altkey

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[–] altkey 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The person in black that was shot was present at several protests in SLC armed, a known leftist

Who'd be recognized at the moment notice, right?

[–] altkey 1 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

but he appears to run after being shot

It's him on adrenaline from even planning and starting to execute that stuff. Some people brake bones and still try to run ignorious to pain. He may have hardly registered the damage he got at the moment, and the fear and remorse fueled them enough to run away.

The shooting is, imho, justified, but the person shooting was unprofessional, too nervous and was shooting too high. If they aimed at the crouch level, there couldn't be a fatal result. I do think it's good to have someone armed around these protests, but there should be some bottom line to how they are trained because they, as shown there, can do too much damage to justify their presence. I think we'd find enough evidence to tell that they prevented a planned mass shooting taking a dozen of persons injured or dead, but they objectively stood there while lacking a proper expertise to do their job. It is at the very least unresposnible and I do feel they deserve some unintetional murder charges.

[–] altkey 2 points 16 hours ago

Trumpo mitai...

[–] altkey 7 points 16 hours ago

You need an expertise to tell where the error is happening or even notice it at all.

The main argument against LLMs is that you don't get a systemic knowledge how e.g. the code works. Moreso, as long as it works right, you aren't motivated to look into it and understand just how it does so. That renders you unable to see and fix mistakes.

If you are an experienced task-doer, yes, a quick glance can help you with that. But if you start out with LLM vibe-coding, you jump over a couple of steps, and when confronted with an error, you need to apply more force (learning things you skipped) to make it right.

Personally, I grew seriously ill when we had math classes concerning sin\cos\tg\ctg basics and going forward I felt I just don't get it at all as the class marched towards further subjects based on them. It costed me way more labor to get on the same page than if I've never been absent. The same could've happened, I believe, if I could upload my homework into LLM, only to face exams where I can't use it anymore, or if I came upon real life applications - and surprisingly I did.

[–] altkey 2 points 17 hours ago

Air sharks at a smell of a big conflict in the ME.

[–] altkey 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As a childless asocial workaholic with some degree of toxicity that LinkedIn bastard probably dream of, my performance heavily depended on the importance of the task. WFH let me be more passionate about some projects and papers that I used all benefits of cutting commute, was way less distracted and motivated. But bullshit paperwork, letters, chats and reports lagged even further behind than they did in the office, right up to the deadline. Sometimes because I did the work itself instead and no one looked over my shoulder.

For me RTOing into a nearly-empty building in the off-season when most take vacations was the most dumb idea, and since it was a typical rule-for-thee, I had almost none supervison, was arriving late, leaving early and put a shit ton of hours into various MMOs. The complete opposite to what I did in a brief moments of quarantine. Look, jerks, you paid me to level my chars, that's what you wanted?

I think like in a trust-based environment clocking in is unnecessary and various bosses over time did get it, I payed back by reporting stuff myself so they were sure I'm on it at any given time. Like we are actually a team of some sort, they do their stuff, I do mine, we pass things to each other etc. The others were completely disconnected from empoyees and to compensate their inability to trust, got high on controlling shit, were sending down teamworking events, talking about being a family or other sectarian career manager bullshit, relied on and encouraged snitching on each other. These were the positions I nailed down to me clocking out and stop giving a fuck, before eventually leaving.

And for coworkers: they either do their work, or leave it to others, and I rarely GAF about other characteristics. The high stress environment of labor is not where I prefer to socialise, nor I'm in the mood to. I crave work-related communications that makes all objectives clear and obvious, work-related stories I can learn from, you know, the stuff I came here for, and not a social club with gossips, drama and all that. If I'm given 2hrs+ from not riding to your building, I can have two socializations and a half if I want to. The exhaustion it causes not helps but prevents me from going out with friends, and I'm double pissed that some bosses make an act like that's better for their workers while not giving them any agency and doing it solely for themselves.

Rant: over.

