wizardbeard

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wizardbeard ,

So... to be clear... your response to someone saying that Democrats are fucking up by thinking "but have you seen him?"... is to double down on "but but but, have you seen him?!?!"

Trump needs to be in a prison, but this shit is directly how the DNC is continuing to shoot itself in the foot with a significant chunk of the population.

wizardbeard ,

Likewise in one of the later books they visit "God's last message to the universe" or something like that and if I recall correctly it's "Sorry for the inconvenience"

Great great author.

wizardbeard ,

Not every protest is met with direct force. There's plenty that are dismantled from the inside using tactics developed in the sixties to divide and weaken idealogical movements! Shit literally documented in intelligence agency standard procedure documents for dealing with large scale idealogical movements and breaking them apart.

Then you just sprinkle some direct force here and there as a treat!

Occupy Wallstreet was poisoned in its crib through infiltration by external forces causing confusion, internal disent, and loss of direction. That is the one "conspiracy theory" I don't think I will ever be able to let go of.

Intersectionality and identity politics were long overdue, but there's no way in hell that their rise from the ashes of OWS was a coincidence. Give the socially concious public something else to latch onto for a while so the 1% can shore up their defenses and power structure while the people at the bottom squabble over very important but far less impactful things.

As important as everything else is, the largest determinant of life outcome is money, almost entirely overlooked in most discussions about gender and race.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

wizardbeard ,

You can pirate, or if you want to do it the "right" way, you can sign up when there's something you want to watch and cancel when there isn't.

wizardbeard ,

Shitty people love indoctrinating children.

Religion, much like many idealogical groups, gives an easy place for assholes to find confirmation of their own shit ideas, and a shield of "righteousness" and "I'm doing it for their own good" to hide behind lest the dying gasps of their withered conscience interrupt them.

There's plenty of secular belief systems along these lines as well. Many racist groups like skinheads, neonazis, and the KKK spread through indoctrination of children (parents passing beliefs to children) and appeals to young people as "the solution" for the confusion and isolation they feel growing up.


I'm Christian, I feel that the ten commandments are some of the best secular life advice the bible has to offer, and this mess is complete and utter unmitigated bullshit.

No if ands or buts, whoever was involved in this clown show of a law deserves to be instantly stripped of any governmental or education system titles or powers and banned from holding any position of power for life.

Any religion, belief system, or idealogical concept worth anything should be capable of standing up on it's own.

wizardbeard ,

Bleachbit is the open source, non trash "replacement" for CCleaner

wizardbeard ,

There's some security researchers that have done this before as well, and some "grey hats" that reportedly used this technique to get Google to route traffic away from them during their commute by spinning up a whole bunch of phones in their car like this.

wizardbeard ,

It's a skill like anything else. It comes easier to some, harder to others, and it can be improved through repeated effort, exposure, and experience over time.

Small talk is a good low risk situation that can give you opportunity to practice.

Also, not living in the same place too long so you don't build up a reputation of being awkward and oh god they know they all know I'm just a hairless chimp in a human suit why did I think this was a good idea oh shit oh fuck what do I say--

"I'm doing good, how about you?"

wizardbeard ,

would just

Farmers have been rotating crops for hundreds of years man. Corporate farms rotate crops too. Step down off that soapbox for a moment.

The whole joke is that the person in the image would have made fun of the idea in ancient times, killing the food supply of early civilization and setting us all back by thousands of years.

wizardbeard ,

Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.

wizardbeard ,

If by "only so much" you mean every BS thing in OP's image, sure.

To be clear, you can turn off all web content in the search menu/start menu search.

wizardbeard ,

Sounds like your IT team messed up the setup. In their defense, Microsoft doesn't make it easy to set it up well.

A "good" setup hides all this shit from the end user. All your "library" folders (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc) can be invisibly made into OneDrive folders. Still save your shit where you normally do, navigate in the file manager like you normally do, no lag for changes you do locally to show locally, minor lag (like 1-2 minutes) for changes to propagate to OneDrive itself (and other machines you are currently logged into). Just now everything is backed up to the cloud.

wizardbeard ,

If I remember right, Noice started offering paid subscriptions to stream higher quality sound files from a central server. I just rolled back my install to the last version before that change (looks like 2.5.6) and disabled updating.

I'll have to check out soothing noise player!

Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall ( lemmy.world )

Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python's native datatypes, which means you now have two different bool...

wizardbeard ,

Unless I'm missing something big here, saying they "kinda mean the same thing" is a hell of an understatement.

wizardbeard ,

Lol. Minecraft alone proves you wrong. 4chan is where Notch first posted early builds and got feedback.

No argument on it being a cesspool. It is, and has been, for a long long time. But plenty of good stuff happens there too.

/vr/ has unearthed a large amount of formerly lost media (guides, promotional material, entire games! Most of Osamu Sato's work outside of LSD Dream Emulator had effectively been lost before they got onto it) and is often the spot that leaked stuff drops, like the huge Nintendo leaks a few years ago. The Doom threads there have had a hand in some big, well known mods. It's arguable that Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart grew out of those threads' failed Doom Kart project.

/g/s "friendly windows thread" is decidedly unfriendly, but the guides and links in the OP are wonderful resources on how to set up and configure new Windows installs. I haven't seen the info there laid out as well and as easily digestible anywhere else.

/vg/ has a large number of threads that are really the only source for certain info about certain game series. The emulation general threads are great resources, and the wiki built from them is the best go to one stop shop for info on emulators. The amateur game dev general threads have been the building grounds for a decent amount of games you've heard of before. Risk of Rain is a good example. Hopoo started his game dev journey in those threads. Any game that references "AGDG" is shouting those threads out.

Point is, there's diamonds in the shit pile.

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  • wizardbeard ,

    You're better off rotating usernames on a semi-randomized schedule if it really matters to you that much. Is your personal threat model such that you actually need to be concerned about this?

    Anyway, OpSec rather than asking others to fix your privacy concerns would be the way to go.


    Create separate accounts by topic, with different fake identity details beyond what you made them for. Keep track of each identity's fake time zone when planning when you post so that no one can figure out what time zone you really are posting from.

    Beyond that decide on a lifetime (and "cooloff period" before you make a replacement) for each account using a random number generator.

    Most importantly, use various AI tools to obsfucate your typing style and word choice.


    This all seems like a shit ton of work to just talk about your hobbies. I sincerely hope you don't have stalkers this dedicated.

    wizardbeard ,

    They basically did similar stuff with some of the stuff in the sm3d collection thingy.

    They did not.

    For Super Mario 64, they emulated it. They increased the resolution the game renders at (trivial with emulation of 3D systems) and they used basic LUA patches in the emulator to override HUD textures with higher resolution ones adjusted for the Switch controller.

    They did not add any further enhancements in any way. Compared to even 64 DS, it was extremely sophomoric. Compared to the Super Mario 64 decomp project, and what its native switch port is capable of (more on that later), it's an incredibly lazy port. They didn't even fix the slowdown with Bowser's Sub that is as simple as adjusting a single compiler flag when you build the ROM from the N64 game source code.

    For Sunshine, it's an admittedly impressive solution of mostly emulation with some sections of the game engine ported (I think it's the audio processing?). Once again, the game is rendered at a higher resolution, but they did not redo ot improve further any textures (besides some of the HUD again), graphical effects, or game content. Wind Waker HD this ain't.

    For Galaxy they cannibalized the existing port of it to Android on the NVidia Shield. The Switch shares most of the important internals with it (CPU, GPU). It's a combo of emulation with certain key code ported, like Sunshine. Again, besides resolution and HUD, no improvements.

    Beyond that, Nintendo has been content to sell straight up emulation through the Virtual Console service since the Wii. They've had multiple instances of straight ports over the years, and some of the most popular Switch games are straight ports with DLC bundled in.


    There are numerous impressive remakes they have done over the years, but that is absolutely not the norm.


    The Super Mario 64 decomp on the Switch supports (not available in Nintendo's official port in 3D All Stars):

    • Effectively infinite render distance for objects (coins, enemies, stars, etc)
    • 60 fps (compared to the original/all stars 30fps at best)
    • True analog camera control using the right stick (All Stars is just the original's clunky button based control mapped to the stick)
    • All sorts of QoL options like collecting stars not kicking you out of a level, options for streamlined/faster message boxes
    • Optional bugfixes
    • Optional cheats
    • Variety of HD texture packs to choose from
    • Variety of higher quality 3D model packs to choose from
    • Support for an astounding variety of mods. Levels, entire new games, new characters, new movement and control options (Odyssey Mario in 64 with full cappy and enemy capture mechanics anyone?)
    • Support for many more languages
    • Nearly all of the above is toggleable mid-game from the pause menu.

