Zvyozdochka

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[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yea, this is important to point out, though it doesn't make any of this better by any amount at all. Roblox is essentially a game engine with a server browser and social media strapped on to it, it's not really a game in the normal sense. People can upload assets and write their own scripts to basically create whatever they want, it's not like Roblox themselves sat down and made any of this. The combination of a platform mainly played by children with social media built-in and the ability for people to upload whatever custom content they want with seemingly no moderation was bound to lead to horrors beyond my comprehension.

Edited: I'm surprised they didn't mention the hyper monetization that appeals to children heavily, like, this shit is worse than any mobile game you could think of. It's honestly fucking wild. You load into any game on the front page and you're hit with like 5 pop ups asking you to buy something and buttons all over your screen with countdowns for "exclusive deals" in their shop.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Your ~~mind~~ rivers on OpenAI datacenters

 

I know a lot of people suggest Proton and it seems mostly fine, but their free plan does not offer SMTP access which I use for quite a few things and I don't like the idea of paying for an e-mail service because I'm broke and I don't like the idea of potentially losing my e-mail account because I couldn't afford it when it comes time to renew it.

There's Riseup which seems really nice, but it seems you need an invite from an existing user which is also a bummer for me. I took a quick glance at their site and it seems you can't request an account anymore either because they had an issue with spam accounts in the past. :(

Is there anything else that maybe I'm unaware of? or maybe someone here even has a Riseup account that'd be willing to invite me?

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The bucket of sand is a good tip, my solution was an empty paint can filled with sand and the lid hammered back on.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)
 
[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery it seems.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Make sure you have virtualization enabled in your BIOS, without it you're going to be doing software emulation which is not very fast.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I can feel a shit storm brewing Randy! This is going to start the Linux struggle session isn't it?

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume a lot of the machinery itself does run on some flavor of Linux (or maybe even some real-time operating system like VxWorks) that has been stripped down for embedded use, Windows just wouldn't run on this kind of hardware. I imagine this desktop is (as you can kind of see in the photo) just a display that sits in an office and serves as an overview of the machines, display warnings, and all that kind of stuff. Though, since it seems to just be a website, I'm not sure why they also wouldn't use Linux in this scenario either and set it up in a POS (point-of-sale) fashion where all it can do is display that website and nothing else. Maybe they also use them for general office work as well? Who knows.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're in the process of moving away from Intel/AMD chips in all government machines now that their domestic alternatives (namely LoongArch) have gotten to a state where they're good enough for most day to day tasks. I give it some time, but I wouldn't doubt them requiring a similar move away from these chips in extremely crucial settings like this.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Sorry to hear this. On the contrary, my Cybertruck saved me the other day by engaging automatic emergency brake when I was distracted for a moment!

Another good comment:

Tesla isn't lining any pockets so the lobbyists are practicing some internet gorilla warfare

Gorilla warfare? Never seen that before, but I imagine it'd be pretty scary!

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Change browser.urlbar.showSearchSuggestionsFirst to false in about:config to fix the search results showing first :)

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Damn, don't know much about this guy but I've seen a few of his videos and from what I saw he seemed like a cool guy. stalin-bummed

 

windows-cool qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

Long story short: That pop-up you get when you open Firefox (or whatever other browser) for the first time asking you if you want to make it your default browser won't work anymore. They're forcing you to go through their convoluted control panel where you have to change it like 20 times for each file extension.

 

LoongArch will win xi-cooking

Rough Weixin post translation by DeepL:

Recently, the Hebi Municipal Government joined hands with the Municipal Education Bureau and other departments to introduce nearly 10,000 units of Longxin 3A5000 computers into the classrooms of nearly 50 primary and secondary schools in Hebi Municipal Direct and Hebi Qibin District. These computers are based on the independent Dragon architecture of the Longxin 3A5000 processor, equipped with a domestic UOS operating system, installed WPS office software, Extreme Domain teaching (operation and maintenance) management software and a full set of genuine licensed software, and through the classroom management to the teaching, programming, national/provincial and municipal management platforms and a total of 104 applications, to help the city in the realization of the education industry in the education industry, the basic hardware equipment as well as education and teaching The company has taken a solid step forward in realizing the independent control of basic hardware equipment and educational teaching and learning applications in the education industry.

Edit: Someone posted this already, oh well. This won't stop me from posting

 

Just a big silly forest dog if you really think about it og-hex-bear

 

Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.

 

The news about this specific vulnerability is a bit old by now, but it doesn't hurt to drop a reminder that you should update your BIOS frequently to prevent yourself from falling victim to other vulnerabilities later down the line. BIOS updates can also improve performance as well (or make it worse, cough, Spectre mitigations) in a few scenarios.

If you have a laptop, it's probably as easy as just downloading your manufacturer's tool from their website, clicking a few buttons, restarting, and you should be set or your manufacturer might provide these updates thru Windows' update system which in that case you don't need to download any additional software.

If you're on a desktop however, most of the time this involves you downloading a file, throwing it on a USB stick, and updating it from the BIOS screen or by pressing a button on the back of the motherboard.

Either way, you're probably only a [insert search engine name here] search away from finding a guide on how to do it for your specific motherboard/device.

A few words of caution though: If you're on a desktop without a battery backup it's probably wise to only do these updates when you have high confidence that your power isn't going to drop during the update. If you lose power during one of these updates, recovery is not a fun task (unless your motherboard is fancy and has a button to recover from these kinds of scenarios) and your motherboard basically becomes a cool looking paper weight unless you want to flash the chip manually, which is possible but is kind of annoying to do and requires the right tools (but they're pretty cheap from Alibaba or whatever)

Anyway, rant over. Make sure you keep your computers up-to-date comrades, it's always worth spending the half an hour or so it takes to update everything on your computer so you can have some extra peace of mind.

 

Reddit source

Concerning. Looking into it!

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