dr_robotBones

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think they plan on making it ship with windows by default at some point, so perhaps it'll be in future versions of Windows Server and you won't have to add it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago

Yeah this push to switch to Wayland is gonna be real annoying in the coming years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its making save editing real annoying. I went into it really confident without backing it up because I did it before and now my save is corrupted.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Whats the deal with this non-standard file type? Has Paradox ever talked about why they created it? Does anyone know when they made this change to the file system?

Edit: I've been trying to save my edited gamestate by figuring out how to recompress it into a .ck3 file. I don't really know how to replicate the header. Its really a shame I didn't back up the original save. The file starts with SAV and then a unique set of metadata bytes and then the plaintext stuff which, it turns out, is for the main menu and the icon next to the save name, and then it has the rest of the save data compressed with the PK header, which means its in the .zip format. I can replicate all this but the save doesn't properly load due to the incorrect metadata in the header I believe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ok, I figured. Maybe I'll finally check it out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What show is this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I ever need to switch to the root user, I usually type su, but I saw someone use sudo su - in a video, which I thought was pretty strange but maybe the video creator knew something I didn't, or it wasn't possible to simply su a few years ago.

 

Shit meme, I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It turns out they can and likely do track that sort of thing. Still, I highly doubt that's the only information they have access to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It could be possible, but what makes you suspect they're tracking cursor positions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm not entirely sure how they do it, but I do know alot of information is relayed to websites that can be used to fingerprint and track you. Even if you aren't logged in they know where you are and what device you are using. Alot of this depends on how hardened the browser you are using is, because its entirely up to the browser to block this information.

You can try to confuse the data a bit with a VPN, but I'm not sure if a VPN alone counts for much these days.

If you really want no fingerprint you can try either of these two technologies:

TOR is a way to browse the internet that makes it very hard to fingerprint you. The network's bandwidth is limited and there are people in oppressive regimes who legitimately need this though, so I think it would be a waste to use it for regular browsing.

WHONIX is used by Edward Snowden himself. Its an OS within a virtual machine that is entirely reset everytime its run. It has alot of built-in privacy tools, but its not very convenient to use.

I personally use Brave with as many shield options on as possible, alongside a VPN when I think its necessary. On mobile I sometimes use Kiwi, which is unfortunately no longer available. Its the only browser I've found that actually masks whether your device is a phone or PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Private mode deletes cookies and browsing history on your device, it has no impact on the amount of information sent out to browsers and your ISP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love this sort of thing. Is there a group that specifically focuses on computing history?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It seems to specifically be looking at users who have gone on US government websites. Its not measuring all devices in the country.

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