Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on How to trick id verification 6 days ago:
Which accounts are being targeted?
- Comment on How to trick id verification 6 days ago:
It’s not getting to me. Have you tried a VPN?
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 6 days ago:
Hmm I wonder what kind of information “Truth search” will be showing…?
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Depends: are you looking for arcade or sim?
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 1 week ago:
That is not a fact, at all.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 1 week ago:
Steam didn’t take it down from Steam. The devs did.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
Oh well if there’s a name for it, it must be real!
- Comment on How many r are there in strawberry? 1 week ago:
You know if the letter was L and the language spanish it’d almost be right…
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
A lack of a response is also a response
I see we’re going with the insanity approach.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
You seem to have forgotten what we were discussing, which was that Mastercard didn’t say anything.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
Did you not read literally the first line?
In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
So you think Valve is lying?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
To which mastercard responded
I don’t think you read this properly. Mastercard didn’t respond at all.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 1 week ago:
Badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom?
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 2 weeks ago:
We need to stop making this about sex work and porn and start making it about the fact that payment processors should not be allowed to control how we legally spend our money.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 3 weeks ago:
at least not very often
The people you’ve seen are likely enthusiasts. A small minority of the millions of users. The vast majority probably never leaves game mode.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 3 weeks ago:
does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?
- Linux is still a very small marketshare on workstations.
- Pretty much every server runs Linux and is probably much more likely to be attacked than a workstation.
- Lots of very profitable companies that run these servers need high security, so they will invest as much as is strictly necessary.
- Everything is open source and auditable by anyone.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 3 weeks ago:
The stats come from webpages, something a Steam Deck is unlikely to ever see, or at least not very often, so I would say it has almost nothing to do with Steam Deck, other than maybe exposing more people to Linux.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 3 weeks ago:
Good to know you don’t understand it either you fuckin mongoloid.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 4 weeks ago:
Each individual level of the print is called the print line
It’s called a layer.
“So on the firearm, I’m seeing from the trigger guard—maybe print line 200—and the top of the magazine well—print line 400—the marks are staying consistent,” Garrison said.
…I don’t even understand what that’s supposed to mean? “The marks are staying consistent”? What marks? Consistent with what?
Even if they were able to match a print to a nozzle (which they won’t be), nozzles are cheap and replaced often. They’re a wear item. You replace them in 2 minutes.
However, none of this will stop DAs from trying to use this shit as evidence, just like all the other junk science they pay people to lie about.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
He can be arrested for anything. If you want to argue that, you’ll have to take it up with the author.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the question. Which one of those is illegal?
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
It’s not pedantic. The title explains absolutely nothing. Reviewing hardware on YouTube is not a crime in any country to my knowledge, so how could he be arrested for it?
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
the whole reason why he was arrested because he was reviewing the handheld that had the games on them.
I’d love to see you point to an Italian law that states that reviewing handhelds on YouTube is illegal.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds
I’m so tired of these titles “Person arrested for perfectly legal thing”. He wasn’t arrested for reviewing gaming handhelds, he was arrested for copyright infringement.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 4 weeks ago:
Gov can’t really do anything about it. Bitcoin was designed to be gov agnostic. They can tell you it’s illegal but there’s also really no way for them to know (if you’re not dumb).
Also with the orangutan in chief being something of a crypto grifter himself, it’s not likely to be regulated at all.
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 4 weeks ago:
My guy did not open it up to show us so I guess we will never know.
He did show a video of someone else tearing down a brand new one and it already had rust inside so that is suspicious and we’ll know in short order if that becomes a widespread issue.
- Comment on Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide 4 weeks ago:
Then you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do run these things
I wasn’t asking for a way around them, I’m asking why they exist and suggesting we collectively move on from them.
I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement
You may not have intended it but your response was a dismissal of my concern. Rather than discussing why it’s necessary or whether it should be removed, you suggest that I create my own alternative.
As a product owner I’d want a way to contact
You can. We’ve already been over this. Send them a message on the platform.
or validate a user
How is an email address validation? I can spin one up in 3 seconds.
Self service password reset
You’re just creating a security vulnerability.
I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place.
Again, I already explained this.
Some platforms only require a username and a passkey (not even a password). That is ideal, in my opinion.
Email is also used to track user activity across the web, and while you know whether or not you will be tracking, collecting, and selling my activity, I don’t. Removing email eliminates that concern.
Some sort of cryptographic signature might work
That’s called a Passkey.
though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel
Again I ask, why? What is this fixation on multiple communication methods? Maybe as the user I don’t want you to have other ways of contacting me?
If you really need it there are hundreds of alternatives.
- Comment on Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide 4 weeks ago:
It’s all of the above at once. It’s hard to think of another identifier that hits them all.
I already gave you one. The username.
It’s not a communication method outside of the platform it’s on.
Why is that necessary?
It looks like your complaint is as a user, not the service owner?
My complaint, as someone who hosts a variety of services, is that setting up an email server is ridiculously complicated, costs money, and is completely unnecessary.
Recently Ghost updated their software to add 2FA for email. Not TOTP or Passkeys, or anything actually secure, those are still unavailable. After updating I was completely locked out of my own account because it was trying to verify my login using a system that doesn’t exist on my install. It was a super annoying and completely unnecessary problem I had to deal with.
I wouldn’t run a project like that, but feel free to start one up.
Great, I’ll just go ahead and fork every open source project in existence on my own to remove this feature using the software engineering degree and the time I don’t have.
- Comment on Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide 4 weeks ago:
It’s a communication tool
So is BlueSky
It’s a unique identity
As is 4093rnbgv3q09vn032
You can have more than one
More than one what? Email? How about zero?
It’s platform agnostic
There are a thousand platform-agnostic communication methods.
It’s anonymous
Email? LOL absolutely not.
It’s transferable
It’s only transferable if you use your own domain, which the vast majority are not doing.
What would you propose instead?
That depends on the purpose. You can receive messages and notifications right in the app, so for the purposes of communication I would propose absolutely nothing.