I wish there was a blacklist in Sponsorblock. I mostly just need it for one channel, in others I don’t mind as much.

Currently before establishing an encrypted connection to a webserver the domain is sent to the webserver unencrypted so that the server can choose the appropriate certificate to use for encryption. That is called SNI, Server Name Indication.

Of course that’s a privacy risk. There are finally protocols to fix this but they aren’t very widespread and depend on DNS over HTTPS.

I think issuing certificates based on the IP and sending the domain name encrypted based on that certificate could have fixed this issue ages ago.

I never understood why we don’t use IP certificates to encrypt the domain with SNI.

Apparently you can do it by turning off the microwave as soon as it starts boiling, turning it on again and repeating until everything boils at the same time and explodes.

Aren’t just about all emulators open source? I bet you can find everything you need for free on F-Droid.

I originally registered the domain I’m now using for Lemmy for the company “The Empire”. I was a kid and did it just for the lulz. Also I additionally used my real name.

Nothing ever happened.

Read an interview with her the other day.

I’ve seen language switchers with translated language names that were sorted by the English name. So “Deutsch” was sorted under G.

I once got a token for a shopping cart when I just wanted the shopping cart and give the other guy the 50 cents I suspected in there. He told me that he had gotten the token as a gift himself and that I should pass it on when the time has come.

A few years later I gave it to someone who didn’t have any coins with them.

And now I remember a story that should be more important. A complete stranger paid for our engagement rings.

I wanted to propose to my girlfriend with a very special ring. One from a gumball machine. Gumball machines have become rare enough. One with rings was almost impossible to find. I’d always take different routes to and from work and stuff to watch out for one.

So one day I finally found one. With rings besides other toys. It took 20 cent coins but I didn’t have a single one on me. But I spied a woman walking along on the other side of the road. I sprinted to her end explained my conundrum. She had three coins. I offered a euro in return but she refused.

The three coins netted me five balls from the machine. I think it was broken and I could have gotten them without any coins. Anyways, in the five balls were three rings. I chose the one with the most beautiful stone for her and one without a stone for myself. I posed the question as soon as I arrived home.

Would be funny if in the future only non-nvidia cards supported PhysX.

“Despite”?

Human

1 out of 3 are actually a myriad of Indian engineers?

Report it to a local tech site. That’s a scandal.

Probably. And with the next version Lemmy as well.

Mine is. Only I have it.

GPS and similar systems are just big atomic clocks flying around the earth, shouting their time down to earth. A GPS (or other) device just needs to know the current time and the position of the satellites to calculate its own position.

The most control the US ever exercised over GPS was to encrypt the more precise parts of the satellite’s timestamps so that only military devices could get really precise positions. They stopped doing that when other systems went online. That was for the whole world, including its own citizens.

China’s system can’t be used for spying. It’s as passive as GPS. These things are harmless. No amount of control can be enacted through them.

For a long long time compnies provided dedicated servers to their players. Sometimes included in the game files, sometimes as separate downloads. Often it was just a Linux binary, sometimes both Windows and Linux. Players would then have to enter the IP of their desired server.

Sometimes a central server would list all the available servers. For the Unreal games that was recently shut down. The community created a new one and patched the games to use it instead of the official one.

With games like Minecraft or Baldur’s Gate 3 the server is even included in the game. If Microsoft and Larian and Steam went away you could still play them that way with minimal fuzz.

I think Piefed supports that. Multicommunities. Was already a thing on Reddit that was calle Multireddit, I think.