phoenixes

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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

My guess: People who can be as competent with security as they need are very expensive.

Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the Remarkable do stuff if you touch the screen with your fingers? Or can I make it not do that, and only react to the pen?

Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Is there anything that still has side buttons and no touch screen? I'm still holding on to my old kindle 3rd gen (kindle keyboard) because I abhor touchscreens on my books.

Ideally also with no backlight, or the ability to turn the backlight off.

Google doesn't work anymore ? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to help me understand: Why is it that when I try the same search on different instances of this, I get very different search results?

Google doesn't work anymore ? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Russian, but yeah

Google pushing web DRM into chromium in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm

This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.

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What are your favorite video games that force you to pull out the pen and paper? (beehaw.org)
 

Ever since the language puzzle in Tunic that got me to fill up 6 pocket sized pages of notes over multiple days while trying to puzzle it out as I tried to and, eventually, succeeded at translating the in-game "paper" manual, I've had a craving for games that force you to pull out a notebook and take notes/puzzle things out as part of the actual meta-gameplay mechanics, because the game doesn't just do that thinking for you.

What other games are like this, even a little bit, that you've loved?

And to be clear, I don't mean things like TTRPGs which are just inherently on paper. Those are cool and all, but aren't this thing. I want things that force me to engage my thinking beyond what the inputs of a controller and medium of a screen and my short-term memory alone can do for me.

Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] phoenixes@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn't sound like they're doing that.