wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard 16 points 18 hours ago

Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!

[–] wizardbeard 3 points 23 hours ago

This has been my argument for a while. If you're doing boilerplate once in a while, it's a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.

If you're doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE's code snippet functionality.

[–] wizardbeard 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never encountered that in my 30+ years of scarfing down these. At least in the US they are traditionally a chocolatey thing.

[–] wizardbeard 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People are using their votes and their wallets though. Not everyone, but more and more people all the time. Basic ecological awareness in the general population is higher than it ever was for our parents and grandparents, and there will always be more an individual could do.

Blaming individuals just creates an unreachable vague goal. What level of buy in in the general population will be enough? How many people have to live up to some arbitrary goal line until we can start holding companies fucking accountable? Or even just holding rich individuals doing shit like work commute by private fucking plane accountable?

Always just a little bit more. No, hybrids aren't enough, you need to go full EV. EVs aren't enough, how is the electricity being generated? No, you aren't doing enough until you have no car and walk everywhere. Just keep chasing that moving target. Oh, you might be doing it all right, but too many of your neighbors aren't, so now you have to drag them kicking and screaming into it too. The companies and the rich will definitely start caring with just a little more work from the middle class and the poor. Just a little more now. They definitely won't use every dirty trick in the book to avoid losing profits.

If someone keeps getting papercuts on their fingers, and also a bullet wound in the corresponding shoulder, you focus on the bullet wound first. Doesn't mean that you ignore the fingers, you just have to prioritize, and not claim that slapping bandaids on the fingers will somehow close up the shoulder.

[–] wizardbeard 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, my phone screen is cracked and I'm holding it together with scotch tape, so there's a slight blur. With it scaled down in this lemmy post, at a glance the yellow shade is indistinct enough that it almost looks like she's nude and holding like a yellow posterboard in her left hand to cover up.

[–] wizardbeard 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any options for wired VR with the Quest 2?

[–] wizardbeard 6 points 1 day ago

Oh shit oh fuck

[–] wizardbeard 3 points 1 day ago

My understanding is that they forked it after he had a different, earlier crashout about their retroarch core and handling user support. He changed the entire license to prevent them from continuing to use his code to make a core. Then they hard forked from before the license change and made the swanstation core. So not illegal, but spiteful as all hell.

That said, forking it illegally wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for the retroarch devs. It's entirely possible I don't have accurate info on the order of events etc.

But I'll be real, while I care about these devs as people and wish they would just get some community members to act as filters for support requests (seems to be the leading cause of dev burnout)... emulator dev drama isn't worth getting wrapped up in.

[–] wizardbeard 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There are mitigations possible against allowing unrecognized MAC addresses from getting network connection when plugged into an open port.

Security is meant to have layers. Defense in depth.

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

SFC is the system file checker, used to check a Windows OS install's files for any corruption and to replace them with legit working files. DISM (if I remember right) is a tool for turning a Windows install into install media, and has some similar features for ensuring the installed OS has no corrupted file issues.

So pretty much the option to "Verify Integrity of Game Files" for Steam Games, but for the OS. And also by Microsoft, so of questionable usefulness/functionality.

I spent almost 5 years in the trenches of tech support in a Windows environment. I still used those commands as a hail mary when I didn't have any other ideas and needed some extra time to research. I think I've only seen it actually help three times.

[–] wizardbeard 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When the scientists wanted to get the first computers connected to what would become the internet, they plugged in special parts to let the computer audibly scream at a phone! It was loud and horrible and I miss those old screams.

Some humans were able to memorize those computer screams and could scream them well enough themself to trick the phone into doing all sorts of things.

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Cropped from [EastCoastitNotes], shared by @[email protected] in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31818124

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My daughter is a little over two, and through well meaning family and friends we have more toys than we know what to do with.

My wife keeps buying what are essentially (fancy looking) big boxes and just dumping everything in them. Love my wife, but that's not working, it's just hiding some of the mess in a box.

We end up with these hardly ever opened boxes full of unorganized piles of toys that we end up having to dig through to find anything specific, and the toys that my daughter is actively using just end up scattered around the floor so they don't disappear into the box dimension.

Every once in a while my daughter opens and digs through the boxes and dumps half the contents on the floor anyway (not like she can see specific things to grab what she wants) and then we just kind of arbitrarily choose some of it to put back in the box and a new combination of mess to leave out.

Unfortunately we have another baby on the way, so I'm probably not getting my wife to let us toss any of it right now.

I'm leaning towards cubby shelves with individual bins for different "types" of toys like her daycare does, but I wanted to hear what strategies other parents tried, and what has and hasn't worked.

 

This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

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Machine autotranslation of a french comic from https://lemm.ee/post/64691257

 

Cross post of https://thelemmy.club/post/27042027

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