[–] altkey 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Did he donate to Trump? Would we see federal institutions paying workers robux?

[–] altkey 4 points 1 day ago

There should be recreational sugar boots or rather just comfort boots you can carry around with and lick, it should be normalized like breastfeeding.

 

Whenever I try to listen to locally saved music with them, they randomly randomly drop microseconds of stream, like as I'm diddling with a defect audio cable. It plays okay from phone's own dynamics, I tried three different apps, and it seems the problem is with these headphones or phone's bt connection.

I noticed, there's a systematic difference with how often the stream breaks depending on if I put the phone in the back pocket or have it in front of me, but I'm not sure. It breaks frequently as I print, and the phone is before my face lol.

I'm curious, how I can test if that's a problem with my phone or my headphones without ordering another pair if possible.

[–] altkey 7 points 2 days ago
[–] altkey 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To prove your point no original nazi is needed, there was that nazi rally recordings of which are avaliable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden

When USA government took a wind of their future involvement in this war, they found that adoring fans of Hitler aren't what you'd like to gain popularity at home while sending boys to Europe to catch the fucker. I don't know the morals of politicians who took steps to tone down the Hitler-fandom, but the first layer of this onion is that - it was against the geological goals of the US - to enable that strain of nazism - at the time. Were they allowing the same populist mythology about the US to prevail, did american soldiers thought themselves superior to others, with their democracy, founding fathers, ammendments? Probably. But the original sin was erased in a public memory as the Axis-ov-Evil felt, the Cold War started and the US, especially, saw a boom in it's prosperity.

But to counter your pov, I'd argue, there aren't particular 'people like that', but social conditions of frustrated masses gullible enough to follow populists adressing their emotions, establishing their past as great and promising the return to that. These notions are just copycats of one another. The healthier the society the less we see the monsters constructed and enabled by it's failures. There was some quote of Stephen (I created but abandoned my bluesky) King that in order to kill you'd need to have a bullet in your heart, and I believe that most deranged shooters who went on a probably suicidal killing spree against their own kind didn't have that bullet initially, but they've been conditioned by the times like late Wheimar Republic, late Soviet state, and, probably, late America, if it won't get of these rails.

[–] altkey 2 points 2 days ago

Akschually, Doom DA needs to have raytracing enabled at all times, and your vcard is in the first nvidia gen that has it. While 10xx and 20xx haven't shown much of a difference, and both series are still okay for average gaming, there's the planned divide vcard producers wanted. RTX IS ON ads visuals were fancy at best (imho) while consuming too much resources, and now there's the first game that doesn't function without it, pushing consumers to either updgrade their hardware or miss out on big hits. Not the first time it happened, but it gives a sense why there were a lot of media noise about that technology in the beginning.

[–] altkey 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Whatever. I want to eat your liver.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by altkey to c/[email protected]
 

I updated to the latest version being on beta channel and some comments in threads look like having 125% size of letters compared to others. Idk if that's some option in settings (I've not found one) and I don't see some systematic rule of why it happens.

edit: added screenshot, first comment is of different size to the next one, changing font size settings keeps the difference

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Darktide is a banger (self.patientgamers)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by altkey to c/[email protected]
 

As some of you know, there were a couple of L4D-influenced games, like Killing Floor, Dead Island and Yakuza: Dead Souls for some reason.

One of these, Warhammer: Vermintide, developed by swedes in FatShark, flew under radar for a long time, until their second Vermintide game, where, with much pain, they finally brought out the product that is a highly addicting PvE coop shooter\slasher. Just like in games of old, there were certain mechanics you could abuse to become invincible, but instead of bunnyhope, there were enemy positioning mechanics and evasive dodge. It led me to put in hundreds of hours, and due to the PvE nature I rarely had any toxicity as a newby and learnt to care about other gamers as we as a squad were moving through the map to the common goal. I won't say about outstanding voice acting, character writing and stuff, there are a lot of things to love besides the gameplay, but the gameplay is the core to why I liked it.

