doom_and_gloom

doom_and_gloom , 4 days ago

The game that changed everything, at least to my memory. It kicked off a new and exciting era in gaming. It gave us CS, DoD, and who could forget playing as Barney the security guy in Blue Shift. A landmark title imo.

doom_and_gloom , 8 days ago

Yet with those 100 watts, the brain cannot model itself in this detail - even though it is the literal embodiment of it! A strange thing to consider.

doom_and_gloom , 8 days ago

Not so different, I agree. But like you said, it's still a weird thing to think about.

doom_and_gloom , 11 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Mother 2 is the best game of all time and if you disagree, Ness' bat would like to have a word with you. Paula will pray for whatever is left of your soul when he is done.

Nintendo digitally re-released the original strategy guide awhile back, but I think my copy is faulty because I can't smell the scratch and sniffs...

doom_and_gloom , 11 days ago

I hope you can get to both of them soon... especially EB.

doom_and_gloom , 22 days ago

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doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That's just trading one privacy weakness for another, without being able to prove that original weakness has actually even been mitigated.

It make financial sense to provide this option, but "pay for privacy" is a questionable way to describe the transaction.

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

The best thing about fascism is that it is inept.

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

Use software with an active community, don't install things you don't need, update regularly, and be thankful that you probably aren't worth using a zero-day backdoor on. Your telecom provider, on the other hand, might be - but there's not much you can do about that!

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

Self-agency is even more important for democracy than privacy.

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

What is your favorite game in the series?

The one with dinosaurs!

What is the first entry you ever played?

The first one.

What aspects do you adore about it?

Tank.

What doesn’t work for you?

Tank.

on a more serious note

Great series that has covered a lot of ground. It's hard to talk about any of them without talking about all of them.

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

I hear people talk about Apple and its "superior" privacy relatively often. But yes, they still see it as different from the others.

Apple exposes less to the user's visibility, and it seems what is out of sight is out of mind!

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

Eh, I don't think it's obvious. They would have to be more transparent for anything to be obvious.

The FBI requests these days are just to preserve the image of due process, they can already unlock iPhones on their own. And they aren't the only ones.

nobody thinks about apple being the bad one here.

Graphene users do :)

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

But their 250+ government contracts would be at risk if they didn't collect all that data!

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

I don't know about R&D expenses, but the experimental device itself is described as low-cost and using off-the-shelf parts.

doom_and_gloom , 1 month ago

I just lost an hour of my day reading the paper, but it was definitely worth it. And not just for the cute maple leaf video. Very cool development. I think it is going to facilitate a lot more research in many other fields.

doom_and_gloom , 2 months ago

Kirby is perfect. They are my hero. And they could eat all of your heroes.

doom_and_gloom , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Doomguy is actually a post-doomer:

He knows that the mega-corporations are evil and that the world's future is hopeless. He knows he isn't going to save anyone.

But he keeps killing the demons, because it's simply the right thing to do. It's who he is. Why did he get sent to Mars in the first place? Because he spoke up about the injustices he witnessed in the Marines. And as every Marine knows, that's the worst possible thing you could do for your career trajectory.

But doomguy doesn't care. Because doomguy doesn't believe in other Marines, in corporate bigwigs and other cultists, in the scientists naively working towards enslaving the galaxy, or in ignorami such as you or I. Doomguy has been liberated from the chains of hope.

Now he lives a simple path, following his own dharma: Doomguy sees fucked up shit, and he fucks it up.

A true role model for those seeking reason in a life bereft of hope. Doomguy teaches us how to find meaning in the process, rather than the outcome.

Flowers can grow even in the most barren desert, and a Zen master can arise among even the most despondent. The demons cannot bear one with such control over the elements of their own faith and despair. And so, generation after generation, they taught their spawn to fear the coming of doomguy: The one who would overcome the trappings of hope and ego to selflessly deliver justice against his masters.

Only one who would sacrifice it all could destroy it all - to pursue ruin as progress - and only one who truly spites the mortal coil can offer such a sacrifice. Doomguy is the best of us.

doom_and_gloom , 6 months ago

A lot of music plugins (for example virtual instrument VSTs) use copy protection that might be at your level.

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Anger adjusted: Anger now up 300% due to multiplier

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago

There are two different camps that enjoy cyberpunk: One camp appreciates the warning, and the other camp idolizes the dystopia.

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Better hurry:

The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago

Yikes. Don’t ever let anyone tell you Apple is eco-friendly.

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago

You might be encountering different discussions on lemmy than wherever you hung out previously. I’ve seen people raving about Mullvad for years. The fact that it was already a talking point is why there was so much conversation when they dropped port forwarding, at least as far as I can tell.

doom_and_gloom , 8 months ago

Depends on what kind of idiot you’re trying to escape.

doom_and_gloom , 8 months ago

I would never trust Wired’s interpretation on a matter such as this.

I did read the Tech Crunch article, and I understand that users must be given tools now to filter instead of Parliament dictating what is legal but harmful - which does sound like an improvement -, but somehow I am even more concerned about the law due to how untrustworthy I found the authors’/supporters’ rhetoric to be. I think there might be some truth to this, though:

“Nothing is getting watered down or taken out when it comes to children,” she argued. “We’re adding extra in. So there is no change to children.”

And that makes everything else sound like a spin to me. I think this bill is too expansive to be transparent, and I do suspect that is in some part intentional.

doom_and_gloom , 7 months ago

Time will tell.

Indeed.

It’s basically not possible to have a backdoor in e2e encryption

That depends on the encryption method. No one is publicly aware of the standards having backdoors (with a few exceptions), but proprietary encryption implementations can definitely have backdoors.

This has occasionally been a requirement for export-controlled technology (e.g., a mandated maximum key size). And it has occasionally led to the unintended side effect of creating backdoors in the full-strength/domestic/non-export models due to poor implementation.

doom_and_gloom , 10 months ago

Remember: Reddit took something from many of us here. For some, it was a mobile app. For others, it was the ability to operate their own communities. Comment with solidarity; use alt-text.

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