Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc, 2 days ago

I’m kind of hoping for some asynchronous multiplayer features; Age of Wonders does this with some jank, but I think there’s room for a less jank / a more polished implementation.

Dark_Arc, 2 days ago

I strongly disagree, email is a train wreck for secure communication.

Proton has done a pretty good job of making an implementation that’s actually secure but PGP email has fundamental flaws like the subject line and recipient being clear text on the message, user error/key management complexity, and it’s also just a high-friction means of communication vs “texting” or “IRC”-like approaches.

Dark_Arc, 3 days ago

No idea what that means, but I do know the devs of this game also made War for The Overworld and they did a fantastic job of making and maintaining it.

I’d highly recommend their studio… and if this is the type of game you’re interested in, you should definitely check it out!

Dark_Arc, 2 days ago

Maybe Valve is on to something with not counting to 3.

Dark_Arc, 4 days ago (edited 12 hours ago)

My hot take: hostile reads are in pore taste. It’s unique to the internet, and we need less of that.

Dark_Arc, 8 days ago

I recommend kopia. It lets you backup automatically to a primary location, copy that data periodically to a secondary location, and it has a command that you can use to verify all the data is actually what it was when the backup was created.

Dark_Arc, 7 days ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Kopia uses content addressable storage. So basically when it copies things, it only copies what data is new. Files that haven’t changed will not be overwritten.

You kind of need to run the verification command on both the source and the “backup copy” for maximum paranoia. If you’re running it on a local copy, that should be a relatively fast process as you don’t need to download stuff.

You’d basically connect on the command line to the copy you just updated via sync-to and then ask kopia to verify 100% of the file integrity … it should then run through everything and make sure it matches what’s supposed to be there. I’m not sure how you fix it if it detects something wrong, I’ve yet to run into that … I’m sure there’s a way 🙂

You could also use two backup drives and sync to both, then if you get an error restoring a particular file from one, you could in theory restore it from the other. A ZFS cluster with redundant copies and/or a RAID-1, RAID-5 or RAID-6 style setup could also help … but most people aren’t going to run an entire NAS just to turn it on periodically and backup their data “offline”. Most people are going to be better served (IMO) by using cloud storage like B2 (where bitflips aren’t really a concern) or a NAS (where bitflips similarly are a minimal concern, ideally in another location) with a periodically updated offline copy (on say an external hard drive) should be enough to protect most people’s data well.

Also going to like to what I’m talking about:

• kopia.io/docs/advanced/consistency/
• kopia.io/docs/advanced/synchronization/

Dark_Arc, 7 days ago

I mean, I think the point is to know whether it’s the loudest users or the majority of users.

I do think there’s a serious problem of removing the human element though. Ticking off 20% of your users might not be a big problem … unless those 20% of your users are your biggest advocates. That’s where I think Mozilla at times loses the forest for the trees.

Dark_Arc, 7 days ago

Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about this. Chances are you’ll replace your phone way sooner than any of this will come back to bite you. If it was bad enough to be a real problem, there would be much bigger sources talking about it.

Dark_Arc, 8 days ago

I think we’re probably a lot further than that.

Dark_Arc, 8 days ago

I don’t particularly care…

It sucks for people that live in countries that Sony doesn’t sell to … but also Sony just doesn’t sell to those countries.

Ultimately they made people use an account, something that’s long been extremely standard behavior.

I think people are overreacting, particularly those that are in a situation where it’s just “create a free account with your throw away email address.”

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

I wouldn’t … mostly because it discourages you from remembering/memorizing your password, and that’s not something you want to do.

FWIW: I think the local password manager only folks are a bit overly paranoid (and most folks I’ve met of the mindset end up using syncthing or something like that anyways which is basically just Proton Pass with extra steps … so I wouldn’t worry much about that side of it).

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

I think I’ve seen that in the past (a long time ago) with some realtek setting where it plays your mic back to you (and since it’s part of the sound card settings it happens everywhere regardless of what you have open).

I’d play around with in the realtek control panel.

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I think Eminem has always put down those vibes … that’s not particularly new.

There’s a different “tone” to the music in general, it’s a bit more “playful” and a bit less “fuckkkk, you” (Yah Yah, Survival) and/or “sad” (Mockingbird).

