Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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Another interesting pattern is that they don't make games to tell stories. This has always been a misconception since Half-life has such massive following over the story, and hurt over unfinished plots. But if you check closely, those games where never about the story. Usually Valve makes something with a fun mechanic to play, then they work on writing a creative and cool story/dialogue around that gameplay. Never the other way around. 99% of their games are about gameplay, if you stripped all flavor text, voice dialogue and art from Portal it would still be a solid and extremely fun puzzle game.

I think you've just uncovered why I like valve games so much 😅

This is really going to change the game for certain applications!

Being able to thread Python properly is really going to help it compete with NodeJS and JVM workloads (especially if they continue to work on proper JIT for Python).

I ended up picking up this game and enjoyed several hours of it yesterday; I do wish there was a bit more control over how trains go from one place to another/some kind of signaling control ... but it's a neat game! Very relaxing.

Thanks for posting this!

Reading through all the jargon and simplifying it, the answer: yes they're the same in the way you mean.

"SSH" and "passkey" are both technologies built on asymmetric cryptography. They thus at a fundamental level do work in the same way, it's all the protocol and practices stuff that gets bolted on that is where things become different and where things took time to get into place so we could use these things on the web (and not just "we" who know what SSH is but "we" who make up society).

Arrghghgh! Orwell was right about people's incredibly capacity to write with zero clarity.

The problem is arguably that for the people who understand it enough to say "yeah, they're the same idea", the key point is "asymmetric cryotherapy" in an authentication context, the key point is not SSH. SSH is just how most technically inclined users have most directly experienced asymmetric cryptography deployed as an authentication mechanism. It's that same mistake textbooks often make of burying the lead in an otherwise obscure reference the reader may or may not pickup on.

But yes, it would be helpful if some major site would provide this comparison "so that I don't have to! 😉"

See also "Enrollment and Sign-in with FIDO" in https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/

I know you mean well, but it's fine to discuss your family at a level you feel comfortable. Your family is part of your experience in the world and that is fundamentally a part of your political perspective.

It's not my problem that some people on the Internet want to insist they're the expert on everything, even people, people they've never met.

When it comes to people, we should all try and keep an open mind about what perspectives might exist. These narratives that people are so divided, that Republicans are racist, greedy, and narcissistic, and that Democrats are handout seeking, weak, and naive ... they need to be challenged (and first hand testimony is important but often seriously lacking).

If we're just going to deny another person's experiences are real anytime they don't align with our world view ... what's the point of even being on a forum?

Yeah basically. See "What is a passkey" on https://fidoalliance.org/faqs/#PasskeysFAQs

From a technical standpoint, passkeys are FIDO credentials that are discoverable by browsers or housed within native applications or security keys for passwordless authentication. Passkeys replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs for phishing-resistant sign-in security and an improved user experience. The cryptographic keys are used from end-user devices (computers, phones, or security keys) for user authentication.

Close but private keys don't get sent.

It sends information encrypted via your public key to your client, then your client proves that it's the real owner of the key by decrypting the message, and then sending a new message back encrypted by the private key that the server can then verify.

This is what's better than a password, the information for providing authentication (the private key) never leaves your computer (where as you almost in all implementations of password based auth, send the password itself to the server).

I loved Sid Meier's Railroads back in the day!

First off, it's certainly possible that everyone in their family absolutely does love their interracial kids, but it's also very possible they don't; that is a dynamic I'd need to see to know. Behind closed doors, people change.

Yeah, I'm done, you're blocked. You don't get to tell me about my own family.

EDIT (for anyone else that actually wants to engage in good faith): Furthermore, yearning for the effects of a time period doesn't mean you're in favor of the effects that caused that time period. Someone saying "I miss when gas was cheap" doesn't mean "they miss exploiting and bullying people internationally to get the cheapest possible oil" ... they just want their cheap gas (and that's assuming what you miss is even directly related to the other thing, you can, e.g., miss how there used to be more drive-ins in the 60s while acknowledging it's great that we got rid of leaded gas).

Trump's a conman, he won't give them what they feel they've lost back; but they believe he will. This doesn't equate to middle America being filled with racist. You can't write off an entire time period as exclusively being good for some people because it was bad for others. People can (as an example) like things about the 50s and 60s without liking Jim Crow.

I have a side of the family that still supports Trump. That same side of the family has interracial marriages and there are black babies that are very loved upon (and no, it wasn't some scandalous thing, the relationship and the marriage was uncontroversial).

Clearly, those members of my family are not voting for Trump because they're racist and afraid of skin colors.

They're (in my understanding) voting for Trump because the older members when they were younger had more economic opportunities and felt more attached to their community and their faith. I don't agree with them on priorities, but it's not racism, it's in more ways a sort of nostalgia for a time period when life didn't involve so many complex and nuanced topics.

You should! I'd wait for the update itself so that player counts are high and match making is more in your favor, plus all the new polish, but as someone that plays several times a week, it's still my favorite game out there right now

Maybe, maybe not, maybe I'm a duck in a suite.

I mean it was blocked before Signal was blocked. Russia somewhat famously badly broke their Internet trying to shutdown telegram... and eventually gave up.

I'm guessing Signal finally has enough market share to get the Russian government's attention but not enough market share that they think the web of proxies that kept Telegram online will keep Signal online.

Exotic, extravagant, unconventional, unique come to mind

I sincerely doubt they'd be asking that. Many of them would probably be happy we'd moved past that point.

https://www.history.com/news/declaration-of-independence-deleted-anti-slavery-clause-jefferson

My understanding is that many of them saw it as more of a necessary evil vaguely justified on racial grounds. We need to be willing to talk about and acknowledge America's racist history with the slave trade, but we also need to understand the era and the fact that it was never broadly accepted as the right way to do things.

This might make folks uncomfortable, but it's not all that dissimilar to folks buying cheap imported stuff today built primarily for the US consumer in sweatshop conditions, via outright slavery, and/or with various child labor schemes often at an extreme cost to the health of the environment. We've made things better but we've also recreated some of the problems that we'd destroyed in the WW II era with the justification of indirection ("well I didn't do it, the big company I bought from did it") instead of racism.

I fully expect a future generation to hold us to the pitchforks for buying cheap junk on Amazon or at Walmart and not ever asking "what behavior am I supporting? How did they make this at this price?"

You let the supreme court say that the president is above the law!?!

Going to need a lot more context than that.

I'm sure site admins could just clear the 2FA field if they wanted. Would they? IDK, probably not unless they had good reason.

Could someone steal your session information and disable your 2FA with that? Yeah, but I doubt they did, you'd have to have your system compromised or some kind of cross site scripting.

Did you use any shady lemmy clients?

etc

Huh, TIL...

Why specifically are you a fan of XFS for network mounts?

Yeah, so in that case I'd just use ext4 or, if you want checksums, btrfs (though this doesn't matter too much as btrfs currently doesn't support raid in any real sense, so it can't actually correct the data, just tell you it's bad).

ZFS can do the checksums with RAID and error correction, but getting that on Linux (without using a specialty distro like TrueNAS Scale) is still a pain.