umbraroze
@umbraroze@kbin.social
Rose here. Also @umbraroze for non-kbin stuff.
- Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on I'm a sucker for big tree 5 months ago:
In middle of a couple of worldbuilding projects. Haven't really had much good ideas for the fantasy project lately.
Ah HA! Maybe I'll do some mild subversion of expectations.
Maybe one of the most famous sites in this world, where people come to visit from far and wide, has a tiny old withered tree.
...I mean, there could be a lot of legitimate logical reasons why this site could me important. Maybe the tree has a really fascinating story behind it.
Heck, there's probably many such places on our world too! Can think of at least one from the top of my mind.
I should write this down.Last year I felt really crappy as far as my writing projects go, but in the last few months, if there's one thing I've learned it's that even smallest ideas can sometimes break the writer's block. Keep writing them down!
- Comment on What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year ) 5 months ago:
Vampire Survivors completely drew me in this year.
A couple of years ago, I was having dreams of designing train lines in Cities Skylines. A couple of days ago I was having a dream of weapon combos in Vampire Survivors. That's how you spot a good and influential game.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Personal homepages. What we used to call 'em in the nineties.
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 6 months ago:
There are a lot of people who go "I tried to learn X through Duolingo and failed". Sure, that's probably true, because staring at the app is not how language learning works. Much like 100 years ago, people would have said you can't learn a language by reading a single book.
Duolingo is great for basics of the language, vocabulary and constant daily lessons. But you always need more. There's a whole language sphere out there. People actually using the language and whatnot.
I started studying French through Duolingo and about 6 months later I was like "I really need a grammar book and a dictionary, dammit". Year in, I was like "I should try reading news in French and maybe try a book."
- Comment on Let's all be thankful. 7 months ago:
Newspaper Nerds appreciation day! ...Maybe. The dude's political signalling was fucking all over the place.
- Comment on can a hacker hack my accounts remotely?? 7 months ago:
Depends on the type of account, but here are some of the common methods of how this might happen:
- The attacker could be straight up guessing the password. (One possible way to mitigate this: the website can go "wow, 10 failed login attempts from that source. I'm going to ignore all attempts from there for 24 hours.")
- The attacker could be using previously exposed passwords. (One possible way to mitigate this: The websites should immediately require password reset for all users when that kind of data breach happens. For users: never use same password for multiple different services, certainly never reuse a compromised password even if it's for a different service. Also: haveibeenpwned.com)
- The attacker, currently using the same network, could hijack the session. (This was a really huge problem back in the day. In this day and age, websites should be using HTTPS, which limits this very much. Still possible if the site doesn't use HTTPS, and through some other vectors, e.g. malware or hijacked network hardware).
Also: Malware is a really scary big problem in that they're rarely targeting you specifically. Why do that, when they can million people at the same time and sift through that stolen data for most valuable stuff, right?
- Submitted 8 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from 10 months ago:
iOS user: "DUDE have you seen [new iOS feature]? This is the bee's knees!" [10 minutes of gushing omitted for brevity]
Android user: "...Yeah, we've had that for 15 years." - Comment on Go ahead 10 months ago:
Oh! Ancient-ass Slashdot memes are still alive in new social networks!
I still haven't seen the film, though, so I have no idea what it's like. Heard it was weird though.
- Comment on Elon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter 11 months ago:
Elon: "I'm going to delete this thing."
Everyone else: "NO! Why would you do that kind of thing?"
Elon: "O-o-okay! B-b-but I'm going to delete something today! That other thing, then!"
(Elon continues to read the hypothetical The Best Of Dilbert's Pointy-Haired Boss book and gets so many ideas, folks)