Ashelyn

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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Years back, I had that happen on PayPal of all websites. Their account creation and reset pages silently and automatically truncated my password to 16 chars or something before hashing, but the actual login page didn't, so the password didn't work at all unless I backspaced it to the character limit. I forgot how I even found that out but it was a very frustrating few hours.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Radical unschooling?

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Well maybe they're running out of money because they spent all of it developing their game :p

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

I know this might not be the most convenient solution, but learning to resolder mouse switches means you can just replace the faulty components (and maybe the sliders too) and just keep using the hardware that works for you. As long as you don't have a mouse with that awful rubber that de-vulcanizes after about 3 years, and don't mind the visual wear from your hand on the shell over time, you'll easily 10x the life of most products manufactured with planned obsolescence. Logitech almost always cheaps out on the switches for their gaming mice, unfortunately. After replacing the switches on my g pro wireless when they started double-clicking after 2 years (almost exactly), it's been smooth sailing ever since.

ifixit almost always has comprehensive teardown and rebuild instructions for popular peripherals. Bonus points is that whenever you take apart something to do a repair, you can clean out all the hard to reach places that collect random dust and debris. Can be kind of gross but is also pretty satisfying. Additional bonus points for being more sustainable with your consumer habits and minimizing e-waste in landfills!

If you've got a mechanical keyboard, you can do the same but it's generally a lot more tedious since most have the switches soldered on, and LEDs double the amount of joints you have to deal with. I recently did just the WASD and a few other high-traffic keys on my board after one one of them failed, and it was a several hour process

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Paywalled article

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

This limerick has to be forced to have a decent flow. Who emphasizes the first syllable in "assured"? Lines 3 and/or 4 would probably flow better with an extra syllable, but are otherwise ok and have consistent feet.

Final verdict: 5/10, needs work

Also, the little logo at the bottom is trying way too hard

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

We could assign it to any point within a recognizable region in the Cosmic Microwave Background, which would probably be the most universally-applicable reference available. One just needs to be able to filter out the noise from surrounding celestial bodies. The CMB does slowly change over time, but so too does the position of stars within galaxies and galaxies relative to one another.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You're telling me that the solution to systemic voter suppression is a massive urban exodus to spread out the voting population until it's homogenous?

That's the solution, instead of I dunno, forcing the Texas government to stop suppressing voters?

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Complete side note, I saw your pfp and checked your profile to confirm my suspicions. Thank you for your work on OpenRGB! It's been a great tool for managing the LEDs on my computer.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Texas is gerrymandered to shit, and employs pretty nasty voter suppression tactics in populous (see: blue) counties by having very few polling stations per capita in those areas and making it a crime to give water/food to people waiting in line to vote. Big Texas cities are blue for the most part (maybe a few exceptions in the DFW area)

If you look at pretty much any of the cities within Texas on the latest map, you can see that they consolidate the core of the city into one or two solid blobs, then split the rest out to be diluted by rural areas. See Dallas/Tarrant County, Travis County, Bexar County, and Harris County for the most obvious cases of these.

https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/docs/88th_Senate_Tabloid_2024_05_20.pdf

On a population level, Texas is basically a blue state held hostage by a red state administration.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Life is suffering. Once you accept that fact wholly, you may ascend

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Here in the States, standard practice is to "correct" visibly intersex births into being either male or female. Often they let the parents choose. Often, these operations have lifelong consequences for the child, and they have absolutely no say whatsoever.

If this practice is done in Canada as well, it stands in direct contradiction to the notion that "God doesn't make mistakes". Anyone who makes this claim should be pressed for comment on intersex "correction" surgeries.

While tans identities and intersex status aren't the same thing, usually a person's dismissal of intersex conditions is a bright red flag for their views on trans issues.

 

I use Firefox whenever I can.

On first install of the browser I usually end up following a hardening guide which includes stuff like blocking cross site cookies, setting a few things in about:config to disable Pocket/etc, and installing uBlock Origin. I've taken what I consider a relatively balanced approach, I don't use anything like noScript, uMatrix, etc that ultimately just cost a lot of time fiddling to get the 10th website of the week working.

I've been more or less fine browsing the web this way for years, but around the start of 2024 I've started seeing way more "Access Denied" pages than I used to. I think part of it is Cloudflare or similar, but I don't know exactly what's changed or what's triggering it to occur.

It usually goes away and I can re access the site in 10-30 minutes as usual, but I've had it occur in really weird instances, such as trying to change my Minecraft skin and getting blocked by the website. The server block often goes away immediately if I switch my user agent, so I know that it has something to do with how I've got everything set up.

Not sure what anyone else's experience with this has been. I'd like to hear some of your thoughts and tips

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