    I don't think anyone was expecting something amazing out of 3D All Stars, but they absolutely fucking phoned it in.

    wizardbeard ,

    Yep, take some ideas from single player colony management games.

    It's astounding how much you can "automate" when fully using the filters and rules options in vanilla Rimworld. Mods increase that exponentially. Granted, different genre, singleplayer, and pausable while you configure things.

    I think the challenge is balancing that with the real time events you have to react to, so it doesn't further compress the meta to an even smaller set of "optimal" options.

    There's apparently a Reddit activity streak achievement system now. ( lemmy.world )

    I just noticed this when I saw a strange "Achievement Unlocked" notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.

    wizardbeard ,

    If you really need, you could farm like how bot accounts build up karma. Just use a private subreddit so your system gaming is out of the public eye.

    wizardbeard ,

    Sure, but have you heard of our lord and savior, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip?

    wizardbeard ,

    When I do find relevant answers, lately they're all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.

    Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.

    wizardbeard ,

    PowerShell Microsoft Graph Module. Most of the official doc pages have at least one section of "TODO" in them.

    After they officially deprecated the previous modules with similar functionality.

    wizardbeard ,

    Still hurts, but sometimes it's the only option.

    If you're trying to confirm things like account existence/deletion, there's often no "account exists" function to return true or false. You just have to figure out the specific exception thrown and catch that specific one.

    The worst are libraries that don't give specific exceptions, so you have to catch all exceptions then do extra work to tell what the specific situation is. Does the account not exist, or is the system unreachable?

    wizardbeard ,

    I'm probably a freak, but I can't stand working on something complex, being pulled away from it for a week or two, and not being able to pick things back up because it's not documented well. Especially when I'm the only person to blame.

    I also make scripts and programs with the goal to hand them off when I'm done. I've got more than enough to keep me busy at work without having to be the only person able to support my projects forevermore. Ultimately I'm still the go to, but I never want to be so critical that I can't take time off, or that I'm effectively on call 24/7. I want the credit, but the whole point is to reduce responsibility by making shit more efficient and easy.

    wizardbeard ,

    Same thing with all the folks who took the "copy pasting from stackoverflow" joke literally.

    I regularly have to find guidance online through code examples, but you need to understand what the code you've found actually does under the hood for when it inevitably has issues because it wasn't made for your specifc use case.

    wizardbeard ,

    That's some strong talk from someone who had to learn object permanence.

    wizardbeard ,

    But those options were available to him without a risky brain implant. There's a large amount of alternative interface methods and tools available for these purposes, they just don't have Musk's marketing budget and they aren't run by someone that owns a newspaper, so they're not well known outside the disabled community.

    We've had wearable (and thus removable and non invasive) neural interfaces for years now that have been able to do mouse control.

    We've had robust eye tracker control since Steven fucking Hawking.

    This is being framed as though this was the only way for this person to have these abilities and options available, and that is patently false.

    wizardbeard ,

    Just find a place that hasn't solidified their IT structure and processes enough for people to have time to invent BS overhead.

    THE STANDARD PRACTICE IS WHATEVER I SAY IT IS JANICE! how are business critical things no one knew existed breaking

    wizardbeard ,

    Photo editing and compositing has been around long before photoshop too.

    wizardbeard ,

    I find that they don't "un-tint" when going inside fast enough for my liking, personally.

    Creates kind of the opposite effect of going from a dim room into a bright space. Instead of evrything seeming extra bright, it just dimmed everything and made it more difficult to see.

    wizardbeard ,

    In what world is that a mobster deal? The game initially released saying that PSN accounts were required, this is in every store front description. The devs clarified that was not enforced due to technical issues at release time.

    Sony funded the game in the first place too. They didn't take advantage of a moment of weakness. This is all contract stuff agreed upon long before release.

    It absolutely sucks ass, but this is an incredibly basic business deal. Sony stepped in to provide server support because it's Sony's game, and Sony makes money off it. Now that the game is more stable, they likely went back to Arrowhead and said "Hey, it's time you sorted out the contracted requirement for PSN accounts. You agreed to this." and here we are.

    Maybe Sony told Arrowhead that PSN accounts could be made by everyone. Maybe Arrowhead thought they could push back on the requirement after the game came out without them required. We likely will never know what went on behind closed doors.

