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[–] scops@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found a HuffPo article linking to the original Twitter post (link to bad place) in case anyone wanted to verify this was legit before sharing.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I believe the main concern for periodic password changes is that most people won't take the time to generate unique passwords each time. They will typically iterate a password over time, meaning a couple leaked passwords will narrow down guesswork to a trivial number of guesses and remove the benefit of the timed changes.

NIST no longer recommends password expirations except for cases where it is believed that a breach occurred.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That first one doesn't make any sense. Every processor has its own assembly language. The game would run on YOUR machine and any others running the same processors, but you'd have to build a custom version for any other processor you want to support.

That said, it could potentially be insanely well optimized for that platform if everything was hand coded.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The artist generally draws fat characters, even himself...while describing why he runs ultra marathons.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you're close enough to drop caltrops reliably (ie, while avoiding other cars), you're close enough to be spotted by the car cameras. At that point, just mask up and stick a knife in the tire wall.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My buddy had the opposite version of this when we went to Japan. He was pretty good at conversational Japanese because that's what was taught in his college courses, but most of our interactions were in a business context using keigo Japanese which is more polite and formal.

He struggled for a while, especially because we found that lot of Japanese folks would downplay their knowledge of English out of modesty. There were a number of times when our friend would struggle to find the right word and the person he was talking to would confirm the correct English word first before offering the Japanese variant.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

The first season of Spartacus. My dad recommended it and I tried watching the first few episodes. Spartacus gets his ass kicked a lot at the start of the show. You'd get a glimmer of hope, then he'd fuck up and nearly die again. My dad insisted it would get better and I watched one more episode and he has his first victory in the arena. I stuck with it from there and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the first season and the prequel season.

RIP Andy Whitfield. I tried watching the third season which picks the story back up after the first, but I just couldn't get into it. I don't think it was necessarily Liam McIntyre's fault, the show just lost it's rhythm after the setting change.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 28 points 3 weeks ago

I'm poly, my girlfriend is married to a woman. They have been looking hard at contingency plans. One of them is eligible for dual-citizenship due to ancestry and is looking into that process, and they have confirmed with friends in another country that they could rent a room with them if necessary.

A couple weeks ago, she asked me if I would marry her in the event they felt the need to divorce and "go undercover" looking more heteronormative.

They are scared. They feel like they are not that far removed from the "kind of person" who might be next up for disappearances by our current government.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

And the amount of money I spend on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games will be unchanged this year.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it was an Irritable Bowel Syndrome joke

[–] scops@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

At least it's not the US, where you'd need to add a couple hours of slowdown or standstill while regulation-breaking overloaded freight trains are jumping the priority list and blocking up the commuter lines.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 206 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:

 

It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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