TeamAssimilation

@TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am in that camp, and expected a more profound message. My disappointment encouraged me to write the TL; DR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TL; DR: Author played chaotic evil as a child, and lawful good as a he matured with adult life.

  Saved you a couple of minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  These organisms are doing their best, okay? They’re just too smol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the Chinese government even work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because people can take a lot before becoming truly desperate. A revolution means risking mass death, and few are willing to sacrifice so others can have a better life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a compulsive player who recently got caught in the Fallout 76 hamster wheel, I find this too relatable, but also beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, but even we regular humans can sap solar power from plants, with extra steps of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Panic!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but correct link: wired.com/…/how-the-disco-clam-uses-light-to-figh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 4, it was Paladin Danse IIRC.

  I like the Fallout series, but man, the Institute was such a badly written villain. They make synths, they treat them like robots, okay, that’s understandable. They had the tech to rebuild the country, but nooo, they chose to kidnap people and replace them with synth doppelgängers because fuck know why. They could have stopped at the robots and that would have been the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanding storage on simple home server⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My low cost solution has been adding external mechanical disks. Those can go up to 4 TB for cheap, so I put two and sync them with rsync weekly in case one suddenly fails.

  As others have wisely said, keep the fast SSD for your OS, media rarely changes and is usually accessed sequentially, it can live on slower disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let Apple additionally throw some underage girls for him to rape so the deal lasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crono Cross, the PS1 spiritual successor of Crono Trigger, has such an amazing soundtrack too.

  Also, the Witcher 3, such a perfect soundtrack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Poll] What social media platforms do you know about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Email forums

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt this warning in my bones. I am weak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨goodbye plex⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Jellyfin’s subtitle search much better than Plex’s. Bonus for leaving a subtitle file right along with your file, instead of buried somewhere else so you can’t easily edit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s his secret, captain. He doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A guy from work (millennial) has smartphone, tablet, and gaming consoles, but no computers at home. He works in IT tech support, and is really good, but the only computer he uses is the one at work. WTF.

  I suspect that from time to time, he does need things only a proper computer can do, but he simply uses the work computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I think most of USA is on recreational drugs, legal, illegal, or “prescription”. That shouldn’t matter as much compared to his other actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is systemic, it didn’t start with Trump. He’s just way more flagrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was clear since such a big and supposedly effective intelligence apparatus failed to stop or warn about the Hamas attack that gave Israel pretext to go full ethnic cleaning and warmongering.

  They knew, they allowed it, and paid a modest price in Israeli casualties to kickstart their plan. Also, Ukraine was attracting all the war funding, they couldn’t risk USA reducing their military allowance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Link for the lazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.

  Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.

  Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.

  “There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be funny it it weren’t so sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.

  Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and they end up swaying them left and right.

  Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.

  Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness…will have a weaker hold on you.

  Feel, but don’t forget to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex is more polished, but I love Jellyfin’s subtitle search; it blows Plex’s socks away.

  Also, Jellyfin doesn’t nag me every effing time to enable DRM in Firefox for some unfathomable reason.

  But Plex definitely wins on performance, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take HomeAssistant for example: you’re free to use it self-hosted, but as soon as you want to expose it securely through the Internet, there’s need from infrastructure that has costs, both materials and labor. In HomeAssistant’s case, it’s NabuCasa that does it, costs money, and helps fund the work of Home Assistant developers.

  Having things free (libre) and open source is a blessing, but we have become entitled to have work of very specialized people for free. That’s not always feasible.

  Another example, Zabbix, is totally open source and free, they only charge for support and training if you ask for them. It has worked for them for many years, but if they start to struggle with funding, I’d understand if they charged for it.