JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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The "hacker" gained access with a valid username and password gained from a completely unrelated leak because users were reusing passwords, logging in using a botnet & VPN to spread them out so they looked legit to 23andme. They then "hacked" the user data by going into the opt-in feature of the site that specifically you have to agree to share your data with any person they believe to be related to you, and read what it said.

So about as much as I hacked my school principals emails as a kid by reading the password of a teacher on a post-it note and opening their email client to see what messages the principal had sent them.

Tubeless bicycle tires are often used with slime as otherwise they tend to leak from the edge of the rim as the pressure isn't usually high enough to create a perfect seal. That also means they are effectively "self-healing" and puncture proof. Also tires that have this strip of goopy glue like stuff on the inside that seals all by itself are starting to get rather common as well.

And a fourth and a fifth, both of which have already had some work done (fourth one apparently has 1/3rd consisting of a time skip sequence that has already been filmed). And if they do well, Cameron has said that he has plans to make two more.

He really likes Avatar.

Credential stuffing using botnets spread over months. It would look almost identical to legit login requests.

OpenAI used to be a non-profit until 2019, so they had no objection for releasing what they made. But investors tend not to look too kindly at giving your secrets away for free. It's rather hard to get people to pay ridiculous API and licensing fees if all they have to do to get it for free is to make their own fork.

Kodi does the same, but I believe that is just how game mode works, it only uses inputs to determine if you are active as otherwise any time you had a game or any app open it would never dim the screen.

In desktop mode KDE handles all of that and should figure out if you are watching something or not. It also has the ability to turn the screen completely off while keeping the deck on for those long game downloads - assuming you disable the auto sleep in power options.

Car and a home all in one? What a bargain!

You could make a big, red, flashing button that says "pressing this button will cancel all your channels, are you sure you want to do that?", and you would still get an significant amount of users complaining that pressing the button did exactly what it said it would because users don't read.

Because the feds have jurisdiction only in a single country out of the roughly 200 that exist, and the pirate bay isn't from that one. Used to be Sweden, no idea where it lives these days.

Here in Finland handheld scanners have been getting added to more shops, you grab one, scan and bag as you go, and at the end you return the scanner and pay it all at once.

Old is relative though. Age doesn't hit movies or books nearly as hard as it does to games and gameplay mechanics, and where exactly that acceptable limit happens to be differ for each individual - with no doubt a large correlation based on your age.
It's just really hard to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who didn't grow up with them and doesn't have the appreciation and nostalgia of those times. Heck, back when I was a kid with my PSX, anything on the NES felt like an ancient unplayable relic.

"Record rates" to what we used to buy from India, which is almost nothing. EU oil imports from India increased from 111k barrels a day to 236k barrels a day, while we used to import something like 4.5 million barrels of oil per day straight from Russia.

But writing "EU now imports 3% of the oil it used to from Russia through India" would hardly be news worth writing about.

Only the original is public domain, what you do based on it isn't.

To keep the example Disney, Alice in Wonderland, the book, is public domain. So is One Thousand and One Nights, the story Aladdin makes use of. The films Disney made adapting them are not.
You can create your own adaptation of the books, or even just reprint them as is, but you can't resell or modify the Disney versions.

Also having voice acting limits roleplaying. That's why in Baldurs Gate 3 even though everything else is voiced, you the player keep silent. That way they can write 6 different ways you pick what and how you would like your character to say something, even if the end result from the NPC is the same for all of them, because it doesn't increase the VA workload at all.

...which, granted, would be something using AI would solve...

You had to win the silicone lottery to do so though. Or the supply and demand lottery, I guess. Tri core CPUs started as quad core silicon where one of the cores was damaged during manufacturing, but as the manufacturing got better they started having fewer mistakes and started supplying the price bracket with perfectly working quads with one core disabled.

More bandwidth/speed requires higher frequencies, which means ever worse range as it can't go through stuff like walls.

The plan was not viable when proposed due to the British naval blockade.

Without that, instead of 6 million dead, we might have gotten the Jewish Australia? Bummer.

...inspired by the Chinese sweet and sour food he had been making, named after the brand of pineapples he was using.

For Steam, not yet. Thy might eventually go the "Open World Survival Crafting" route and combine the popular tags to one, but for now they are Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike.

Also some people would add not having upgrades or unlocks of any kind that persist between runs for a game to be considered a true roguelike, the idea being it's you the player who learns and gets better to eventually be able to beat the game, and not because you failed 50 runs to eventually unlock enough hp and damage upgrades.

Which is why the "correct" term for most of the games is roguelite and not -like.