Sophocles

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[–] Sophocles 30 points 6 days ago

Tis the season for medically inaccurate skeletons

[–] Sophocles 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Looks delicious! There are a couple of techniques to get good pics of food; here are a couple I can think of off the top of my head:

Take the picture in an area void of distractions like an empty table
Center the item of interest in the middle of the plate and make sure it's clean of crumbs or fingerprints
Use garnish to make colors pop (e.g. like green chives on white mashed potatoes)
Take the pic in good lighting, sunlight from a window is best
Get close enough to the food to fill the whole frame, leaving a little space on the edges . Get even closer to get good food textures

[–] Sophocles 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Chili powder is a good one to have. I make mine from arbol, guajilo, and ancho chilis. Adjust arbol for spice, ancho for richness and flavor, and guajilo for tang and smoke.

Edit: typo

[–] Sophocles 3 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of pre-1990 games are pretty clunky, so you kinda have to see them either as someone from the era would or try to appreciate them for what they are today. That being said, a lot of them are still fun with this in mind.

The Gauntlet series is probably my favorite early game. It's better played with 2-4 people, but can be played alone. It's essentially a dungeon crawler, but the levels and enemies are interesting and fun to navigate.

Some other good ones are Dig Dug (pacman but more fun and underground), Galaga or Galaxian (arcade space shooters), Adventure for the Atari 2600 (first rpg and first easter egg in video game history), Rampage (be a giant monster and destroy buildings), 1943 (airplane shmup (shoot em up) with cool powerups and pixel art) and toobin (also a shmup where you're on an inertube and navigate perilous waters. Sounds boring but it has really cool level progression and game mechanics later in the game).

[–] Sophocles 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Halo 4 theme was so good that I would let it play out before starting a game most of the time. Definitely my favorite title theme.

Some other good ones are Skyrim, LOZ Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars Republic Commando

[–] Sophocles 6 points 1 month ago

I've used most yt frontends (freetube, invidious, newpipe, etc.) and Grayjay is probably the one that breaks the least for me. Google is constantly trying to break all of them, so they are all on and off, but Grayjay seems to be on top of fixing breakages very quickly. It's not perfect, but it is definitely worth the privacy pros.

[–] Sophocles 2 points 1 month ago

Autocorrect lol. I indeed meant "Cavender's"

[–] Sophocles 5 points 1 month ago

Me putting horsey sauce on everything πŸ‘€

[–] Sophocles 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love using turmeric. You'd be srprised how well it pairs with so many things, plus it's very healthy. It goes naturally with a lot of middle eastern and south asian food, but you can also add it to sauces and soups for warm and earthy notes (if that's your thing like me).

As for spice mixes, I love Cadaver's greek seasoning. It's pretty simple (salt, pepper, organo, with a few others) and you can enhance pretty much anything with it

[–] Sophocles 10 points 1 month ago

I have a 1 sided MΓΆbius strip die that I call Predestined Choice. If a player wants to do something that goes against fate, or a deity that controlls time/events etc. I tell them to roll for predestined choice and hand them the die. More of a joke than a feature, but it could be the same for an all 5 sider

[–] Sophocles 1 points 1 month ago

I stand by what I said, and you're misunderstanding my point. I'm not comparing mullvad to google, it was an analogy. Plus a browser handles processes in the Application layer (layer 7) in the OSI model, and therefore is a very essential part of the chain of services required for telecommunication. This is a first year cybersecurity concept.

Mullvad does collect a very small amount of info; see their privacy policy., especially in regards to payment. Seeing that most users probably don't use Monero, Mullvad does have a small amount of info on them. However, this is not what my point is.

While this is a very mininal amount of data, my point is that consolidating more information points into 1 company is a bad idea, no matter the company, and no matter the degree of data collection. You cookies, browsing history, dns record, etc. are all now potentially linked to your payment info as well as http requests, tls encrypted traffic, and network activity via the same company via both browser and VPN.

Side note: a similar opsec strategy to prevent this is defederation, which denies complete control to any 1 entity. (Lemmy!)

If mullvad ever became unhinged (which I doubt would happen, but let's entertain the thought), your entire internet access would be compromised at the browser and the network level, rather than just one or the other. You can break this up over multiple trustworthy applications to fix this. Another analogy would be to use librewolf on linux with Mullvad VPN, which are all tustworthy and come with a degree of separation as well. Now if mullvad were to go crazy, it would not affect your OS or your browser, since you were using librewolf and linux. There are less information points to work with.

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I have been looking into data removal tools like Mozilla Monitor and Incogni, which charge a monthly price to remove your data from data broker sites. According to Mozilla, all they need is your name, bday, and address. I know doing this myself would be more efficient, but I don't have that much free time on my hands.

I already take source preventative measures like using alternative OSes, always on VPN, using foss/privacy friendly apps and software etc. so all that is really out there is likely to be just government or job related information. If my threat model is simply anti-corporate data harvesting, security against convenience crimes, and basic privacy, how valuable are services like this? Are they worth just paying 1 month for and then cancelling?

 

As a home-cook and foodie I love taking inspiration from as many cultures as I can when I cook. One of my personal goals is to make at least 1 dish from every country and every major city around the world, and I've been compiling a list of my favorite dishes from each country to research and create versions of my own. I have tried and created many dishes from well-known countries, but I would love to know more about the culture and cuisine of places that are less talked about or less well represented.

So what are your favorite dishes and cuisines from your local city or country? Or local dishes you know of from other places? Or maybe you have your own list of your favorites?

My addition: Garbage Plates from Rochester NY. They sound strange at first but have become one of my comfort foods. When they are done well, they hit the spot like no other. As for a lesser known dish I absolutely love Roti Canai which is a type of curry and bread from Malaysia.

My list so far:

Japan: Spicy Miso Ramen

South Korea: Curry Tteokbokki

China : Lo Mein

Taiwan: Mongolian Beef

Thailand: Pad Thai

Malaysia: Roti Canai

Singapore: Singapore Street Noodles

India: Lamb Marsala

Syria: Maqluba

Libya: Couscous Bil-bosla

Turkey: Gozleme

Greece: Lamb over Rice

Russia: Stroganoff

Italy: Carbonara

Germany: Rahmshnitzel

Belgium: Liege Waffle

France: Croque Monsieur

UK: Lamb Tikka Masala

Sweden: Kottbullar

Iceland: Pylsur

Canada: Poutine

US: Garbage Plate

Mexico: Carne Asada Tacos

El Savador: Charamuscas

Trinidad: Dahl

Jamaca: Peanut Punch

Guyana: Pepper Pot

 

The Minish Cap is one of my favorite games of all time and definitely my favorite Zelda game. Everything from the dungeon puzzling, to the story, to the music is perfection, and the synergy between Capcom and Nintendo was like no other.

Do you guys have any reccomendations for similar games? Specifically in relation to the gameplay e.g. 2d puzzle dungeons, adventure fantasy, creative items, etc.

 

So I went to update my apps and was greeted with these warnings in FDroid. A quick and basic search online and in various communities yielded no news regarding a major compromise in Fennec and Mull, does anyone know more about this or have you seen any news regarding a vulnerability? Curious if this is a false positive or if there is something going on with firefox forks.

 
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