[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

While it certainly isn’t news to us today, every additional observation that supports a theory is valuable, especially for theories about deep-rooted and hard-to-prove causality.

We can’t just go out traumatizing children “for science” to find out what the incident rate of mental health as it relates to different traumas.

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Replaying Fallout: New Vegas. I wanted to do a tale of two wastelands, but I couldn’t get the mods to settle out. It’s a much better game than I remember from my first play through!

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Ryujinx works well, but not as well as yuzu, and doesn’t seem to be a target of takedowns

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I haven’t tested those myself, but wine has excellent 32 bit compatibility in general. If it’s on the list at wine hq, then it probably works

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

You’re taking about data rates here, measured in bits per second.

Data caps have to do with the total amount of data you are allocated over a longer period of time. Usually per month. In the case of Comcast, it’s 1.5 TB/month.

If the customer exceeds that allotment during the month, they will be charged an additional “overage fee” per arbitrary unit, usually by the gigabyte.

It has nothing to do with the speed they advertise on a line, but rather a way to charge “heavy users” more.

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In short, I don’t write formal documents often in my role as a software engineer.

There are any number of ways that an opt-out message could be too ambiguous to be legally interpreted. For example, if you just send the message saying “no thanks, I don’t want to use arbitration”, but forget to identify yourself in a way that is meaningful to the other party, it may not hold up in any proceedings.

For example, either your legal name or username may be required, or both, depending on whether you need to prove you are/were a user at the time of opt-out.

Specifying the confirmation is helpful as well in a normal document that someone reads.

Several other companies have made opt outs that you have to send paper mail for as a way to raise the barrier of rejection.

People are lazy. I am lazy. I asked a resource to do it for me and shared the results to help others like me. This helps reduce the barrier to people who would like to opt out but can’t be bothered to figure out how to write that email.

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

So you can get banned from Tinder for impersonating a doctor?

(I too have a PhD. I feel your pain)

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

I see this as both a win and a potential problem for the app’s reputation:

As soon as you take away a hard link to a real-life identifier, the sketchy people come out of the woodwork and trade images/video of child exploitation.

Signal has not had this problem like some platforms (e.g. Kik), and I suspect two reasons:

  1. Lack of searchable chat rooms
  2. Concrete link to a phone number that anyone who contacts you must know (and make it easy to identify you to authorities)

Up until now signal has been an excellent secure replacement for text messaging between parties that know each other. I hope they don’t go the “chat groups” route, though I doubt they will. But I suspect this change will make it a preferred way for abusers to exchange images and videos nearly anonymously

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

i7-950 here. I don’t use it every day, but it still runs very smoothly. Even though the memory is a little slow at times

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

I think that’s why Newsom doesn’t want to do it.

In addition, California GOP primaries, while it has a massive elector count, have almost no bearing on the GOP’s strategies in the presidential race. They haven’t won there in so long that the GOP stopped worrying about what “those lefties” think and focused their strategy entirely on the swing states.

If Pennsylvania and Michigan were to disqualify him from the general election for any reason, and it was upheld in court, his candidacy would be effectively over.

Does that mean the threat of fascism from Trump would be over? I don’t think so. The petty and “I’m rubber, you’re glue” thinking of the MAGATs could bring about a second uprising and increase in domestic terrorism. Or a wild power grab by the Supreme Court which further undermines trust in the institution.

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

My first thought, when I heard about the Hamas tunnels was: is it a war crime to pump carbon monoxide into the tunnels? Then I heard that they were keeping the hostages in the tunnels. So yes. Yes, it would be.

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