Hey folks, it's been a while! I'm here today with a giveaway for a key to one of my favorite games ever made, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. I am so excited to share this amazing game with whoever wins this giveaway! Be warned however, there are a few things you might want to consider before entering:...
I've been wanting to pick this one up, but the ZA/UM drama had me hesitating.
In the meantime, I picked up Skyrim again, and while the main quest stayed the same I'm floored by the amount of flavor content that was added since my last playthrough a few years back.
The London Underground is actually kind of a dumb use-case because it’s fixed infrastructure.
On the other hand it's a perfect test bed, because there's sufficient changes of direction and speed, and the fixed infrastructure lets you measure drift. Plus it being underground helps simulate GPS signal being weak or unavailable.
Wikipedia's editors voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League "generally unreliable" on Israel and Palestine as well as the issue of antisemitism, adding the organisation to a list of banned sources, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA)....
I don't get why people are down voting this. Your approach is a perfectly acceptable blueprint for reducing meat consumption. Getting upset at you because you haven't fully embraced veganism is letting perfect become the enemy of good enough.
What about loss of material due to evaporation? Sand batteries can retain their mass in an unsealed container, vs water batteries which would lose mass in an open container or be under dangerously high pressures in a sealed container.
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
Lemmy and Mastodon are social media as well, and they are not profit driven. Non-social media like newspapers and cable TV also spread toxic content.
In the end, you got the causality reversed. Media (both social and non-social) gravitates towards what drives the most engagement. Negative/toxic content drives the most engagement because that content elicits a strong emotional response in the consumer.
Media amplifies the problem, but ultimately the problem is people. Toxic content is going to stick around until people stop giving it attention, and unfortunately in all of the history of humanity we have yet to figure out how.
There are plenty of real life scenarios that both equate and predate your example, and which don't rely on anonymity. Lynch mobs in the US, rape gangs in southeast Asian countries, Hitler rallies, heck even bully groups among children. The size of the group does not have to be big to allow toxic behavior, as long as you have a catalyst (such as someone getting away with something) that engenders a feeling of safety from consequences and in- and outgroups. The Internet is just another medium for this behavior, anonymous or not. What is different is that the internet is the first medium that actively records it.
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It's such a small specific thing, one I'd never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
I've mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....
Monthly would be nice, but don't feel obligated to do it - we'd enjoy it but don't burn yourself out providing content. What I would suggest though is to make sure you put a big "FAKE" watermark on them to avoid confusing the casual onlooker.
As in you are seeing multiple boot entries? It's likely one entry per kernel version that you have installed. It doesn't happen often these days any more, but in some situations it's handy to be able to revert to a previous kernel if for example third party modules break.
When you consider how much traffic goes towards the larger sites, it's actually believable. Even before the great migration Reddit was infested with reposter bots whose sole purpose was to farm karma in order to later sell the accounts. Those bots have gotten more sophisticated now, replicating not only original posts but entire comment threads. That's not new content, but it's content nevertheless, especially in the context of the dead Internet theory. Yes, it's engagement farming, but that engagement is getting more sophisticated, both to trick the user (to drive engagement) as well as to trick the server (to prevent getting blocked).
This is a very insidious problem, because it means that such bots can and will be abused by threat actors (both internal and external) to drive popular sentiment in certain directions. We know how susceptible a generation that only watched cable news became, imagine what such campaigns can do to internet generations - if you can generate content that supports your rhetoric faster than humans but without appearing fake, then you can drown out dissident speech. Brigading is bad already, and it will get worse.
the sheer volume of basic scraper and exploit scanner traffic that sites get is truly staggering in some cases.
Oh yes, absolutely. I've seen sites with millions of legitimate active users where we just dropped 98% of traffic because it's all malicious, either exploit scanners or just plain DDoS attempts. Going back to your earlier comment,
I might have the wrong impression, but “Bot” in average Joe’s vocabulary seems to imply this kind of astroturfing (often not actually a bot) or spambot type of bot, not any kind of non-human request like how Imperva are (correctly) using it.
On paper, any kind of automated traffic, be it DDoS, scanners, or automated content generation is bot activity. What is happening now though is that while consumptive bot activity is steady (because the field is already saturated), generative bot activity is skyrocketing. What it means for humans is that it turns media consumption from walking through an orchard and ignoring the rotten fruit to wading through a lake of shit and finding half-edible scraps. And I harbor no illusion that it wasn't bad before LLMs - even years ago I remember resetting the filters on my Reddit client and the feed getting inundated with ragebait, porn, and all sorts of low quality content. But when I had my filters they were effective, and that is becoming less so these days.
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday urged China to limit the delivery of dual use goods to Russia which end up being used in its war against Ukraine....
Counter argument: sometimes our memory of shows is rosier than reality. Take Looney Tunes, for example. Some of those original episodes made fun of mental illness, PTSD, even suicide.
In other cases a rebooted show is absolutely stellar, like BSG.
Sure they can. If you put a network behind a router they will share an egress/ingress IP. And there are certain high availability setups where computers share IPs in the same subnet for hot/standby failover.
Laptops don't get a new IP address every time they switch from one AP to another in the same network either. Your cell phone will get a new IP address if it switches to a different cell network.
