It didn’t occur to me to even consider that there might be a custom competitive beyblade scene :D I was mostly just thinking about the pre-made duels at highschool :D

I have to look it up, sounds fun.

I think that is kind of the main point of Rust, though.

It’s pretty easy to make something in C++. But it will very probably have a lot of hidden issues with memory, undefined behaviors and the like. Rust doesn’t let you make those mistakes that much, and forces you to do it correctly and securely the first time, which is why it is harder to get into.

They are mostly harmless and may never cause problems for you, but that’s how you get critical RCEs that are 8 years old in a software that’s now widely used.

If you don’t need this kind “ease traded for security”, in my personal opinion I’d go with Zig instead.

I don’t believe they will. The can say and do whatever and nothing will probably happen. .

One of the things that surprised me the most when I started working on vishings for a Cybersecurity Red Team was how extremely easy it is to spoof any phone number.

It’s the nunber one tip I give to anyone who asks about security, a lot of people don’t know that, and spear-vishings are extremely effective.

People have learned to mostly not trust Microsoft Support numbers asking for your CC, but when an internal company number that your phone matches to your bosses boss calls you, a lot of people fall for that.

Hmm, I wonder what the current beyblade meta is, used to be a pretty fun toy a decade ago.

What hardware that needs? My issue with running local models was that it’s too much of a resource hog to be able to do gamedev on the same machine, and any sensible model needs pretty expensive hardware to just get a server for it. Especially with current prices.

I can’t wait for companies to finally price out most of developers out of AI use, especially the FOSS ones.

I just hope most of them won’t get too addicted to the tech crack they are getting free/cheap samples of currently, and will be able able to find back their motivation and skill to work without a feel-good dopamine machines.

Also, lol at all the coments being like “if you’re 100% against the tech crack, you’re delusional. The cat is already out of the bag, it makes you way better at coding, if you use it responsibly!”

The problem isn’t that it’s not somewhat good, the issue is that soon you won’t be able to afford it, while also being addicted and dependant on it. But I’m sure y’all are able to use crack responsibly and will be fiiine.

That is a fair point. I’m also not trying to discredit Steam, I don’t really think there’s any kind of a problem as of now (well, apart from the fact that it could go downhill very fast once Steam changes hands), and the services they provide are reasonable and for me worth the 30% cut, especially their Proton work.

I really hope Linux will get a bigger market share, thanks to Steam devices, before Steam has to change CEOs and starts the inevitable enshitification.

Because for Linux gaming, Steam’s support for Proton is pretty much a monopol.

Most of 3rd party launchers for other stores also rely on Proton under the hood, IIRC.

I was just curious whether technically Steam is a monopol for Linux, as in being the only store where you can run games without using 3rd party tools.

Not that I mind, running games on Linux is super easy nowadays (My favorite is Faugus launcher), but technically it can be another hurdle for some people.

But when I need to play some Epic free game, Heroic is awesome.

Oh, I know how to run my games, my point was more that in that case, Steam does have a literal monopol on being the only store that can run most games on Linux without using any 3rd party tools.

Not that I mind at all, and it’s not a real problem, but I was just wondering if that’s technically the case.

Honest question, is there any other store that directly supports seamlessly running games on Linux? Even games that do not natively build for Linux?

Edit: Because in that case, Steam does have a monopol on Linux, since it’s the only store that can seamlessly/without 3rd party tools run most games.

I highly recommend reading and at least once trying to implement the Newport’s Digital Minimalism. Even if you don’t go all in, it has a lot of food for thought in regards to technolpoy usage.

I’ve spent almost a year with a dumb Nokia (the LTE version of bananaphone) that did still have a (barely usable) Maps app and also could make a hotspot, so I could use my powered off smartphone I always carried with me for emergencies.

I have since returned back to using smartphone, mostly because of work requirements, and have fallen out of a lot of Minimalism habits, but things like turned off notifications and learning not to care about missing stuff/replying later has stayed with me. Once you get rid of notification FOMO, it’s pretty liberating.

I should get a dumb phone again.

I’m out of the loop, what did you find?

EDIT: I guess you’re talking about this? From a first reddit page about why is it down I could find.

The owner did it to themselves, by mounting a surreptitious DDoS campaign and altering the content of the archives to slander people, thus making it an unreliable source. This prompted Wikipedia to (correctly) remove it from all outbound links.

It’s moot if it’s online anymore or not - it’s not a valid archive.

I keep hearing about malicious QR codes, but how does it actually work? Unless there’s a serious vulnerability, how is it different from clicking on any link?

It has been a few years since I worked as a junior in offensive security, but that has been something I could never figure out when I looked into it.

Hmm, I guess you could use it for a pretty good phishing attempt. Just show a fake google login page and you’re set, or maybe a fake .apk download “to confirm the captcha”, but other than that, I don’t really see a vector of attack.

Interesting, it might’ve changed, I’ve had my domain for 5+ years by now, but if you set up all the signing keys, DKIM, SPF, and whatever properly, I never had a single issue as far as I know.

But I never tried sending my own emails - I’ve been using Protonmail’s custom domain option, which I’m sure helps. Running your own mailserver without a trusted provider might be a lot more problematic, I never even considered it. The idea wasn’t to run my own mailserver, but to be able to move my custom domain to a different provider that supports custom domains, so I don’t have to change my email anywhere.

I just made sure that my domain is passing all the email domain checker tests, and as long as I don’t get on a blacklist, I should be fine.

Oh, cool. That means there could be at least a library/archive of videos I haven’t seen yet.

I don’t really watch youtubers, but when I was going through rough times, Hololive’s Gura was my favorite streamer, I wonder how she’s doing now.

Edit: Oh.

I’d highly recommend getting your own domain.

Make sure it’s something that’s cheap to renew, cloudfare registrar prices should be at wholesale price.

Setting it up correctly can be a pain, but once your privacy friendly provider starts getting inevitably enshitiffied, you can move your email way more easily.

I think so, at last. Never had to move from Proton yet.

PGP exists. If your threat model requires pretty good privacy, the absolute minimum you should do is manually add a second level of encryption with PGP with manually exchanged keys somewhere off-grid.