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OmegaMouse

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Just a little guy interested in videogames, reading, technology and the environment.

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Can anyone tell me what sane sar oo is??

OmegaMouse ,
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Oh that does look like it! I'll make sure to avoid eating ice lollies at the same time.

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You're already (dead) :(

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Why wouldn't you talk to anyone or go to anything? Do you have any local meets? I'm going to my first convention later this month - excited!

OmegaMouse ,
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I understand that, but I guarantee that a lot of furries are in the same boat! I've found that the only way to improve is to get out there. Assuming that's what you want

[Official] Switch 2 will be announced this fiscal year + June direct confirmed ( twitter.com )

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software...

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Ohh interesting! Wonder if it's planned to release in 2025? Excited to find out more.

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So just to be clear - are you predicting that this new Switch will release in the window just before xmas 2024, as announcing a new console now and not releasing it for a while is tantamount to shooting their christmas sales for the original console in the foot?

If so I guess it depends - will the new console be backwards compatible? If so, people will likely continue to buy games now in the knowledge that they can upgrade later on. And there have been rumours of a new Switch for a while. I suspect most people who wanted an OLED Switch by now would've got one. I feel like they could announce the console now and release it after a year or two, without hurting themselves too badly.

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Yeah I think you're right. Not enough notice for a 2024 release.

OmegaMouse ,
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I don't know, clam meditation sounds pretty chill

This is how I would approach a Switch 2 release if I were Nintendo.

I’ve been recently thinking about how a logical approach could be taken with the release of a Switch 2 and how Nintendo could give it a good first few years. I’m no professional in marketing or business (far from it), but I do still have some opinions. I feel that what the Switch 2 as a console could or should be like has...

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I think slowing down on first party releases is natural at the end of any generation - once dev kits are available it just makes financial sense for new games to be built on the upcoming hardware.

Will Nintendo reduce the price of the current Switch’s games? I doubt it (at least any time soon). Unlike the Wii U at the end of its lifespan, the Switch is still popular and people are still buying games like BOTW. And working on the assumption that there will be backwards compatibility, it wouldn’t be consistent with Nintendo’s strategy to reduce prices now.

I could see the new Metroid Prime being a Switch 2 launch title, and maybe they’ve been working on something like Odyssey 2 for that purpose. I doubt we’ll see another Animal Crossing or Smash game for a while.

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Yes I think you’re right about Pokémon. But Nintendo does often keep things under wraps until the last minute. Maybe we’ll hear something about Metroid a few months prior to the release of the new console? It would make sense to keep a heavy hitter like that up their sleeve.

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Background blahaj!

OmegaMouse ,
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That it’s an excellent idea?

OmegaMouse ,
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I’m actually quite hyped for Steamworld Heist 2! The original was one of the first games I got on Switch - kept me entertained for a good while.

OmegaMouse ,
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I played a demo of Build and it was ehhhhh. I don’t think it would work well on Switch, in terms of the UI and stuff.

Heist on the other hand felt like a perfect Switch game. Can’t wait!

OmegaMouse ,
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I’m sure it’s not a bad game - it just felt very generic from the demo. Definitely worth trying the demo on Steam if you can.

OmegaMouse ,
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Lmao this degree sounds amazing

OmegaMouse OP ,
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But say (simplying greatly) the public key tells my computer to multiply my text by a prime number

If the prime number is already known from the public key, then why is any computation required? To decrypt it can’t I (or anyone else) just divide by the prime? Even with a significantly more complex calculation, can’t you just work the steps back in reverse using the instructions from the public key?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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So using the formula in that guide, you get a numerical value for O. But surely someone else could follow the same process and also get the same answer? Unless the primes change each time? But then how would the sender and receiver know the way in which the values change?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Ah I think of sort of get it!

The public key is used within a function by the person sending the message, and even someone that knew the function and the public key wouldn’t be able to decrypt the message, because doing so would require knowledge of the original prime numbers which they couldn’t work out unless a computer spend years factoring the public key.

My only other bit of confusion:

  • If someone used a public key to encrypt the message “Hello”, maybe it would spit out something like Gh5bsKjbi4
  • If someone else sent the exact same message I assume the outcome would also be identical, and therefore it would be possible by using common phrases to work out what was sent? I could type messages like Hi, Goodbye, Hola until I got to ‘Hello’ and realised it was the same output.
  • However I assume that a message like ‘Hello, how are you?’ would result in a completely different output (despite Hello appearing in both) and thus trying to work out any messages in a brute force way like this would be pointless.
OmegaMouse OP ,
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I explained it poorly - what I mean to say is, two people trying to send the message ‘Hello’ for example both using the same public key would get the same output. So if you had a simple message like that, someone could work out by checking every word in the dictionary what your message was by checking if the output matched.

