lemmyvore

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaws in CUPS Printing Systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you avoid interaction if it’s being done automatically by your machine when you open up a print dialog, and if malicious servers can use the same names as legit printers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to play the original Prince of Persia Trilogy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it fourth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla has already shipped strict privacy mode by default in recent versions of Firefox so they’re already a leg up on this.

  Google is currently trying to transition people to its own proprietary method of tracking (where the browser itself tracks you) so they would love it if third party cookies were no longer usable for that.

  Mozilla has also added a direct tracking feature (anonimized) to Firefox btw. Not sure what their agenda is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt they intend to mine it. For the Russian state is easier to acquire Bitcoin by hacking wallets than mining, and the plebs can’t afford the electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trading is trading and they’d be risking sanctions whether they take payment with Swift or Bitcoin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Ruined Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I beg to differ, 7 was actually well optimized. It ran OK on an office PC with 512 MB of RAM and a 512 MHz CPU.

  You wouldn’t use that because by that time apps like browsers and office were starting to feel restricted by that little RAM to the point you could only run either or. But the OS itself stayed out of the way as much as possible, and if you gave it just a little more RAM (like 1 GB) suddenly you had a usable office machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Ruined Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you only have two kidneys, how will you buy a third Mac?

  Macs are outrageously priced for the hardware you get.

  Non-Apple laptops can be just as reliable and last just as long nowadays, and you get to upgrade them at a fraction of the cost. Actually I should say you get to upgrade them, period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One day Proton will retire their bridge and there will be a lot of Pikachu faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately all the volume-based email providers I know (Purely, MXroute, Migadu) are one or two-person operations. Doesn’t stop them from being excellent, of course.

  I wish the volume-based pricing model was more popular but unfortunately very few people know about it, and is course the large providers prefer to charge by account or add all kinds of artificial limitations because they make much more money that way. Having multiple mailboxes for the same domain costs the provider nothing and yet you get charged per mailbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use a volume-based email provider like MXroute, where you pay strictly for the resources you consume (storage space and mails sent) not made-up limitations like number of accounts, aliases, domains etc. that cost the provider nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What JRPG combat is your favorite?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the puzzle battle style of games like Disgaea 2.

  Not a big fan of the classic “let’s all stand face to face and take turns bashing each other” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against Major Video Game Companies After Nearly 2 Years Of Contract Talks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on who wins the election. Trump would come out with anti-union legislation so the large studios might decide to hold out for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a big deal… for now, because most of the time when I limit DDG results I ask for 1 year back (for solutions that are sort of recent but not ancient).

  I would never limit results to just the last week, and typically posts that are that fresh won’t have enough accumulated knowledge so even if they pop up on the results they’re not really useful.

  Again, that’s just my experience. I’m curious if others have similar ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also P!=NP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s a language where each number is a different instance, and != compares addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really surprised they made two seasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s besides the point, they can probably use any number of alternatives. The problem is the act itself, being suddenly booted off a platform is very disruptive and it takes time to regroup. Also, who’s to say that Meta won’t do that to them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t give specifics because it will depend on the version you play and also it’s been a while and I don’t remember all mods by heart. So it’s just gonna be suggestions; in no particular order:

  • First of all you’ll need the fundamental bug fixes. There’s (still) lots of bugs in vanilla Skyrim.
  • You will need the new improved menus, most mods rely on them.
  • Personally I can’t play without improving the aspect of PC and NPCs, so improvements to bodies, faces and hair are a must for me. If you get down the rabbit hole there’s things like mustaches, beards, tattoos, eyes etc.
  • Armor and weapons is a close second for good looking stuff.
  • You will want a mod that improves polygons as well as something that enhances vegetation, skyboxes, water and weather.
  • There are mods that fill the cities and villages with a lot more… stuff. Things like decorative vegetation, benches etc. You will not be able to play without it once you’ve tried it.
  • The skill trees and the professions all need specific mods that apply balances and fixes. You can also go one step further and apply mods that actually make them interesting.
  • If you can find one for your version of Skyrim, I strongly recommend a mod that improves dragon AI and makes the fights actually challenging. It always seemed ridiculous to me how easy they are by default.
  • Better horses is a good idea, lots of convenience there.
  • Smithing improvements. Nuff said.
  • Personally I can’t stand the default fighting in all aspects of it. I must have didn’t roll and some extra brains for the enemies. Some mods the spruce up the dungeons aren’t bad either.
  • You can get lots of extra quests and NPCs with Interesting NPCs.
  • I typically avoid shaders and ENBs in favor of simpler mods that let you adjust the game colors (contrast, saturation etc.) They have very low impact on performance and give you that color jolt that’s 90% of why people use ENBs anyway.

  On an even more personal note, I like to play like a classic RPG. I get mods that allow multiple companions and interesting NPCs and when I met somebody interesting I take them into my party. There are also mods that let you order them better, you can adjust their flags to set what armor and weapons they prefer, how they level up, and whether they have “plot armor” so they can die for reals. I usually end the game with a party of 4-6 people and it’s a blast. But you may want to adjust the difficulty accordingly as you go out you will start rolling everything.

  Another very interesting approach I’ve tried a couple of times is mods that remove all identification clues (no town names, no directions, maximum map fog of war) and start you in some random point of the map. Add some difficulty mods so you have to be really careful who you meet, perhaps some survival mods, and it’s a real blast. You can also use rogue rules and restart when you die (and not save scum).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sci-fi racing platformer Distance gets a surprise update with Steam Deck improvements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it works with a joystick…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucked because there are people buying that shit, in numbers that turn a profit over the cost of developing it. And it’s a very low cost because the skin support is something they put in when they make the game, and then get an intern to shit out a gaudy skin.

  If you don’t like it you’re obviously not the target demographic anymore. It’s mobile gaming tactics creeping their way on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you do for 1k hours in Starfield?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim came with a built-in mod editor?

  Are you perhaps thinking of the manager they added on Xbox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I needed that laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oral-B electric toothbrushes start at 10€ over here — the model with just one speed and only one brush included, that works with 2xAA batteries. I use mine with rechargeable AA and honestly I’ve forgotten when I got it. Could be 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in poor taste at best. This is a trafficked woman who was being kept on a leash by her trafficker. Whether she had an iPhone is completely irrelevant, as long as she went near people who did the tracking still worked. But if her trafficker was forcing her to carry around an iPhone it’s even more sad.

  At the very least one has to take a moment and chose their words when commenting on trafficking topics. This is actually one of the happy cases — there are traffickers who implant tags into their victims’ bodies in various ways. It’s nothing to make light of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean how nice of Apple? How the hell did you turn this around to be the victim’s fault?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I mean that was the whole point of opening the Doom code wasn’t it? So it would evolve and expand beyond the state of the art at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that already how it works? Are there extensions trust work unchanged on both browsers? At the very least they’d have to maintain them on both addon stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll bring you a clarity of mind and a knowledge of complete vulnerability that you can’t really find outside of other imminently life-threatening situations.

  Now you know how women feel very often, sometimes multiple times in the same day. It’s something they learn to live with their whole lives.

  It’s not hyperbole. When women say “I’d rather meet a bear” they really mean it. It’s the same feeling, but it would happen extremely rarely instead of daily.