birth.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 6 days ago:
Lol, clearly you haven’t been shopping at budget places in the US. The competition is Land O Lakes, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, or store brand.
Where are you buying your butter, and what brand?
- Comment on Prices are out of control 6 days ago:
I’ve used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 1 week ago:
Nice shitpost. Got me for a moment, then I remembered how math worked.
- Comment on I got my hands on Shantae Risky Revolution. Where should I upload my checksum too? 1 week ago:
The Nointro group seems to be the most prolific/trustworthy for cartridge based retro stuff, as far as I can tell.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 week ago:
Yeah, as said, that’s going to be due to however your TV upscales things.
Getting a dedicated scaler will help, but bear in mind that you’re taking an image that’s at least 1/4 smaller (might be less than that, can’t remember the math off hand) than your screen’s native resolution and zooming in on it.
Using most scalers gives you a ton of options for how to zoom in. Straight pixels, bilinear (or trilinear) filtering, and some have various shader effects as well to emulate the style of TVs these consoles were made for.
By using HDMI/VGA you are getting the clearest digital signal version of that image possible, but it’s still tiny, and any way you choose to expand it will have pros and cons.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).
If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Unfortunately there is a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation here. Put overly simply: If we start enforcing copyright in training AI models now, do you really believe that any companies who have already trained their models are really going to just toss them? I’m afraid that it’s going to just be regulatory capture where the existing big names just pull the ladder up behind them while still making money off of their stolen content fueled plagiarism machines.
We’ll ignore that OpenAI isn’t actually profitable for the sake of the argument.
That said, abolishing copyright is quite possibly the stupidest solution I’ve ever heard for this issue.
- Comment on “The Gang has a Mid-Life Crisis” 1 week ago:
being born into a little seed cash and enough comfort to go a while without working a straight job. As Julie says when someone repeats that Amazon was started in a garage: Ain’t no garages in the trailer park.
We need look no further than the “hackathon,” that sad facsimile of the days when we were all learning the basics so fast that the world could be ours with just a day or two of focused effort. Hype up an exciting atmosphere, assemble some folks with so few attachments in life that they have time to spend all weekend at a hackathon, and this ritual will summon up the old gods. The hackathon is the proof that people believe this can work, and it is the proof that it doesn’t.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yep. If the network is local only and can’t reach Azure (for Entra) or the Domain Controller (for AD) that we’re saying is at another physical location, then there’s no way for the machine to see the new password. It will continue to accept the old cached password until that network issue is resolved.
But that’s always been the case. It’s how Windows NT and forward work. In that scenario, you could only reach the machine over RDP if you were on another machine on that isolated network.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’m not exactly calling bullshit, but I’ve worked almost the entire last decade in IT in a Windows environment that has a decent amount of RDP use and has grown from ~2000-4000 employees during that time.
We’ve never encountered this as described.
From what I can tell, this “exploit” is just the standard NT password caching functionality that Windows has had for literal decades. Windows caches the last valid password used to log in, so if you lose your connection to your identity provider (AD or Entra) you can still log in with the last password confirmed to be valid.
In AD environments, this is what allows you to log into your laptop at home before you connect to VPN. You can’t hit your work AD before you’re on the work network. It also causes some fun because if you changed your password at work but didn’t lock and unlock your computer with the new one, it might still have your old one cached for the login screen but need the new one for VPN. This was a fairly common support call (I’m out of direct user support now so I can’t easily see if it still is).
Any situation where an old password would be valid indefinitely and a new one not recognized would require the machine to not be able to reach AD or Entra, but also to still be reachable by RDP… indefinitely. That’s definitely not impossible, but it’s one hell of an edge case to use the term “indefinitely” for.
It’s annoying that there aren’t separate settings from “local logins with AD as the IDP” and “remote logins with RDP”, but this feature is pretty damn critical for remote workers to be able to function and it is an intentional design choice as Microsoft states. Any potential workaround for a theoretical lack of this functionality is worse than the current state.
There’s no nefariousness here or lack of due dilligence. Labeling it as some horribly dangerous security hole with the amount of vagueness this article has is just misleading and clickbaity.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. 1 week ago:
Thank you. It’s annoying that there isn’t a separate set of settings for RDP connections specifically, but as far as I can tell this is the standard caching feature controlled/mitigated by the same means as it always has been.
