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  • The database is stored encrypted on disk, but the userspace program that authenticates to access it allows any running program to hook into it, and once the user authenticates, any ride-along program has full access forever.

    Don’t even need a local priv escalation, just need to be able to run code as the user, and you can exfiltrate everything. Microslop have closed this as ‘not a bug, intended behaviour’.

    Only safe solution appears to be disabling Recall entirely. Which I’ve done by installing Arch btw.


  • Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows “comments to the same link” all in one view. That’s not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it’s a massive improvement.

    Not suggesting we should have Fark-style ‘only one post per link’, because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn’t post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.


  • Okay - that’ll be interesting. There’s not much “the future Addams family” in that collection; there’s quite a lot of creepy-and-kooky, a fair amount of 1940s humour that’s aged really badly (misogyny and foreigners with funny ways) and also a fair amount of stuff that I just don’t understand at all. Will be pleased to see the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ for what’s actually going on in some of them.

    Bit of a prototypical Far Side in a way. Addams has a fair amount more technical skill than Larson, but can be a lot meaner in his jokes; they’re very much about an ‘everyday picture with funny caption’ or vice-versa.






  • You’ve missed out the “don’t charge devs the Unreal licensing fee for games sold through Epic Store”, which would be another 10% on top of every sale. If they had any sales, of course. But yeah, an extra ten percent of nothing remains nothing, and they all go back to Steam.



  • Haven’t played the whole game, but did play the demo when it came out. It’s a good-looking Soulslike with tight controls and a few tweaks to the normal formula. Brutally hard, and a lot of that is because it’s very parry-heavy, with many different kinds of parry. Miss a dodge or get your timing wrong, you’ll be eating shit and restarting again. Surprisingly long demo, did enjoy it.

    Do have it wishlisted, but it’s always been at quite a hefty price and haven’t dipped in, yet. Would have been a yes from me at thirty quid and I’d have considered it at forty, but it seems to sit at fifty, and there’s very few games I’d pay that amount for.

    Demo came out in the same week as the AI Limit demo, which is a much more traditional Soulsy, and which I bought and had a good time with. There’s a busy market for Souls games, for sure.


  • addie@feddit.uktoScience Memes@mander.xyzMore than a dipper
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    10 days ago

    It’s a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe ‘space cthulhu’-type aliens work too.

    Don’t think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo might be a better match.


  • Not arguing that PNG is the right choice, but you want something lossless for science purposes, and this is a science image.

    You can tell roughly what order the impact craters were formed by seeing what overlaps what; looks like the small impacts mostly followed the big impacts. Maybe the earth’s orbit cleared out the bigger stuff first? If you had a really good image, you might be able to work out the average impact angle, and therefore the average speed of impact, since we know the speed of the moon, and how they would intersect. Nothing’s filled with lava like it has on the near side of the moon, which makes me think these have mostly happened later in the moon’s life, when it’s cooled down a bit.

    I just love space, I’ve no education in it. I bet someone with a fancy moon science degree would be able to tell you a lot more, and they’d be poring over every pixel. Don’t want any JPEGs getting in the way of that.


  • Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.

    Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.



  • Josuttis’s books are normally pretty good, lots of examples and a clear explanation of why you might want to use something, but oof that looks akin to a kick in the essentials.

    Even if you’ve no other reason to update to C++20, the fact that if constexpr gets rid of half the things you’d previously need to use SFINAE for, and concepts gets rid of the other half, makes it well worthwhile. Amazing how much it stops hurting when you stop doing ridiculous things.



  • addie@feddit.uktomemes@lemmy.worldHigher!
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    Just need to replace those four supports with a single pillar made out of soap, cut down all that disgusting greenery, and pump a bit of magma about to brighten the place up, and you’d have the beginnings of a respectable fortress. The obsidian-and-steel scheme is a nice touch.