Lockpicking!

There’s some things that you could argue are enshittifying it, like shitty cheap picks that don’t fit in any actual locks, and transparent acrylic “practice locks” that a five year old could open with a blunt knife.

But if you’re willing to spend a little (I got a good set of picks and spanners for ~50€), then its gonna take a long time before things get worse.

Float glass was a hell of an invention. It made it super easy to manufacture huge glass panes for cheap, and is still the most widespread method for making windows.

To me, it looks like it could just be photoshopped, rather than completely AI generated. But I might be wrong.

There’s a place in northern Australia where I’ve watched this happen (and, as a tourist there, I’ve been part of the problem of course).

It’s a river with warm (something like 30 °C, I don’t know the exact temperature) water and a little bend, so you get in one side, float around the bend, and then walk back to the start.

It has some facilities built nearby, a toilet, and a campground in walking distance, so its not “secret” or “hidden”. Its just off the Stuart Highway too, so not really remote. I think it was just unknown to most people for a while.

I was there once in 2019, and again in 2024. Nothing major had changed, but it was starting to get a bit crowded, the campground had grown, and much of the plants in/around some parts of the river where broken.

I was initially gonna write this without naming the place, but after thinking about it, what little attention it might get from the few people here won’t really change what’s happening to it, so I looked it up again: Bitter Springs, near Mataranka, but its not the Mataranka Thermal Springs, those are something different. Apparently, its also part of a national park.

Don’t worr’y, mayb’e they’v’e go’t hiccup’s o’r somethin’g. I’m sur’e they’l’l b’e fin’e.

Yeeeah, thats great, except that, there’s at least two spots I know of near me, where my car is of the opinion that the speed limit instantly changes from 120 (the actual speed limit) to 50 (the limit on a parallel side road that no longer exists, but is still on the map).

When cruise control is on, my car adjusts the set speed to the limit. Which means, in both of those spots, it will hit the brakes, hard, with no warning. This has stopped me from wanting to use its cruise control ever again.

Not to mention there are other places, where it decides the limit is higher than the signs say. This sort of tech is a cool idea, but it’s still at a point where “totally prevent drivers from speeding” would just cause a bunch of accidents.

The article makes a good point, but I would argue its not the whole truth.

A proper (relational) database does more than just storing values. It also stores relations between different values. And SQL is an extremely powerful way of working with those relations. I see the point that the author makes about projects with a database/state being worse, but in some projects I’ve worked on, I’ve been able to offload a great deal of work into the database schema.

And also, a database doesn’t just store a few measly little variables. Often, you’ll be storing gigabytes or more in there. That’s completely infeasible to pass from function to function, or sometimes even hold in RAM at once. The point of a database is to store and manage data, in amounts that you don’t want to have to deal with yourself.

I went for a run, for exercise AND THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

It would (hopefully) have less attack surface. Electron is, after all, a whole browser, and needs to be able to do all the things a browser can do, while a native implementation can limit itself to just the very limited network interactions needed. (e.g. while XSS attacks are quite hard to do on a modern browser, a native app would make them impossible)

No, a Lemmy instance can ban you, and that won’t/can’t ban you from creating a new account on another instance.

But, that said, instance admins do talk to each other, and if you’re being a dick everywhere, you might find yourself getting less benefit of the doubt.

My suggestions are all open-source, and therefore free forever.

Beyond All Reason is an amazing RTS. I’ve heard people say it’s one of the best RTS in existence, but I haven’t played any other RTS myself, so I can’t verify that.

Space Station 14, a remake/continuation of Space Station 13, is a top-down multiplayer role-playing game. I like to describe it as “Among Us but in way more complicated”, but it is sooo much more than that. The learning curve is steep, and rounds usually go for at least an hour, but if you want to try out new stuff, give it a go. In my experience, the community is really welcoming of new players.

SuperTuxKart is arguably the definitive open-source MarioCart clone.

Well… we haven’t exactly learned nothing.

Aviation regulations are written in blood, and I’m fairly certain the investigation into this crash will help make future flights a little safer.

But I agree with you. We can’t solve systemic issues just by getting rid of a few people.

The autobahn is mostly kept around due to lobbying. There have been repeated attempts to introduce a maximum speed (130 km/h), the last one failed because “paying for that many signs would be too expensive” iirc.

But its also quite a bit safer than you might think. They’re very good/well built roads, most people actually stick to the recommended 130, and (and I think this might be the largest factor) German driver’s ed is very good (and hideously expensive).

I recently started going to a course related to law at university. Its aimed at people not studying law, and the first thing it started with was clarifying that law is not morality.

This was quite interesting to me, since the course’s topic (laws about digitalization) has nothing to do with morality. So law != morality is obviously something the courses organisers thought to be a very important thing about law.

So I think the professionals are well aware of it, and anyone using law as a morality is either deliberately choosing it to ignore problems they’d have in a proper moral system, or not well educated on law.

I use Matrix with a group of friends that I persuaded to move from Discord. We still use Discord’s voice chat, but now that Matrix is starting to have something similar, I might try to get them to use Matrix for that too. So, the usage here is just general groupchat-like stuff.

I’m also in the process of moving the student council I’m in from Discord to Matrix. Once that’s up and running, it’ll cover groupchats, coordinating and announcing events, channels/rooms for various courses, and discussing/organising the various things the student council does.

Corridor Crew (a small VFX team with a long history on YouTube) have made a couple of videos on identifying AI generated video. Start with this one for example.

The points that I can remember are:

1. AI tools can’t generate more than 10-20 seconds, if you see an unbroken shot longer than that, its not AI.
2. Check for consistency between shots, this is pretty hard to do with AI. E.g. if the same person keeps appearing with similar, but still different clothes, its probably AI.
3. Visual artifacts, especially in the background can be a good tell.

This is only partially true.

RSA public keys consist of two parts:

1. The exponent e, which is usually 65537, for the reasons you described.
2. The modulus n, the product of the two primes used for generating an RSA keypair.

If the public key were always completely the same, then there would be no point in making different private keys.

Technically not one book, but uhh… one/two book series: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.

You’re question made me think of rainbow codes, the naming scheme for British secret military projects during part of the cold war.

I couldn’t find the wordlist they used (if there ever was an official one), but if you used a system like that (with two words instead of one), then you might even get away with making your own wordlist by hand.

Wait, that’s “faking it”?

Well shit, that’s how like … 80% of my hobbies started. The rest are from other people who pulled me in.

How do normal people get hobbies?