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  1. Comment on Best recommendations for PC couch multiplayer games? in ~games

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    Portal and Portal 2. They are classics for a reason and perfect for couch play solving the puzzles together.

    Portal and Portal 2. They are classics for a reason and perfect for couch play solving the puzzles together.

    12 votes

  2. Comment on How long do homemade olives stay safe? in ~food

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    My meadmaking would like to disagree with you here. It is mostly because the sugar to water ratio is too high and it acts as a dessicant. Honey doesn't spoil as long as it can't suck water from...

    This isn’t because of some special property of the honey. It is just that no microbes exist that can digest honey

    My meadmaking would like to disagree with you here. It is mostly because the sugar to water ratio is too high and it acts as a dessicant. Honey doesn't spoil as long as it can't suck water from somewhere and get that ratio low enough for microbes to survive.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on First death linked to red meat allergy triggered by tick bites, researchers say in ~health

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    I had a coworker around 10 years ago that thought most allergies were just a way of the younger generation trying to make up quirky ways to be unique (or something along those lines). He was...

    That's a thing? Whyyyy!? I don't get the random things people refuse to "believe". Q_Q

    I had a coworker around 10 years ago that thought most allergies were just a way of the younger generation trying to make up quirky ways to be unique (or something along those lines). He was convinced that he could prove that by getting a girl allergic to peanuts to eat them without her knowing. His theory was that, since she was making it up, she would have no reaction as long as she didn't know.

    He brought in some cookies that he put small amounts of ground peanuts into, claimed they had none, and the girl had to break out her epipen and go to the hospital.

    I don't know what came of it between the girl and the older guy that made the cookies. I know the guy was fired, but anything beyond that I never heard.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign in ~tech

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    But, specifically, the blog post is calling out extremely viable speeds as impossible for hackers. Again, extremely on-par with normal vulnerability scanning tools. Great, Claude can run...

    But, specifically, the blog post is calling out extremely viable speeds as impossible for hackers.

    Overall, the threat actor was able to use AI to perform 80-90% of the campaign, with human intervention required only sporadically (perhaps 4-6 critical decision points per hacking campaign).

    Again, extremely on-par with normal vulnerability scanning tools.

    Great, Claude can run vulnerability scans. That's newsworthy. Tell me that Claude is running scans at a speed and with oversight that rivals normal use of tools and how that's great for security teams, but don't tell me that Claude is doing the impossible.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign in ~tech

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    Scripting is lost on this blog post? This is just marketing material dressed up as a post mortem.

    The AI made thousands of requests per second—an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match.

    Scripting is lost on this blog post?

    This is just marketing material dressed up as a post mortem.

    17 votes

  6. Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp

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    Is there a reason that you would utilize this over cameras?

    Is there a reason that you would utilize this over cameras?

    3 votes

  7. Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music

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    It took 12 years from the airing of this Futurama episode for it to become reality.

    It took 12 years from the airing of this Futurama episode for it to become reality.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    I find this observation to be the opposite of my experience. Alternatively, I am just acting like a bit more botlike than usual (you know, those bots that check vaguely technical sounding titles...

    For bonus points, it does seem like there is activity continuously trying to improve it and reduce the rejection rate (from my user experience, not from tracking the repo).

    I find this observation to be the opposite of my experience. Alternatively, I am just acting like a bit more botlike than usual (you know, those bots that check vaguely technical sounding titles from clicks through bearblog, the most common bot).

    It's aware of the shortcoming so the frustration is more when I find Anubis running in "surprising" places - think government and educational sites which IMO have no business blocking scrapers, let one an "acceptable" number of false positives.

    This is probably my biggest frustration. I get it if I am using an esoteric browser that doesn't handle your chromium-specific functionality on a government website. It's annoying, but it's fine, and it's kind of a "me" problem to deal with. It's a whole different problem if I go to load the obligatory government website and get a "you are blocked, and we're not telling you why!" message with a mascot character.

    8 votes

  9. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    Anubis has been frustrating me since the beginning, and it seems to be getting worse. I have been blocked by Anubis on five different websites this week from my phone. I stick with my original...

    Anubis has been frustrating me since the beginning, and it seems to be getting worse. I have been blocked by Anubis on five different websites this week from my phone.

    I stick with my original statement on this issue. If you care enough to block legitimate users from accessing your site, just take the content offline.

    This very basic strategy seems pretty reasonable to me. A cookie set by JavaScript and a reload seems fine. It isn't checking to see if you are running a specific browser or anything else.

    7 votes

  10. Comment on Introducing Kagi News in ~tech

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    I have been using it, but not daily. I think the current selection is a bit garbage. I should be interested in the technology feed, but none of it matters most of the time. I just checked today's...

    I have been using it, but not daily.

    I think the current selection is a bit garbage. I should be interested in the technology feed, but none of it matters most of the time.

    I just checked today's before replying.

