MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 1 day ago:
I dk how he kept going for this job. It felt like they kept disrespecting him as a person.
Job searching is literally one massive humiliation ritual. The whole process is tailored to make you happy about accepting a shit deal.
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 6 days ago:
No that’s self-employed.
Technically you could have a B+ version of self-emplyed, that is just: “crime, I set up a online scam/grift to earn ‘passive’ income”
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 6 days ago:
Depends a lot on what you do.
But yeah. It can be a mix of whoring yourself out to google advertising, facebook, instagram, and shudder… tiktok.
I’ve gotten to know a guy in the same business as me whose been doing it long enough to have the momentum to just sit in his tiny storefront location, and have customers coming in the door by word of mouth, and by just having seen the store at some point years earlier.
I am so incredibly jealous. But. I’m a little over a year in and I am starting to pick up clients that heard about me from previous clients, and that is happening more and more.
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 6 days ago:
SSS: You are the guy
Also B: Self-employed
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 1 week ago:
Of course.
Lots of cybercrime has been solved by law-enforcement by matching traffic logs based on timestamps and throughput.
- Comment on What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix? 2 weeks ago:
I use matrix.
I run an instance for myself an immediate family. I also federate with other instances to participate in some dev groups.
The most active matrix space I’m in, is the one hosted by ani.social. Daily activity on anime-related topics, and also fediverse, lemmy and software.
If you want to try it, the main “matrix.org” instance is far from easy to recommend though. Finding good public matrix instances is a challenge. As such the best way is probably to either host one yourself or know someone who does.
They are out there, though. I’ve seen people be happy with pikaviestin.fi, but that’s only for finnish people. Mozilla also has an instance, though I’ve no experience on it.
- Comment on When ‘Free Speech’ Means ‘Agree With Me' 2 weeks ago:
Yes. They both have free speech.
If you can use your words to have them burned alive, so can they.
- Comment on unfathomable 3 weeks ago:
Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.
The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can’t bring themselves to stop making so much money.
The same institution that’s supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.
If they ever stop, it’ll be because they transition to other nicotine products, are shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).
- Comment on Aud 3 weeks ago:
That’s “udi”, actually.
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 3 weeks ago:
It’s just a rating. All cells are rated for some given amount of amps, but you can actually exceed that rating in bursts.
So I’m jokingly pointing out that you can theoretically pull as many watts as you want.
You can turn a MWh of energy into a GW of power, as long as you compress it into a short enough duration.
The battery (or any part of the circuit) just won’t survive the event :D
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 3 weeks ago:
Oh, sorry.
Come to think of it, you can actually pull 930 gigawatts from any battery. Just not for very long.
Does that sokve the problem?
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 3 weeks ago:
Batteries don’t come in MW, GW, or even W. That’s a measure of power. As in how fast it is being created or consumed.
Batteries don’t create or consume power, they store it.
That is measured i Wh, MWh, or GWh.
- Comment on Day 759 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I cannot fucking wait for Control 2.
Remedy’s (remedy@sopuli.xyz) recent games have ton of “every frame a painting” in them. I’m praying so hard their new CEO doesn’t mess it all up, but I am not hopeful.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power
I think that’s partially false equivalence. Acting on those feelings would require that you be OK with harming another person, and a child, no less. Most people aren’t. The overlap comes from the fact that the rich a powrful often are, because that’s how they got rich a powerful.
But the same way a normal person can be attracted to adults, but have no desire to rape, most pedofiles will have no desire to hurt anyone. (That, not the law, is why I think it’s so rare).
Not hurting anyone and respecting consent is the easiest thing ever. Have you ever be so horny you’d fail at those things? I haven’t. And I am a VERY horny person.
Nothing about pedofilia changes that part of how human self-determination works.
You only get the worst of the worst when the type of person that would rape, overlaps with pedofilia. The ones that act on it, DO choose. They are the literal worst among us.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 4 weeks ago:
There are two PINs, PIN1 for ZKP and PIN2 digital signing. The card does nothing without one.
Most EU countries provide some way for citizens to sign documents using a private key tied to their legal personage.
Putting it on the ID card they are given anyway just makes sense.
My final paragraph is there to explain that a lot of “digital signatures” aren’t really signatures in any meaningful way. What goes into the actual file doesn’t matter at all, UNLESS it’s the aforementioned cryptographic signature.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 4 weeks ago:
When a website has you type a name as a signature it’s a legal representation of that signature. There’s nothing cryptographic at all about it. Wjere would you even store the key? I’ve made ways to use Webauthn keys to do this, but no signatory uses these methods.
I claimed no such thing. That is not a digital signature
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 5 weeks ago:
It’s really just a digital way to do the equivalent of printing the document, signing it, and scanning it again. Which is also accepted in a lot of situations.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 5 weeks ago:
The visual signature part of a “aigital signature” is purely cosmetic. The actual signature is the entire file being cryptograohically signed using a örivate key you possess, which any recipient can thenverify came from you using a public key.
This is the case for all government issue signatures (like when using the private key inside a chipped government id card) or any other signature created using a key pair from a issuing authority.
