spartanatreyu

@spartanatreyu@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if the standards rely on dedicated hardware, for example: security enclaves.

  The whole point of using a security enclave on different hardware is so it’s memory cannot be accessed or polluted by a process or side channel attack on the main hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: Public funds pay for software used by military and intelligence services. Certain information becoming publicly available can lead to real harm. (e.g. A self-assessment on a country’s own weaknesses, methods that spies deployed abroad can deliver information back, etc…) How do you manage the infohazard risk?

  all software paid for by public funds should be open source.

  Should probably be changed to: all software paid for by public funds should be open source so long as their is no or low foreseeable infohazard risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: A government portal needs to be extremely backwards compatible to support as many people as possible. That includes supporting devices that don’t support the latest standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’s totes the same.

  Use a playstation controller on your emulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he’d likely fall to recidivism with the other nazis in jail.

  He should be forced to do some sort of aboriginal related charity in a position where he can only help them and not harm them for the rest of his life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth it for the price.

  General:

  • Explosions / killing / respawning
  • Lots of Star Wars location fan service

  Campaign;

  • Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn’t tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
  • Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.

  Multiplayer:

  • Take turns being on offence / defence
  • Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
  • Servers are populated, even for niche locations

  Replayability:

  • Depends
  • If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
  • If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you’ll probably play it for 100+ hours

  Other stuff:

  • Purchase through steam
  • Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
  • As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn’t annoying and doesn’t get in the way of anything (only setting you’ll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
  • Achievements work through steam
  • Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.