    • The top one is a cloud outage (fair)
    • Three of the items are "business number go up" which should be (and are) in the business feed because they are business things not tech things
    • Four of the items are just advertisements of "company now selling new device"

    This isn't a feed freeing me from advertising or showing me new technologies like I was hoping.

    The science feed is much closer to what I wanted the tech feed to look like.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Charlie Kirk's murder reveals a cultural sickness (Just Asking Questions podcast episode) in ~society

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    I grew up in a church where that particular brand of hate spewing was (and is) common, but absolutely none of the people in the church consider it "hatred". They believe (and I genuinely think...

    I grew up in a church where that particular brand of hate spewing was (and is) common, but absolutely none of the people in the church consider it "hatred". They believe (and I genuinely think some of them believe it) that saying things like this is a way to show the church's version of "love".

    The logic is something like:

    • Person is doing The Thing that the community (read: church) does not like
    • Make the person feel shunned as much and as loudly as possible from the community for doing The Thing
    • Person stops doing The Thing because being alienated sucks
    • The community stops publicly berating them and invites them back into the community
    • Person joins the community and is able to get everlasting life in the glow of the deity

    I bet if you could ask Charlie Kirk, his response would be something like "I don't hate you, I hate your sins and want you to wash them away with the blood of Jesus" or something.

    That layer of internal logic redirection has been used for my entire lifetime in my hometown to try to get people to stop reading Harry Potter, or drinking alcohol, or being queer, or pick a thing. This brand of manipulation works really well in rural communities where there just aren't other groups of people to be around. If half of the town goes to the same church and you're put on public display, you can't go to the grocery store without being shunned because everywhere you go someone from the church is there.

    38 votes

  12. Comment on Is there a postman alternative without the bloat? in ~tech

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    And those of us in the former working on a team full of the latter. There is value in keeping one tool standard and I just accept that I am losing this one.

    And those of us in the former working on a team full of the latter. There is value in keeping one tool standard and I just accept that I am losing this one.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Accidentally deleted the previous comment meaning to do another but thank you! I was expecting the weapon choice to be in the big center area where the weapon unlocks were. I tried a run with the...

    Accidentally deleted the previous comment meaning to do another but thank you! I was expecting the weapon choice to be in the big center area where the weapon unlocks were. I tried a run with the various different flavors and dying quickly and it kept unlocking new trials so I suppose I did something out of order and have to do a run to trigger something.

  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I picked up Hades 2 and have a few runs under my belt. The dialogue is very funny. Some of the major boss fights say things about disrespecting them if you go to gather resources during the fight...

    I picked up Hades 2 and have a few runs under my belt.

    The dialogue is very funny. Some of the major boss fights say things about disrespecting them if you go to gather resources during the fight or if you win the fight without getting hit. The big bad Chronos calls you out for trying to control time if you pause the game during his fight.

    The combat seems good. I don't like some of the weapons but I can't articulate why. I usually just use the big axe because hitting things hard is easier than learning to use strategy. I am not particularly good at these kinds of games, so my sense of what is balanced is near meaningless.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Supermarket rewards card- yes or no? in ~finance

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    That comment was specifically at Trader Joe's from my reading. Trader Joe's definitely does not have minimum amounts of things, they don't really do the bulk thing and instead aim for the smaller...

    That comment was specifically at Trader Joe's from my reading. Trader Joe's definitely does not have minimum amounts of things, they don't really do the bulk thing and instead aim for the smaller higher quality fare. The closest thing I get to "bulk" there is a bag of apples.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on First shape found that can’t pass through itself in ~science

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    My personal favorite of his was the usage of network latency to make a storage medium, but everything he makes is fantastic for (like you say) a particular flavor of nerd.

    My personal favorite of his was the usage of network latency to make a storage medium, but everything he makes is fantastic for (like you say) a particular flavor of nerd.

    10 votes

  17. Comment on First shape found that can’t pass through itself in ~science

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    Suckerpinch has a dive into his attempt to solve this problem too, which is a great way to see some of the software engineering involved in trying to solve this problem...

    Suckerpinch has a dive into his attempt to solve this problem too, which is a great way to see some of the software engineering involved in trying to solve this problem

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4MviUE0_s

    12 votes

  18. Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment in ~games

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    Surely a tracker would be easier to hide in the gift itself than the packaging?

    only be something like paper (where you can't put a tracker on it).

    Surely a tracker would be easier to hide in the gift itself than the packaging?

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say in ~tech

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    When has a monopoly ever been a bad thing? They even made a super great board game about it!

    When has a monopoly ever been a bad thing? They even made a super great board game about it!

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say in ~tech

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    They did learn - they learned that AWS will get things fixed within a few hours or a day, and any outage can be glossed over with "yeah, AWS is down" The cost of infrastructure (in terms of hours,...

    They did learn - they learned that AWS will get things fixed within a few hours or a day, and any outage can be glossed over with "yeah, AWS is down"

    The cost of infrastructure (in terms of hours, not compute costs) is a lot higher than most businesses will really care to spend. AWS going down a couple of times a year is just a cost of doing business.

    24 votes