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golden_zealot ,
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Television. I cannot understand why anyone would willingly pay money to be advertised to constantly.

golden_zealot ,
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Ads are generally acceptable so long as I’m not paying money to the service I’m using and seeing them anyway.

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I’d go to school and take every course I possibly could for the rest of my life or until I couldn’t.

golden_zealot ,
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From when I worked in IT:

-In your ticket, do not give a vague description and a time you want the problem fixed and then expect anything to get fixed. Often times we very much need to work with you directly to understand your problem thoroughly to investigate and fix it thoroughly.

-If you have some weird problem, it might be just as weird to us when we first look at it. We are not omniscient. What we are good at is researching possible fixes, applying them, and measuring the effect they have in actually solving your problem.

-If we didn’t install it, don’t expect we know anything about it. You might really like to install and use Fusion 360 over AutoCAD or something, but that doesn’t mean I know where Fusion 360 is storing its configurations, or that I have a phone number to call to get support from that company as a vendor, or that I have ever troubleshot this application.

-If you’re really nice to us, we might be able to offer you suggestions for problems on personal computers, but sorry, we cant usually touch it, especially if we are outsourced IT. The moment we touch your personal computer it opens us to a shitload of liabilities and it could lose me my job.

-We understand very much that typically the only time you’re talking to us is when you’re mad because some shit is preventing you from working, but we don’t want that either so don’t be mad at us about it, we would prefer you never had to put in a ticket for anything except configuration change requests.

-Pay attention to our recommendations. If we say you have to have your laptop on at a certain time of day weekly for updates, we aren’t just asking for our benefit, we’re asking this because if you ignore it, eventually when you power on your laptop, windows is going to force all those updates to push at once and suddenly you’ll be without your computer when you’re supposed to be doing an important presentation because its going to take 4 hours for a years worth of updates to apply. We have little control over this.

golden_zealot ,
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I kind of imagine it will be the same thing every rockstar game has become. Some pretty ok story with every mission just devolving into a shooting gallery.

Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)

The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....

golden_zealot ,
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What the fuck is the selling point? Less features for a color??

golden_zealot ,
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if your point is “No one wants a digital console”, then no, you are wrong.

Nothing of the sort, it was a legitimate question in which I didn’t intend to make a statement out of subtext.

Thanks for answering it.

Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

Remember those iconic games before 2014? The OG, while dated was really unique for its time, the Ezio Auditore Trilogy that became the standard for the franchise, 3, that was very ambitious (probably too much) with it’s setting and story telling. Even 4, although it was the first time AC escaped from the base of what an...

golden_zealot ,
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Money.

golden_zealot ,
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You understand that legally speaking this is approximately the same thing as telling your boss that the front door isn’t strong and thieves could easily kick it in, and then when they refuse to fix it, the response you’re suggesting is “show up at 3 am and take a sledgehammer to the door, but just dont steal anything from inside” right?

The point is to cover your ass, not pull your pants down.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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Yes I understand the intention, but in one of these scenario’s I’ve covered my ass legally and if something happens where the company gets ransomware for example, I likely get paid thousands of dollars in overtime restoring backups and the user ends up updating anyway, and in the other I can go to prison, lose my job, and never be able to use my time at that company as a reference on a resume let alone probably easily get a job again because now I have a criminal record.

I know this because I have lived scenario A probably 6 times in my life.

golden_zealot ,
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Yea I don’t trust the opsec of some random 4chan user to cover their tracks and therefore mine in that scenario.

I’ll just take the option that guarantees I can’t go to jail and ruin my entire fucking life lol.

golden_zealot ,
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Hmmm yes I suppose that is true.

Nonetheless I’ll always opt for the course of action that has the smallest potential negative impact on my personal life.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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My counterpoint to that is that if you’re a good security professional, you wouldn’t take such risks because your entire job revolves around mitigating risks.

If you break into a network, or have someone do it for you, it’s very difficult to completely remove all evidence of that having occurred, and because there’s just so many variables, there will always be a non-zero percent chance of it being traced back to you.

Your company can hire an entire security firm of security professionals to look for this evidence. I don’t care who someone is or how good they are at their job, very few people, unless they have narcissistic personality disorder, would trust that their individual skill completely outweighs the combined skill of an entire team of people who do that every day as their occupation.

