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- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 12 hours ago:
He did texhnically end up in cybersecurity, but basically yeah, a role that involves almost zero actual technical skill.
He did social engineering, aka, worming his way into people’s emails and texts and social circles, sending fake ‘your account has been comprimised, send me your user name and password to fix’ type shit.
Ironically, social engineering is quite a fitting uh, subclass, for a low technical skill, high charisma narcissist to slot into.
He thought hacking and DEFCON was the coolest convention to go to, so him and some buddies… won the scavenger hunt badge, I believe thats more or less running around the Con with your network analyzer open on your phone, to find wifi/bluetooth enabled hidden scavenger hunt items, maybe with a couple extra steps.
Its literally a gimmick badge, its not really anything to do with actual pentesting, nothing like developing a totally novel exploit.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 13 hours ago:
Ah, thats true, that is more accurate.
So he was … testing tools for testing games, or some kind of internal process?
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 15 hours ago:
Probably not in the direct sense, given that he uh ‘used to work’ at Blizzard.
As a game tester.
By that metric, I am an ex MSFT employee, because I did that routinely as well.
(I then went on to actually work for MSFT as a database admin/dev, but you get the idea)
He’s is an extremely useful and extremely idiotic useful idiot, like uh, Tim Pool.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 15 hours ago:
Put him in a ponytail, bulk him up a bit, de-age him a decade, and you’ve got a theoretical physicist with an penchant for crowbar related mayhem.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 15 hours ago:
The big corporations do what they do because of consumers like you and me
Which is why they run a non stop barrage of advertisemenr campaigns to brainwash the consumer into…
Oh. Wait. No.
That would mean the corporations basically tell the consumers what to do, and they basically listen.
Well, dang, thank god it’s not like they bankroll politicians to the point of individual citizen campaign donors being largely of no effectiveness whatsoever in the vast majority of…
Wait, whats that Jamie?
That is how shit works.
takes long toke
Fuck.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 15 hours ago:
Maybe not specifically this comm, but I had been sporadically arguing with people on various places on lemmy about SKG before Ross even droppes his 'SKG is probably dead, video that (re)ignited this whole thing.
A whole, whole lot of people I talked to basically had the same talking points Thor initially did, a lot of them were dedicated to various facts that were simply wrong, rhetoric that was either bipolar/hypocritical, or just ultimately nihlist (nothing can be done).
I was actually very relieved, initially, when Ross made above mentioned video, simply so I would no longer have to keep explaining all the various intricacies… Ross had addresed all this stuff before, but you’d have to watch about 2 or 3 hours of videos to truly get it, in all its detail.
The ‘SKG is probably dead’ video did a good job of doing both a broad overview, as well as going into detail with the more common, in-depth misunderstandings… which were pretty much all popularized by Thor.
- Comment on kingdom come 16 hours ago:
I completely agree with 99% of bigger tomatoes, but… I evidently just cannot forget those few, exceptionally good heirloom tomatoes somebody had grown back in the PNW a decade ago, hah!
Could be worse, don’t take a bite out a … tomacco.
- Comment on kingdom come 16 hours ago:
Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.
That seems right to me, the… what is that a lower case sigma?
iirc, thats the sort of… ‘zh’ sound I was going for…
… though I think maybe we just have a natural dialect difference for how how to pronounce vegetable, as you’ve got the same vowel sound for the last two syllables?
But anyway, yeah, I think I came up with ‘fruigtable’ almost 20 years ago, upon first learning how much overlap there is due to all this linguistic silliness… so i choose chaos, and decided to add to it, and now I finally have a relevant time to use the nonsense/compound word, woo!
- Comment on kingdom come 1 day ago:
I am 100% with your well written explanation here!
Just one ‘nitpick’, that isn’t really even a nitpick because you did qualify the relevant part with ‘tend to be’:
A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful that you could just eat it like an apple.
Not as sweet as most apples, but way, way more sweet than the typical mass produced tomato you’re likely to get in the US.
I’ve been to a few farmers markets where… a couple of smaller farms were growing just absolutely stellar quality tomatoes.
…
On the other hand, squash and zucchini, even the fancy ones from farmers markets?
Main difference I noticed was basically perfect ripeness, they still just taste like nothing.
(I guess I should also point out this was from 10ish years back, sadly, a lot of farmers markets now have a lot of people basically just reselling some particular, slightly higher quality but still mass produced fruits and veggies, than aren’t even local)
…
Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…
Corn.
Corn is arguably, from different domains of technical or colloquial meaning… a fruit, vegetable, and grain.
After millenia of us artifically selecting what was originally, basically a kind of grass, into something that is now so sweet, that the US uses it to make HFCS, a cane sugar substitute… and then we jam that HFCS … into bread, soda, everything.
So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.
- Comment on Envy 4 days ago:
Sweet is what you call a uh, a sucka.
