Most games were never made to be modded. The communities are hacking mods into these games, many of which were even designed to make modding harder. (Because mods compete against sequels or something? I dunno. Intellectual property is a mental illness.) It’s not terribly surprising that games that weren’t meant to be modded have confusingly inconsistent methods for loading mods. Because those mods work fundamentally differently from game to game. If a mod happens to be easy-ish to install, chances are it’s either quite a simple mod (a model/texture replacement or some such, or just something that’s not terribly hard to mod) or a lot of work has been put into making it easier.
Unfortunately I’m familiar with the term. It refers to Latin people immigrating into the U.S. without documentation by swimming across the Rio Grande river which forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
I came over to Lemmy during the API pricing thing. I’ve never used a smartphone app (official or otherwise) to access Reddit. Just old.reddit.com
via a browser on a clicky-typey computer. I quit Reddit out of solidarity. And because it was clear Reddit was getting shittier in every way.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the one. There was no (attempt at) comedy in the one I was talking about. I kindof doubt I’d be able to find the name of the one I’m thinking about, but I might try later if I get a minute.
Reddit’s about to get shittier. Again. Either they’ll kowtow to Musk and make it against the rules to ban X links or they’ll give some bland, noncommital, centrist statement about how they respect the hard work their mods put in to keep Reddit going or whatever. I really doubt they’ll make any unequivocal statement condemning Musk as the neo-Nazi shitbag he is.
I have a vivid memory of staying home sick from school and watching daytime educational programming on PBS. There was a (dry, low-budget, old) math show for kids on. They had a “skit” where a couple of teenagers went and got replacement tires for their car. They came in with a set of numbers that I assume had to do with the tire measurements. (Maybe hub diameter, hub thickness, and tire outer diameter.) They found tires that matched on two of those numbers, but the guy was impatient and said it had to be basically the same because it matched on two parameters. Then in the next scene, the same teens were driving the car with brand new tires and they got pulled over for speeding. The driver was sure the speedometer said he wasn’t speeding, but the new outer tire diameter changed the calculation, meaning the speedometer read lower than they were actually going.
This is the first time in my life the memory of that show has ever come in handy.
If just one of them turns out to be true they can call me up and rub it in my face.
I tried something somewhat like this once.
He’d constantly be like “something big is coming very soon, just wait.” And I kept pressing him for “due dates”. Like by what date are you 99% sure “it” (like, official announcements that ETs have been living among us disguised as humans since the 60s or whatever) will have happened? Because if he gives a date, I can finally nail him down and say “hey, so, you were wrong, see? The incorrectness of your prediction is some amount of disconfirming evidence right?”
So when he finally did tell me a “due date” for one of his conspiracy theories, I kept that in the forefront of my brain. He said that Trump would arrest “thousands” of high-profile Democrat pedophiles engaged in child sex trafficking within a year after his first term in office started.
Well, it happened! Not really. All the right-wing news outlets vastly misrepresented an FBI sex trafficking bust that had nothing to do with Trump or “high-profile Democrats” as the one and the same massive bust of sex-trafficking high-profile Democrats that Q and Fox News and my conspiracist former friend had predicted. And it fell within the timeframe he predicted.
Of course, it was horse shit. This was no confirmation of his wacky theories. But to him, I was just being willfully blind to the obvious vindication of his prediction.
The lesson I took from that was that the fantasy they live in is far to resilient against actual reality to be phased even a little bit by any actual real-world events. And promising someone bragging rights “if such-and-such of your predictions come to pass” isn’t going to pan out for you as well as you might hope. It would require them to have a connection to reality for that to work, and they don’t.
My solution is scp with termux. I can’t suggest any better alternative.
Aside from what everyone else is saying, don’t use dependencies that you don’t have to. Particularly don’t use big “frameworks”. If you use any dependencies, use tiny, focused ones that do one thing. The more code there is underneath what you’re writing, the more likely it will cause problems that you will internalize. I’ve seen it many times. Spring (Java), for instance, will do something not as advertised, and devs will think they’re bad coders because they “can’t write code that works as it’s supposed to.” Avoiding that vicious cycle will make you a better coder in the long run.
Also, when things aren’t working with your dependencies, do google for fixes, but don’t google too long. If you haven’t got a solution after an hour of no progress, look at your dependencies’ source code until you understand why and how to fix it.