Furthermore, taking such extreme risks with ones future just screams that they have some mental problem which they should probably be talking to a professional about, because a typical person would consider taking any risk of being imprisoned for years for computer crimes too big of a risk.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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Comparing the allegory of my argument to yours, there is a very wide breadth between not going outside because something bad might happen and going outside and setting your cars driver seat on fire to show your wife that someone could potentially set your entire car on fire, leading to your wife calling the police, the police checking your neighbors security camera you didnt even realize existed to notice that you set the drivers seat on fire, and then charging you with mischief, arson, and public endangerment.

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Truly, what they care a lot more about in the industry is IT certs over a diploma so you’re doing just as well as you would have if you graduated anyway.

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Forgive the audio, recommend muting, but I expect it might have been similar to this video of a woman who does not know how to jump:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EVWeek7Kk

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Very much true, made this account last year on June 4.

golden_zealot ,
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Are there any papers or sources on this? Of course it would be very slow, but I’d be interested to see what proposals exist.

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I’m aware of 802.11 lol, But i’m wondering about papers or sources talking about the feasibility/usability of bouncing it off of the ionosphere using something like shortwave to achieve the objective originally stated.

What makes 802.11 effective is that it exists in the GHz band and as a result it can move a lot of data very quickly, but you need a low frequency to allow a radio signal to be reflected back to earth without escaping into space instead, so speeds would suffer greatly. Just wondering if there are proposals on how to make it usable in the low frequency bands so that you could reflect it back to earth and also not have to wait 7 years for an image to load.

Furthermore for this to work you would need a relatively high powered radio setup on your end to send messages back to the source youre receiving from if you don’t intend to just receive data.

golden_zealot ,
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Awesome, this is just what i was looking for, thanks!

golden_zealot ,
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I think both of you are in more agreement than opposition.

golden_zealot ,
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Yeahhhhh, I don’t want a company which itself previously settled for a hundred million dollars in a gender discrimination suit to have every persons intimate personal data.

golden_zealot ,
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You did the right thing by getting a second opinion regardless of whether the first person you saw was legitimate because it was the wise decision in the sense that its important to be comfortable with a diagnosis and the person helping you.

Do your best to be strong and don’t let the fear and frustration get the better of you, you can do this.

Whatever might be up, whether it is schizophrenia or something else, it is treatable.

It can take time working with a psychiatrist to figure out what works best to help you be the best version of yourself, but a solution does exist for you so don’t give up.

For a lot of treatments for this, it can take time being on treatment for a while before you notice a difference (some times a few weeks of being on treatment). If you still aren’t noticing a difference after a few weeks, just continue to keep your psychiatrist up to date on how youre feeling, and if the treatment does not seem to be working, they will alter it to try something else to see if it works for you.

I can definitely see how this can be frustrating, I myself experienced a long period of anxiety problems where I probably went through 10 different treatments before I found something that worked for me, but in the end it was worth the fight.

I wish you the best of luck, always remember that you can do this and that you are a strong person.

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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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golden_zealot ,
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In my experience, younger people who grew up with the internet write their texts and emails as if they are instant messaging, because they grew up with AOL and MSN messenger etc when it comes to text based communication.

Older people who communicated over text before the internet only did this in one way - writing letters.

As a result their style of texting or emailing is often very long form in comparison.

When writing letters you are limited by how much room there is on a piece of paper.

This leads to using some shorthand which used to be fairly common, but has fallen out of public knowledge for younger people.

You could argue that some of the stuff that younger people email or text informally can be just as cryptic because there is entirely different shorthand that millenials and generations Y and Z use.

If you closely examine how you casually communicate with your peers of a similar age, you will notice it can be just as odd as what you experience from communicating with generations on either side of you.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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I’m over a decade away from 40 and I grew up with it.

Furthermore the context of the use of younger is in:

“In my experience, younger people who grew up with the internet write their texts and emails as if they are instant messaging, because they grew up with AOL and MSN messenger etc when it comes to text based communication.”

Which is replying to a post titled:

“What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I’m having a stroke?”

The use of “Younger” here is not an absolute term, it is a relative term, meaning it refers to people younger than the older people the original poster is referring to, who are in my estimation likely to be anyone under the age of 60 based on what OP describes and my informed experiences having worked in the IT industry supporting users of all ages.

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There are many resources to research for inspiration here as similar concepts exists outside of science fiction.

Read up on the concept of the astral plane and by extension, astral projection.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection

golden_zealot , (edited )
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Grab my always packed camping pack and rifle case + ammunition, get in car, drive to airport, call 911 on the way and inform them that armed individuals are breaking into my house providing the address and hang up immediately, park car at airport parking lot and pay with card, take taxi back into city with cash, get bus ticket with cash which takes me out to the woods/mountains, camp there until I can’t.

