OmegaMouse

@OmegaMouse@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly I don’t use the D-pad all that much - does it not register inputs well? I guess it’s pretty important if you’re playing a fighting or retro game that require precise inputs. For the games I’ve played, it hasn’t been an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No the pro controller doesn’t have hall effect sticks, but I’ve not experienced any drift. I did take it apart once to clean the insides however.

  I had no end of problems with the joy cons, and have replaced those sticks with hall effect ones. Since doing that I’ve not had any problems, touch wood!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair I’ve had the pro controller for several years and it has held up really well. Really ergonomic and the vibration’s good, plus it has gyro. Perfect for my needs on Switch. I think it was worth what I paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The 8Bitdo Pro+ has been great - works really well with my Steam Deck and Switch. Sounds like the Pro 2 is the superior version with hall effect sticks.

  The Switch Pro controller has always been good too. And the DualSense is really neat with the haptics and adaptive triggers - expensive, but not that much more than a Pro controller surprisingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta fixes Preview update issues on Steam Deck and other Steam fixes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried changing to Beta but it was causing issues with the Steam Deck buttons - The ‘steam’ and ‘…’ buttons were unresponsive, and after restarting it took 30 seconds for any buttons to be recognised. I might stick with Stable for now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The S10 is such a good phone! Things like samsung dex and being able to cast to TV are really useful - I’m guessing the later models have these, but I’d hate to lose them either way. I rarely use the headphone jack nowadays but it’s still nice to have. Hopefully I can get a few more years out of my S10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‎ 4‎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the guy is dressed up like Leon with the leather flying jacket and haircut - it’s a pretty iconic outfit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, funnily enough I did pretty well back in school. But it’s been quite a while since I’ve learnt this stuff and it’s not something I ever specialised in. And when I did learn it, it was essentially just a series of facts that you had to memorise. ‘The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell’ etc. etc. So the second I passed that exam, I don’t think I ever went back to reinforce those memories.

  Hearing about genetic dominance again did give me an ‘ah, of course!’ moment. If you are able to recall everything you learnt in school (including subjects that you may not have had much interest in), then congrats on the impressive memory :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh thanks, this is all coming back to me now! Despite being a pretty nerdy student, my biology teachers at school didn’t instil much enthusiasm in me for the subject. But the more I learn about it now, the more fascinating I find it.

  Do you have any more detail/links about incompatible genes causing mutations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s actually really neat, I had no idea! But it makes a lot of sense

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottoms up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heresy sheresy i wanna be a dinosaur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, it seems like some mathematicians study weird numbers that aren’t… Things like number theory - what the hell is going on there??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not only are they watching you, they're judging you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, clam meditation sounds pretty chill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh thank FUCK. I’ve been unable to sleep, worrying about the trout. As long as they survive I can die happy! This is such great news 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spelling wasn't part of the curriculum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao this degree sounds amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks for the useful links! Those articles are all quite fascinating. In the plaintext attacks article, I love the tactic mentioned here:

  At Bletchley Park in World War II, strenuous efforts were made to use (and even force the Germans to produce) messages with known plaintext. For example, when cribs were lacking, Bletchley Park would sometimes ask the Royal Air Force to “seed” a particular area in the North Sea with mines (a process that came to be known as gardening, by obvious reference). The Enigma messages that were soon sent out would most likely contain the name of the area or the harbour threatened by the mines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I explained it poorly - what I mean to say is, two people trying to send the message ‘Hello’ for example both using the same public key would get the same output. So if you had a simple message like that, someone could work out by checking every word in the dictionary what your message was by checking if the output matched.

  But I guess it’s a bit of a moot point - it’s unlikely that an encrypted message would ever be so simple. It could just as easily be much longer, and therefore basically impossible to guess the plaintext.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I think of sort of get it!

  The public key is used within a function by the person sending the message, and even someone that knew the function and the public key wouldn’t be able to decrypt the message, because doing so would require knowledge of the original prime numbers which they couldn’t work out unless a computer spend years factoring the public key.

  My only other bit of confusion: If someone used a public key to encrypt the message “Hello”, maybe it would spit out something like Gh5bsKjbi4 If someone else sent the exact same message I assume the outcome would also be identical, and therefore it would be possible by using common phrases to work out what was sent? I could type messages like Hi, Goodbye, Hola until I got to ‘Hello’ and realised it was the same output. However I assume that a message like ‘Hello, how are you?’ would result in a completely different output (despite Hello appearing in both) and thus trying to work out any messages in a brute force way like this would be pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So using the formula in that guide, you get a numerical value for O. But surely someone else could follow the same process and also get the same answer? Unless the primes change each time? But then how would the sender and receiver know the way in which the values change?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But say (simplying greatly) the public key tells my computer to multiply my text by a prime number

  If the prime number is already known from the public key, then why is any computation required? To decrypt it can’t I (or anyone else) just divide by the prime? Even with a significantly more complex calculation, can’t you just work the steps back in reverse using the instructions from the public key?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess something like this (data stored on glass plates ‘Project Silica’) would store the data safely for a much longer period. What I’m not entirely clear on is whether it would still be possible to read that data in the far future - it seems to rely on some kind of machine learning to decode it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you reckon the physical copies would last longer than digital?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does data sent over the internet know where to go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah gotcha! Yeah it’s pretty neat seeing the ways in which the instances intermingle. Some communities stay pretty niche and used only by local users with the same interests, whereas others are melting pots of every instance. I guess it’s a bit like a society with little towns and bigger cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does data sent over the internet know where to go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Root federated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does data sent over the internet know where to go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, this is a good summary. It’s useful to know about the dynamically changing route - that explains a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hungry-Man Dinners are bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first image is kinda low res, and I initially read it as: Remove him from the brownie. Slit him over chicken. Cook on HIGH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely deserves a place in the food pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is penis a valid substitute or would I need to take any supplements?