kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 5 hours ago

That's generous of you. If I'd mistakenly bought one that wouldn't work without ever having a network connection, I'd be returning it and demanding my money back. Hasn't happened yet, though.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 34 points 10 hours ago

They are presumably referring to SimpleX. Although I don't actually see anyone blaming it for the existence of Nazis.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you'd want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago (7 children)

You'd be correct to point out that not all of them waste energy like Ethereum did until later in 2022 and Bitcoin still does, but wrong to pick Monero as an example of one that doesn't.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 153 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The discourse about Mozilla is ridiculous, here and most everywhere. You've got people taking every perceived opportunity to attack them for things they do, things they didn't do, and things it's imagined they might've done. And then another crowd of equally determined people doggedly defending them for every idiotic blunder they make, such as this one.

Meanwhile Mozilla itself has nothing substantial to say. This is not the first time a prominent extension has mysteriously gone missing from amo with Mozilla telling us nothing about its role in the incident. @mozilla@mozilla.social needs to be in the discussion giving us a real explanation of what happened, why they got it wrong, and what they're doing to improve things.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One person who believes that Jos Verstappen is somehow involved in the team operations is Jos Verstappen, as the headline indicates. He certainly has at least some small amount of influence with one person who does work for Red Bull. We only hear what he's willing to say in public, and it's more than enough to demonstrate that he enjoys getting involved.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It wasn't all solely his fault. Perhaps he gets more of the blame than he should due to being the one among the people involved most inclined to run his mouth in public. But it sure wasn't "nothing to do with him."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The agency said that Evil Corp's ability to translate their criminal proceeds into real spending money was as important to their success as their technical exploits.

May their example serve to remind us all that the surveillance state must forever continue to expand until we finally attain the ideal financial system where criminals are no longer able to transform money into money.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

He warned everyone that if he kept on sabotaging the team and trying to sow dissent that it might be bad for the team, but they just wouldn't do everything his way.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago

Congratulations on your successful revolution, Britain! I must've missed the news when it happened, amidst all the gossip about the latest Donald Trump tweets.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

If you can't handle the shocking reality of someone choosing unusual pronouns to refer to themselves, fediverse may not be the social media for you.

 

@WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network @ZLabe@fediscience.org Contrasting approaches to weather risk communications on the fedi

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Whether or not Mozilla chooses to issue some kind of meaningful statement about what happened beyond the boilerplate "oops, it was an error" is not up to Gorhill.

 

As opposed to Bill C-63, which pushes [age verification bullshit] far into the future and behind closed doors through an opaque regulatory process, our new Conservative legislation will directly legislate [age verification bullshit] that online operators must adhere to.

 

If you routinely start #steam in offline mode and it suddenly stopped working in the past few days (first time I ever saw such a thing), you may be able to fix it by temporarily taking it out of offline mode as described on github.

 

https://github.com/Abev08/VolumeControlExtension

That's two longstanding items on my firefox wishlist taken care of by an extension: Actual working volume controls on the built-in media player, and a volume control for other crappy web players that don't have them.

#firefox

 

High T alpha males always walk down the street in this pose. Everyone else sees the look in their eyes and knows to get out of the way.

 

Apropos of nothing, I wonder for the thousandth time what it is that drives otherwise sane people to produce web pages with light grey text on an off-white background.

 

Went to see what my fedi feed thinks of [latest bad news]. Saw ridiculous cat video instead. Feel better.

 

You know you're done with Microsoft when you see a screen shot of MS-DOS and think "Oh yeah, I remember when we used to address drives with letters like C:. That was weird."

 

Act 1: It started with some fun little quests to introduce you to the narrative style. The fights were too hard, so I improved my character stats until I could handle them. It's not easy to know when there's no choice but to go along with whatever is suggested, and when you can do something else, but I guess I got it more or less right.

Act 2: A nice meaty dungeon crawl. My efforts to make my character stronger paid off, the difficulty was just right.

Act 3: Holy shit it's too hard suddenly. One does not level up quickly in my version of Skyrim, maybe that's why. At one point there's an option that suggests you can skip the whole thing, but I didn't take it and would guess it probably isn't so easy. I had to resort to stealth archery and I didn't bring a lot of arrows. Some horror game stuff of a kind I don't normally enjoy, but it was well-executed. It was a pretty long slog.

Act 4: Okay we're in Dark Souls now. Except the boss fights are even longer. I had a legendary weapon, shiny superhero armour, lots of magic resistance, a good healing spell, all the equipment a skyrim paladin could want, and yet even some of the non-boss fights took a lot of time and effort. Hit, dodge, run, heal, repeat. Forever. To be fair I do have the difficulty settings turned up pretty high. I wandered around lost for a very long time. Some of the battles were epic. There was only one area I had a really hard time with: There doesn't seem to be any resisting the tentacle attacks so they were pretty much instant death.

The ending was quite good and made it all seem worthwhile.

 

Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

 

If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need is shim-signed_1.39+15.7-1_amd64.deb from bookworm-proposed-updates.

 

Congratulations to https://niagaranow.com/ for having the one obvious advertisement that's got through my ad-blocker setup so far this year. It's an actual jpeg banner ad that's hosted directly at their own website. Such wholesome web design for 2024. If I ever want to get my chimney repaired in Niagara Falls I'll know where to go.

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