[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

If all of civilisation collapses into ruin, at least we will have the consolation that "tipping" will be abolished along with everything else.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Having read the actual description of the protocol, such as it is, I should add in the interest of fairness that those "30 generated porn credits” do get you 30 new key pairs each month. They are issued directly by the central authority which knows exactly who they're issuing them to, and the public key is presented directly to web sites you visit. But they promise not to track how you use them.

That it's so absurd and poorly designed is reassuring in a way. It's difficult to imagine anyone using this.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Does Xfce count as light? It's got plenty of features. Should fit in 4gb well enough though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

If you have root, intercepting all the user's keystrokes is trivial.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 22 hours ago

I left r/canada even before I left reddit. The final straw was when I saw links to a report from Citizen Lab, a very respectable Canadian research group at U of T, about a foreign government interfering in Canadian affairs, getting deleted for not being "relevant to Canada."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Huh. I would've thought most desktop users just leave it running all day long like I do. Obviously there is the disk encryption passphrase at boot, adding another one for signal would in my case be redundant.

But the point is not only how easy it is to enter a passphrase, but also how much security that actually gains you. I don't think it does much on the typical desktop, be it windows or linux, where there are so many ways to escalate or persist privilege for anyone that has user-level access.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Needing to enter a secure passphrase each time you want to use signal in exchange for one more fragile layer of defence for that one part of your data in a scenario that would normally mean you've already lost unless you're running a super-secure compartmentalized operating system like qubes or something is probably not worth it for most people.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alternative headline: Someone has a feature request for Signal which would be of interest to a few people with very specific security needs.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I think about that sort of thing every time I upload any image at all, just out of inherent paranoia. A profile pic would most likely be one of the first things people check if for some reason they wanted to find other accounts you might have.

I don't think "data brokers" are quite at the level of sophistication where they're automatically doing that to everyone, but with AI they'll probably get there soon.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I seem to remember one youtuber saying that there was a new option to upload two different thumbnails and let some algorithm switch between them to see which does better.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

This ensures traceability through the public key as content providers will consistently receive the same public key when the credential is presented

What a ridiculous system. For some reason I expected that their efforts to offer an illusion of privacy would be better than the obfuscatory bullshit they've leaned on here in order to enable "traceability."

I hope it goes down so badly in Spain that the rest of Europe is once and for all convinced that such schemes to restrict and monitor the web browsing habits of every citizen are ineffective for their stated purpose, needlessly invasive of privacy and freedom, destructive of democracy, and can serve only as a prelude to totalitarianism.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago

Looking forward to all the Putin and Xi fans having to explain to us how the Taliban has been unfairly maligned by Western propaganda.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Feeling the need to urinate, I went in to the appropriate room and found the big black cauldron that people are meant to piss in on the floor next to a fireplace. As I got going I noticed that the room wasn't empty, and that I was standing right next to a table for two where a man and his wife were trying to eat dinner. "Excuse me sir, didn't see you there" I apologized. They looked unhappy. As I continued, everyone else in the restaurant turned to look at me. As if I was the one doing something weird.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Here are some mods I can recommend that directly affect game balance, feel free to suggest more. For the most part I've listed only things that directly affect the basic variables in simple ways, not including survival mode stuff, combat overhauls, perk tree changes, the paraglider, and many other things that obviously do also affect game balance but aren't only about that.

*Skyrim Skill Uncapper for SE and AE - Adjust rate of level up for each skill individually. I like level-ups to be way slower than the base game, like 10 times slower, but with skills where tedious grinding is already the only way to train them left closer to normal but contributing less to character level advancement. Enjoy being level 1 for a meaningful amount of time.

*Armor Rating Overhaul - Makes early-game armour not completely useless. Getting some should be the priority it normally is in such games. The base game armor rating algorithm seems weirdly broken, any of this mod's options is better.

*Yet Another Difficulty Mod - Adjust damage dealt/damage taken, optionally changing it automatically as you advance. In my current game it's set to start with 1.0/2.0 at level 1 and smoothly progress to 0.5/5.0 at level 30 (compared to 0.25/3.0 for default legendary mode) and so far that seems good.

*Extra Encounters Reborn - Encounter more problems when wandering around the world.

*High Level Enemies - Make those you encounter more dangerous. Many of the people and animals who live only to murder passing strangers scale to higher levels than previously possible.

*NPC Regen Nerfed - Taking away their infinite magicka supply makes things a little easier.

*Simple No Health Regen - If you don't go full survival mode, maybe at least have no health regen.

*Smart NPC Potions - They might use two or three healing potions during a fight. Also they might poison you.

*Maxsu Combat Escape - When fights are actually difficult you might want to be able to run away without that stupid ogre continuing to be angry at you forever from the far side of a mountain.

*Simply Better Movement Speeds - My current choice of movement speed mod.

*Encounter Zones Unlocked - Probably helps if you're going to have a playthrough that goes on for a while.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Squardle is the best one. There's something of a learning curve. It looks intimidating at first. Once you get the hang of it though, it's just right.

It's given me a few minutes of word game entertainment every morning for the past year. I may not know much, but I know all the five-letter words now.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Z-Library is said to be down. Historians of the future will marvel at the way our civilization repeatedly built fantastic tools capable of freely distributing all our music, books, and movies across the world to anyone who wanted them in an instant, and then tore it all down and arrested the people who built it.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

"We kept companies small for the same reason that we limited the height of skyscrapers: not because we opposed height, or failed to appreciate the value of a really good penthouse view – rather, to keep the building from falling over and wrecking all the adjacent buildings and the lives of the people inside them." — @[email protected]

I'll just quote that so as to have a slightly better chance of remembering it. If Jagmeet Singh were on the fediverse I'd @ him too. How do we build a society where politicians have the basic common sense it takes to follow Cory Doctorow?

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Why didn't anyone tell me that Papyrus Tweaks NG is mandatory once you have too many other mods?

Too many being probably about four hundred in my case. Script lag was getting ridiculous and then it started locking up, and now suddenly with that one addition, it's smooth and solid again. With that I guess my personal version of Skyrim is pretty much done, or at least ready for play testing.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

they've gone too far this time

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine. Thats our goal. With our planned 2025 release date we’re showcasing gameplay systems, a part of the world map, a new city, Ayleid dungeons and much more.

Despite our progress, we can’t do this alone: we hope with your support to finish the final steps in completing Skyblivion. Does that sound like something you can do? Then please visit our website to apply: https://www.skyblivion.com/volunteer/

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Well there's a principle I didn't expect to become controversial: Media should not be censored based on its country of origin.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:

We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.

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