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WolfLink

@ WolfLink @sh.itjust.works

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  • Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Final Fantasy 16

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  • Yes, I think you’re right. Games perform better when they call Denuvo less frequently. Therefore, for optimal performance, games should call Denuvo 0 times.

  • Meaning of rule

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  • My fisherman lives in hell because he never gives me the one item I need to finish the cell phone

  • Thinkpad for the win

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  • There should be options avoiding AC depending on your scenario. Most laptops charge off of DC. Easiest way would be if all your things support USBC or similar.

  • Xbox's new hardware plans begin with a [PC OEM] gaming handheld set for later this year, with full next-gen consoles targeting 2027

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  • If true, completely defeats the purpose IMO. Most of the playtime on my Nintendo Switch has been on flights or trains.

  • Disgraced Border Agent Admits He Ordered Women to Expose Breasts If They Wanted to Enter U.S.

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  • Wack that this doesn’t count as sexual assault

  • We've all been there

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  • I mean cars do occasionally just burst into flames

  • Configure iPhone to see cell Internet and local non-Internet LAN at the same time?

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  • You might be able to set something like this up if you turn on tethering

  • Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic Governor, Says Trans Women Playing Sports Is “Deeply Unfair”

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  • But with sex-based roles? Two don't really make a fair competition, do they? I mean, otherwise there wouldn't even be a need for per-sport subclasses.

    Sports is full of divisions. Division by age is the most common, followed by division by skill, and division by sex. Some sports use extra divisions by weight. Some find age/sex/skill to be enough. In some sports, especially at lower age or skill levels, co-ed is common (division by sex is not used). There are also divisions for people with physical disabilities, sometimes with tweaks to the rule to accommodate.

    In all cases, the purpose of these divisions is to find a balance where everyone can get a fair matchup.

    Trans people and people with certain genetic mutations are very, very common though. We're talking about more than 1% of people here. Shouldn't there be a need to ensure they too can compete fairly?

    Absolutely 100%. I think everybody should be able to participate in sports, and I think that rules about sex divisions should be modified to account for trans people and people with gender-related disorders. I don’t think just letting people choose a division is fair though, there should be rules for consistency and fairness.

    The border of the divisions is always at least somewhat contentious because people just before the cutoff have an advantage. Many high-level athletes have similar birth dates because they were born just before the age cutoff growing up. Being slightly older in the age divisions gives an advantage, and that leads to performing well, which leads to feedback loops such as coaches and parents and the kid noticing the good performance and focusing on the sport more. This ends up in more kids who were at the edge of their age range growing up becoming successful athletes as adults.

    Also with weight-based divisions, it’s typical in higher skill levels to body-build to slightly above the cutoff and then avoid drinking water for a day to get slightly below the cutoff.

    No line you draw will be perfect, but you do have to draw a line somewhere.

    Imagine if in the early 1900's it was discovered that left-handed people are on average slightly better at math than right-handed people. As a reaction, all left-handed people are excluded from math scholarships as they have an unfair advantage over right-handed people. Would you consider this fair? After all, they only made up 2% of the population and we have to draw the line of who gets a scholarship and who doesn't somewhere.

    There are a some problems with this analogy. Scholarships are very different from competitions (although sports scholarships exist, which is a whole other topic to discuss…). Also the gender case is looking at the edge cases of an existing cutoff, which is not the case about left handed people, unless you want to hypothetically add they might have some relation to some other grouping.

    I’ll offer some analogies that I think might be similar. What about someone with developmental issues who was held back in school? Would it be fair for the other kids if they get to play sports with the younger age group because of their mind? Would it fair for the kid who was held back to have to play in the older age group because of their body? What about someone who has a condition affecting their weight? Should that condition let them compete in a lower weight class? I’m not saying I have the answers to these scenarios, btw. I think a lot of it comes down to a case-by-case basis, and guidelines with leeway for exceptions are probably better than strict rules.

  • Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic Governor, Says Trans Women Playing Sports Is “Deeply Unfair”

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  • In some sports there are weight classes, because being a certain weight gives you an inherent biological advantage on average over people of a different weight. The weight classes allow anyone to find well-matched competition regardless of their biology.

    Women’s sports vs Men’s sports is a similar idea. Separate people by some biological classification that’s often tied on average to an advantage at the sport, so that everybody has the chance to play against someone of a similar baseline.

    That division doesn’t have to exclude trans people, but it does mean that a line gets drawn somewhere. And yes, that line might include some cis people with a genetic abnormality getting excluded as well, and some cis men with a genetic abnormality might be included.

    If you want to draw the divisions by something like muscle mass or testosterone levels instead of trying to define sex and gender clearly enough for this purpose, that would probably be easier, although “low testosterone sports” doesn’t have the same marketability as “women’s sports” lol.

  • Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may “simply not get made” - Ars Technica

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  • I prefer buying physical (for console) when possible. Part of it is I just like the physicality of it. But also, it’s the less-DRM option. Games I bought on the e-shop on my switch can’t be shared with my brother, and once the servers are down, I’ll lose the game forever if my Switch breaks. Meanwhile I’m still playing my old GBA games on my Analogue Pocket.

    On PC I prefer buying GoG over Steam for similar reasons (although when it’s more practical, like when I want Steam’s multiplayer infrastructure, or GoG just doesn’t have it, I still buy on Steam)

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    Windows doesn't "just work"

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  • What Linux distro are you using share Bluetooth and audio “just works”?

  • conferences are for the free totes

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  • My favorite loot is an NSA-branded webcam cover

  • I want to try the forbidden iPad Magic Keyboard USB-C connection

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  • You’d trick the iPad into trying to charge itself. It probably would just drain your battery, but could cause a short or at least unnecessary heating. I don’t want to try it myself.

  • Trump says the U.S. will take control of Greenland 'one way or the other'

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  • Poster found on /r/BuyFromEU

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  • You can self-host Signal, although you’d need your friends to sign up with your server.

    What we really need is a federated messaging platform. I don’t think it’s been done yet, but encrypted email efforts are kinda in that direction.

  • Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

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  • https://oasis-ai.org/

    AI slop gameplay is already a thing. It’s fascinating, but certainly not ready to be an actual game.

  • mass

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  • Left is correct. The center of mass of a donut is inside the hole, which is “outside the donut”.

    This may seem unintuitive, but the center of mass of an object does not have to be inside the object.

    This is the mechanism behind these toys:

    The wings of the bird and poles of the clown extend below the main body, but are weighted so that’s where most of the weight is. So the center of mass is below the main body, so it will easily balance on the main body. However, your eyes will naturally focus on the main body, which would be unstable without the extra weight hanging off the side, making the balancing look surprising.

  • Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't

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  • There’s also Pixelmon, an older but largely more complete Pokemon mod for Minecraft.

  • Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't

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  • In a lot of ways the older Pokemon games are harder, more complex, and less hand-holds. Were those not made for kids?