Fun fact, on release, the UI for Morrowind did not even have health bars for enemies, this was patched in later.

I’d worry about getting a very biased jury

The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease

Why are they talking about this as if it’s a strange thing to happen and disruptive? I’ve seen lots of websites about a political issue that help people send emails to their representatives, isn’t that just a normal part of democracy?

I didn’t really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm

You can sort of emulate a vibrator with the bridge of your nose and humming really loud, just saying

If “come alone” is one of the options, does that imply that in order to uninvite someone you have to yourself avoid attending?

clever to put it somewhere it can’t be cropped out

What a helpful cow

Github is a way of quickly getting some indication that software is legit before you install it, because you can see at a glance various ways others have interacted with it, and potentially look into things further. If it’s on Github the code is probably at least published, which is another sign of not being sketchy, so it’s a good thing to be able to append to a web search. I also like that it’s easier to find info about how to install software from Github than from some self published website for that particular software, because the information is generally going to be in the same place and use the same conventions every time.

If you’re only writing code for yourself, Git by itself would be fine, but there’s definitely a need for something that is basically a sort of social media for software.

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This was what should have been a private conversation though, not public.

Don’t count out gambling. NFTs are a gambling game, where you win if you aren’t the last one holding the bag. There’s no hard guarantee that the traffic for a given NFT is real or not, but if its origin is something scarce and noteworthy (like being minted by the subject of a popular meme) then that can be a Schelling point for gamblers to converge on and reasonably conclude that other gamblers will be trying for the same NFT.

At some point the game ends when sources of new players are exhausted and everyone stops playing, but at one point I believe people were playing. Of course at the time people tried to describe why someone might buy a NFT as being some vague other buzzword laden reason, probably because the game ends sooner if everyone knows everyone else is also just hoping to flip it for a profit.

It would maybe be safer on a custom OS because less malware would target it, but exploits can still exist, at this point I’d say you also should really be using a dedicated device for crypto wallet stuff if you have more than small amounts, whether that’s a purpose built hardware wallet, an old phone you reset and have only the wallet app on, etc.

That’s just the remote control part.

promises of a free TradingView Premium app for Android. Instead of delivering legitimate software, the ads drop a highly advanced crypto-stealing trojan — an evolved version of the Brokewell malware.

From another source, that works in part by exploiting “accessibility service permissions”:

Like other recent Android malware families of its kind, Brokewell is capable of getting around restrictions imposed by Google that prevent sideloaded apps from requesting accessibility service permissions.

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This includes displaying overlay screens on top of targeted apps to pilfer user credentials. It can also steal cookies by launching a WebView and loading the legitimate website, after which the session cookies are intercepted and transmitted to an actor-controlled server.

That’s honestly fucked up and bizarre, why would they even do that? I can’t imagine it saves them any resources or bandwidth, and it doesn’t make sense that people would be more interested in watching videos with weird AI glitches the video creators didn’t intend.

Yeah, I estimated the number of websites on that list and it’s around 100k

various developers have either offered free versions of their games or moved to selling them directly from their own websites while they remain delisted elsewhere.

I wonder if there’s some way to aggregate or maintain an index of these

Any ideas for that? My main thought is to further develop technology for the anonymous web and get people using it, although probably some form of overtly political activism is also needed

If these types of laws keep coming there might be a lot of legal liability for running instances of things

It turned out to be exactly what it was designed to be, a tool for making financial transactions online without needing anyone’s permission.