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by dark-star 8mo ago
It seems to work fine for thousands, if not millions of people all over the world. I mean not even twitter died like everyone claimed it would. Discord will just lose all people who have any reason to not verify their ID, which is probably
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by dark-star 8mo ago
I guess this is a good thing. It will reduce spammers and scammers that are invading every server like locusts these days. It will reduce attacks on and abuse of people, because those are usually founded on anonymity (no fear for repercussi
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by dark-star 8mo ago
No, I'm not, and I also don't live under an opressive government that tracks those people down. I simply don't care if the us government or some random US company knows about what I play, eat, talk about or who I sleep with.
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by dark-star 8mo ago
maybe it's different per country shrug
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by dark-star 8mo ago
if you don't actively use discord, then this is probably the best solution, I agree
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by dark-star 8mo ago
You probably won't even have to validate then. I guess they can safely assume that you didn't create your account when you were 7 years or younger. They said they expect 80% of users or so to be auto-verified by some other means (
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by dark-star 8mo ago
You have to show ID to buy beer?
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by dark-star 8mo ago
I think you massively overestimate how many people actually care. My guess is that 95% or more of all Discord users do not care and simply upload their selfie or ID card and be done with it. I know I will (although they did say that they ex
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by dark-star 8mo ago
so if you download a random EXE in your browser and run that, it can not result in compromise?
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by dark-star 8mo ago
Yeah, clicking unverified links in a markdown document to launch an executable.... Clicking unknown links is always a bad idea, but a CVE for that? I dunno....
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by dark-star 8mo ago
~/bin/ preceeds the XDG Base Directory Specification. ~/.local was only invented around 2003 and gained widespread usage maybe 15 years or so ago... People used ~/bin already in the 90s ;-)
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by dark-star 8mo ago
The old versions of LFS are still available to satisfy your curiosity. Someone should probably save the required source package versions (and patches) before they disappear though
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by dark-star 9mo ago
How is the Xbox market related to SteamDeck? SteamDeck plays PC games (which XBox doesn't), and XBox plays its own console games (which PCs and thus the SteamDeck don't)
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by dark-star 9mo ago
just FYI, there are some very obvious inaccuracies (stitching artefacts?) in this map, especially noticeable e.g. on Roosevelt Island around Roosevelt Bridge, or naround Pier 17 next to Brooklyn Bridge
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by dark-star 9mo ago
Indian students were the reason that Google's Hacktoberfest was critiziced and ultimately terminated Indian students have a long history of disrupting free/libre projects, this is nothing new
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by dark-star 9mo ago
What is hiberation? First I thought it was a typo, but it's on the website in the same spelling too. I couldn't find it in my dictionary
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by dark-star 9mo ago
I never understood why people focus on this "reading aloud" so much. It's not so much about the reading out loud, it's about making sure you understand (so that you cannot later claim "but I didn't know about
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by dark-star 10mo ago
But that's usually just the packaging... if you open that up you'll find... cylindrical cells
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by dark-star 10mo ago
As someone who hasn't watched GoT, only heard of it from others, let me guess: In those two episodes everyone dies a very cruel and painful death, except for one or two main characters?
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by dark-star 10mo ago
Yeah, but you just need anyone who bought the game on Steam, a friend or co-worker for example, not some shady website. You want to avoid shady websites for the game download, and shady websites for the crack download. You can do both of th
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by dark-star 10mo ago
For example this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time This was the first one I think, right now there are e.g. Kodi Plug-ins and other media servers that work the same way
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by dark-star 10mo ago
No. At least in some countries (e.g. Germany) they would be forced to reimburse every buyer if they removed access to a game someone bought. The fact that somewhere deep down in their EULA there might be words that make it clear that you&#x
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by dark-star 10mo ago
yeah, that's the whole point, thye still let you install the games you bought because not doing so would open a huge can of worms and re-start the whole "are you really buying games on steam or just renting them?" discussion,
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by dark-star 10mo ago
Seriously, for cracking steam games, all it takes is to drop a single DLL inside the game's folder. It can't get simpler than that. Yes, that obviously only works for offline games, but yeah, cracking Steaam games is as easy as cr
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by dark-star 10mo ago
they are still optional for the ISPs though. But if they don't implement them, they will have dozens of lawsuits to handle, that is why many ISPs say "fuck it" and just implement the blocks, to save money on their legal team
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by dark-star 10mo ago
the problem is people don't know about torrents, and many streaming sites are based on torrents, so they re-upload the stream while you're watching, which gets you into trouble
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by dark-star 10mo ago
no, under threat of filing every single copyright claim against them, swamping their legal department. Which is the correct way to do it (i.e. file a claim if you see someone violating copyright law). This just makes it easier for the ISPs
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by dark-star 10mo ago
There's another project, P3OL, that's also closed-source. I assume they're connected somehow. P3OL makes 100€/month through Patreon, I guess that is also this project's reason to stay closed-source
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by dark-star 10mo ago
I think the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me was holding a door open or something similarly mundane. I don't have any other really nice or profound memories. Then again I have not gotten into any similarly bad accident as t
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by dark-star 10mo ago
Ah, yes, I didn't even think of that. I always understood it as "abandon POSIX filesystems (as backend for S3)" because I knew about all these issues with filename/directory clashes, I don'T think they would abandon

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