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ImplyingImplications , to Canada in Why so many Torontonians have fled to other parts of Canada

Nobody lives in Toronto because it's way too crowded!!

ImplyingImplications , to Games in Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

hackmud $19.99 $14.99 (25% off)

If you're into scripting or hacking you should check this game out. It's an interesting twist on the Multi-User Dungeon genre. The game presents mostly as a command-line interface where your goal is to seek out targets to pwn for money/points. NPC targets will have vulnerabilities you need to find and exploit in order to expose a hackable part. Once found you engage hackermode where you'll have a timelimit to break the target's security (mostly through bruteforce cracking). The game allows you to write short scripts in JavaScript to automate searching for vulnerabilities and cracking security.

Being Multi-User, there are other users online doing what you're doing and you're free to chat with them and exchange scripts. You're also free to write malicious scripts that will steal money/points from others who don't check scripts before running them!

The part I found cool was that the game mirrors IRL hacking much closer than other hacking games. You'll often need to submit incorrect data to NPC targets to get an error message that will contain hints about where to go next. Ex. A webpage has "News" and "About Us" sections. You can request a section that doesn't exist to get an error message that shows all acceptable sections: "News", "About Us", or "Employees". You've found a hidden section! Using scripts to send a bunch of mal-formed data at a target and then analyzing which ones generate an exploitable error is part of real-life security testing.

ImplyingImplications , to memes in Khajiit has wares

The Elder Scrolls video game series has a race of cat people known as Khajiit. They're often found as wandering merchants and repeat the line in OP when you talk to them. Video

ImplyingImplications , to No Stupid Questions in Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general

Either that, or every company has woefully underpaid/incompetent IT people

It's this one. Cox Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the US with $11 billion in revenue, recently patched a bug on their self-serve portal that allowed anyone to access any customer's profile. The bug was that server requests weren't being authenticated. If you entered the right info into the URL bar you'd be given a page with anyone's customer info. No login needed.

ImplyingImplications , to Canada in Conservative MP shares inaccurate, ChatGPT-generated stats on capital gains tax rate

This is going to affect hard working Canadians (who make more than $250,000 a year in capital gains)!

ImplyingImplications , to memes in This is nothing short of a miracle.

Terrible location really. What were they thinking?

ImplyingImplications , to Ask Lemmy in Why can I see some communities while logged out, but not while logged in?

Do you have your languages set to both "Undetermined" and "English" in your settings? I had a problem seeing some posts with only one language selected.

ImplyingImplications , to memes in Almost all of the American ones I've heard of are terrifying.

Bigfoot doesn't seem so bad.

ImplyingImplications , to Games in Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer

Fun game! Swap "AI" with "blockchain" and put it into a search engine. You win if you can find the same headline from an article a few years ago!

Square Enix says Embracer sales will help it invest in blockchain (2022)

ImplyingImplications , to Games in Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior

I got a friend in game dev. They've worked for 3 companies over 6 years. None of the titles they have worked on were ever released.

The title they're currently working on has had its funding cut (by Embracer Group) and the CEO of the studio is desperately trying to find another source of funding. Everyday they go into work expecting to be told the studio is shutting down.

Game dev certainly seems to suck the souls out of creative people who just want to make something fun.

ImplyingImplications , to memes in Too powerful for their Euro arteries

Where do you think pizza comes from?

ImplyingImplications , to Canada in Security Clearance

Restricting democratic positions based on an undemocratic process isn't good. If a corrupt government wanted to keep someone from being voted out they could just deny security clearances to their political enemies and suddenly the people can't vote for who they want.

Like others have said, Poilievre could get security clearance if he wanted to. He's not a foreign agent, he's just an asshole. He's currently arguing that those who read the classified documents detailing interference by foreign spies are doing nothing to fix it. He loses that argument if he reads the documents, because now he's just like everyone else.

ImplyingImplications , to Python in Could someone help me understand the input() function?

A lot of responses here so I'll suggest a different approach. You can watch your python code execute line by line using a debugger. That might help with understanding how it all works.

def my_sum(list):
    result = 0
    for number in list:
        result += number
    return result

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
list_sum = my_sum(my_list)
print(list_sum)  # Prints 15

If you run the above code line by line in a debugger, you'll see that when it gets to list_sum = my_sum(my_list) the program will jump into the function my_sum(list) where "list" is a variable holding the value of "my_list". The program continues line by line inside of the function until it hits the return result statement. The program then returns to the line it was at before jumping into the function. "my_sum(my_list)" now has an actual value. It's the value that the return statement provided. The line would now read list_sum = 15 to python.

A debugger shows you which lines get executed in which order and how the variables update and change with each line.

Just a note: python has a built-in sum() function you could use instead of writing your own my_sum() function, but a debugger won't show you how built-in functions work! They're built into the language itself. You'd need to look up Python's documentation to see how they actually function under the hood.

ImplyingImplications , to Programmer Humor in Cupholder.exe

I made one called "crash_bandicoot.exe" that opened the windows calculator in an infinite loop.

ImplyingImplications , to No Stupid Questions in What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?

Canada = Canadese (nuts fit in your mouth?)

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