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JakenVeina ,

Dude, this needs to be its own post. What a fascinating read.

JakenVeina ,

Option 1, except for the cloud bit. My KeePass file is stored in a restricted shared folder on my home file server, and auto-syncs to my phone on the rare occasion I update it from my desktop.

JakenVeina ,

Accurate except for the depiction of Nestle as if it fucking cares.

Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps (www.broadbandtvnews.com)

Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps::Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices. Financial Review said networks Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS had accused the parcels to showbiz company of a...

JakenVeina ,

Do you want to kill FireTV? Cause, that’s how you kill FireTV.

JakenVeina ,

We all knew where this was going, but I honestly didn’t think we’d getbl here so quickly.

JakenVeina ,

Where do you even get something like that?

JakenVeina ,

Idiocracy

JakenVeina ,

So, they want to incorporate TypeScript into vanilla JS?

JakenVeina ,

Surprising lack of Armored Core 6 in here. Has everyone just beaten it already, or did it get overshadowed by Baldur’s Gate and Starfield.

Just finished first playthrough last night, and maybe halfway through my second now.

JakenVeina ,

I dunno, man, the guy threatened violence repeatedly, and the Coast Guard managed to non-violently de-escalate the whole thing, and get himself to peacefully surrender. At least in this case, they handled it exactly the way they should have.

JakenVeina ,

The fact that TypeScript doesn’t attempt to obfuscate JavaScript, and just fills in the gaps, is what makes it the best solution to the problem.

It’s not a separate language, it’s Javascript tooling

JakenVeina ,

More like a tourniquet and a prosthetic. It doesn’t solve the underlying problem, but it’s the best solution we’ve come up with.

Looking for games with unique core mechanics

I’m requesting for recommendations for games that stand out from the rest in their genre, and not in the sense of being the best game in that niche but actually bringing something new and innovative to the table. I’ve not had much experience in gaming, but I have a few games to give you a hint on what I am talking about:...

JakenVeina ,

Tunic and Outer Wilds

Both have a heavy focus on using knowledge as your core resource in the game, and obtaining new knowledge as a primary gameplay loop.

JakenVeina ,

That’s because that’s what it says. They’re hardly trying to hide it.

JakenVeina ,

Wait, Annapurna made Nimona? How did I miss that? It explains a lot.

JakenVeina ,

1 hour each of TV time and game time, per day, 3 hours on non-school days.

TV consists of YouTube Kids, Disney Kids, Hulu Kids, or our own Plex library.

Game time consists of pretty much just the Nintendo Switch. Occasionally, he’ll play Steam games, but together with me or my wife.

He gets unlimited time with his Kindle.

JakenVeina ,

I use this exact setup, heavily. I’ve used both XBox controlllers and Switch Pro Controllers (the pros unfortunately have a weird driver issue, where you don’t get full analog range out of the sticks). The controller connects directly to the Shield via Bluetooth, and the Steam Link app recognizes them, no problem.

The Steam Link app is occasionally quirky, but overall, I’m very happy with the setup. Have played Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Armored Core 6, Mass Effect, all this way. My wife has done a bunch as well. We’ve even done multiplayer with Tales of Symphonia and Plate Up, and I’ve done emulated games with Dolphin, although that was a fair bit trickier to setup.

Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible (www.insider.com)

As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

JakenVeina ,

I initially read this as “Viagra” and was highly confused.

Hawaii investigates unsolicited land offers as the state tries to keep Lahaina in local hands (apnews.com)

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Thursday his administration has opened several investigations into people who have allegedly made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken Maui town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order....

JakenVeina ,

Glad to see the state is making that a priority.

JakenVeina ,

The part I ordered to fix the dishwasher could come in, so we can finally start using it again after 2 weeks.

I’m doing alright, all things considered.

JakenVeina ,

The article discusses this, a bit. One of the other platforms is considering an enhancement to require request signatures on non-ActivityPub APIs, I.E. Meta can make unsigned requests, where the server doesn’t know who they’re from, but only get minimal (or no) data back, or Meta can make signed requests, and instance owners get to decide what data (if any) they’re okay with sharing to Meta, based on Meta’s privacy policies. Beyond API’s, you’re talking about web scraping, which is something the industry has been handling for decades.

