Jessica

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

My mind went to the joke about how there will never be marijuana in a kid's Halloween bag because nobody is going to waste marijuana like that. I was like there's no way in hell someone is wasting marijuana plants like that lol

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You also need to fully encrypt the traffic in your bit torrent client. You will get fewer peers, but it's much safer

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

It might have only even been like six months. It was in the little change log pop up during one of the updates at some point

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, I 100% think they are selling our data. What I meant was I'm surprised they're concerned about the size of the uploads when they could just be selling the uploaded data.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (32 children)

Well that didn't last very long. It was 8 MB for like six years and then it just went to 25 MB maybe a year ago and now we're back down to 10 MB.

I'm surprised they aren't offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got one more to add to your list, and I hate it, but it's worth mentioning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

It's when the data type is in the name of the variable.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whatever you do, don't use G2A and other similar CD key reseller websites. Developers would rather you just pirate the game because a lot of those keys are stolen, which cause a charge back that ends up costing the developers tens of thousands of dollars in fees. In rare cases it has even bankrupt them.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/g2a-controversy-indie-game-developers-calling-out-illegal-key-resellers/

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Unreal Tournament GOTY let's fucking go!

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

Before looking at VPNs, you should be encrypting your torrent traffic in the client

Note: Remember that the encryption torrent option only encrypts your inbound and outbound torrent traffic. Although it will not be readable, your traffic can still be intercepted and tagged as torrent traffic. If you want to increase your privacy, you’ll need to encrypt the entire layer 3 traffic (at the IP level), so it is recommended to set Deluge with VPN. To hide traffic at layer 7 (application layer), use a torrent Proxy. And finally, to hide, encrypt, and speed up your torrents, use a Seedbox.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

When it comes to small expensive electronics, you can never be too careful.

I was still in school when the PSP came out, and I had one on launch. I was dumb and was taking it to school daily, but I was very careful not to leave it out of my sight. One day in science class, it was stolen from right under me as it was inside my backpack, which was under my chair the entire class.

At the time, I blamed the 2 trouble makers in front of me since at points I was facing the back of the class for a group activity. I found out years later it was the Mormon next to me I trusted, who I can only assume expertly unzipped my bag and slipped it out while nobody was paying attention. I never got that PSP back, and I ended up buying another one later, both with my own money... It was a brutal reality check that taught me a handful of lessons in life

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 month ago

“I hope this century-long prison sentence serves as a warning that my prosecutors and I will not tolerate violent crime in our community,” 18th Judicial District Attorney John Kellner said in a statement.

What a shitty judge. We already know making an example out of people doesn't work. Look at what happened to piracy crimes in the United States.

 

Kurabba, the #1 player in the world, beat Isai sending him to losers bracket 1-3. Isai turned on the heat and proceeded to steamroll the rest of the tournament and beat Kurabba 6-0 resetting the bracket and taking the championship! Truly the GOAT. His aggressive pikachu was amazing to watch.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning

Lightning sprites

Lightning sprites literally look like something out of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and they're frankly horrifying! I can only imagine what ancient civilizations must have thought.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 

I ran into this while taking geology courses at university, and the lack of attention to detail by the developers is frankly insulting.

EDIT: The red line is what the developers did. The green line is what they should have done for realism. Explanation in the comments.

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/319198

I got a lot of push-back on a comment I made here about how bigger trucks/suvs are the primary cause the increasing pedestrian death-rate in America so apparently more people need to see this video.

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