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WolfLink

@ WolfLink @sh.itjust.works

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  • Just blame shrinkflation

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  • Some of the pieces are growing, but it’s cut at an angle so the growing is spread over a large area, and the growing happens as pieces are moving around, making it hard to notice.

    (Specifically it’s the pieces 2 and 3 wide with an angled cut on the bottom that grow).

  • When you write your academic papers in Word

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  • Math formatting is a very small piece of what LaTeX does.

    The common tool for managing citation in a LaTeX document is called BibTeX. You enter details about your sources, and BibTeX will create your bibliography and will also make it easier to cite things in your paper.

  • Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

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  • They’ve done this for a long time. It’s supposedly only supposed to be used on bots but it definitely isn’t in practice

  • Indie developer behind 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rated shipbuilder argues that Steam's "free advertising" is worth the 30% cut

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  • 30% is industry standard (although it is starting to change). Until recently, both Apple and Google took 30% cuts from their phone app stores. Numbers I can find for GoG range from 30%-50%. Epic games is like 12%.

  • Indie developer behind 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rated shipbuilder argues that Steam's "free advertising" is worth the 30% cut

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  • I like GoG. I like that they push companies to remove DRM. I like that I can make offline backups of my games.

    I prefer GoG over Steam when possible, but Steam is still infinitely more user friendly, and if the game in question is heavily multiplayer-focused, I’ll probably pick Steam over GoG just to use Steam’s multiplayer infrastructure.

  • The internet has entered its Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ era

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  • Read the linked article and the mystery shall be revealed.

  • The internet has entered its Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ era

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  • It’s literally in the article. It’s a quote from a speech she made.

  • The internet has entered its Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ era

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  • It’s a reference to a speech she made, you don’t have to find some cryptic dark hidden meaning in it.

  • People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account

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  • My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?

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  • One Minecraft server I played on installed a program for blocking x-ray hackers (a type of hack that lets you see valuable ores through walls so you know exactly where to mine).

    The anti-xray mod worked by reporting to the user that the blocks behind a wall are a jumble of completely random blocks, preventing X-ray from revealing anything meaningful.

    This mod resulted in massive lag, because when you are mining, every time you break a block, the server now needs to report that the blocks behind it are now something different. It basically made the game unplayable.

    The server removed the mod and switched to having moderators use a different type of x-ray mod to look at the paths people mine in the ground. Those using x-ray hacks would have very suspicious looking mines, digging directly from one vein to another, resulting in erratic caves. Normal mining results in more regular patterns, like long straight lines or grids, where the strat is to reveal all blocks in an area while breaking as few as possible.

    Once moderators started banning people with suspicious mining patterns, hacking basically stopped.

    It’s possible to still hack and avoid the mods in this kind of system by making your mines deliberately look like legitimate patterns, but then the hacker is at best only slightly more efficient than a non-hacker would be.

  • No Man's Sky Worlds Part I Update Trailer

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  • You misunderstand.

    I like the game. I have always liked the game.

    I don’t think there are many people who like the game now who didn’t originally.

    It’s not a game for everyone. Some people went in expecting Eve Online or Star Citizen (what a finished Star Citizen would look like). Instead it’s a 3D Starship Omega with a touch of Minecraft. but I liked Starship Omega so I liked No Man’s Sky.

  • Choose your fighter

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  • These are basically Enter the Gungeon bosses

  • No Man's Sky Worlds Part I Update Trailer

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  • Last I played it was a couple years ago.

    My impression has always been that people were underwhelmed by the procedurally generated game. Idk exactly what people expected a heavily procedurally generated game to look like. It was never going to have terrain that looked as good as in hand-crafted games.

    The only real promise I know they made and initially didn’t keep but later fixed is multiplayer.

  • No Man's Sky Worlds Part I Update Trailer

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  • It’s more like the people that didn’t like it stopped playing it and the only ones left were the people who actually liked it. The game isn’t for everyone, but while it has had a lot of nice updates, it’s not fundamentally different from what it started as.

  • Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

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  • Clear is run by a 3rd party company. TSA pre-check is run by the government. TSA pre-check comes free with Global Entry, you just need to sign up for it.

  • LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells

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  • Ones that have that feature. Some popular cheaper brands (e.g. Ring) the individual cameras can’t support SD cards but the base station can but they need wifi to be able to do that.

  • Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End

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  • If you manage to sequester as much CO2 into a diamond as was produced making the energy you used to do it, that’d be sweet.

  • Microsoft to Copyright Pi, Found to Contain Entire Arial Font

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  • Conceptually this is basically just standard encryption: some math that spits out gibberish unless you have the info to make that gibberish become something useful.

  • Proud to be a European

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  • Whenever someone types “an historic” I read it as “an istoric” in my mind.