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  • Superfoods aren't even the worst kind of snake oil. They're ultimately not directly harmful.

    When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.

  • Absolutely! Multiple, in fact. In order of preference:

    1. Shut down the game, dissolve the company, and donate all remaining funds to a women's shelter.
    2. Prosecute groomers instead of banning and threatening the people who are trying to stop the fuckers and crying about vigilantism even when the proper reporting channels are used.
    3. Use AI for a beneficial purpose at least one goddamn time. Scan the text and voice communications (it's a public game, there is no expectation of privacy), flag suspicious exchanges for human review, then ban and report groomers.
  • Problem: the game is getting a notoriety for being infested by pedophiles and the developers are actively protecting them.

    Solution: send your photographs to the game infested by pedophiles to prove you are a real child!

    Fucking. Incredible. If this was written in a manuscript, it would be tossed for being too cartoonishly unrealistic.

  • That is still so fucking mysterious to me. The Chinese Room makes exactly one type of game, which is "guided-interactive narrative experience" to be diplomatic. The exact opposite of Bloodlines 1. Dear Esther, Ozzy Mandus And The Crankhog Machine, their entire portfolio follows the same formula: strong in art direction, atmosphere, and story; weak in gameplay. Even a hit like Still Wakes The Deep only takes gameplay as far as "throw object to make the thing look away". Their gameplay systems are not just middling but comfortably average, just enough to keep the player engaged while moving through the (admittedly beautiful) environments.

    So why the fuck did Paradox choose them for Bloodlines 2? Are they stupid?

  • It's possible that, when the ISP revokes the public address and assigns a new one, the DNS record isn't updated immediately and still points to the old address. Then every new request would be sent to the old, invalid address.

    And this is where I start shilling for Tailscale. It's a Wireguard-based mesh VPN that is designed to work from behind firewalls, NAT, and CGNAT. It has its own internal split DNS provider, and probably some mechanism to handle public address changes that is transparent to the tunnelled traffic. You can use it to share the server with only the devices that have the client installed, or expose the server to the internet.

    I've got it set up on my OPNSense firewall as a subnet router that advertises the subnet where my servers are, and often stream from Jellyfin over it. There's some overhead, but it's never been disruptive.

  • My main concern about that is that using AA and AAA form factors promotes the use of disposable dry cell batteries, even if nickel or lithium cells are just as widely available. And, realistically, not even the closest Li-ion form factor is fully compatible with AA, and Ni-MH sucks balls.

    The controller is also filled to the gills with hardware. Doesn't look like there's enough volume left for AA or AAA receptacles without giving it an underbelly to rival the Xbox Duke.

  • Verifying that the code doesn't contain regressions, bugs, or vulnerabilities, that it doesn't conflict with whatever the owner is actively developing privately, in addition to making sure it wasn't vomited out by a goddamn clanker, is a huge burden on a solo developer. They are free to decide whether to take on this responsibility.

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    Dullsters @dullsters.net

    It's 1am and one of my NAS hard drives is doing the death rattle.

    Tip Of My Tongue @lemmy.world

    Story from the 70s/80s about recovering a Unix system after rm -rf / (FOUND)

    Explain Like I'm Five @lemmy.world

    ELI5: what is a quantum state?

    AssholeDesign @lemmy.world

    This may be useful.

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    If you can build logic gates, you can build a circuit. If you can visualize its state, someone will inevitably play Bad Apple on it.

    linuxmemes @lemmy.world

    The pak was definitely not flat.

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    NASA Flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson, 2010

    Dullsters @dullsters.net

    This MP3 nugget is humiliating modern tech.

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    My Deer Friend Bajirao

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school.

    Dullsters @dullsters.net

    In a stunning case of crossed wires...

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Happiest man in Revachol

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    Decoy jeans!

    linuxmemes @lemmy.world

    All hail the mighty butt.

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Twitter's blue check mark is the modern equivalent of a dunce cap.

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    It's not a store... it's where I get my free games.

    Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    My impulse purchase of a UPS is saving my ass right now.

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    PEGI is a pissing joke.

    Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    Slow day at work made me realise why I like this community so much.