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WaterWaiver

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I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.

Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.

  • mmmm tasty carbon

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  • I swear that I read that white lead oxide is water soluble, thus happily sticks to your fingers and then gets on your food. I must be misremembering.

    Maybe it was something about the solid lead object turning into an (oxide) powder that can then be easily ported as tiny particles on greasy hands? Hearsay science and safety information from me today :)

  • mmmm tasty carbon

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  • The fun thing about Pb is it's relatively safe in pure form. Unfortunately the oxides that appear on its surface are water soluble and love entering our bodies.

    Just looked this up, apparently I'm completely wrong. Maybe I was thinking about lipid compatibility? Not sure now.

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    Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices [ESP32]

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  • Welcome to security news theatre :(

    I don't think espressif would bother suing, these kind of misshapen claims get constantly made against popular projects all of the time. It's just unusual to see so much coverage about this particular one.

    Not so say that externally attackable vulnerabilities in an ESP32 don't exist, they might. Bluetooth devices have an awful track record. But making them up doesn't help the world.

  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is switching up how THPS4 works

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  • I happily ran THUGPRO under wine, so I assume rethawed would be the same. Dunno.

    Where am I even supposed to buy it if I wanted to, which I don’t really,

    Looks like it's abandonware. Yeah, publisher dropped the ball.

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    Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices [ESP32]

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  • Bleepingcomputer's title and article are very misleading, the presentation did NOT reveal a backdoor into an ESP32. It looks like Bleepingcomputer completely misunderstood what was presented (EDIT: and tarlogic isn't helping with the first sentence on their site).

    Instead the presentation was about using an ESP32 as a tool to attack other devices. Additionally they discovered some undocumented commands that you can send from the ESP32 processor to the ESP32 radio peripheral that let you take control of it and potentially send some extra forms of traffic that could be useful. They did NOT present anything about the ESP32 bluetooth radio being externally attackable.

    Another perspective that might help: imagine you have a cheap bluetooth chipset that is open source and well documented. That would give you more than what the presentation just found. Would Bleepingcomputer then be reporting it's a backdoor threatening millions of devices?

  • The Wine development release 10.3 is now available.

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  • Changing virtual desktops works for me, no patches needed. I have to use it often because of how many games don't understand multiple monitors.

  • The Wine development release 10.3 is now available.

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  • Technically they have some differences, but the biggest from a user's perspective is how they are delivered and by whom. Wine is manually installed by you from your distro's package repo. Proton is provided by steam when you install a windows game on a Linux steam instance. If one breaks then you complain to the relevant party.

  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is switching up how THPS4 works

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  • Might be worth checking out ReThawed.. You can choose the physics models, UI, characters, tricks and maps from all of the old THPS games.

    I tried THUGPRO previously (another community mod in similar vein) and it was fun, especially the mods to the park editor (overlapping objects!) and Sonic Adventure maps.

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • It looks identical to me. Same size before clicking, same size after right clicking -> Open image in new tab.

  • After many years on GNOME, I finally switched to Plasma.

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  • GNOME 2 was fun and easy. It felt like they were trying to learn from the mistakes of Windows and Mac UIs.

  • Weird PrusaSlicer error

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  • All of the the surface normals are backwards. This means your shoe is inside-out; instead of being a solid shoe in a vacuum it's a shoe-shaped-hole inside a solid universe.

    By default blender renders all polys as double-sided so you mostly don't notice (other than some lighting oddities near corners). Turn on backface culling if you want to check if your normals are the right way around or not.

    I often end up with some of my polys backwards because of the way I extrude and join parts of my models. I distinctly remember a bug in Gmax (old free version of 3DSmax) where the mirror tool would create polygons with some special, broken property where their normals would be correct in the editor, but completely wrong when exported :( much time and hassle was lost to that.

  • High frame times after around 30 minutes in every game

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  • Anything odd with temperatures or power draws perhaps? nv-top shows both for me (but I run an AMD GPU + non-proprietary drivers), otherwise lm-sensors might be good.

    nvtop seems to show normal usage

    Neither the GPU nor CPU utilisation change at the 30 min mark? If one is pegged at 100% then it's probably hard to work out what is going on. Running a singleplayer game staring at a wall and configured with limited framrate might let you run both the CPU and GPU at less than 100%, perhaps making it easier to see if one or the other suddenly changes.

  • puts hair on ya chest

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  • Atomic wafers made by the techo-church-state? Or have I got this back to front and this is how the non-technical society irradiates its children?

  • The Steam Deck Is Officially Releasing In Australia

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  • Comedy prediction: SD2 releases overseas, but Australia is used to sell remaining stocks of SD1s for a few years before the SD2 is released here.

  • GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

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  • The whole thing is vaguely and noncomittally worded, it promises basically nothing.

    Take this bit for example:

    taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it

    In other words: talk to the individual publishers of each game and get their permission :P At which point GOG's involvement is almost irrelevant, if you have the publisher's consent then they might as well give you a copy.

  • GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

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  • I would assume that court orders and proved wills have different levels of coercion when you present them to someone like GOG? Dunno. Each country probably has its own rules, including fun complexities like whether or not GOG was a party to the process or not.

  • GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

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  • Title of PCGamer's article is misleading, they want a court order to do it. Proof of death is not enough.

    "In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we'd do our best to make it happen. We're willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library—but currently we can only do it with the help of the justice system."

    They have to do that anyway. Court orders overrule a company's policies in most (all?) legal systems.

  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League season three debuts to less than 300 Steam players

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  • Appreciated Minty :)

  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League season three debuts to less than 300 Steam players

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  • Suicide Squad: Less interesting than discussing linguistics xD