    But this isn't shady, just absolutely monumentally fucking shitty.

    Unfortunately, as long as refunds are handled reasonably well like they were with Cyberpunk 2077's PS4 release, gamers won't really have a leg to stand on. It'll just be complaining that they can't play something they wanted to play, after getting a number of hours in it for effectively free.

    wizardbeard , (edited )

    I understand this, but I also think it's not reasonable to expect people to always stay silent when someone's venting/feelings leads them to make broad, declarative statements about the badness/problems of a large heterogenous group.

    Like, I know I have a lot of personal baggage from growing up in a household where my accomplishments were overlooked and every problem with myself or my actions magnified. The longest streak of doing well could be brought down with a single minor screw up. I know I'm far more sensitive to this sort of shit than the average person.

    That said, there is a difference between all and most, or all and enough that it's a problem. I don't think it's wrong to insist that difference is important, or at the very least that the difference exists. Insisting upon that distinction does not need to be a dismissal of the very real issues, it can simply be an insistance that the distinction exists.

    Just as we should allow people to have their feelings that x group is bad, shouldn't we also have some room to allow people to feel something when they've been lumped in with an amorphous blob of "badness" that they don't actually belong to?


    If you want to argue that "the bad feelings men experience by being lumped in with the bad elements of men are less important than the danger to women from those bad elements" then I'd agree with you fucking 100%. Actual danger trumps feelings, no fucking questions asked.

    My issue is that usually the argument is instead that "If your feelings are hurt because someone said all men are abusive, that means that you must be an abusive man upset that you were called out", "see, you saying not all men just means that I was right", or just mocking the true statement of "not all men".

    Again, the distinction is important. This post is the first time I have ever seen someone suggest that the response to "not all men" is "enough men". Fucking hell I'm behind that response all the way. I'm not about doubling down on insisting all men are shit.

    wizardbeard ,

    Not dickriding microsoft here, but they have provided all the tools to fix this. They just can't make them happen automatically on effected machines because they broke something particularly complicated.

    You need to have enough space to resolve the issue (which was caused by not having enough space in the recovery partition in the first place). You need to adjust the size of the parition (traditionally a risky operation, especially through Windows). You then need to download a specific update while skipping another, install, and reboot.

    They have provided scripts for backing up the recovery partition, expanding it, and restoring the contents from backup if expanding fucks the contents. They have provided a script to download and install the specific update to fix the problem once you have enough space in that paritition. They did not automate restarting the computer (piss easy to automate), or to hide the problematic update (easy through UI, probably a pain to script).

    wizardbeard ,

    It's more than strictly a recovery partition. It is also used for updates and the files needed to roll individual ones back. The entire issue was that they had an update that didn't properly handle when there wasn't enough space for it in the recovery partition.

    wizardbeard ,

    They don't need to reinstall the OS to resolve this issue though, unless they absolutely fucked their paritions.

    Which is why Microsoft couldn't automate a fix. It's incredibly easy to fuck your partitions to hell and back, especially through Windows. Too many conditions to check for and try to handle automatically.

    wizardbeard ,

    David Tennant's performance in Jessica Jones stuck with me for a while. It took a while for me not to assume his characters would be evil after that, and I was already familiar with his run as The Doctor.

    wizardbeard ,

    You've got a bit of misunderstanding of how bitcoin works, and they definitely aren't using the juryrigged supercomputer for unmasking. Most likely human analysts and investigators with some minor algorithmic help for analyzing tumbled transactions on the chain.

    Bitcoin is inherently traceable. The entire concept of the blockchain originally was to have a distributed ledger of all transactions available and verifiable by anyone, so the banks couldn't go "no that transaction never happened".

    The anonimity of being able to instantly and freely create wallets with little to no identifying info attached was a side purpose, but not a true purpose. Your wallet is effectively just a username they'd have to find a way to connect to your real identity.

    All bitcoin transactions are auditable by anyone.

    So most criminals use tumblers, scattering a transaction into irregular pieces that move across a shit ton of wallets before slowly making their way to the actual destination wallet.

    But even those are traceable, just difficult. Over time and through seizing black market servers, intelligence agencies can build maps of what wallets match up to what. Sellers leaving donate links in forum signatures, finding the tumbler accounts from a seized market, etc. Then by using external info like knowledge of the payout amount and how many wallets its going to end up in, they can analyze the block chain ledger and connect the dots.