BUT

FatShark decided to get EasyAnticheat there, and with their setup it completely prevents any online gaming from Linux unless you are a host - you get kicked out from other's games every other minute. Hosting games means waiting for others to connect or playing with bots, so it means they slashed a game in half for those not indulging into the windowsphere.

After leaving Windows for good, I had this one reason to be sad - that my favorite game is no longer playable in full. But later they shipped another one of their games.

Enter the Darktide.

This one does have anticheat, but it works right with Linux, and it presents another spin on the same formula.

When Vermintide was mostly melee based, and ranged enemies felt like cheaters, there nearly every threat has a gun like it's the US. It's narrative is based around being a random escapee from a prison camp slowly going up the hierarchy of faschist Inquisition, and every quote and every loading screen title reminds you that you are a disposable resource.

And it's gameplay, while in moba fashion depends on individual skills and equipment, still has this L4D breaking points: this games shoots hundreds of heretics onto you, and your positioning and clever timing is the only way to survive. Unless special enemies, that can disable you or deny area, would arrive. Unless someone from your team walks off and go solo only to die.

Skip the antifascist messaging, skip the cooperation implied there, this game has a hard and vulgar core of purely kinetic violence. Since the first game, they made sure, that your melee attacks feel like you are swinging the blade youself, and coming to Darktide, they worked on making the same for the guns that making the show there. Shooting there from various guns feels like in Doom 2016, and that's very enjoyable too.

I joined this hype train long after release, but I'm joyful to find a game that scratches me in all the right places without kicking me, and the one that shows real progress over what I've seen and got addicted to before.

 

One of our Win PCs got infected with that thing. It creates a VB script in appdata, and when it runs, every USB drive you put in it gets everything on it hidden - but a new shortcut with a name of a drive, that actually points at a script leading to a new infection. Updated Win just blocks it, but this one PC was on 1709, nuff said.

Itsohappens we had a thing to present via this PC, and quick, and at that time no one told me about the virus. We tried 4 different clickers one by one (2 A4 Tech, one generic, one Logi) and first three of them stopped working after that. They are all with fresh batteries, their BT adapters weren't recognized as USB drives I assume. What could go wrong?

I don't believe this VB script could by any chance move critical information on BT adapters like it did with USB drives, right? Even if there's a little flash drive with software, it should be set as RO by default. But I don't see any other explanation to that.

I don't have access to any of these three at the time, but I'm curious where should I begin to inspect this problem? How can I, probably, see the 'contents' of such an adapter, see coming inputs and outputs, maybe watch it initiating a searching routine, etc? I also have a couple of universal BT adapters that I bought for my gamepads, is there any use for them here, or are these toys strongly paired device-to-adapter?

Now, thinking about it, I am not sure if I tried them on my Arch (btw!) so, somehow, maybe it's only reproduceable under Win (with Logi clicker and Logitech bluetooth m+kb still working on that infected machine?)? Again, would like to hear, if there's something I can look for.

Bonus points for advices I can try on Linux, since Lemmy landed me there, and if I'd ever need to look deep into various devices again, better to learn it on a system that I'd use in the future, so I won't need to relearn it.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by altkey to c/piracy
 

The clip is Megan Thee Stallion official video of BOA: youtube.com/watch?v=TKQY2ZlIEjY

I have several VPNs that play most videos alright, but this one is blocked via both my direct access and random sites promising me free yt downloads. It stopped to show up in search, yt-dl doesn't seem to work too.

Probably, it's due to DMCA because of their use of the Britney Spears' sample (?), a whole minus track of tik-tok tik-tok what're you waiting for song.

If someone can write a guide, how to access videos in that case, it would be usefull to us all. Alternatively, one can let me just download it from some personal cloud, and I'd be grateful for that. The track itself is barely average, but I did enjoy the work of visual artists there enough to post that request.

Please, tell me if there is another comm to post this.

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