[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is an A+ meme

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

That's the bare minimum requirements needed to live in Toronto as a human, lol

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How are the alternatives any better? Download a DEB that executes arbitrary code, signed with some .asc that's sitting in the same webserver? Download an EXE?

Your comment is so rambley that I can't understand whether you're criticizing the distribution method or the packaging. Both of those are very different in terms of attack surface, if you're talking about supply chain attacks.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

In Canada, these machines used to have glass bottles. (20oz?) Anyone else remember that?

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

The only way I can describe the Titanfall 2 campaign is it's the giant robot game you always wanted subconsciously. It's just great, perfect length.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The detailed disclosure PDF (88 pages) is a great read if you're interested in the gory details. The team here did excellent work and there's a lot of interesting avenues opened for future research.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I could be wrong here, but I think the common interpretation here is wrong. The risk is not that the wires overheat and cause a fire. The risk is that the card draws too much current from a single 12V power rail on your PSU, sustained for a long time, and that burns out the power rail on your PSU.

I have a 6950 XT that I used with a 850W PSU that was connected incorrectly according to the diagram, with multiple connectors coming off a single rail. After about 6 months, one day my SSD stopped working, and after some tinkering, I realized that if I plugged it into a different 12V connector, it started working! I had burned out one of the 12V rails on my power supply, and I strongly suspect it was my incorrect wiring into my 6950 XT that caused it. (edit: I got a new PSU and never looked back)

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

This has nothing to do with protecting Canadians and everything to do with protecting big business

I think what no politician wants to admit is that car industry is a strategically important industry and has to be protected for geopolitical reasons alone. We need the manufacturing capability to maintain our industrial base as a hedge against any future conflict. (I lump it in with why you need domestic milk and food production, vaccine production, etc. When the going gets tough, you need that.)

That said, I do feel the bailouts from 2009/2010 were total horseshit and these companies got off scot-free. They've had ages to prepare to make EVs and squandered it, and now have to be protected by moves like this. We just end up paying for it, either through subsidies (eg. battery plants) or through the inflated prices of EVs.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I'm a huge Doom (1/2/3/2016) fan but I'm not sure how I feel about this. Eternal just seemed like more or the same so I never even bothered playing it. The Dark Ages is starting to feel a little too Anime and just outside the whole space-based Doom universe. This just doesn't seem like Doom to me and the gameplay looks like more of the same basically from the trailer.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

broad, sensationalist strokes

Can you clarify what you perceive as sensationalist about what I wrote? Based on the number of upvotes this thread has, I'm not the only one that thinks this way. (My tax dollars are currently going to fighting cybercrime sponsored by Russia, fighting Russian disinformation campaigns, and providing materiel to fight the Russian military.)

I take great pride and responsibility in my critical thinking skills

Me too, but as I mentioned in another thread, the issue is that not everybody is gifted with those same critical thinking skills, and the impact on those less equipped can be catastrophic. (see: pizzagate shooting)

range of ideas acceptable to post on Lemmy were restricted to those acceptable to our mainstream media

I do think we disagree on this here - For me, mainstream media is primarily good journalism where information is fact-checked and vetted. (Don't forget there's libel laws that keep journalists in check too in most countries.) Opinions and editorials represent the views of the writers or newspaper. Every organization has a slant in what they choose to cover and find newsworthy, you just need to be aware of it. With this in mind, I don't see mainstream media as a bad thing at all or something that needs to be rebelled against. It serves a different purpose from Lemmy.

Where I see Lemmy being useful and interesting is as a news aggregator with insightful discourse in the comments that's not dominated by inauthentic behaviour. Reddit is completely flooded and driven by marketers and bots, where the content and discourse quality have become low and repetitive, which seems to be the end state of 2000-2010 era social media platform.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

When you hand the Russians a propaganda victory, you can expect them to dial up the troll farms to 11 to get the most out of the opportunity. It's a big fuckup and CSIS/CSEC should have interdicted this TBH.

[-] GameGod@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Anyone know how fast you have to be going to get a ticket there? Asking for a friend.

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