    TL;DR- Bitcoin has always been psuedonymous, not actually anonymous, and is more easily traceable than other options by fucking design. You are only as anonymous as the distance between your real identity and your wallet address. Practice proper OpSec for shady business.

    wizardbeard ,

    Who prevents him from buying an atomic weapon and setting it off for a meme stunt or internet points ?

    You have to be joking.

    Nearly every military in the world. Countless regulatory agencies. Intelligence agencies the world over. It's pretty much known that the US made stuxnet to kill one country's nuclear program. Do you seriously fucking think they wouldn't stop a single billionaire?

    There's also the fact that even he's not that insane, and any other billionaire out there who wouldn't want the effects of a nuke going off to get in the way of their own shit.

    If you were talking a dirty bomb, that might be within his reach. Buy some mines in third world countries, mine up some material, strap it to a conventional bomb. That's also many orders of magnitude less severe (while still horrific). Also, most mining rights in areas with worthwhile radioactive material available have already been bought up by other entities with similar financial levels of backing.

    Actual nukes require quite a bit more than just an explosive and some radioactive material to build anyway, and things like nuclear material refinement facilities are quite easily visible from satelite imagery. They also require specialized hardware that is closely monitored. Sure he could pay to reverse engineer and/or get it built. Good luck keeping that secret for as long as it would take.


    The man's a living embodiment of a chode with a diamond studded piercing. There's plenty of shit to be upset at him about, or worried about, without getting anywhere close to this absurd. I sincerely hope that you weren't being serious.

    If you want shock factor, talk about the slave mines his family wealth comes from, and the slave mines where we source lithium from for EV batteries. Talk about the high frequency of using child soldiers as security for said mines, in addition to the child slave labor.

    Talk about the highly likely intentional killing of Twitter by Saudi Arabian government's investment into Musk as a retaliation for the Arab Spring and as a way to further control rapid information dissemination during crisises.

    There's real reasons to despise him, going for such extremely ridiculous exaggerations only hurts the point you're trying to make.

    wizardbeard , (edited )

    Are you ok? You've doubled down on nonsense. Seriously, take a breath. Look into some treatment for anxiety.

    The whole danger is that AI text generation doesn't misspell, and comes across highly confidently.

    There's actual research out there on spotting AI generated text. Most of it is based off tone, frequency of some specific phrases, and sentence structure.

    If you're mixing this with the idea that spam emails and scamming comments are often misspelled, that's done in an attempt to avoid word filters, and also to help ensure that people who fall for them are dumb enough not to notice, making them easy marks more likely to overlook other warning signs. If they aren't trying to get you to take an action, or a coordinated push to manufacture consent, the chance of AI is low.


    Also, the statistics about internet traffic you're thinking about is about bots. That's largely scripts and web scrapers, less so automated posters making arguments multiple levels down incredibly quiet threads on low user count social media like lemmy.

    wizardbeard ,

    Let me be crystal fucking clear here.

    You were not making a valid point.

    Your hypothetical is so amazingly absurd that I did not fully believe you were being serious until I saw your response.

    I'm still wondering if this isn't some sort of weird ass false flag attempt to make people who dislike Musk look like absolute raving loonies.

    I tried to give you places to begin looking into things yourself so you (and anyone else as delusional as you) wouldn't be worried about something so unlikely as to be effectively impossible.

    I'm not doing that work for you, I've already had to sit through countless discussions of this shit in my lifetime. Multiple nuclear engineers in the (extended) family, have met members of the regulatory orgs through them, and that's what my parents wanted me to grow up to be (I fucked off into computers though).

    Beyond that, I tried to give you some stuff against Musk that's far more rooted in reality than the wildest speculation.


    But I really couldn't give a shit what you talk about. I just dislike seeing people undermining legitimate points by throwing around absurd exageration. Especially when there's plenty of legitimate criticisms and concerns out there about Musk.

    Please, do go on about how he's going to somehow outsmart intelligence agencies that took out an entire country's nuclear program with a single goddamn computer virus. At this point it's just entertaining.

    wizardbeard ,

    No, we really, truly are not.

    wizardbeard ,
    wizardbeard ,

    See, this is what we should be using AI for. Auto generating dark text and slapping it as quotes on marketing images.

    Give me more absurdist and non sequiteur humor, robot slave!

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