Whoa, that's a sizeable edit to the post! Regardless the answer is pretty straightforward: your VOIP client (either the device if you have one or the software) is connected to a VOIP service which acts like a gateway for your client. Since the client initiated the connection to the gateway and is keeping it alive, you don't need to make any network changes. Once the connection is established, standard SIP call flows (you can Google that for flow diagrams) are followed.
So no, you router is not part of the cell service. The VOIP provider is part of a phone service that receives calls and routes them for you, just like the cell towers are part of a telephony provider that routes calls through the appropriate tower.
A static IP is actually not necessary, but what you need is a consistent identifier. For the server, that's typically a DNS address, but for clients and peer to peer networks there's other ways to identify devices, usually tied to an account or some other key kept on the device.
For centralised communications yes, you would need an always online server. For decentralised networks, you just need a sufficient amount of online peers, but each individual peer does not need to be always online.
Pretty much, yes. Even push notifications on cell phones work this way.
Route, yes. Manually. VPN is usually not necessary. In modern web-based services this is typically done with websockets, which are client-initiated (so the client address can change), and which allow two-way communication and typically only require a keepalive packet from the client every minute or so.
There's other reasons why universal addressing is not done - privacy, network segmentation, resiliency, security, etc. And while IPv6 proponents do like to claim that local networks wouldn't be strictly necessary (which is technically true), local networks will still be wanted by many. Tying this back to phone numbers - phone numbers work because there's an implicit trust in the telcos, and conversely there's built in central control. It also helps that it's only a very domain specific implementation - phone communication specifications don't change very often. On computer networks, a lot of work has been done to reduce the reliance on a central trust authority. Nowadays, DNS and SSL registries are pretty much the last bastion of such an authority, with a lot of research and work having gone into being able to safely communicate through untrusted layers: GPG, TOR, IPFS, TLS, etc.
Just because it has a CVE number doesn't mean it's exploitable. Of the 800 CVEs, which ones are in the KEV catalogue? What are the attack vectors? What mitigations are available?
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Hey folks, it's been a while! I'm here today with a giveaway for a key to one of my favorite games ever made, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. I am so excited to share this amazing game with whoever wins this giveaway! Be warned however, there are a few things you might want to consider before entering:...
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What specific variety of some fruit do you prefer? (A particular apple, a certain mango, etc.)
This might also help people find better versions of fruits they may not otherwise enjoy
Bird Flu Pandemic 'Very Likely', Warns Former CDC Director ( plantbasednews.org )
‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS ( www.theguardian.com )
Wikipedia declares Anti-Defamation League 'unreliable' on Israel, antisemitism: Report ( www.middleeasteye.net )
Wikipedia's editors voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League "generally unreliable" on Israel and Palestine as well as the issue of antisemitism, adding the organisation to a list of banned sources, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA)....
Canada’s Most Vegan-Friendly Cities Unveiled
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/canadas-most-vegan-friendly-cities-unveiled/
It just feels wrong ( lemmy.world )
If human skin was sometimes completely patterned (eg. spots, stripes, etc.), what pattern (if any) would you want to have?
best lemmy app for android
I've been looking around for lemmy apps but I just can't seem to find the best one if anyone has any suggestions they are welcome
Structure is a double-edged sword ( lemmy.world )
Sand Batteries vs Water Batteries
I can't remember if I saw the argument here or on Reddit, but this is my preferred platform so it's going here....
Voters in 13 Oregon Counties Approve 'Greater Idaho' Measure Seeking to Secede From Liberal-Run State ( www.nysun.com )
Thirteen counties in Oregon have voted in favor of measures to begin negotiations on seceding from the state and joining neighboring Idaho....
Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks.
That's it.
How do you search for honest product recommendations?
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
Who agrees that the Internet and social media are toxic?
Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It's such a small specific thing, one I'd never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. ( lemmy.world )
Things the "owl"-gorithm recommends to me... 😒 ( lemmy.world )
I've mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....
Rex Murphy, the sharp-witted intellectual who loved Canada, dies at 77 ( nationalpost.com )
As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache
gut pull ( lemmy.world )
Art by me, after a typo by my friend.
Uuh grub? ( programming.dev )
nvm a restart fixed it...
Sideways ( i.imgur.com )
I do hope the actual apartment is more aligned with our plane of existence...
Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ ( www.independent.co.uk )
Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying....
EU Chief Urges China To Curtail 'Dual Use Goods' Delivery To Russia ( www.barrons.com )
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday urged China to limit the delivery of dual use goods to Russia which end up being used in its war against Ukraine....
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
7th time's the charm! ( lemmy.world )
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Why don't computers have "computer-numbers" equivalent to phone numbers
Why doesn't every computer have 256 char domain name, along with a private key to prove it is the sole owner of the address?...
Canada's economy is losing momentum — quickly ( financialpost.com )
Canada's GDP slipped lower in February, suggesting growth is slowing quickly. Read more
New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
If all kernel bugs are security bugs, how do you keep your Linux safe? ( www.zdnet.com )
Someone should release Discovery with all the speeches removed
Would make the show watchable and cut like half the time.