cpburns2009

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by cpburns2009 6d ago
Chrono Trigger holds up very well, and much better than many PSX/N64 games. It was at the pinickle of 16bit sprite graphics. I beat it a bunch of times as a teen on an emulator. Then I bought it for the DS and beat it again several yea
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
Right... just let me pull out my non-existent spare phone when mine breaks or gets lost.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
SSH keys are much easier to use and understand. Heck, passkeys could have just been a ZIP file holding a key-pair instead of whatever hostile design by committee we ended up with.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
It's not like physical keys at all. You can get copies made of those. Passkeys deliberately are not copyable.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
I don't care about the theoretical sufficiently advanced keypass implementation that works perfectly. I want to know about the half baked ones in the real world that I'll have to deal with.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
Great, what happens if I lose my phone?
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
Except they never considered that "complete idiots" could lose access to their phone's passkeys.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
I've been told by multiple people that the recovery method of passkeys is to enter your username/password. If passwords are eliminated, your final recourse is fucked.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
Have you ever been in a large building with awful cell reception and no wifi access?
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
Poor Nessie always gets confused with her land dwelling counsins.
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by cpburns2009 8d ago
It is kind of morally gray. The intent isn't to deceive. It's to help them against themselves. I've taken many kids clothes and toys from family members who no longer need them. They just don't want to throw something aw
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by cpburns2009 9d ago
Here's a secret. If you have family members that you know struggle to throw stuff away, and they offer it to you, just take if their hands and dispose of it yourself.
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by cpburns2009 9d ago
That actually never occurred to me. But it makes sense non-technical people would be skeptical of sharing a public "key". I like public address better than lock (I think lock just adds confusion).
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by cpburns2009 10d ago
Ah yes, the golden age of extrajudical assassinations of American citizens, forever wars, the rise of the surveillance state, imprisonment of journalists amd whistle blowers, and the deterioration of race relations. Tell me more of this gol
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by cpburns2009 10d ago
In a just and equal society, criminals would be prosecuted and convicted for the economic violence of theft. Inequality is a useless measurement used to excuse antisocial behavior. The inequality between Bill Gates and I has increased expon
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by cpburns2009 11d ago
Porch pirates are not stealing because they're hungry. They're antisocial asshole criminals.
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by cpburns2009 12d ago
According to this source [1], a second layer can progressively provide the rest of the image data: > Note: AVIF supports two types of progressive decoding. Spatial scalability can be used to offer a lower resolution image for network con
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by cpburns2009 12d ago
Progressive rendering is just a different way to layout the pixel data. Embedding a thumbnail is storing two distinct images. In other words, progressive rendering should be more efficient space and bandwidth-wise.
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by cpburns2009 15d ago
There was a Pakistani cheating ring at my wife's school. The administrators knew about it but did nothing.
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by cpburns2009 15d ago
Oh doctors, as in med students, absolutely cheat. Don't think they're above that. There are cheating rings that administrators turn a blind eye to.
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by cpburns2009 15d ago
It's not that simple. When you're away from home, how do you know the exact jurisdiction to lookup? And if it's not a police related matter, what non-emergency phone would you even look up? Plenty of metro areas have a bunch
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by cpburns2009 16d ago
How do you know what number to Google? Here's a real example. The day after a storm I noticed a tree leaning on a powerline. This was ~20 miles from where I live in a different county and township. If I hadn't already lived in tha
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by cpburns2009 16d ago
How do you know what number to even Google if it's not where you immediately live?
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by cpburns2009 16d ago
Does the GNOME founder think Omarchy is the SPLC or something?
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by cpburns2009 17d ago
This is actually something I've wondered about. What is the non-emergency number?
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by cpburns2009 18d ago
It does make sense. All I can say is if you don't release it, you eliminate any possibility of collaboration. But if you do release it, don't expect immediate collaboration. Whether a project gains interest is largely up to luck.
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by cpburns2009 18d ago
That's always been a possibility, even before the advent of LLMs. It was just harder to hide before. I think you should ask: what good is the project if you don't release it other than self-satisfaction? Sometimes just making some
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by cpburns2009 18d ago
Back when I switched to Linux in 2008, I had a similar wifi driver problem on my new Dell laptop. Eventually I found a different release of the Windows driver cab file strangely with an identical version but this one worked on Fedora. Soon
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by cpburns2009 18d ago
That's largely true of most technology available today. You can buy a cheap $100 phone that's more powerful than old super computers.
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by cpburns2009 19d ago
Script kiddies have always been a problem you have to defend against. This is nothing new.

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