But I guess it’s a bit of a moot point - it’s unlikely that an encrypted message would ever be so simple. It could just as easily be much longer, and therefore basically impossible to guess the plaintext.

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Ah thanks for the useful links! Those articles are all quite fascinating. In the plaintext attacks article, I love the tactic mentioned here:

At Bletchley Park in World War II, strenuous efforts were made to use (and even force the Germans to produce) messages with known plaintext. For example, when cribs were lacking, Bletchley Park would sometimes ask the Royal Air Force to “seed” a particular area in the North Sea with mines (a process that came to be known as gardening, by obvious reference). The Enigma messages that were soon sent out would most likely contain the name of the area or the harbour threatened by the mines

OmegaMouse ,
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I’m playing through Okami on Switch. It’s such a beautiful game! Love the wacky characters.

I’m also most of the way though Paradise Killer on Steam Deck. It has Danganronpa vibes but with a more vaporwave design and some great music.

Finally I’ve recently started Subnautica on PS4. I’ve got my first little habitat set up and a Seamoth!

OmegaMouse ,
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It runs perfectly! You can use the joy cons to do brush strokes, but I’ve been sticking to tracing out shapes using a joystick which works fine.

Being able to play it portably is nice - it’s quite a long game.

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Whoa, beautiful visualisation!

Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?

From what I understand, a lot of knowledge was lost following the collapse of the Roman Empire as manuscripts were no longer being copied at the established frequency and information that had lost relevance (for certain jobs etc.) wasn’t being passed down....

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Do you reckon the physical copies would last longer than digital?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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I guess something like this (data stored on glass plates ‘Project Silica’) would store the data safely for a much longer period. What I’m not entirely clear on is whether it would still be possible to read that data in the far future - it seems to rely on some kind of machine learning to decode it.

OmegaMouse ,
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Escape from what??

OmegaMouse ,
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Interesting article, and a worrying trend. Stamping a bit of text like ‘Generated by Midjourney’ is ridiculously weak protection though. I wonder if some kind of hidden visual data could be embedded within AI images - like a QR code that can be read by computers but is invisible to humans.

Just found the wikipedia page for steganography. Have any AI companies tried using this technique I wonder? 🤔

How does data sent over the internet know where to go?

I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Oh wow, this unlocked a memory! Pretty sure I watched back in school. Quite informative, though it felt like it skipped a lot between leaving the host computer and reaching the destination - is it just the same process over and over until it reaches the right place?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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That sounds like quite a messy and inefficient process! But I guess as long as it can be done quickly enough, it doesn’t really matter?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Ah yeah this and @MelastSB 's comment clarify the routing table thing. Before I was assuming they just blindly forwarded stuff until one router knows where to go, but if they have a rough idea from the IP address prefix that makes more sense.

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Thanks, this is a good summary. It’s useful to know about the dynamically changing route - that explains a lot.

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Root federated?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Ah gotcha! Yeah it’s pretty neat seeing the ways in which the instances intermingle. Some communities stay pretty niche and used only by local users with the same interests, whereas others are melting pots of every instance. I guess it’s a bit like a society with little towns and bigger cities.

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Have you played it on Switch? I’m wondering what the best version is to play. Annoyingly on PC it’s only available via Epic games store…

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Interesting… I’ll try waiting a few minutes to see if it connects. Annoying though! It never used to do this.

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Not a bad shout! Do you know if that’s possible via the Steam Deck?

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Perhaps, but then why can the Pro controller connect without issue? 🤔

I’ll try updating the firmware and see if that makes any difference!

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Updating the controller firmware has vastly improved it! I recommend trying that out if you haven’t already.

OmegaMouse OP ,
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I ended up using a windows PC to do it - and the latest firmware appears to have fixed all my issues :)

OmegaMouse OP ,
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Updating the controller firmware fixed things for me! Give that a try

Thoughts on a few recent games

Mirror's Edge - This is a game I've been meaning to play for some time. A few years back I played the first couple of levels on a friend's PS3 and recalled it being a fun experience. So when it went on sale for under £2 on Steam I couldn't say no. It holds up exceptionally well for a game from 2008! The stylised graphics look...

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Please don’t fuck wires!

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