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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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Mostly a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.

  • CGNAT version 2

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  • Tags

    • Logic
    • Exploration
    • Psychological Horror

    Love it.

  • Vintage

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  • Interesting stuff about the plugs, thanks.

    I did quickly fact-check myself after posting and my brief reading suggested that it was possible to break the port, motherboard, or the peripheral, but that it was rare and more likely to cause corruption and/or crashes.

    E.g. some anecdata in https://superuser.com/questions/172420/is-it-safe-to-hot-swap-a-ps-2-keyboard and https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/50883/why-some-computer-peripherals-should-not-be-disconnected-without-turning-off-thi

  • YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report

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  • But we're talking about Lego, which is from Denmark. Correcting the quote is at expanse of the joke/relevance.

  • Vintage

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  • And when the bits feel off the end and you had to wind them back on with a pencil.

  • Vintage

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  • I was always told that you shouldn't (dis)connect a keyboard when it was on because it could short circuit and fry something. This was before USB, of course.

  • Vintage

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  • And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

  • Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time

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  • I just bought the Legendary Edition on Steam for not much at all, cheers

  • GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

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  • Given that it was identified that genAI couldn't do maths and should instead write a small python program, why hasn't this other well-known failing been special cased? AI sees text as tokens, but surely it can convert tokens to a stream of single-character tokens (i.e. letters) and work with that?

  • Framework Desktop review: AMD's Strix Halo in a petite, powerful, pricey PC

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  • It is surprising that you don't get any of those front tiles when they must be the cheapest part of the whole thing. Perhaps they're assuming that all their customers already have a 3D printer.

  • What Git clients do you use?

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  • This is very satisfying to use and is a nice companion to the command line - I particularly use it to stage only certain lines and files from the changes.

    I tried lazygit first, but there was a consistent lag that was probably only ¼ second but it ruined the experience for me.

  • Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?

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  • It's not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: https://repebble.com/

  • lib.rs has a special surprise when you search "twitter"

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  • lib.rs has a special surprise when you search "twitter"

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  • I'm assuming that's been there for a while since this was topical six months ago.

    Anyway, while I am no fan of Musk or the site formerly known as Twitter, I think this is a bad thing. The author's political views have been prioritised over users' abilities to use the site; even if someone wanted to monitor X users in a way lib.rs approved of they couldn't get help from the site to do this.

    I think lib.rs has pulled stunts like this before, which is why crates.rs is usually recommended instead.

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don't want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

  • It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so:

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  • Thanks for the heads-up about the Swiss laws. I currently use kolabnow which is Swiss, but I don't know if I hate the changes enough to go through the hassle of the switch.

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.

  • City of Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

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  • I had to go to urban dictionary for wag = wild-ass guess.

  • City of Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

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  • Great news, congratulations Helsinki.

    They mention electric scooters having their own challenges and solutions without going into any details. Do they treat them as bikes or bikes? Do they get their own lanes? The article ended too soon!

  • Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released

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  • That's a more beautiful looking game than I expect from retro graphics. A good write up, thanks for sharing.