If its not a digital signature in this way, the other way is literally just a file. It can be a vector or an image file, or a straight up scan of a physically signed document. It’s just a picture. It has no digital verification whatsoever.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 5 weeks ago:
I’m referring to the way the game lets you earn everything. There is no upsell after you buy the game. If you want something from the game, you get it by playing.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 5 weeks ago:
The Star Wars Jedi games are genuinely good self-contained no bs single player games.
I can’t comment on anything else.
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve only managed it accidentally.
But usually the pattern is contacting/getting contacted due to some matter that needs discussing. The source for that can be needing some pointers on using someone elses code, or providing feedback on how someone moderates, etc.
For me it’s usually come from participating more extensively. Engaging in community building such as my modding titanfall and hosting northstar servers. Starting a bunch of lemmy communities.
Then, once something gives you a reason to go a couple back and forths into an exchange, and there is mutual interest, it just keeps going. After that you can pick up with the same skillset you’d use with someone you’ve met in person.
The difference is that you’ll need to keep it going by deliberately reviving the conversation now and then. That won’t happen by running into the person face to face or some similar contexy the way it might work with a coworker or someone in your social circle.
- Comment on Is Routine worth playing? 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
Yes.
Absolut yes.
Completely immersive in-world UI with Alien Isolation vibes and WORLD TIER audio design.
- Comment on This mais sound corny but ... 1 month ago:
Guys.
We skipped jeans.
- Comment on What am I doing wrong with Linux/NAS permissions? 1 month ago:
Note, #4 will not apply to files MOVED into the directory. Only files that count a “created”.
- Comment on What am I doing wrong with Linux/NAS permissions? 1 month ago:
No.
Assuming you’re accessing your files via network mounts, those file are being created by the relevant SMB/NFS/SSH daemon. ALL FILES are created by some process or other. If you click “new file” in Dolphin, that process is Dolphin.
Which means there is a umask you can configure.
My network SMB mount that leads to my jellyfin libraries is configured (on the server) to access the filesystem under my user and the shared media group. Hence files it “creates” are always done so with correct permissions. User, group and umask are configurable for each share.
This way, I can copy files from a share containing “my” files, into the media share, and have the owner and group automatically “translate” into what they should be in either direction. Theres not really way to do that directly on the system. It’s something you can only really set up when moving files around between the mounted network share.
If I did the move in the terminal directly on the host system, shit would instantly break.
Files and directories can only have one owner for user and group, each. If files you create belonged to every group you are in, that’d be a permission nightmare, so by default, the group permission is “unused” (it just gets set to the same as your user).
You could add the application that need to access files created by you to your user group, but that’s a lot more permissive than it needs to be (it gets to access all your files with group access granted)
If you’re managing files via network shares, the solution is in their settings.
If you’re managing files on the system directly, that’s trickier. New files will always inherit the group of the parent directory, which solves your problem only some of the time, as it won’t affect files you move into the folder. In those cases you have to fix the group after moving. That, or copy instead of move.
Bottom line: You’re not really supposed to manage this stuff directly.. When you go in and create files directly on the host system, you are bypassing the systems that would normally set permissions inside a share or directory that is being accessed by multiple applications, users, and services.
Making the default of files created in such a way is non-permissive by design. That you have to manually correct the group permissions on a file you just moved in from amother permission environment, is as it should be.
- Comment on What am I doing wrong with Linux/NAS permissions? 1 month ago:
No, you are not expected to cronjob the chmod command.
You want “umask”. That’s the term, you can google it for more info.
Basically, it’s the setting that controls what the default permissions are for the files created by a process.
Jellyfins umask is configurable using the systemd unit file. Arr stack umasks are somewhere in theur settings… Etc.
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 1 month ago:
…
You’re saying people will steal because they can? Do you? Small theft is not exactly hard to get away with. It’s a lot a easier than most professions, but then a lot of engineers and scientists don’t get inti the business for the money. People do difficult things for the hell of it, as long as they arent punished for it, and sometimes even if they are. Nature takes the oath of least resistance? Fucking really?
The reason surveillance is increasing, is because the NEED to steal, is increasing. And hence spending more to prevent ot is making more sense.
Food isn’t optional. If you decrease wages, theft goes up. No matter how hard you police it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You may want to try to deliberately get away from the “unreal fivey” look.
I like the underlying style but the strong reflections and resulting high contrast image really hits that “unreal five” look in a bad way, which I suspect will turn a lot of people off.
It’s unfortunate but “indie unreal five game” is the new “steam asset flip”, in that it is something that makes people skip a game. It’s easy to slap realistic lightning into games now, so it has stopped being an indicator of quality, and slowly become the opposite.
Try to find something that works with the games style that you can do to the shading or post processing that sets you apart.
I might mute reflections a bit and add at least some grime and imperfections to surfaces. The cleanliness of surfaces together with unreals realistic lighting is a big part of the “indie unreal five” look.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 1 month ago:
Aw. Didn’t get my name on there, but my communities sure are there.
“Moe” is in the regex. Buddy really don’t like weebs, huh.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 month ago:
“You hate hotdogs? YOU MUST LOVE BURGERS THEN”