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stankmut,

The negativity is sort of infectious too. I just picked up Runeterra for the first time since last year. Last time I was playing, I was starting to second guess myself about buying the event pass because of all the dead game rhetoric. Why invest any time and money into the game if it turns out their right and the game ends up being shut down?

Streaming metrics are dumb. I love the game, but just thinking about watching someone stream it puts me to sleep.

stankmut,

Bug spray is interesting. Often times it’ll work, but it won’t immediately knock them down. They’ll crawl away laughing and then die behind the couch. I would like a little more stopping power though.

stankmut, (edited )

Pathfinder changelings are very different from D&D changelings which is what the meme is referencing. D&D changelings are a race of shapeshifters from the Eberron setting. Pathfinder changelings are the children of hags and are overall closer to the actual folklore of a changeling.

stankmut,

They haven’t though? I just checked the list of blocked instances and they are both still there.

stankmut,

Costco doesn’t have hand baskets anywhere. The word basket in the image refers to the cart.

stankmut, (edited )

If you’re looking at critics reviews, you have to be careful when you see a lot of good reviews for a movie. A 100% on rotten tomatoes is more likely to be a boring slog of art that only a movie critic who is desperate for something different can enjoy than something the average person wants to see.

My rule of thumb: if a movie you were excited for got amazing reviews then go see it. If are just browsing a list of top rated movies currently in theaters and you haven’t heard of it, do more research to figure out why it’s well rated. At least you’ll know what you’re in for if you do go see it.

stankmut,

The human body is truly amazing.

stankmut,

I don’t know about the other two, but I know one of them is SimAnt.

stankmut,

It does increase the capacity of roads. Two lanes holds twice as many cars as one lane. Four lanes hold twice as many cars as two lanes.

You’re probably thinking of induced demand, but that’s related to traffic congestion and not capacity. More lanes ultimately means more cars are getting places, but any individual car will see that congestion is just as bad as it used to be.

stankmut,

I actually had a whole paragraph about junctions being a limit and then deleted it since i didn’t feel like it added to my point. I also was going to add a point about how much space the lanes take up and that even if more lanes added capacity, it didn’t necessarily mean they were the right option.

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

stankmut,

Most people complaining about imessage are people who bought Android devices. In places where imessage use is prevalent, people with iphones tend to leave their android owning friends out of group chats and complain about their text bubble color being green if they text an android phone.

stankmut,

Well they aren’t leaving you out because of the color of the text bubble. It’s because having a phone that isn’t an iPhone in the group causes it to fallback to using MMS instead of imessage. They lose a lot of the features that iPhone users love about imessage and the quality of shared images and video is much worse. The moment someone tries to share a video and everyone just gets a blurry smudge of pixels is the moment all the iPhone users get their own group together.

stankmut,

I haven’t said anything about the EU. There’s no way the EU would address this, it’s almost exclusively a US problem.

stankmut,

Oh, I see the problem. You seem to have forgotten that you wrote:

Maybe don’t buy Apple hardware?

I was responding to your point. You appeared to be arguing that this was a problem that could just be solved by just buying a different phone. I was saying that the people complaining are already the ones buying different phones.

stankmut,

The SEC is suing to get a court order to compel his testimony in an investigation. Assuming the court grants that order, which is likely, he will be forced to cooperate with the SEC or face the prospect of sitting in jail for contempt of court.

Weak IP Address Evidence Collapses 'Non-Responsive Movie Pirates' Lawsuit TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Voltage Holdings has lost its appeal against a 2022 Canada Federal Court decision that denied default judgment against a number of unnamed internet subscribers. Voltage claimed that the internet users, who all received two prior infringement notices, shared the movie ‘Revolt’ on BitTorrent or authorized someone else with...

stankmut, (edited )

Every piracy lawsuit deals with that question. They simply subpoena the ISP, asking who was given that IP address at the given time. The ISPs keep track of that and they will give you up in the face of a subpoena.

It’s why people always make such a big deal about using a VPN that doesn’t log. The idea is that if your VPN provider doesn’t keep track of your activities, it can only respond to a subpoena with a “Sorry, we don’t keep track” letter instead of selling you out.

stankmut,

I’m just saying that the ‘IP addresses change’ argument is something courts have been dealing with for decades at this point. It’s a useless argument since ISPs keep track of who was assigned which IP at which time.

stankmut,

The user mentioned a blocklist, but I’m not able to find that list either. If we are going to accuse someone of maliciously pushing an agenda, I’d like a little more proof before jumping on the bandwagon.

stankmut,

It might be worth throwing in something at the bottom of the page explaining why you struck it through.

stankmut,

Password must contain an uppercase letter.
Password must contain a special character.
Not that one.
Not that one either.
Nearly had it there! Too bad you only get 5 attempts. Account locked.

stankmut,

I thought they patched that out. It was very important to getting those incredibly short speed runs, but some people accidentally skipped all of act 2 so they patched it out.

stankmut, (edited )

I believe Second run in this context refers to getting the title on game pass after it leaves Stadia exclusivity. This document is pretty old, probably originally written while Stadia was still around.

stankmut, (edited )

This article and a lot of people reading it seem to have interpreted second run as second rate. This is estimating they’ll need to offer $5m to get Baldurs Gate 3 on game pass after it leaves PC/Stadia exclusivity.

stankmut,

The ads thing is because you probably have a different idea of what an ad is then they do. Usually when they are talking about ads, it’s self-promotional stuff. Teams being built in, Onedrive asking to be setup, and especially Edge constantly begging you to give it a chance.

