wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

So, word of Maximum Mike (Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk TTRPG the game takes its setting from) is that beyond gameplay reasons, V is effectively immune to cyberpsychosis because of Johnny. Johnny splits the load of the implants with V, and most importantly, Johnny pre-death is already a somewhat functioning cyberpsycho. In cannon Johnny has slaughtered through stealth jobs and says the arm made him do it, which is how he refers to his breakdowns.

I love that they brought Mike in as a radio host in-game.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you really look around at the current consumer tech landscape and think the mods available to anyone but the 1% would be useful?

We already have people with artificial eyes that got shut off when the company that made them went out of business. Similar issues with other implantable medical devices.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

Was a full, but short, novel that I think was summer reading: The Chocolate Wars.

Not traumatizing as much as just a shit message. Don't quietly try to opt out of what the public wants, don't rock the boat, or you'll be executed publicly as a spectacle while your peers cheer.

Kid doesn't want to participate in his high school chocolate selling fundraiser, bunch of other things happen in between, and then his classmates organize a rigged boxing match between him and the biggest school bully where they all cheer while the bully beats the main character to death. And it just hard cuts, ends there.

What a garbage book.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Against. As Lena has indicated, this does not require spinning up a full instance and admin account, but just to spin up a copy of LemVotes, which is open source. Easier than that, I've also read that votes are available without admin rights through queries to the Lemmy API. Even easier, the votes are also already public through the *bins. Just make an account on them.

I understand the use of having a small hurdle to dissuade people, I regularly build them into my scripts at work so people can't accidentally break shit with them. But my point is, removing our instance from LemVotes does not raise that hurdle to any significant degree.

This is a core limitation of ActivityPub. Votes must be sent with username attached for federation to work properly. The data is already out there. Any ActivityPub system that doesn't make them public is just doing so on the front end. It's set dressing, not actual voting privacy.

I don't like that it works this way, but I've chosen to accept it as the cost to be part of the Fediverse, to be uncensorable.

If you want privacy, the path is the same it always has been: rotate accounts regularly.


As far as I'm aware, the only true workaround is in piefed (I think it's piefed at least) where a hidden account with a randomized name is created with your real account, and the hidden one's name is attached to your votes instead of the real account. So it would require your own instance admin to see the link in vote and identity. Or basic levels of observation skills to connect the person posting negative replies is the random username also downvoting.


I also don't like the idea of even being able to opt out. It creates an entirely false sense of security and privacy, and could be seen as a signal that our instance doesn't intend to participate in the wider fediverse transparently and in good faith.

Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!

This has been my argument for a while. If you're doing boilerplate once in a while, it's a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.

If you're doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE's code snippet functionality.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never encountered that in my 30+ years of scarfing down these. At least in the US they are traditionally a chocolatey thing.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah, my phone screen is cracked and I'm holding it together with scotch tape, so there's a slight blur. With it scaled down in this lemmy post, at a glance the yellow shade is indistinct enough that it almost looks like she's nude and holding like a yellow posterboard in her left hand to cover up.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any options for wired VR with the Quest 2?

Oh shit oh fuck

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are mitigations possible against allowing unrecognized MAC addresses from getting network connection when plugged into an open port.

Security is meant to have layers. Defense in depth.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Cropped from [EastCoastitNotes], shared by @stamets@lemmy.world in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31818124

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/parenting@lemmy.world
 

My daughter is a little over two, and through well meaning family and friends we have more toys than we know what to do with.

My wife keeps buying what are essentially (fancy looking) big boxes and just dumping everything in them. Love my wife, but that's not working, it's just hiding some of the mess in a box.

We end up with these hardly ever opened boxes full of unorganized piles of toys that we end up having to dig through to find anything specific, and the toys that my daughter is actively using just end up scattered around the floor so they don't disappear into the box dimension.

Every once in a while my daughter opens and digs through the boxes and dumps half the contents on the floor anyway (not like she can see specific things to grab what she wants) and then we just kind of arbitrarily choose some of it to put back in the box and a new combination of mess to leave out.

Unfortunately we have another baby on the way, so I'm probably not getting my wife to let us toss any of it right now.

I'm leaning towards cubby shelves with individual bins for different "types" of toys like her daycare does, but I wanted to hear what strategies other parents tried, and what has and hasn't worked.

 

This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

 

Machine autotranslation of a french comic from https://lemm.ee/post/64691257

 

Cross post of https://thelemmy.club/post/27042027

AAAARRRRROOOOOOOOOOO

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