Limonene

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[–] Limonene 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why is the antivirus software detecting my Cortex-M3 binaries as dangerous to an amd64 computer? Happens on Windows 7 through Windows 10, across 3 different employers.

And how do I submit my builds to Virus Total if they're getting deleted as soon as they come out of the linker?

[–] Limonene 2 points 10 months ago

This post was kind of a pain to read, with all the reddit links. I had to convert them to old.reddit.com to get them to display properly.

I think Steam was in the right to remove that one game. "Looks = age" is true for cartoon characters, since they have no biological age. It seems the character was described as 19 in lore, but in Steam's opinion, they looked like a prepubescent child. Since cartoon child pornography is illegal, they were right to remove it.

But that other stuff seems to be legal. Cartoon rape porn games are appalling to me, but are probably legal, and should be legal. I agree that people being unable to pay for legal (even if appalling) content is a form of undesirable censorship.

It's probably Visa's fault. They seem like a complete monopoly. I rarely see anyone with a non-Visa credit card. I myself have a Discover card, but I have to have a Visa card too because some merchants don't accept Discover. Every merchant accepts Visa, and every customer has to have a Visa card. Merchants today are more likely to refuse cash than to refuse Visa.

Possible solutions:

  1. The libertarian approach: The government needs to remove barriers to entry in making new payment systems. Loosen BSA requirements for smaller payment systems. Require existing banks to interoperate with the design of new payment systems, if their customer requests it.

  2. The socialist approach: The US government could create a payment system. It would be protected by constitutional free speech rules, so legal content couldn't be blocked.

  3. The moderate approach: Treat Visa like the monopoly that it is. Treat it as a defacto commons, where people are forced to go even if they don't want to be there. As long as it remains a monopoly, it should be required to carry all legal customers. Even customers selling appalling content, like cartoon rape porn games.

[–] Limonene 34 points 10 months ago

Themselves. It's a civil war. The military in Burma/Myanmar has been out of control for many decades. Currently, the military controls the country, after overthrowing the 2020 democratically elected government.

People there are probably avoiding conscription not because they fear the danger of war, but because they disagree with the military's position, and don't want to have to kill peaceful protesters.

[–] Limonene 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I don't think thefederalist.com is a reliable news site.

[–] Limonene 53 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is a Lemmy post of a screenshot of a Reddit post of a screenshot of a Reddit post of a screenshot of a Twitter tweet.

Truly an instance of xkcd's Digital Data comic. https://xkcd.com/1683/

[–] Limonene 61 points 10 months ago (27 children)

Why does the article call the people held by Israel "prisoners", but the people held by Palestine "hostages"?

[–] Limonene 60 points 10 months ago (15 children)

I agree with this sentiment. Steam notably falls into the third category, while otherwise being pretty good.

But I'm quite disgusted now seeing an image of a Yubikey for the first time. I've heard so many good things about them that it's a major disappointment to see now that they use that awful noncomplaint shape of USB plug.

There are two very important reasons for the metal shield around USB plugs: 1. For ESD protection, and 2. to hold the receptacle's tongue in place and prevent it from bending away and losing contact. Every USB device I've owned that was a flat plug (like this Yubikey image in this post) has within a month deformed the USB receptacle it's plugged into to the point that the device no longer works in that port. Compliant USB devices still work in that port's deformed receptacle, because they have a correct metal shield that bends the tongue back into the correct position.

[–] Limonene 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Haha. I sent them an opt-out notice by email, and it bounced!

They are using Google email servers for discord .com and Google has apparently shadowbanned me. It gives an error message saying "The account [my email address] is disabled." but I have never created a Google or Gmail account, and my email address is on a domain not associated with Google at all.

So I've completed my obligation to opt-out. Discord will have no record of it, but I have the email server logs to prove I sent it.

If, in the future, anyone needs to sue Discord and forgot to opt-out, feel free to use this same excuse.

[–] Limonene 17 points 11 months ago

It depends what they do at the meeting. If someone sends in a spy to record the event, and catches people on recording making realistic concrete plans to commit crimes, then it's definitely illegal.

The banner seems to be just barely within the range of protected free speech. "The Fuhrer" obviously refers to Hitler, since the event is on April 20. But it seems legal in the US. If they were challenged, they would claim it's an ad for a peaceful meeting, which is protected.

But if they actually said "Hitler", or "Nazi", or put up swastikas or Nazi flags, then they would be within the realm of possibly-not-free-speech, since those can be interpreted as calls to violence. However, it's ambiguous. There are multiple ways to interpret a swastika, and fascists in the US are really good at feigning innocence.

It's definitely illegal once they start saying things like "let's kill some [insert slur here]"

[–] Limonene 5 points 11 months ago

I never got Proton working on my main distro (Debian), so I probably fall into this category. I did use Wine, but Wine is a lot harder to set up, and never ran games as well as Proton did.

Here is my major gaming history, since I started on Linux in 2007. Yes, I really could focus on a single game for years back then.

  • 2007: Starcraft, in Wine
  • 2007: Nethack, native
  • 2011: Morrowind and Oblivion in Wine
  • 2012: Minecraft, native
  • 2014: sgt-puzzles, native
  • 2016: Steam, got hundreds of native Linux games.
  • 2017: Briefly got Steam and Path of Exile working inside a Wine instance.
  • 2022: Steam deck, with the specific purpose of being able to run Proton on it.
  • 2023: New Ubuntu installation, and Proton finally worked on my PC.

Today, I still prefer native Linux games. I mostly only use Proton when peer pressure for a multiplayer game required it. But I never use Wine any more.

[–] Limonene 2 points 11 months ago

Some of those games sound like Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Available for Linux, Windows, web browser (javascript or java applet), Android, IOS, and... uh, Palm OS apparently.

The thing with coloured bubbles could be several things here. The network thing is probably net or netslide. The thing with the lasers and the grid is probably blackbox

[–] Limonene 34 points 11 months ago

Heat is now probably present in the Sun, NASA says.

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