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Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
  • They say they get around the easy linking of a single wallet address to your identity by using subaddresses. I don't think this fixes it, it merely delays it.

    The number of these subaddresses are capped to prevent botting. But suppose you use this account every day for years or decades. You've meticulously allocated subaddresses for different categories of spending, assessed the risk profile of using each one, and used them throughout the years until you're out of subaddresses.

    Now you're vulnerable to having your identity tied to the account since the risk of getting had goes up every time you use any of your subaccounts. And this risk only increases the more you use your Worldcoin.

    Even if the biometric privacy safeguards they built in (hashing yer Mk. I orbs) work perfectly, I wouldn't use it for the reasons I mentioned above, there isn't a way to ensure transactional anonymity if your account/subaccounts can be linked to your real identity regardless of the method.

  • Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher studio CD Projekt laying off 100 staff
  • Just speculation here, but is this a sign that CDPR is tilting more towards mainstreaming GOG over prioritizing game development? Valve did exactly that with Steam and they very, very rarely release games they make any more.

    Steam is a cash cow that literally just prints money for them. I'd imagine CDPR corpos to be salivating over that kind of low maintenance income that comes with owning a large digital distribution gaming platform.

  • Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch
  • Have you tried Butterchurn Visualizer? You need to allow it access to your microphone and play sound through your speakers, but it is one of the better desktop visualizers along with ProjectM on Android.

  • r/place is going well so far...
  • I see an outline of a QR code in there. How well would that work if someone could just vandalize a single pixel within the code and break it?

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  • What's the most toxic game community you know of?
  • The only appropriate response to that is

    git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
    
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  • From Article 19, Section 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, November 20, 1989:

    States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.

    Sadly, the United States (of which Missouri is a state) has only signed, but not yet ratified, this Convention. Still, I think this warrants getting some international attention lest this becomes normalized again.

  • why not a,b or x,y?
  • At this point we might as well go full Roman as you suggested. MXMCIIV to MXMCCVII as indices.

  • why not a,b or x,y?
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  • Actual Hidden Gems on Steam
  • 69¢, Nice. That had to be intentional.

  • What operating system do you use on your main computer?
  • This has been my experience as well. I've wanted to have my main be some sort of Linux for years, but there's always something that requires hours to try to fix that doesn't work out of the box. This is primarily due to drivers sucking since most of their focus is on Windows compatibility.

    Tried Ubuntu in 2007 on a laptop. Could never get the WiFi to work correctly.

    Another Ubuntu on a desktop in 2012. This time it was display drivers causing graphical glitches and crashes that I also couldn't really fix.

    Mint in 2018 and again in 2020. A bit better experience than before, but less driver issues and more software compatibility with individual games that was frustrating, especially third party game libraries (looking at you Ubisoft).

    I dunno, maybe it's a skill issue and I should just "git gud" but I realize that gud is not a valid git command so it doesn't help me here.

  • Time Appears to Have Run Five Times Slower in Early Universe, Supporting Einstein's Relativity Theory

    Five times slower for us distant observers, regular time (1 second = 1 second) if you're actually there, if I'm understanding this correctly.

    Still, difficult to wrap my brain around.

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    Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
  • Hmm I thought Toyota was focusing more on Hydrogen powered cars as a long-term strategy rather than EVs.

  • In praise of the short narrative video game...
  • It sounds like you might like Kenshi. It's also an open world game that has no real quests and is all about what you make of it. The UI and controls are a little rough around the edges and the early game is unforgiving (to put it mildly), but I've never played any other game like it.

    Imagine being dropped into a foreign world with different factions as a complete nobody and being a wanderer to the world.

  • Pill Bugs And Chitons Get Jobs As Tiny Grippers
  • Insects are taking... Our jerbs???

  • The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer to close after disastrous launch
  • The in game potatoes can have the tooltip description, "Po-tay-toes, boil 'em, mash 'em, stuck 'em in a stew."

  • What games need a remaster?
  • Deus Ex. The original one. It has such great story and gameplay but is dated by today's standards.

  • Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family
  • This trend is bad for the Google brand, and I'm surprised that the higher ups there don't understand it. Why should I use a Google service and get attached to it if they are going to unexpectedly remove it entirely?

    How long until Google Earth gets the axe? Or even Gmail? I'm writing this on my Google Pixel, but they could theoretically just say "naw we wanna leave the phone market" and then may not make the phone any longer or not provide OS or security updates if that is their prerogative.

    For such a large tech company, they have the resources to run these services at cost in order to have their users be more valuable to them in the long term.

    I'm still bitter about them completely dismantling the original Google Talk desktop application two decades ago (yes they weren't shortened to app then lol) as it was the best communication platform of its time and had very clear voice comms.

  • In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?
  • There might be some traction if those laptops and desktops were a little cheaper than those preloaded with Windows.

  • Anyone else enjoying the Internet better, now that they’re off Reddit?
  • How do you set up to receive RSS feeds on your phone?

  • I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans
  • Conic Sans is the hyperbolic version of Comic Sans

  • The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test

    This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document the different Internet epochs. For my part, I always try to send any news article I see to an archival site (like archive.ph) to help collectively preserve our present so it can still be seen by others in the future.

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    [Rust] Why code in text like a peasant when you can code using emojis
    tomdebruijn.com Calculating String length and width – Fun with Unicode

    Finding the string length sounds easier than it is, if we want to be really accurate. Let's explore how does Unicode and emoji make this step more complex.

    Calculating String length and width – Fun with Unicode

    Why use pi when you can use 🥧

    ``` fn main() { let pi_emoji = "🥧"; let pi_value = 3.1415926535897932384626433832;

    println!("Let {} {:.28}", pi_emoji, pi_value); } ```

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    I can't not see this as a woobly-eyed Wooly Mammoth

    It wants to say "Good evening, may I hold your towel please?"

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