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- Comment on Trying to activate a new BT account 1 day ago:
Because somewhere on their side they have a synchronization process that runs periodically every 10 minutes. If you click the link directly some of your information will be sent to a system that doesn’t yet know the link has been sent because it wasn’t synchronized.
Complete failure of design but from an IT standpoint it is understandable.
- Comment on Go on, git. 3 days ago:
I stopped scrolling out of spite!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That is litterally the while point of the post
- Comment on Soviet Onion 1 week ago:
Love the series and especially this interview. The “how do you know so much about vegetables? Have you got an allotment?” is just so fucking smart.
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 week ago:
About 3 large boulders the size of a small boulder.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 weeks ago:
For smaller (indie) studios it can make sense. If the game costs more money to developed than the developer has, preordering is indistinguishable from crowdsourcing like kickstarter. It removes the need for the developer to take a loan and investors, possibly giving up creative freedom.
Anything backed by a (big-ish) publisher should never be preordered!
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Lots of Germans defending German cuisine, so as another German: you are absolutely right!
Germany has some great food and some Germans love making good food but German culture is absolutely not about food. The food culture we have is a development of the last ~40 years. Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!
Tasty and awesome food? Yes! A culture that tells you it loves food? No!
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. “PhD” level intelligence. Not PhD level intelligence. The quotes are part of the word. They are not optional.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 2 weeks ago:
I seem to remember a similar story of a zoo where the beavers built a damm in a dry concrete room. They later found out the area was above a waterpipe and the beavers were just way more sensitive to the sound/vibrations.
Couldn’t find it with 1min of DDG so might be wrong
- Comment on Anon solves mental health 3 weeks ago:
Cock and ball torture?
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if there are tar pits with dinosaur bones but there are bones (not petrified bones) of post-dinosaur megafauna like sabertooths in the La Break tar pit in Los Angeles. There probably exists a real dinosaur bone somewhere on the planet.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 3 weeks ago:
Both of those are screwed over by the healthcare system and the companies perpetrating it. If you cant afford healthcare or don’t understand it because it is to convoluted, that is a result of the policies of healthcare providers.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 4 weeks ago:
But that is also the worst part of boarderlands
- Comment on We've done it, boys 4 weeks ago:
Linux is famously both American and Corporate /s
But yeah sytsem76 and valve are both american and valve is corporate. And around Lemmy you would think they are the only ones responsible for the Linux boom.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
The verifier does not have the information which sites you use. That’s the point of the setup. All communication goes through you, never the site to the verifier directly. You only pass cryptographic values between them that does not include identifiable information (neither about you to the website, nor about the website to the verifier). The verifier knows who you are, the website knows that you are old enough. Nothing else.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
There is no system in the world that can fully prevent an authorized user to grant access to an unauthorized user. Even with an all time on camera and screensharing I can still find ways to have someone else control my computer while I “authorize” the connection with my face in the camera
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
Super easy. Technology has existed for quite some time and was already used in the encrpytion of web traffic.
Basically: you sign up with your “age verification institution” (ideally a service of your government because they have your ID anyway and no profit motive). This involves createing a private key (reaaaaaaaaaaly long password that is saved in a file on your device) and saving the public key with that institution. They also check your ID to ensure your identity and your age.
When you want to visit a 18+ website, the website sends you a nonce (loooooong random number). You take that nonce and send it to the verifier, along with a signature of your private key (and the age they want you verified against). The verifier verifies your signature using your public key. They then sign the nonce with their own private key, thereby verifying, that you, the owner of your private key (whos identity and age they have verified) are above the asked age theshould. You then send the signed nonce back to the 18+ website and they can verifiy the signature to confirm that a trusted age verifier has verified your age.
The site never has access to your identity and the verifier never knows which site you visited, only that you wanted to visit a website that wants to know if you are of a certain age.
(The corresponding technology was used for OCSP Stapling in TLS verification … and has been discontinued last year because nobody was using it …)
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, the next Democratic president might actually deserve one if they stop the active fashist takeover of democracy. Even if they do nothing else and continue all current wars etc. Not being Trump could probably save thousands if not millions of lives.
- Comment on Amazing 5 weeks ago:
Thats because the US is used to MM DD YY thats why the US talks like MM DD YY thats why its intuitive to you to use DD MM YY thats why …
There is no inherent “intuitiveness” to it. Its intuitive if you grew up with it and you use it. It is unintuitive if you didn’t.
- Comment on Amazing 5 weeks ago:
Its intuitive to people used to MM DD YY people and unintuitive to everyone else.
Today is the 24th of November.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 weeks ago:
Skyrim has a collectible item that is found in a main story area that is only accessible once. Its a very early mission and in one of the last thief’s guild quests they will tell you to get that item. That might be 200h after you did that main quest …
Good thing modding exists
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 weeks ago:
I think in cyberpunk its because cars use a separate control set that can/has to be separately rebound. Its so you can use a joystick for driving and a gamepad for walking
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 weeks ago:
I think the “men evil”, “woman good” is just worded to strongly but is generally true (not actually true, but people considered it to be true).
Its more “men dangerous”, “men threatening” and not “evil”. A man in a women’s bathroom is a threat. A women in a mans bathroom is there because there was a line for the woman’s bathroom. The actual reason for those scenarios does not matter, the man will be seen as an invasion and a perpetrator. I have personally experienced examples of neutral situations as well (going to the woman’s bathroom as a man without negative reactions) but the general discourse about the topic is pretty clear.
- Comment on challenge 1 month ago:
Every broken doorhinge can be bypassed in two ways. Fix it. Or break it more.
- Comment on It's all relative 1 month ago:
Meth is an excellent weight loss food.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 1 month ago:
Food and silence = 100% of seaguls harass you Food and screaming = some seagulls will leave you alone but never all
- Comment on Every time 1 month ago:
For most people wasp=yellow jacket. And Yellow jackets are never frendly. Just sometimes “not outright aggressive”.
I like to ignore them and give them a chance to retreat in peace. If they fly to close to my face though, I will single strike, closed fist, punch them in the head (while flying, not mash them against the wall). It disorients them so much they just fly away. Never got stung while doing it, 100% success rate if I hit them.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 month ago:
Exactly! Everyone in this tread is hating on people that just learned a different “truth”. In 50 years everyone here will be wrong about something as fundamental as the animal kingdom and insist on being right. Science advances and previous truths become false.
There is also the aspect of biological classification not being very useful for everyday live. Do people go “uhm actachully biologically fish don’t exist” every time they see a meal advertised as “fish …”. People can have a concept of “animal” that is different from the taxonomy. And classifying mammals+reptiles+amphibian(+birds) as something different than fish and different than insects is a pretty reasonable classification (based on phenotype and not on phylogeny)
- Comment on Try again 1 month ago:
Or maybe a mexican jewish vampire?
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 1 month ago:
Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.
the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.
You spin me right round, baby, right round 🎶🎶