There’s also that link to the Microsoft store for Candy Crush in the start menu of fresh installs of Windows 10. I imagine that’s what kicked off the whole ‘loaded with ads’ thing. That’s one anyone can agree on.

stankmut,

Starship designers assumed that you want to slow down when you let off the throttle, much like today’s One Pedal mode in electric cars. Otherwise you would’ve engaged cruise control if you wanted to keep the same speed.

stankmut,

The PS5 is the size of a small boat. The only way Nintendo can release a portable console that matches it would be if it came in a wheelbarrow.

stankmut,

Sad to see that we might have to wait until 2028 for a better looking Playstation console. I like that it’s half of the height of the PS5, should make it easier to find a place for it.

stankmut,

If you hold down one of the modifier keys, either Options/Alt or Cmd I don’t quite remember which, and then click the maximize button it does the normal Windows style maximize.

stankmut,

It usually maximizes it Windows style as well. I feel like I’ve had more inconsistency in behavior from that (like it would sometimes just fill the width but not the height), but nothing I can reproduce right now.

stankmut,

Android does the same thing. I stopped getting telegram notifications because I hadn’t opened it up in a month. It’s a privacy feature. If you haven’t used an app in a while, it removes all the permissions it had.

stankmut,

Pihole and other DNS based blockers don’t work on YouTube. It serves ads from the same domain it serves ordinary videos.

stankmut,

It’s considered a slur against disabled people in Britain. It has the same origins in the US, but now the word is mostly used to describe high energy kids who can’t sit still.

stankmut,

Just don’t use one pedal mode.

stankmut,

I’m saying if you want an EV6 and you don’t care about one pedal driving, then you don’t have to worry about that problem. It’s an optional driving mode that I personally don’t use since I dislike it.

stankmut, (edited )

There aren’t a lot of options for browser engines if you don’t want to spend forever playing catch up while writing your own. My understanding is that Gecko, which Firefox uses, isn’t as easy to build on top of. The idea with using chromium is that you can focus on building a custom ui or fancy new features without worrying about web pages rendering incorrectly.

stankmut,

I think that is just how the article described it.

The actual bill says:

…possess or transport edible cannabis products or lower-potency hemp edibles infused with a combined total of 800 milligrams or less of tetrahydrocannabinol

stankmut,

The article just described the law wrong. It does use the dose of THC in the actual law.

stankmut,

Is there any evidence that the exploit works in a browser? A few comments on the article suggested that the Javascript engines in browsers protect against timing attacks like these.

Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame? **UPDATE**

I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”,...

stankmut,

The comment/post ratio for active users on Lemmy is 100%. An active user on Lemmy is defined as someone who has made a comment or post within the last month.

stankmut,

You haven’t used Linux until you’ve accidentally destroyed your install. Reversible damage like uninstalling your shell or breaking your display server counts as partial credit.

stankmut,

That requires you to have android TV. I don’t have enough HDMI ports to go around to add another device just for watching Youtube.

stankmut, (edited )

Nothing like seeing comments calling trans people the “Karens of the lgbtq community” with tons of upvotes to make you feel nice and welcome. Even the not transphobic person that the reports were about showed up to kindly let us know that every trans woman they know has a huge chip on their shoulder.

Edit: I remembered that this instance disables downvoting. This is the exact reason I’ve always been a fan of downvotes. If a mod won’t remove transphobic content, at least you know that the community around you disagrees with them.

stankmut,

Most elevators I’ve seen in the US have a minimum time for the doors to be open. Hitting the closed button won’t do anything, unless you had hit the open door button to keep them open past that time. So if you hit the open door button right before the doors closed to let someone in and they tell you they are actually going down, you can hit the close button and it’ll immediately close.

stankmut,

The subscriber count you see is based in the instance you are on. 7000+ subscribers are from lemmy.world. The bot accounts people complain about are on unsecured instances. We haven’t seen proof of any activity from them and they wouldn’t show up in the subscriber count here.

stankmut, (edited )

Do we know if Kbin counts active users the same way that Lemmy does? Lemmy only counts users have made comments or posts recently as being active, people who only vote are ignored.

stankmut, (edited )

I’m not sure if that’s true. Lemmy only calculates active users as people who have posted or commented a time frame. The graphs that I’m seeing for kbin’s active user count matches their total user count.

stankmut,

That math just doesn’t work out. Lemmy.world has ~25% of its total user base commenting and posting, which is really high compared to established social media platforms. Kbin has 62,195 total users and 61,632 active users. There’s just no way that kbin has 99% of its user base commenting and posting.

stankmut,

They aren’t trying to move to be completely cloud based. That was a bad headline that misconstrued what they were actually doing. The article actually just talked about how they wanted Windows to be fully streamable from the cloud as an option.

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