In some ways I always wonder if this Build-A-Bear thingy we've developed in the last 100 or so years regarding spirituality, morals, principles and all that as an alternative to traditional religious practices isn't just as lame as what it's meant to replace but in its own kind.
I'm not advocating for religious institutions or theocracy, mind you, I'm trying to formulate an argument how someone talking about how living life in accordance to Stoics on YouTube or Christ in a church is more of an aesthetics issue than a virtue one.
Though I feel by the time I successfully formulate that argument I'll have multiple groups clamoring for my head.
I feel like I've entered some kind of Twilight Zone. On one hand saying I don't like the Trump Administration would be an understatement but on the other hand from what I understand the president of Venezuela is a dictator who ate on TV while his people starved[0] a few years ago.
Maduro sucks, yet stealing him then announcing to the world that your principal goal is to commercialize Venezuela’s natural resources is very stupid.
Will be hilarious if incompetent MAGA lawyers can’t fill out the paperwork properly or, I don’t know, someone raises a defense of selective and vindictive prosecution based on POTUS’s own statements both before and after the arrest, talking about seizing their oil.
I don't understand how that is weird. For some reason people have entered this point of view that if you dislike someone you suddenly need to dislike everything they do.
It's perfectly normal for a party you dislike to do something you like and also perfectly normal for a party you like to do something you dislike.
I'm not defending Maduro, but people forget that one of the reasons Venezuela was poor was because of US sanctions.
Sanctions are meant to make the people poor in the hope that they will rise up and topple the regime of sanctioned country. No need for US military operations.
I always believed stuff like Proton and Tutanota to pander to individuals who cared about privacy but who fell ultimately to their shiny marketing campaigns.
Anyway most people would be better served when disavowing any notion that email is secure or that VPN services operated by companies (as opposed to ones you control) are good for anything other than bypassing region locks.
I don't know why but I could never get it to work properly and had more success with the Bottles flatpak instead. I should really check out a tutorial for Lutris because people are always praising it and I feel it's more of a me problem that I can't get it to work.
I've been pronouncing it as "nanites" in my head since the first time I've seen it. Dunno why and now I feel just a tiny silly, though I still prefer my pronunciation.
Needless to say I never had to actually say "n8n".
I've never thought about it this way but now that you mention it both blogging and FOSS once stripped of substance seem like L'esprit de l'escalier externalized.
I remember in my teens using free trainers from Cheat Happens and trying to figure out how to use Cheat Engine to coast through some games (most of the time when I cared more about the story than the gameplay itself), also around last week I even saw a video on YouTube where the sponsor was a company that provided trainers as a service for a large catalogue of games, all in a neatly packaged client.
It's nice to get a look behind the scenes at how it's done.
I first learned how these sorts of programs worked using memory inspection tools that some emulators have built into them, but eventually flirted with some very basic cheat engine stuff myself. More advanced stuff like code caving is hard unless you're an assembly wizard, but it's surprisingly easy to find and poke values once you get the basic technique down. I once made a trainer for a friend because he wanted to skip some of the grind for cosmetics in Nioh. I also had fun realizing that the enemy skill materia in ff7 basically works by treating what would typically be the experience of the materia as a bitfield, with one bit for each learnable skill.
It's funny though, I realized that I generally don't enjoy cheating at games, even single player games, unless the cheats are amusing stuff like big head mode or whatever. I once actually cheated to reduce my character's level in dark souls because I'd accidentally allocated a bunch of points into a famously rather useless stat and, in that game, stat point allocation is permanent. To clarify, I knew it was useless, I had mismatched which row I was looking at when assigning points.
Which is still cheating, I suppose, given that it saved me the convenience of starting the character over completely.
Dark Souls on PC rather famously was locked at some low resolution no matter what you did in the settings, among other problems that the PC port had. There was a hack program called DSFix that did a bunch of work to make it playable in a reasonable way on PC
artmoney dot r u was the way for some of us for many years. There was also WPE Pro. I remember, making a private room in Coke Studios, that was an official room, so I could skip the DJ line and earn decibels.
Yeah, I'm currently developing a Flutter app and also using flutter_rust_bridge to separate the business logic and I can hardly believe how enjoyable it is.
Other than the initial project setup which is a me and Nix flakes problem it all comes together pretty smoothly.
It's weird seeing people on HN complain about this aspect regarding Hetzner because it's the complete opposite of my experience. Two years I've rented a dedicated server for around 40 euros monthly from Hetzner as a business customer and I had no issues whatsoever. They didn't ask for a business license or personal ID or anything really, I provided a VAT ID along with a business name and address but it wasn't anything extra compared to what I also provided Migadu or Porkbun for example.
I suppose they might have more KYC procedures for personal accounts based outside the EU otherwise I have no clue.
Same, Hetzner has always been very flexible with me when it comes to practically anything. It's always been humans answering my queries, with of course various quality but overall quite good especially for the price. I gave them some VAT number to get reduced prices at some point and that was it :shrug:
I'm based in the US and I tried twice to create an account for Hetzner (a personal account as well as a company / startup account). They rejected all my attempts. I don't quite understand their business model :)
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