He’s a true believer, a fool, who is dedicated to a whole bunch of rhetoric that objectively is not true, does not function in reality they way he believes it should.
He should know that literally nobody else goes by his code of conduct and honor anywhere near as strictly as he does, because he has repeated, first hand experience with that, but he doesn’t learn, because that code is the basis of his identity.
He is a broken, angry, incompetent man who was sold a lie, and that lie is all he has left.
He is a tragic character, traumatized as fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
OP has apparently never met or even heard of a non-white MTF?
This is stupid.
- Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 4 days ago:
Ow my brain.
- Comment on When you are really dumb and don't realize it 5 days ago:
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- Comment on When you are really dumb and don't realize it 5 days ago:
Yeah this is basically just a dad joke.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 days ago:
Transaction times have improved a lot, there are networks designed for fast transaction times, and usually the payment can complete in seconds.
Hrm, well, if that is true, then that is a considerable improvement.
The volatility problem is solved by stable coins, which have their values fixed relative a currency. (Of course stable coins can, and have failed in the past. But that only concerns you if you keep your money as stable coin. For one-off payments this shouldn’t matter).
But it absolutely does matter if you are a retailer that builds or uses a payment processor system around a ‘stable’ coin that suddenly flatlines one day.
There goes your ability to sell things!
Or, even worse, if the retailer does hold a standing balance in the ‘stable’ balance, or pays the sellers directly in a crypto… welp, theres, what, half of a months operating revenue, poof, gone, all the sellers? Now totally broke, unless they’re also active crypto traders at the same time as being people who make things to sell.
Crypto markets have pretty good liquidity nowadays, it’s not hard to get rid of the coins immediately after you get them (well to be fair if you are getting Valve volumes it could be a problem, should be fine for smaller stores).
I mean, you kind of showed a major flaw right there.
Yep, volume is much better.
But… not sufficient for actual large scale retail, or many, many small to mid size retailers.
Also, to the best of my knowledge… no ‘stable’ coin has anywhere near the volume of say BTC or ETH.
Crypto is a fast evolving field, so problems are being solved by the day.
No, hard disagree.
Most coins haven’t even figured out how to actually be significantly, meaningfully untraceable, other than XMR.
Even a tornado blender thing can be unwound… or it can just steal some of your money.
What else has crypto figured out in almost 20 years now?
Well, aside from being an optimal vector for scamming people…
A new verification paradigm that still leaves it orders of magnitude more energy intensive than traditional payment processors?
NFTs? Who cares, its the least efficient FTP protocol ever devised, quite easy to poison or social hack.
I guess if payment processing speeds are now comparable to existing payment processors… wow, crypto is slightly less useless than what proceeded it?
I’ve beem following this shit since before Mt Gox opened the first online trading market.
Crypto has managed to become the most speculative, fundamental-less investment ‘asset class’ of all known human history.
It still isn’t really private, and you still can’t generally buy things with it, barring a few niche exceptions.
- Comment on investment 6 days ago:
Hi, Econometrician here.
We routinely and regularly refer to State run lotteries with such phrases as ‘the idiot tax’.
As in, it is a regressive form of taxation, that hurts idiots.
…
I’ve actually gambled once in my entire life, at a horse race.
My strategy?
Walk in with $40 bucks.
Place a $5 dollar bet on the horse with the silliest name.
… I ended up walking out with $60 bucks, after being able to pay for a hot dog / fries / drink.
Stonks.Gambling. - Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
nutaku exists but I don’t think they use crypto?
Also you can buy adult games on itch.io
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
I have never heard anything from any Valve interview to the effect of how specific pay rates for specific employees are actually set.
I think it is closer to:
You get hired to fill a specific role (Valve still like, lists specific job openings with specific role requirements), and then uh, you have tasks within that realm that are fairly clearly your responsibility… but at the same time, everything going on at the company is essentially one big github issues list, a whole bunch of feature requests and bug reports, and everyone can contribute to any of those, assuming they’ve got their core responsibilities covered as well.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
But since there are only a handful of payment processors, what if they all collude and do this?
This is possible, but I kind of doubt that say, MasterCard and Visa are going to blanket ban all kinds of ‘adult’ charges… at least right now.
Like uh, ever been to a strip club?
Its not like Visa and MC don’t know that the ATMs there are infact at strip clubs, and even those ATMs are still ultimately using Visa or MC as a payment processor.
I imagine that if they weren’t already, this event has likely spawned a payment processor independence project internally.
I’d say probably not full fledged, ‘we are actively developing this’ project, but it may have at least spawned some discussion along the lines I above described.
The way large tech corps tend to work is that a whole bunch of at least high level, general concept plans are drawn up, considered in meetings, sorta like cards pulled out of a deck, into your hand… and then there is deliberation as to whether or not to actually ‘play’ said card.
