PassingThrough
@PassingThrough@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Families has officially launched with a big Steam Client Update 2 months ago:
Worse than that, the slot they left is also locked out for a year. Although you can return to your previous spot freely, so break up and make up is fine.
I get why, if it were too flexible publishers would fear sales loss and opt out en masse but still feels rather long.
- Comment on Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email? 2 months ago:
One thing I can think of is an overzealous corporate security solution blocking or holding back your email purely for having an attachment, or because it misunderstands/presumes the cipher-looking text to be an attempt to bypass filtering.
Other than that might be curious questions from curious receivers of the key/file they may not understand, and will not be expecting. (“What’s this for? Is this part of the contract documents? Oh well, I’ll forward it to the client anyway”)
Other than that it’s a public key, go for it. Hard to decide to post them to public keychains when the bot-nets read them for spam, so this might be the next best thing?
- Comment on Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Every Public Classroom 5 months ago:
So next the Satanic Temple can put up a poster with their seven tenets, right? Right? And all the others? Let’s coat the walls with every religion’s posters! Like artsy wallpaper! Make schools less bland!
Wait, only Christian posters?
Rights for me, not for thee, of course. Forgot what freedom actually meant…
- Comment on The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC 5 months ago:
You would go for a Raspberry Pi when you need something it was invented for.
Putting a computer on your motorcycle or robot or solar powered RV. Super small space or low-low power availability things, or direct GPIO control.
A MiniMicro will run laps around a Pi for general compute, but you can’t run it off a cell phone battery pack. People only related Pis to general compute because of the push to sell them as affordable school computers, not because they were awesome at it, because they were cheap and just barely enough.
- Comment on How should news sites be funded? 5 months ago:
Like a non-profit, with tax breaks and the ability to earn enough to operate, but little more than that or the taxes come back with a vengeance.
Everything needs money to run but when there’s the option to shovel out whatever bait it takes to chase the dragon of uncapped earnings, they’re not in it to keep us informed, just to keep us spending.
- Comment on LawBreakers Is Making An Unofficial Comeback Thanks To Fans 7 months ago:
FYI this is the kind of awesome thing big studios like Ubisoft would like to ensure is never possible again.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I often compare Natural Selection to Survivorship Bias, because as far as I can tell that is what it is.
There is no “drive” or mythical force to be better. A mutation occurs and the result works or doesn’t.
Those that work have survived until today, and those that don’t failed to reproduce sufficiently to reach today.
That said, today we actually have what I call “Un-natural Selection”, and that is when we humans take something that would have failed naturally and ensure its success through our intervention. Think seedless plants or humans/animals with chronic disabilities. Natural selection would likely have eliminated them for failure to function or reproduce, but through our will they endure. For now.