If you read the article, the described attack allows a man-in-the-middle attack on two devices while they are pairing.
This means that someone could intercept and modify your bluetooth mouse or keyboard inputs, resulting in complete compromise of the device they are connected to.
Pretty sure this was described exactly in Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992).
The (50!) games
50! presumably referring to the number of different orderings in which you could play them?
I think you forgot to post the article.
Then what you bought is not a mouse, it's a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.
Back in the 00’s we had to fiddle with ifconfig and friggin’ /etc/network by hand. Things have gotten a lot better.
I was just thinking that I've never had any problems with either WiFi or Ethernet connectivity since NetworkManager became a standard part of modern distros. Before that I was having to install windows drivers with ndiswrapper and configure interfaces manually in ifup and ifdown scripts, and I haven't had to do that for at least 15 years now.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but railing against "forced diversity" is just a dog-whistle for rejecting actual diversity.
Normal people don't actually care about it. If something is shit because it's badly written with bad character design then we say "it's shit because it's badly written and has bad character design," not "it's bad because it has women and minorities."
You clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I'm not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they're showing banner ads on the page.
It worked using the ismap attribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user's click to the link when fetching the result.
Does anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:
I'm all in favor of going back to the old internet, but... not this.
Please down your use of "up" as a verb. It ups my blood pressure and downs my tolerance of reading newspaper headlines.
Isn't it the Cloudflare bot detection page that says "Just a moment" (... while we check that you're human)?
It's probably because lemmy servers are constantly loading a bunch of websites to generate previews and Cloudflare decides that those clients look like bots.
A strange confession to put in a game review.