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by troad 3y ago
> Distros have system package managers that are checked by the distro maintainers. And by definition you trust the maintainers of your distro. You're comparing apples to oranges. Most C/C++ software in business use isn't p
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by troad 3y ago
> I thought anyone could publish rust packages, just like for PyPi? Are the packages audited before they are published in Rust? Who prevents nasty C/C++ packages from being published? To my knowledge, anyone can just publish a C&#x2
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by troad 3y ago
Huh? Now I'm quite puzzled. I find both fine to say. I think I make it pretty clear in my comment that dependency use is a per-programmer issue. If you come to Rust with an unquenchable dependency-lust, then yeah, you'll wind up w
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by troad 3y ago
I'm somewhat puzzled - the obvious answer is that you don't have to use them. Rust by itself is no less feature complete than C. Anything you can write in C without dependencies, you can write in Rust without dependencies too. Of
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by troad 3y ago
Only one way to find out!
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by troad 3y ago
Denuvo is designed to be an extreme pain to work with in a debugger or disassembler. Every game is its own unique maze full of dead ends, fake exits, and an ever-shifting array of clever tricks to detect when the binary is being debugged or
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by troad 3y ago
This is the correct answer. Denuvo isn't hard to crack in any exciting engineering sense, it's just incredibly tedious. With the amount of time required, anyone with those skills would be better off just getting a white hat securi
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by troad 3y ago
I suppose the threat vector seems incredibly low to me. Seems like a strange use of a capable hacker's time, in today's world of bitcoin and ransomware, to be preying on people's in-game currency / pets from ancient MUDs
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by troad 3y ago
I too love MUDs / MOOs. I still miss some of the features that Discworld Mud had, and mainstream gaming hasn't warmed to. Strange currencies, complex banking, different in-game languages, convenience features gated in RP ways (the
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by troad 3y ago
Genuine question, but why would a MUD require encryption? Seems like a strange feature.
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by troad 3y ago
With the added expense of increased complexity cf something like Zim, I find that MediaWiki runs pretty well in a Docker container and is quite easy to edit on mobile.
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by troad 3y ago
I've actually found these takes quite interesting, though I wouldn't say I am in agreement. You might find some of Freddie de Boer's writing on disability interesting, such as this piece [1], this one [2], and others. [1] ht
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by troad 3y ago
Demonstrably false - elder hippies are a hoot. But more importantly, a bit rich for someone still caught up in the left-right dichotomy to be telling others to wise up.
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by troad 3y ago
Is this take based on any medical evidence? I note you're casting your take as contrary to a 'lot of ADHD advice', but it's not clear to me whether you're implying that (a) a lot of popular ADHD advice is scientific
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by troad 3y ago
Plus the sales tax on the hot app to begin with. Plus all the paperwork for all these various fees, cuts, and taxes. Plus all the start up costs. Plus full responsibility for the (relatively high) risk of failure. What incentives are we set
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by troad 3y ago
I recently searched for a homey cooking recipe and YouTube pulled up a video titled something like 'Tearful father says goodbye to daughter before gang assassination', with a correspondingly horrifying thumbnail. I responded by lo
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by troad 3y ago
> I’m a Linux geek with macOS and Windows in the house and I’ve never used a PWA. I'm pretty techy and I'm pretty baffled myself. I don't think I've ever even seen anyone else use a PWA, let alone used them myself. An
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by troad 3y ago
> If it's genuinely good enough and interesting enough it will turn up somewhere eventually or I'll just miss out. Waiting a few years for the marketing to die down, the hype to move on, and the dust to settle has served me wel
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by troad 3y ago
> I think iMessage is common in English speaking countries with high iPhone usage. I can confirm that iMessage is extremely common in Australia. WhatsApp is very uncommon, outside of people with European (and maybe South American?) frien
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by troad 3y ago
It's a fair point - Google cannot be relied upon to continue providing this kind of open access indefinitely. I noticed my RSS reader hitting those 404s at the time, and I promptly started looking into the Piped / Invidious infras
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by troad 3y ago
Just a heads up that YouTube channels do generally have RSS feeds; e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=NFL or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC8WAaaW... But RS
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by troad 3y ago
I recently set up a Pi-Hole for the first time, but I spun it down pretty quickly. On desktop / mobile I already have client-side ad-blocking, and it's not like the Pi-Hole can block embedded ads in adware apps like YouTube on iOS
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by troad 3y ago
> Surprised at the lack of discussion in the article around Patreon. Traditional journalism very much has a chip on its shoulder about the success of “new media”, for obvious reasons. (How many writers at traditional outlets are pumping
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by troad 3y ago
It’s worth noting many of those are people pursuing passions, the value of which is not necessarily amenable to being quantified in economic terms.
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by troad 3y ago
> remove the incentives for criminal behavior Is that all? Just a post scarcity society then?
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by troad 3y ago
Why don’t you start a YT channel investigating corruption in the Labor party then? Sounds like you’ve claiming it’s an underserved market segment.
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by troad 3y ago
> It’s the only place you can follow subject matter experts and get their real time thoughts. I have no use case for anyone else’s “real time thoughts”. Neither does almost anyone else. Twitter’s one trick is FOMO for news junkies.
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by troad 3y ago
Thank you for the summary. YouTube links are a terrible way to transmit information.
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by troad 3y ago
>> Keep a log of your work. In fact, keep a log of everything you do. > Set a timer to go off every 15 minutes I realise this won't be a popular point of view with the folk who are always 'life-hacking' or what not,
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by troad 3y ago
> Make sure to preserve the predators and clean any artificial niche or populate it with some alternative species. Rabbits are not native to Australia, and they have no natural predators on the continent. Introducing new species to Austr

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