JakenVeina ,

The other one for Padme dying is that she was basically going through withdrawal.

Anakin was "so strong in the Force* that he essentially, without realizing, force-pursuaded her into loving him, and between him nearly killing her and then nearly dying, thebforce influence vanished, and she lost the will to live.

Interesting theory, not sure how I feel about it.

JakenVeina ,

What the hell is an immutable OS?

JakenVeina ,

And yet what he DID say got memed WAY harder than “shame on me” ever would have.

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  • My desktop is Aperture
  • My wife’s desktop is Dovahkiin
  • My wife’s laptop is Lyndis
  • The printer is Vaarsuvius
  • The firewall is GlaDOS
  • The file server is Atlantis
JakenVeina ,

I know nothing about any of the other alternatives mentioned here, but I’ll pitch in my 2 cents that I am very happy with OMV. Haven’t had to touch it since they day I set it up, maybe 2 years ago. Except one time when I wanted to add a new SSH/FTP account for someone.

In addition to the core file services, it supports running a Docker host, in which I have running instances of Portainer (a Docker Web UI), Transmission (a bittorrent client, woth VPN support, also with a Web UI), and Plex.

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    JakenVeina ,

    A 500GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

    JakenVeina ,

    So, wait, they’re seriously going to make this function MORE annoying than it already is?!

    JakenVeina ,

    Too bad Twitter didn’t already have a fully-functional identity verification system 6 months ago, which didn’t require the exposure of any sensitive PII. Would be crazy if that had been a thing, eh?

    JakenVeina ,

    That is actually an excellent point. Rich investors are going to descend on this situation like parasites.

    A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: 'It was all a lie.' (www.businessinsider.com)

    A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.

    JakenVeina ,

    Well, yeah, they didn’t specify how MANY milliseconds. 10,000,000 milliseconds is still milliseconds.

    JakenVeina ,

    Definitely Babish Culinary Universe.

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    Let’s see of I can give a trimmed-down explanation of what “character escapement” is, because others have covered that & in web-land is an escapement character.

    The simplest type of escapement is probably quotes.

    
<span style="color:#323232;">var myString = "This is a string";
</span>

    This little line of pseudo-code is roughly what you would write (depending on language) to make a program write the text This is a string into some location in memory, that is, a sequence of numbers that are the standard numbers for representing those letters.

    Here, the double-quote character is serving a special purpose, to designate that the characters within the set of quotes represent not instructions for things that the program should do, but instead just bits of data that the program should load.

    Now consider: what if the character data that you want to load into memory has an actual double-quote character within it? How does the compiler (the program that turns your code into its own program) know the difference between a double-quote character that’s supposed to serve the special purpose, and a double-quote character that’s just supposed to be a piece of data like the other characters? The answer is escapement.

    
<span style="color:#323232;">var myString = "This is a "string"";
</span>

    Here, the backslash character serves its own special purpose of escaping other characters. When the compiler is reading this code, it knows that whatever character follows the backslash is supposed to be interpreted specially: in this case, the double-quote should not be interpreted as the end of the string, as usual, but as just a character to be put within the string. The backslash doesn’t end up in memory with the other characters, but it tells the compiler how to interpret things.

    In web-land, ampersand is an escape character. If you want to embed plain text to be displayed on the screen, within HTML, you need to “escape” special characters that have a non-text purpose normally, in order to get those characters to display as text. Ampersand is the escape character in HTML, and by extension, it also has its OWN escape sequence, which is &amp;.

    The reason you see &amp; in places across Lemmy is likely just due to a bug of some kind. Somewhere between when the user is entering this text, and when it later gets displayed, there’s code that’s adding escapement to the text an extra time than is necessary.

    JakenVeina ,

    In the ensuing hours, the county posted a series of evacuation orders on Facebook as the fire spread through the town.

    This appears to be just a small piece of the story, not like it was responsible for the disaster, but… is this implying that Facebook is considered a primary ergency alert system? I don’t know how anyone can consider that anything but GROSSLY negligent.