It’s different but it’s kinda fun.

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

Presumably they can overwrite the file (and the file is synced to their hard drive via one of the clients, Proton will back-sync the edits made on their computer to your drive).

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

Other than that god awful old-school Valve UI used for most of the menus/things.

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

I think it also depends on what communities you interact with.

I got fed up with it in the Lemmy.world news community and unsubscribed. I’ve been much happier following that change.

There are still some leftist and both sides hot takes I run into … but it’s a much more acceptable pacing now.

Dark_Arc, 9 days ago

He can ask congress to add another judge, but congress has to actually approve the appointments.

Dark_Arc, 11 days ago

Here’s the problem, people don’t vote down ticket, and they only vote every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

The president is more of a cheerleader than a person of substantial power. That’s not to say the office of the president isn’t individually powerful, but you need strong margins in the house and the senate to actually get stuff done.

We kind of had that for 2 years when Obama and we got the affordable care act… Even then the margins weren’t that great; I don’t think Obama was the problem so much as they couldn’t find the support to do something bigger in Congress.

Even with those thin margins Democrats come across the aisle regularly to actually get governance done (e.g. fund fixing infrastructure). They’re not even close, we’ve got one party that actually governs, and another that prints money for the rich, attacks people based on their bedroom preferences, and doesn’t give a shit about the environment.

Dark_Arc, 11 days ago

I think it’s interesting folks take this as talking about Biden.

Biden has a platform, Biden and the Democrats have accomplishments … what does Trump and the last decade of Republican congressional dominance have?

“DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!” “HEALTHCARE IS A MESS!! I’VE GOT A BRILLIANT PLAN I DIDN’T PASS OR EVEN PROPOSE IN CONGRESS LAST TIME. WE’RE GOING TO GET IT DONE THIS TIME. IT WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CAME UP WITH. NO I’M NOT SHARING IT NOW, YOU MUST BE SURPRISED.” “I MADE MY RICH FRIENDS MONEY!!”

Dark_Arc, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

You’re literally using tactics developed by fascists in your argument here.

[citation needed]

Somehow, the president is little more than a “powerless cheerleader” if we’re talking about Dems but “the end of democracy” if talking about Trump/Republicans. Both can’t be true.

They’re over simplifying the problem. Trump is a cheerleader for fascism inside of the United States, a vote for Trump is a vote for every Republican in congress to be emboldened to do Trump like things (and even if they don’t agree with them, fear their own removal).

There’s certainly a different aspect for international issues and relations as well. However, ultimately, congress has all the power in this country. If Democrats had solid super majorities in the house and senate, or there was a super majority that was willing to side with Democrats to protect from Trump, there would be very little reason to worry.

In fact, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion because congress would have held Trump accountable and convicted him during the impeachment hearings preventing him from holding office.

Obama and the Dems chose this over any sane single-payer option to allegedly “appease Republicans”

[Citation needed] see the majorities at the time, they could not get single payer past the majority of the Democrats in congress let alone Republicans. There was not a sufficiently progressive majority.

In another attempt to appease Republicans, they allowed them to steal Obamas SCOTUS appointment while also allowing Trump to steal what should have been Biden’s SCOTUS appointment

They “allowed” that to happen? What could they have done?

They didn’t have control of congress.

I’d go on but I don’t have time to say “they didn’t have control of congress” all day. If you want something done in this country, you need congress (either via super majority) or via a slim majority and an aligned president (and even then in the latter case, results may very due to personal votes/perspectives of representatives).

Dark_Arc, 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Man, have you ever tried bowling or god forbid golf, movies, or guns?

I’ve got games where I’ve paid the equivalent of less than a dollar per hour of entertainment and that’s after optional micro-transactions.

Dark_Arc, 11 days ago

Cool! It Takes Two is a great game; hopefully this lets more people enjoy it!

Dark_Arc, 12 days ago

One possible answer is to allow anyone to see votes categorized by instance, so you know where they’re originating from.

Small/single user instances could be aggregated together/anonymized or maybe that’s just the price you pay for having a single user instance.

Dark_Arc, 12 days ago

I hope so