The way I know that above paragraph is that uh, hah, like GabeN, I used to work for MSFT, and a few other companies/nonprofits with a significant tech aspect.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
You appear to be wrong.
geekwire.com/…/behind-scenes-half-life-alyx-valve…
GeekWire: So you’ve been working on this _(HL Alyx) _full-steam since 2016?
Robin Walker: We started in February of 2016, I think, with a small team, and we brought out a small prototype. Then people started to play that, understood what we were trying to do afterward, and started joining up.
We had 80 people on the team when we were about midway through. The exact size of the team I wouldn’t be able to tell you. The way things work at Valve, people organically join once they’ve finished up what they were doing before, and if what you’re doing makes sense to them.
So it was always full steam ahead, I guess, but not in the sense that all 80 people were there from day one.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
Ah.
That’s true.
In fairness, I was trying to assess the capability of Valve to just make their own payment processing system, which they still largely could do.
Granted, this would be a bit of an endeavor…
But uh, fintech stuff is pretty common these days, Valve has a lot of money, and they could easily poach or hire some experts to guide the process of making their own version of something like Plaid or Chime or CashApp or Remitly, etc. but only for their ecosystem, not allow actual user to user direct cash txns, and work that into their own pre-existing Steam and Steam Mobile frontends.
Valve does kinda know a thing or two about servers and server code, I’ve worked a bit on both game network code (as an enthusiast/mod maker/etc) and on import/export transactions amd dbs (professionally)… the actual coding involved in a video game server stack is way, way more complex imo… Valve really only need help with the legalities and regulations of setting up a compliant psuedo bank and payment systems in different countries and such.
Then they could tell PayPal to go fuck themselves.
I am not saying this is likely to happen, just saying it is hypothetically possible… and Valve is kind of known for innovating the gaming space, pushing the envelope, raising the bar, as they say.
But, that being said… all that effort vs just delisting some shitty RenPy smut e-novels based on incest?
Yeah, I’d just can the goonslop too.
I’m seeing about 7000 ‘adult only’ games on the store right now… so… its not like they’ve just banned porn games.
- Comment on It’s the little things 6 days ago:
Wow, that’s much worse lol!
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
They… kind of sort of already have.
You can just throw money into your Steam account, via the mechanism they came up with for Steam Gift cards.
So, buy a physical gift card, or just give Steam your bank/card info, take money out of bank, give to your Steam Gift balance.
So uh, presumably, that Steam Gift Balance doesn’t exist in a bank anymore, beyond being a withdrawl from your account, its now just … a $USD value associated with your Steam account, that you csn now buy anything with, and your original bank/card company has no visibility into that second transaction.
- Comment on It’s the little things 6 days ago:
life on earth would cease to exist quite quickly
This was the first thought that came to my mind on seeing this post.
For starters, basicaly most (all?) plants are fucked, they can no longer internally hydrate, also water in soil behaves totally differently, so …yeah.
Then you’ve got beings with active circulatory systems, who… may to some extent be able to live, but lots of pulmonary / circulatory problems are gonna happen.
I guess maybe totally waterborne life could survive, maybe… but 0 surface tension of water probably changes how salinity works…
Yeah, this would be very bad, lol.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 6 days ago:
Hah, I’d never heard that before!
That is amusing =p
Wait, does muse / amuse have a similar etymology?
A musing, musing, here I go amusing again…
Something like that?
- Comment on Choose wisely 1 week ago:
There isn’t.
Most of the job listings are just fake.
Its time to invent or participate in an alternate or parellel economy, the ‘real’ one does not work.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 week ago:
This does get confusing with say…
“A/An herb.”
Because different dialects pronounce herb differently, sometimes the ‘h’ is pronounced, sometimes not.
I know you specified American English, but even within American English, you can find areas that differ on this, and I’m sure there are other words where this kind of thing crops up.
- Comment on Didn't ask. 1 week ago:
Somewhat ironically… actually using an Alcubierre drive has been theorized to…
…well, basically, when you ‘come out of warp speed’, turns out you’ve been accumulating, and energizing, a whole bunch of exotic particles and radiation along the threshold of your ‘warp bubble’…
… so when you uh, decelerate/stop fucking spacetime so hard… you spew out an immense amount of exotic particles and radiation.
So you wouldn’t even have to nuke it from orbit.
You just have to come out of warp right next to your target planet, and that’d probably boil off a good portion of its atmosphere, and give everything biological on the side facing you lethal radiation poisoning.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
Welcome to Fight Club.
Thought you were getting a mostly dumb, dude bro story about guys in an underground fighting ring?
Surprise!
Our trailers were intentionally deceptive, we had to trick you into consuming something more cerebral, that may actually cause you to have a complex thought.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
Yep, I was very dissapointed as well, having read both books after seeing the first movie, lol.