Everyone needs a Paul Stamets on speed dial for emergency mycological classification.
The U.S. has always been bullies, fundamentalists, militant, entitled. All the things you don’t want in an ally. Yes, the U.S. is worse now. (I’m American, by the way.) But I hope U.S. allies have kindof seen this coming and made arrangements to weather this sort of thing, even if it lasts forever. Myabe that was kindof the point of the E.U., for instance.
The U.S. isn’t the only country going off the rails, though. Think of Brexit, for instance. I’m not saying the U.K. government is anywhere near as… quite frankly openly fascist as the U.S.'s is right now, but at least the U.K. isn’t immune. Unfortunately no country is.
I’m definitely excited for this technology to start getting into slicers. In the meantime, I might have occasion to want so much strength in a part that I’d go to the trouble of using a script.
I currently use Cura, but I’m disgusted with Cura and looking to switch to PrusaSlicer. Cura’s a great slicer, but a terrible program. I use Raspberry Pis as desktop systems frequently. Cura used to work on ARM, but doesn’t any more. I’m also switching my main x86_64 box to Gentoo. It seems like they’ve added just tons of ridiculous libraries as dependencies to Cura that make it so hard to build Cura, the Gentoo devs have given up trying. Cura also doesn’t play nice with Wayland. And it will only run on an old version of Python, which makes getting it to run on a modern system challenging. In short, the slicing isn’t the problem. It’s getting it installed and running on your system of choice.
So, given that I’m probably switching to PrusaSlicer soon anyway, I’ll be in just the right place to start using scripts for PrusaSlicer/Orca/etc like this one. Hopefully this feature makes it into PrusaSlicer upstream soon as well.
(I do say I’m probably switching to PrusaSlicer. I don’t really have a good grasp on what features I’ve depended on in Cura are absent in Prusaslicer. Like, does it have tree supports? Support blocking? Top surface ironing? Not that all of those things are deal breakers, but some might end up being a big deal to me. And if so, I might have to go to the trouble of wrangling building Cura or holding off on switching to Gentoo or running Cura in Docker or something. We’ll see.)
Final thought:
Advertising? Even if only word-of-mouth.
It would have to be pretty secretive. But it’s not like there aren’t other services out there that do similar things illegally under cover of anonymity. (Silk Road, anyone?)
I wasn’t saying anything about who bears “fault”. My aim with that post (and honestly all the posts I’ve made in this thread) was about understanding the details of the vulnerability well enough for folks to be able to ascertain a) whether they’re affected and b) how to remediate.
About “fault”, I’m not sure I really agree that’s the best way to talk about these things in general unless they did them purposefully. (WEI, for instance, was malicious bullshit. But I don’t have any particular reason to think in this specific situation Microsoft didn’t handle responsible disclosure properly or anything.)
Clearly Microsoft made a boo boo in choosing to trust the vulnerable tools in the first place, but vulnerabilities are inevitable.
I’ll definitely say I don’t consider Microsoft “trustworthy” enough to protect my stuff. If only because Microsoft stuff is bloated and has a huge amount of attack surface. But also because their history make it clear they’ll perpetrate really shitty things against their users on purpose. The former could only really be addressed by them slimming down their technology stack. The latter by abolishing the profit motive.
And also, in general UEFI is apparently a cluster fuck of poor, buggy implementations. So there’s that.
In all, this is one doesn’t strike me as terribly high on the “blameworthy” meter unless you just consider it a symptom of Microsoft being assholes, which is undeniably true.
I don’t know where you got the idea that the key fob doesn’t transmit a signal when at rest. If you’re talking about keyless ignition with the button on the car (not remote start via key fob) the key fob transmits a response when it gets a request from the car.
The bad guys have a clever trick, though. They put one guy in your car and one guy next to you. The guy at the car hits the ignition button transmits the signal to the other guy, who transmits it to your fob. The second guy then transmits the response from your fob back to the guy in the car, who then sends it to the car. As far as your car knows, the fob is in the car. So it starts. A Faraday cage can protect against this.
I unironically want to see this movie.
Yes! Screen capture! Standardize it! Standardize it! Then get FFMPEG and Zoom to adopt the new standard!
Also, that Simon guy sounds like a good and nice guy.
Uninstall it and make the world a slightly better place?
Revenge for not sending Hurricane Dorian where he and his sharpie said it would go.