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MostlyBlindGamer

@ MostlyBlindGamer @rblind.com

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Opinions are my own. Profile picture description: Black on white pictogram with a D20 showing 20 for a head and a game controller for a body and arms, holding a white cane.

  • thanks

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  • No, registers and bit-wise manipulation. In a Minecraft server running in the browser.

  • thanks

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  • With enough zooming, even I can tell it’s the same profile picture. Wow.

  • Work == leisure == pain

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  • That’s good, but you’re still the perfect of that meme where the stick figure is looking at the computer while the weather changes outside the window. By your account, that is.

    Since it sounds like that’s a source of stress or unease for you, I think you could experiment with a “month of drawing” of “month of evening bike rides” or something like that. I love problem-solving and development, so it’s easy to look for that thrill outside of work too, but you may find a different thrill that gives you more variety and you also find rewarding.

    In my case, I often get away from computers by going out on photo walks. Then I get home and stare at my photos on the computer. Hehe. It’s good to have that outlet all the same.

  • Work == leisure == pain

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  • I work from home, most days, so I was doing that while staring at the same monitor and typing on the same keyboard.

    After catching myself on the way to burning out, I was advised to stop working on time and go work out or take a walk - something physical to mentally change modes.

    I agree with all the advice here to get a different hobby or touch grass.

  • Game forces you to accept selling your info to vendors before you can use it

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  • I really enjoy Mini Metro. I’ve been addicted to Dots for years, it’s the very best digital fidget.

    I paid for a Need for Speed game some 8 years ago and that was pretty OK for a few hours.

    A Dark Room is also really good.

    That’s about it, to be honest. If you want to pick up a controller, there’s a decent library of older PC or console games that run on phones now - emulators are also an option.

  • Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it

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  • You can add captions to images inside text posts - those are used for alt text. You can't add alt text to image posts though.

    Trust me, I would know.

    Incidentally, they're automatically adding the subreddit and post title together for the image's alt text, which still doesn't include OP's name.

  • Severe flaws in E2EE cloud storage platforms used by millions

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  • Cryptographic analysis from ETH Zurich researchers Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Turong revealed issue with Sync, pCloud, Icedrive, Seafile, and Tresorit services, collectively used by more than 22 million people. The analysis was based on the threat model of an attacker controlling a malicious server that can read, modify, and inject data at will, which is realistic for nation-state actors and sophisticated hackers.

    Interesting stuff, but it’s worth noting the scope and circumstances.

  • The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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  • Right, making it look like you know what you’re doing is a great way to advance to the point where you cause real damage. I’m glad you don’t have to do that, and aren’t getting trampled by the people who do.

  • The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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  • Oh, uh. I’m wondering if I laid the irony down too thick. I think the comment you originally replied to is probably correct. I think your questions are typical escape hatches for men to be blameless in any situation. I can imagine you didn’t mean them that way, but that’s what’s usually meant by them.

  • The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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  • You’re absolutely right. The most likely scenario is that the person with first-hand knowledge misinterpreted the situation. These poor men and their sensitive feelings…

    Irony aside, I’m sure it’s a complex situation with different relevant points to any perspective, but the events as told line up with my own experiences.

  • The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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  • I’ve witnessed many of the kinds of situations described here and I think the proposed mechanics adequately explain them.

  • [Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company

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  • He grows more powerful by the day…

  • [Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company

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  • I can’t watch yet, but I have to know: how angry is Steve?

  • Sanity check: Yubikeys and password shares

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  • I think of that like putting multiple things in the same basket, but putting two locks on that basket.

  • Sanity check: Yubikeys and password shares

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  • I’m not evaluating whether or not you should do that, but, assuming you trust your partner and their op sec, you could send them the secret via a disappearing message on Signal or some other E2E encrypted communication method.

    You set it up on your key, they add it to theirs later, the secret disappears into the ether.

  • Sanity check: Yubikeys and password shares

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  • All it takes to sync TOTP is to manually set up the secrets on all keys.

    Keeping a second factor in a password manager makes it a single factor, doesn’t it?

  • LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English

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  • You need to get out more. I totally get that you would think that’s the case, but only if you’re not exploring parts of the internet outside your bubble. It’s absolutely written.

  • Should one remove all Reddit posts and comments?

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  • People deleted the content they had access to. As protesting subreddits went back to being public, the content they hadn’t been able to delete became visible again.

  • Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac

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  • Sure, but also the broader “join my Patreon to get access to my Discord server” market. It’s actually a pretty clever move, if there’s a market for it (there is) and if it replaces more insidious revenue streams (it won’t).