    JakenVeina ,

    Supposedly, my grandpa used to do “Schwartz’s Mortuary, Iberium Deep speeking.”

    JakenVeina ,

    Finished up (mostly) Tunic early this week. Still working on translating the manual, and trying to think up more ideas for the (presumably) final final post-game puzzle.

    If you’re interested in exploration/discovery/puzzle games, I’ll recommend it, with 2 caveats:

    A) The combat system is really not good. Particularly with regard to boss fights. I’ve played all the optional post-game stuff in some BRUTALLY difficult games: Hollow Knight, Celeste, Dark Souls, Elden Ring… but THIS game is the one that broke me. Not just cause it’s difficult, but it’s difficult for all the worst reasons. Point being, don’t hesitate to just drop the difficulty or turn on no-fail mode. It’s not worth it.

    B) Don’t just write off the in-game language as puzzle only for puzzle enthusiasts. It is optional, but I wish I had been putting effort into solving it, little by little, since the beginnig. It would have been really satisfying to solve some of the other game puzzles that way.

    Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? (gameranx.com)

    Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she’s unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it’s not too violent, it should be fine

    JakenVeina ,

    It has a variety of assist-mode options. My 8-year-old plays it and enjoys it, and actually can play with no assist most kf the time now.

    JakenVeina ,

    Seconding because my 8-year-old plays and loves it, due tobthe fact that it has assist-mode options. He now plays without assist mode at all, and is pretty freaking good at it.

    Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)

    Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration::Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.

    JakenVeina ,

    “This is disappointing, how is possible that a driver makes much more than average Engineer in R&D?”

    Because the engineer is being exploited and refuses to unionize.

    “To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks.”

    Bitch, UPS workers work harder than I ever did as an electronics engineer.

    JakenVeina ,

    Consider the common analogy of e-mail: your e-mail account is defined by its address, because that’s the key piece of info required to do things with that account, like send e-mail from it, or to it. If you change the name of the server that your e-mail account belongs to (E.G. @mymail.com to @mymail2.com) that, by definition, is a different account. Lemmy user accounts work effectively the same way.

    Of course, with e-mail, it’s not terribly difficult to just take the history of all your e-mails from the old server, and move them, but those e-mails are all still gonna show as “from” or “to” the old address, unless you also go through and re-write the history. Lemmy currently does not have any such “migration” procedure, and also suffers from a variety of design constraints that would make this much more difficult than our theoretical e-mail history migration, most notably the problem of how to synchronizd this mgration action across all instances.

    This issue has actually already come up in practice, BTW. The instance VLemmy basically vanished off the internet a month or so ago, apparently due to loss of their domain name rights, right in the middle of the reddit migration. There were a lot of people asking whether the whole INSTANCE could be migrated to a new domain name. If that wasn’t enough push to get migration capabilities designed and added, I doubt anything will.

    JakenVeina ,

    Seems pretty on-brand to me, considering what the general consensus of pirates has always been: it’s not about unwillingness to pay, it’s about unwillingness to deal with bullshit.

    JakenVeina ,

    That Master Lock one seems entirely plausible.

    JakenVeina ,

    Yes, but making that point, sarcastically or otherwise, ratuer contradicts the main thesis of “billionares are a group that thinks alike and spends most of their time trying to grow their fortunes”. Sarcasm isn’t about stating a thesis and then contradicting it with your very first argument.

    JakenVeina ,

    Does loving it in 2005 count?

    JakenVeina ,

    Big recommend for “Basics with Babish” on YouTube and basicswithbabish.com.

    JakenVeina ,

    Man won an emmy for ringing a bell. Respect on him for even ACCEPTING a role like that. What did the audition look like?

    JakenVeina ,

    Archer was also asked if then-Vice President Biden regularly “checked in on his son, who’s admitted he’s had issues with drugs.”

    “Every day,” Archer replied. But asked whether he had ever heard them discuss the “substance of Hunter Biden’s business,” he responded, “No.”

    He asked Archer, “Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father?”

    Archer replied, “Yes.”

    Glad to have confirmation of the nothingburger, I guess.

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