It would also be wise to immediately book a one way ticket to anywhere on the way to the airport and then not use it.

Even if they have access to my payment details, the last things they would see are parking for the airport and buying a plane ticket.

They would need access to the airports CCTV to determine that I did not actually board the flight.

If they had access to this, and were able to get access to the city CCTV as well, the best they could possibly determine after many hours or days is that I was last seen taking a bus west.

golden_zealot ,
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Valid point, good thinking.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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I would agree if it were domestic agents, but if airlines will comply if a foreign agent just asks for it, then that is somewhat concerning since its a multinational corporation freely handing over information on private individuals to authorities that don’t have local jurisdiction without so much as a warrant.

Like unless the foreign agents are working in cooperation with the local government, I don’t think for example, an agent of CSIS could walk into an airport in Tokyo and just ask them where Marcus D. Walton flew to or to see their security tapes and expect to get an answer from Japan Airlines without a shit load of red tape.

More likely, that would get them arrested and questioned as to why they’re conducting an illegal investigation of a private individual on foreign soil and probably be seen as an international incident creating a lot of friction between the two nations.

I expect you probably missed that the question denotes foreign agents so no worries.

golden_zealot , (edited )
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But then why buy the ticket at all? How are foreign agents going to get your credit card purchase? Just leaving the car in the airport should be enough

This is an excellent point and someone else also pointed out that it wouldn’t be necessary.

golden_zealot ,
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True, consoles are rapidly approaching being indistinguishable from Kiosk moded, locked down miniature PC’s.

golden_zealot ,
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I think you are right.

golden_zealot ,
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Because they don’t want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.

golden_zealot ,
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Ok but hear me out, what happens if you inject it into your feet?

golden_zealot ,
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Perhaps consider investing in a small UPS device as well, it might help out in any future events like this.

golden_zealot ,
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No, but arguably anyone driving a car is.

golden_zealot ,
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“I only took a bite out of the bread, therefore I didnt eat any bread.”

golden_zealot ,
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Wow, I didn’t realize ActivityPub or Federated platforms went back that far. What platform/s were you on back then?

golden_zealot ,
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Neat, thanks!

golden_zealot ,
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Wow, I’ve never heard of that, but that’s really smart.

golden_zealot ,
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Google is helpful when you have questions

Haha, what’s it like living in 2012 still?

golden_zealot ,
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You might also be interested in cron/crontab. You can schedule scripts/software to run at specific times of day, week, month, year etc.

Also if you want to learn more about the linux command line, three super useful commands for you are ‘man’, ‘help’ and ‘apropos’.

man followed by a command, like ‘man find’ will show you the manual pages for the command ‘find’, showing you how to use it.

In some cases man wont work for some commands, in those cases try ‘help theCommandThatDidntWorkWithMan’.

apropos followed by a query like ‘apropos network’ will show you any commands that have ‘network’ in their short description to help you find commands that you might want to use for something.

golden_zealot ,
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Astounding, apparently you can counter the findings of this paper which proves beyond reasonable doubt that google is progressively getting worse when it comes to returning reliable and accurate search engine results.

downloads.webis.de/…/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=404…

I’m sure the scientific community would be really glad to see the evidence you have to the contrary, I’ll even peer review your paper for you, let me know when you have a draft ready.

golden_zealot ,
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You know what? That is actually some sound reasoning and I think that is an acceptable response.

I intended my original comment to be more a a shot at google than yourself, but I can see why you came back with what you said as a result, and then I got salty about it so I apologize.

golden_zealot ,
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I just referenced the data in the wikipedia container article here for some select consoles.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Category%3ASingle-platform_vid…

golden_zealot ,
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It depends on how the source categorized the information and how Microsoft classifies the Xbox One versus the Xbox One Series (whether as being two actual different consoles, or two versions of the same console.)

en.wikipedia.org/…/Category%3ASingle-platform_vid…

There is only one entry for anything related to Xbox One as far as I can see so I expect the 12 it notes are distributed across all versions of the Xbox One, or that there are 0 dedicated games for the Xbox One Series proper.

golden_zealot ,
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The source notes that for Mac there have been 2 exclusive games across all versions, and for Windows, there have been about 2560 across all versions. There doesn’t appear to be a listing for Linux unfortunately.

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There is no listing in the source for Xbox Series, however Gamecube shows 80 exclusive titles.

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