WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 days ago:
All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.
“Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.
Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.
- Comment on Friends are a bloatware. 1 week ago:
They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 1 week ago:
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 week ago:
I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different
The neat thing about math is it’s built upon universal truths that exist independently of how you describe them. 1+1=2 regardless of how you represent those numbers. Even among humans we have plenty of different ways of describing numbers.
Also, the best thing about science is that physics works the way it does regardless of how you describe it. An atom of hydrogen will always have the same spectral peaks, regardless of what units you describe those peaks in.
It’s these kinds of things we consider when trying to communicate with aliens. Take a look at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
These messages will probably never be received, even if there is intelligent life out there. But if something intelligent does find these messages, they will probably determine they are artificial, and hopefully manage to decode some of it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
This is the “metroidvania” genre part of the game but, it’s not for everyone.
That being said, both Hollow Knight and Silksong make the exploration a lot more streamlined than in older metroidvanias with the map features. When you don’t know where to go, check your map and look for paths that lead to areas that aren’t filled in yet. When you get a new power, see if you can remember any locations where that might be useful.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I agree with a lot of your commentary. A couple times so far a “good run back” has been the grind that let me buy some of the higher-cost items from shops. Sometimes it’s frustrating but usually once you get used to the path it goes quickly. There have been a few times where I didn’t realize there was a closer bench until after I already beat the fight lol.
Double damage would suck a lot less (and be a better mechanic) if you had 6 HP to start, or if you healed 4 at a time, or if bosses didn’t always do 2 damage.
Most of the bosses have 1-damage and 2-damage attacks. Also 6HP and increased healing are available relatively early (still a good way into the game but it’s a long game).
Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.
I have to strongly disagree with this. Especially when you start getting more traps/tools and upgrades for them, they get very strong and don’t require you to get dangerously close to the enemy like the basic attacks. Some of the bosses and many of the arenas I’ve gotten through mainly thanks to the consumable traps.
Common enemies are spongy, bosses take at least 33% too long across the board.
Like in most metroidvanias, you start off struggling against common enemies but as you get upgrades they become weaker relative to you. However I do agree that the trash mobs are a bit too tanky. Maybe somewhere between 50% and 25% less health would be ideal. I’m not sure I would adjust the bosses though.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
There have been several boss fights so far where I die to the path to the boss more than the boss itself and it takes way longer to get to the boss than actually beating it.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 weeks ago:
GoG has been having issues too but not as bad as Steam ironically
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 weeks ago:
GoG, Xbox, and Nintendo eshops are also having issues.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 weeks ago:
“Spontaneous” is actually the correct word to use here, using its definition in statistical mechanics.
Here’s an example: …pressbooks.tru.ca/…/5-6/
- Comment on Uhm 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough lmao Til
- Comment on Uhm 3 weeks ago:
Truck ⊂ Car
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
Glasses/contacts offer better vision, no risk, and an easy solution to your eyes continuing to change.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Cephalopod eye transplant!
I wouldn’t be surprised if the brain could figure out how to use a cephalopod style eye, especially if it was given young.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 4 weeks ago:
Basically.
They slowly decay as hawking radiation, but there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t played with it too much yet but Queen 3 seems better than GPt-OSS
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
There are also some games with active modding communities that can be played basically forever without getting boring.
- Comment on Black Holes 1 month ago:
And some of the scientists who worked on those early calculations assumed it meant the physics was incomplete!
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 1 month ago:
How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem?
The company that makes GoG makes Witcher 3.
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 1 month ago:
If you liked OG Minecraft try playing some mods but do Minecraft Java instead of Bedrock
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 month ago:
Minecraft (Java edition)
- Comment on minecraft modding community 1 month ago:
It’s not too complicated to build, but it does cost a lot of iron.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 2 months ago:
I think I have had an instructor put a mirror in the pool before lol
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 2 months ago:
I doubt someone who has only ever read about swimming could do it in deep, cold water. But they are talking about taking it to a swimming pool to practice. I think they’ll be fine.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 2 months ago:
Probably. Take it to the shallow part of a pool (where you can stand up if you need to) and practice until you are comfortable trying more.
Also, watch some videos. I think it’s easier to learn something like swimming by watching others than by reading about it.
- Comment on call of the void 2 months ago:
It’s a tool without a use case, and there’s a lot of ongoing debate about what the use case for the tool should be.
It’s completely valid to want the tool to just be a tool and “nothing more”.
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 months ago:
Coffee