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  1. Comment on The Ploopy Bean - an external four-button trackpoint in ~tech

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    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    The Bean is designed so that the button surface has a great finish, a stylish texture that feels great.

    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    4 votes

  2. Comment on How computationally expensive is filtering and ignoring? in ~tildes

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    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp

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    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp

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    The em dash per sentence ratio is off the charts

    The em dash per sentence ratio is off the charts

    12 votes

  5. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    Government can't raise children, and an age verification system certainly can't.

    Government can't raise children, and an age verification system certainly can't.

    24 votes

  6. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    The day that bool switches you'll know the exact DOB. This isn't as clever as it may seem.

    The day that bool switches you'll know the exact DOB. This isn't as clever as it may seem.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    This is certainly not the least worst option. This is a pretty terrible option.

    This is certainly not the least worst option.

    This is a pretty terrible option.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least. On the...

    We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online.

    Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least.

    On the other hand, turning the majority of internet activity into governmental transactions — through a nation's verification service, could have large societal implications. As for policy, it seems it's easier to give power, than to take it away.

    Checks must be conducted entirely client-side, on the user’s device. [...] The answer to the binary question of whether the user is “of age” must be fully anonymized, divorced from any identifying information, and transmitted entirely under end-to-end encryption.

    Much easier said than done, but I hope some form of zero knowledge proof is viable for this application, it's the only way I could imagine a robust privacy preserving solution to work.

    11 votes

  10. Comment on Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for seventeen years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. in ~finance

  11. Comment on German males under 45 may need military approval for long stays abroad in ~society

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    One would imagine the answer to whether a German planning to travel abroad for the next six months would show up for voluntary military service might be rather obvious. Unless it's not that...

    One would imagine the answer to whether a German planning to travel abroad for the next six months would show up for voluntary military service might be rather obvious. Unless it's not that voluntary at all.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech

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    So it's end to end encrypted but they're complaining about the jurisdictions some of the services are located in because they process the data. I don't get the tone of the article considering...

    So it's end to end encrypted but they're complaining about the jurisdictions some of the services are located in because they process the data.

    I don't get the tone of the article considering screenshots of the privacy policy state quite clearly that's exactly what's happening.

    I think it's fair to point out, if their marketing material may lead someone to believe otherwise. Though it doesn't seem like they're trying to deceive anyone tbh

    9 votes

  13. Comment on Denuvo DRM has been cirmumvented using hypervisor based bypass in ~games

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    Oh we're getting into some serious voodoo now

    Installing a community-made hypervisor (HV) with Windows running on top of it. This HV fakes responses to the checks that Denuvo makes, and runs with higher permissions (ring level -1) than the operating system itself and has full, nearly untraceable access to hardware and software.

    Oh we're getting into some serious voodoo now

    27 votes

  14. Comment on Google releases Gemma 4 in ~comp

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    ... right, well anyway, seems to perform quite well on benchmarks, especially for the size. Though personally, I'm more interested in the memory constrained versions and the native audio input is...

    Gemma 4 delivers an unprecedented level of intelligence-per-parameter.

    ... right, well anyway, seems to perform quite well on benchmarks, especially for the size.

    Though personally, I'm more interested in the memory constrained versions and the native audio input is neat.

    10 votes

  16. Comment on Artemis II April 1 launch in ~space

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    Scott Manley is probably working on that right now :P

    Scott Manley is probably working on that right now :P

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Artemis II April 1 launch in ~space

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    SpaceX absolutely nails launch coverage, I hope next time they'll take a page from theirs

    SpaceX absolutely nails launch coverage, I hope next time they'll take a page from theirs

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Graphite Galaxy - astronomy sketches in ~space

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    I think it's a person sketching what they observe through a telescope and sharing the drawings.

    every minute I spend at the eyepiece. My vision quickly became better: my naked eye limiting magnitude increased with about 1-1.5 magnitudes in a year or two, and I was able to catch really faint details that seemed impossible before.

    I think it's a person sketching what they observe through a telescope and sharing the drawings.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Does anyone play older versions of Minecraft? in ~games

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    Not vanilla, buuut if you want to try something different, BTA is a cool mod based on beta 1.7.3.

    Not vanilla, buuut if you want to try something different, BTA is a cool mod based on beta 1.7.3.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I don't think the jk rowling tag will appear as an author tag on everything related to the new Harry Potter show*. This discussion is also more of a society thing than a media thing. * Ironically,...

    I don't think the jk rowling tag will appear as an author tag on everything related to the new Harry Potter show*. This discussion is also more of a society thing than a media thing.

    * Ironically, there isn't even a rowling tag on this post