wizardbeard

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Director's Cut eases some of that, but it's definitely a game that could use better guidance. The first map is a slog, but if you charge through it (past the point where you take a barge to a new map) things open up pretty quickly with vehicles, new obstacles, and other tools to keep things more interesting.

The worst part is that the game doesn't really direct you towards unlocking the tools and upgrades that make things better. A lot is unlocked through the main plot path, but there's more that's just not signposted at all. Is grinding out the full 5 star approval of this guy going to unlock a level 3 exoskeleton, or is it just unlocking a new decorative patch for my backpack? How am I supposed to naturally find out what places give you the best boots in the game as delivery rewards?

It's a game where you just kind of have to accept the slog as part of the narrative. You're one singular delivery man tasked with reconnecting the remaining people and settlements in a ruined america. It's going to be tough. Moments of power fantasy will be few and far between. As you reconnect more, you gain the ability to build infrastructure (and use infrastructure built by others through the network you're making) to make things easier.

Like, if you can find enjoyment in the slow moments, then you earn the more enjoyable stuff over time. Definitely not for everyone. I like it, but I play on and off in bursts. Think I have like 100 hours over four years. Biggest advice is to speed through the first map, just do the main quests. On the second map you can start taking your time if you want to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yep, and don't just state the what, but the why in your docs.

The why really helps with knowing if a step is still important, or if it no longer applies. This is especially important with anything cloud based, as I've seen weird workarounds become no longer needed due to updates, and I would never have caught it without my notes on why we had the weird workaround to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations

That's literally it. The advertising and marketing teams within Google have politically maneuvered themselves into running the show, and the software/product engineering teams that want to maximize the quality of the system they work on (search, youtube) are overridden by insipid metrics that advertising needs more user interaction with ads.

They literally have been commanding that things be made more shitty to optimize their malformed metrics. You absolutely can get more people to click the sponsored search results... if you keep making them less distinct from the actual results. And advertising needs those good click through rates nooooow!

There are email chains documenting this sort of shit going on that have become part of the public record due to various court cases.

Wonderful article about it all here

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

This surely will have no negative consequences whatsoever, despite numerous existant studies showing drastic reduction in security and code quality at other companies that have attempted this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Not content with unasked for evangelizing in Windows communities and posts, this Stallman's Witness tries their hand in an even less welcome locale.

Injured by the failure of their attempt, they seek sympathy back in friendlier climes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even so, why post this and not any one of countless other things?

Like I feel that you're missing a clear sign here. Most people would roll their eyes and move on. This is quite possibly the most "leopards ate my face" post in this community and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Then why did you bother posting here complaining about it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Instance admins can see your upvotes/downvotes, as in who specifically upvoted/downvoted something. As far as I'm aware, some front ends just make that information public.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Don't forget the clear cuckstool right next to the master bed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dead internet? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the job hunting process?

Yes

(Github project supposedly for AI assisted mass job application, including using the AI to cater resume to job posting. God I'm terrified of ever having to return to the job market this is fucking insane.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Consider the pyramids of Giza. On the one hand, they’re one of the wonders of the ancient world. On the other, barriers to entry for Egyptian pyramid construction have come down drastically since the twenty-sixth century BCE. If people in Egypt were to build the pyramids today, we’d look at them and say, “Cool?” They wouldn’t be impressive. But give me a human genomics pattern search engine that can generate predictive analytics modeling infectious disease growth through sub-Saharan Africa to help optimize ad targeting for end-of-life wearables, then yeah, okay, Egyptians: now we can talk.

That's it. Pack it up. I've read the best satire can offer.

 

NIST is a US government org that produces industry guidlines on best practices for cybersecurity, and they've just released a massive update to their framework.

 

Soichi Terada is a House music artist who was popular in Japan in the 90s. Outside of Japan, he's mostly known for his soundtrack work on the PS1 game Ape Escape.

This is one of his covers/arrangements/remixes, where he plays around with elements of another song. Not quite sure what to classify it as, otherwise I'd label it in the title.

I find his music to have a pretty distinct style, and I like using it as background while I study, code, or do other work.

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I'm looking for a free, reputable ad blocker on the Play Store. Something that does local host/filter list filtering using the VPN feature, like Blokada 4 or 5 (before they started cloud hosting the filtering features as a money/data grab).

Personally, I'm no stranger to F-Droid or Obtanium and even have dipped my toes into ADB.

I need this for family members when they start asking, so I can point them at something decent that won't try to fleece them and get on with my life unburdened by family tech support hell. Something they can install through the Play Store they already have and easily switch on and off if something they "need" isn't working.

So that eliminates just setting their DNS to an ad blocking one in their Wi-Fi settings. Wouldn't follow them off that specific connection, and wouldn't be an easy toggle if something broke.

 

Microsoft's documentation for revoking user access from Azure AD currently references cmdlets from the AzureAD PowerShell module, which will be deprecated on June 30th.

Microsoft reccomends using the MSGraph module or API as a replacement for the AzureAD module, but I'm having a hell of a time with it.

I'm trying to figure out how to use PoweShell to wipe corporate data off a user's BYODs, and I'm stuck trying to get a list of a user's BYODs through Graph. Ultimately this will be part of automation kicked off when a user leaves the company.

Queries for devices and managed devices for a given user seem to be missing devices that are shown through Azure Portal when looking at a user in Azure AD and then looking at their devices. The query for deleting data is also unclear in whether it wipes the whole device or just corporate data.

Does anyone have any resources or guidance on this? Most of what I'm finding is outdated or too vague for me to be comfortable utilizing it.

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