- Comment on Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech 1 week ago:
On paper, it’s one of the uses for AI image recognition. It could reduce the amount that needs human review drastically.
In reality, Youtube’s partially automated system (to my knowledge the most robust one around) regularly flags highly stylized videogame violence as if it is real gore. It also has some very dumb workarounds like simply putting the violence more than 30 seconds into the video (which has concerning implications for its ability at filtering real gore).
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a turn based mode you can enable from the options menu. I know there was one for 15.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 weeks ago:
Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.
Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.
Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.
His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.
Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.
At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 2 weeks ago:
I find this particularly funny, because the scene for Wii homebrew felt like the wild west for a decent while. There were many different iOS (think kind of like drivers, you’d install ones with patches applied so you could run non-nintendo code) installers that were almost all doing the exact same thing. Multiple loaders to run ISOs off USB drives. A couple of games leaked early. I remember playing Skyward Sword with a friend a few days early.
There were a small few that tried to enforce not being able to use their homebrew apps for piracy, but they were largely derided for it. Riivolution was a groundbreaking app for arbitrarily replacing game files on the fly, but it had numerous things built in to prevent people from using it on anything but real discs. There was a decent amount of drama around that.
Smash Bros Brawl mods were fucking amazing. There just wasn’t much like that on consoles before then.
- Comment on Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN 2 weeks ago:
Lets not pretend that lowering the barrier to making fake nudes hasn’t changed the situation either.
- Comment on Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough 2 weeks ago:
Nope. As far as extrusion printing goes: normal 3D printing filament is not food safe and the tiny stairstep layers would be perfect breeding grounds for bacteria and plaque impossible to properly clean. For resin printing: that shit’s toxic in liquid form, very bad idea to ingest, and dust from the hardened prints (like if you sand a nub down) when breathed in works like asbestos on your lungs.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I run and pray. The fulton trick sounds easier though.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
With Cyberpunk 2077 “complete and fixed”, I’m finally checking it out. Been using the Welcome to Night City modpack. Act 1 and all the content in Watson (starting area) was amazing. Very immersive. Completed all of that, about halfway through Judy’s missions, and most of Panam’s missions. I think I’m around 40 hours in.
Quality starts dipping outside of the main story missions outside of Watson. Nothing so far has been anywhere close to bad, and there’s still some absolutely amazing things sprinkled here and there, but it’s frustrating how just good some of it is given how strong the start is.
It’s incredibly obvious that the game was meant to be much more. Like Watson district’s fixer (person who gives you missions) has 39 gigs, and she has Cyberpsycho fights across the whole map. I don’t think any other fixer has more than 15 gigs for their own area, and most don’t have any other “gimmick” missions like the Cyberpsycho missions.
I’m already planning to replay it with mods that add more gang activity and give the gangs “memory” so they hold grudges if you keep doing missions against them. Also, unscaling the stat checks. Stupid that I go from being able to comment on certain topics (the psuedomyth of Rache Bartmoss specifically) in conversations to not being able to because I got too high a level and the stat check jumped from 10 to 15.
I don’t know how to put it. The great stuff is some of the best gaming experience I’ve had in a long time, where I can’t wait to get back to it. Most of the game is good, but not “can’t wait to get back into it”. But there’s a big feeling of missing “what could have been”.
Like the Watson Fixer Regina has extra rewards for you capturing Cyberpsychos alive, but in any of the actual fixer gigs with Cyberpsychos it doesn’t matter if you kill them or incapacitate and Regina has no comments on it. There’s a lot of emphasis put on customizing your character for you to not see them outside of a few cutscenes (most are first person) and driving a motorcycle. Lots of NPC visual cyberware just isn’t available for the player character.
Maybe it’s just residuals from the collective overhyping of the game, but I feel it hard when stuff like that pulls me out of things.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
If you like the open world free roam stuff, I cannot recommend the Infinite Heaven mod/mod framework enough.
- Comment on Unciv, a 4X game inspired by the Civilization series 3 weeks ago:
Don’t miss the built in mod browser either.
Has everything you could want, from graphics and music packs to custom civs and overhaul packs to turn it into other games.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Same as it ever was 3 weeks ago:
Time isn’t holding up. Time isn’t after us.