Looking at some of the news and discussion surrounding the game, it is clear that there are significant financial transactions involved.

The game is also four years old, well beyond the stage of mere interest checks.

It could be argued that the hack was carried out without a specific goal or knowledge of what data might be gained (as a display of hacking prowess, for instance). However, in this case, it’s clear why this particular game was targeted.

Whether or not the users “deserved” it is a separate discussion; one where I would agree with you. Many of the people involved may have been too trusting or gullible in their investments.

The comment you are responding to had meant that a bad actor can cross check other breached datasets for the emails and usernames leaked from Earth2.

Since people reuse not just passwords but emails too, one may get access to other accounts of the impacted users, potentially even to accounts which have not been breached.

At the point, I would consider the author’s scepticism being true a best case scenario, with every new piece of information I learn about Shadows.

It is baffling that it required so many years and attempts for Ubisoft to realise that their modern day storyline sucks. I would argue that it was a glorified side quest even during Desmond’s arc though it went downhill soon after that arc “closed”.

There is absolutely nothing that Ubisoft can say or do to win back my trust. This game is going to be as shallow as any of their recent entries, if not more.

Weird, almost counterintuitive, example. But I get your thought.

A normally inaccessible and poorly lit tourist attraction, like a cave, is a good fit for surveillance for those times when a tourist wanders off or goes against the rules which could be harmful to themselves and others around them.

Having said that, I agree with your thought and that there are a lot of other areas that would be better without surveillance.

Lot of knee jerk reaction here, to the point of not donating and abandoning the greatest collective effort made on the Internet.

The specific suspended page directly relates to an ongoing lawsuit, where WikiMedia is the defendant.

Also, Streisand effect much? :D

If recent news about Antarctica turning green more rapidly is to go by, one might just find fruits there soon.

How many are used to run Java?

There is a point on the scale at which a quantity of something stops making sense. Some sextillion transistors, billions of Java devices, and so on. I always found such statistics weird, as it is just too hard to imagine the numbers. It is far easier to rationalise logically.

The basis for digital computing, that has been aggressively miniaturised and multiplied for decades? Yes, I believe those would be absurdly abundant.

A programming language designed to be platform independent, around the dawn of portable computing? I am sure it must have found its way to a lot of devices.

“… as of August 2024” is literally front and centre in the image.

I completed a marathon of all AC games last year, from the very first title, all the way up to Valhalla.

The games serves as a good reflection of Ubisoft over the years. The issues in the series and Ubisoft’s approach are amplified when one plays the games back to back.

The first title from 2007, albeit with clunky movements, had a promising story which was only elevated by its sequels.

The titles post-Revelations experimented a lot but the series settled at Origins, which was the last playable game, all aspects considered.

Valhalla is the worst of the series. It offers nothing new in terms of gameplay or story. It is just more of the same. Mundane and boring. It kept painfully reminding me that I am playing a video game.

Yet, I firmly believe that Shadows will be a lot worse with its live service mechanics.

Thank you for introducing me to KOReader and Kindle jailbreaking.

Fortunately, the Kindle Paperwhite I use is no longer supported, and is compatible with few of the jailbreaks out there.

A good rabbit hole to dive into over the weekend.

It isn’t.

Something does seem fishy: the total number of votes this post has received (~450 at the time of writing this comment) is only about a third of the number of comments (~1.2k).

I guess people were really pent up about their pedantic tendencies.

I am surprised that 0 A.D. is not mentioned.

Although initially unplayable, the game was fun in the mid-to-late 2000s.

I haven’t checked it out in a while, but it holds high nostalgic value for me.

Crossposted here to learn what fellow community members use in their org-mode configuration. :-)

I do not agree with @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today’s take. LLMs as these are used today, at the very least, reduces the number of steps required to consume any previously documented information. So these are solving at least one problem, especially with today’s Internet where one has to navigate a cruft of irrelevant paragraphs and annoying pop ups to reach the actual nugget of information.

Having said that, since you have shared an anecdote, I would like to share a counter(?) anecdote.

Ever since our workplace allowed the use of LLM-based chatbots, I have never seen those actually help debug any undocumented error or non-traditional environments/configurations. It has always hallucinated incorrectly while I used it to debug such errors.

In fact, I am now so sceptical about the responses, that I just avoid these chatbots entirely, and debug errors using the “old school” way involving traditional search engines.

Similarly, while using it to learn new programming languages or technologies, I always got incorrect responses to indirect questions. I learn that it has incorrectly hallucinated only after verifying the response through implementation. This makes the entire purpose futile.

I do try out the latest launches and improvements as I know the responses will eventually become better. Most recently, I tried out GPT-4o when it got announced. But I still don’t find them useful for the mentioned purposes.

Hermen Hulst must not have heard of !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Thanks again! I already have shell scripts to take care of such characters for me, which operate on entire files. Having a function like this would help for certain regions of a file. :-)

However, it does bug me a bit that some vim motions do not work exactly as intended. Going in, I knew evil-mode would have some gaps. But I assumed those would be some esoteric operations, and not something that I use daily.

Thanks. This helped me highlight the characters. But it still doesn’t play well with vim motions on Emacs.

Here is a demonstration, and below are the keystrokes.

1. C-v to enable VISUAL-BLOCK mode.
2. 9j to select all 9 occurrences.
3. d to delete the selection.

The above vim-motion works on Neovim but not on Emacs with evil-mode.

If anyone wants to try out here is the text I am playing with:

hello ​ world
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hello ​ world
hello ​ world
hello ​ world
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hello ​ world

There are a lot of knee jerk reactions in the comments. I hope few of those commenters have read the article or, at the least, your comment.

Ah! That really does make things easy for migrating emails. Unfortunately I don’t have my own domain yet.