faintwhenfree

joined 3 years ago
[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 2 days ago

I saw it available on high seas

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

So the trick would be to give them financial data like a good boy, so you blend with the crowd. Shop using alipay, wechat. Take trains and all. I doubt at the point they have resources to chase everyone who doesn't post online. Since they know where I am and what I buy. I don't like it, but if I lived in China either I go rural and die in poverty and I stay in urban to earn a living but submit some privacy to retain more. I mean if I can find some underground, I'd join to resist, but realistically how much can you resist. I don't think I'm willing to die for absolute privacy. If I was a persecuted group like uyghr maybe I'd consider resisting to the point I might die and be tortured, but if I was han Chinese i don't think i would.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but also fanatics to a degree. So to claim something like this is both being a heretic in eyes of islam and untrustworthy in eyes of teaching community. Stupid move.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But how do you even get detected? Unless of course you talk to it through some third party app that stores conversation client side and your phone gets confiscated. But if I set it up, it would be through Web interface that I open in incognito browser and history sit on server side. Sure server confiscated and i might be caught, but how otherwise will I be caught?

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fiction The Expanse series (starts with leviathan wakes) BY James S A Corey

Non Fiction Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've also heard a fucking flat rectangle theory.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Skillet is the secret of a good life

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah time to kick him out was when he was 20ish +/- 1 year. Since you get a very good idea by that point if that adult is able to take care of himself. I have 3 people in my life (2 cousins, 1 family friend). Who are in that exact situation. I knew even when they were 20 that they're not given the right skillet to ever be independent. And have no motivation to be independent on their own. Now they're all in their 30s. I always their parents talking to my parents about how to make them independent and refuse to still cut them cold turkey.

I mean parents fucked up for sure, but it's not too uncommon unfortunately. All I ever remind those parents is, I will not help someone who isn't trying to help themselves. I'm not even close to them. But 2 out of 3 have tried asking me for money.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have three degrees, none of them have focused at all on programming. I had one c++ programming class in uni.

In my experience, most of the IT stuff is easy-ish, if you start trying. Most people have some psychological barrier with anything looking like code. I'll give you two examples.

My wife would refuse to fix small issues in our home lab, but once I explained, everything we have is backed up twice. And wiped homelab to assure her that we can't fuck up by accidental edit, we'd have a way to restore it she started trying, and she is decent at it. She even started our paperless container on her own. I had to help a bit in configuring it, but a bit. Soon she maybe able to manage everything. On the other hand.

At work I have this junior, I'm training. First I had a json file, he got scared editing and would bug me everytime. Then I made a simple text file, variable_name space value. He was scared of that too. I finally made a csv that he would open in excel, then he felt comfortable. He refuses to even try 2 years in, because our job in not really technical and I'm not his boss.

TLDR: start trying with simple things, backup everything, you may fail a bit, but it's not that hard to get started with basics.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah fitgirl is not good for AC1 and all three AC2 games. Though good for AC4 and onwards.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Don't like ubisoft currently and all their projects are shit. don't want to pay them a single cent. Me paying for few decades old game will just result in them churning out no useful story assassin's creed that i dont care about.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I've been meaning to ask, are you playing these from steam or from high seas? I'm looking for a reputable high seas source, but struggling.

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