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by aftbit 10mo ago
It's actually a really nice spell casting system. It lets you have a ton of different spells with only 4 buttons. It rewards memorizing the most useful (like reinforce). It gives a way for things like the squid disruptor fields or what
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by aftbit 10mo ago
The most recent Battlefield released at $80. Arc Raiders released at $40 with a $20 deluxe edition upgrade. I think $40 for a game like Helldivers 2 is totally fair. It's a fun game, worth at least 4 to 8 hours of playtime.
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Shocker... they abandoned POSIX compatibility, built a massively over-complicated product, then failed to compete with things like Ceph on the metal side or ubiquitous S3/R2/B2 on the cloud side.
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by aftbit 11mo ago
If AI suddenly became $10k/month or even $1k/month, I would stop using it. It just doesn't provide that much value to me. If it did, I would probably find a way to use local models or some other approach to drive the cost dow
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by aftbit 11mo ago
"Who is ahead this quarter" is pretty much all that the market and finance types care about. Maybe "who will be ahead next year" as a stretch. Nobody looks beyond a few quarters. Given how heavily AI is currently driven
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by aftbit 11mo ago
The same thing is true for a _ton_ of tech products. My home internet plan easily gives me more than $1000 in value per month. My cell phone hardware probably gives me $2000+ in value over even a short 2 year life. Customers still tend to c
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by aftbit 11mo ago
If you think about it, all the existing data centers are in space already. They're just attached to a big ball of rock, water, and air that acts as a support system for them, simplifying cooling and radiation protection. If humans are
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by aftbit 11mo ago
Yeah why did he want non-root perl to be able to bind to low-numbered ports? Seems like one of those typical footguns of applying non-standard configurations.
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by aftbit 11mo ago
Wow yes, I also remember my high school's k12 domain name! What an interesting trip down memory lane; wonderful, like most of computer.rip! Is it possible to register e.g. X.ca.us domains today? What are the criteria required to do so?
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by aftbit 11mo ago
How does the actual payment processing work? Do you need a Stripe token or Braintree or some other fixed provider?
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by aftbit 11mo ago
I think the solution is simple - make it legal to hide your license plate, but make the hiders required to be remotely openable by an authorized law enforcement user. The plate hider should keep an audit log of the time, name, and badge num
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by aftbit 11mo ago
This is one good reason we should not tolerate our devices auto-snitching on us to the police. Any tool can be weaponized. The legal system has a presumption of innocence, but it grinds painfully slowly, and the mere investigation can be ex
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by aftbit 11mo ago
My stuff used to get popped daily. A janky PHP guestbook I wrote just to learn back in the early 2000s? No HTML injection protection & someone turned my site into spammy XSS hack within days. A WordPress installation I fell behind on pa
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by aftbit 11mo ago
ISO timestamps are the one true way: 2025-11-12T16Z
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by aftbit 11mo ago
Not to dispute your point, but the GWoT was shockingly low casualty for the Americans. Almost 10x as many Americans died in the Vietnam war (58,281 US military KIA), mostly between 1965 and 1971, peaking at 16,899 in '68 alone. There a
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by aftbit 1y ago
One super simple usability v. security tradeoff that Graphene made is that if you plug a new device into the USB while the screen is locked, it just won't work until you unlock the screen. This is kinda annoying the three times a year
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by aftbit 1y ago
It depends, often the cover up is worse than the crime. See: Enron, Watergate, Trevor Jacob
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by aftbit 1y ago
If we could trust the people who held the kill switch implicitly, then I think it would be amazing. We cannot, so I think it would be disastrous. I definitely think MAD led to a strategic stability that was better than the alternative. This
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by aftbit 1y ago
Except there were no shotguns in the Trojan Wars, and there were tanks in WW1, many less armed and armoured than today's IFVs/APCs. Regardless, the parent poster was right - I cannot find any proof of ICE having modern tanks, just
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by aftbit 1y ago
The problem is that in some industries, Microsoft is the only option. Many of these regulated industries are just now transitioning from the data center to the cloud, and they've barely managed to get approval for that with all of the
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by aftbit 1y ago
I still can't log into Azure Gov Cloud with https://microsoft.com/deviceloginus Seems like they migrated the non-Gov login but not the Gov one. C'mon Microsoft, I've got a deadline in a few days.
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by aftbit 1y ago
I'm not sure exactly what kind of armored vehicles ICE has. I'm pretty sure some of them would qualify as tanks at least in WW1. The war to end all wars... if only. There are actually valid reasons for BORTAC to be armed to the gi
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by aftbit 1y ago
Who has access to tanks _and_ needs to be protected from citizen reports on their activity? I'm not conflating the two - Google told 404 Media they were a vulnerable group, while Apple applied a guideline that has previously been used
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by aftbit 1y ago
Declaring ICE a "protected class" or a "vulnerable group" is absolutely disgusting. Nobody who has tanks is a vulnerable group.
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by aftbit 1y ago
250 years of democracy isn't a bad run.
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by aftbit 1y ago
Especially nukes (or more generally, weapons)! Can you imagine if your government tried to use the weapons it bought from America, only to have them refuse to start because America decided they shouldn't? Or if you're within the U
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by aftbit 1y ago
Back in high school, I sat in on plenty of college classes with an extra seat at the back. Nobody seemed to mind.
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by aftbit 1y ago
I remember using Streisand to solve this years ago. Apparently it's abandoned now though. https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
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by aftbit 1y ago
I thought this story would be about some malicious PR that convinced their CI to build a page featuring phishing, malware, porn, etc. It looks like Google is simply flagging their legit, self-created Preview builds as being phishing, and ba
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by aftbit 1y ago
The iPhone changed the world through sheer scale. This even trickled back upstream to its components. For example, VECSEL lasers were added to the iPhone in 2017 to power FaceID. At the time, they were a low volume, high cost component (use

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