tomalley8342

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[–] tomalley8342 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, since there's no way to fully cock the striker, you always get the ~6lb half cocked trigger pull weight every time.

[–] tomalley8342 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)
  • Yes for most glocks, although there are some glock models that do feature a manual safety.
  • Glocks have a half cocked striker once you rack the slide, and this gives a factory glock a trigger pull weight that is directly in between a cocked single-action trigger and an uncocked double-action trigger.

Glock's trigger safety is more secure than no safety although it is not as secure as a thumb safety, and the half cocked striker is easier to pull than a double-action trigger but is harder to pull than a single-action trigger.

Presumably this compromise was intentional and is one of the reasons why Glocks have become popular through their balance of reliability and ease of use - nowadays most striker fired pistols follow the same design principle.

[–] tomalley8342 1 points 4 days ago

Any normal program can do that too.

[–] tomalley8342 5 points 3 weeks ago

But they do not take up the idea, because they do not take it seriously. That is what it means to have a joke, no?

[–] tomalley8342 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's plenty of private MMO servers though.

[–] tomalley8342 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of people say this and I don't get it. What would be lost by having each playstyle be balanced properly and then adding difficulty scaling on top of that?

[–] tomalley8342 18 points 3 weeks ago

This age period is shockingly young; I don't remember exactly but iirc it's less than one year old.

Anecdotally, that sounds hard to believe to me, because I moved from South Korea (which has the same sound ambiguity) to the US at the age of 11 and have no problem at all distinguishing between the two sounds. All of my Korean friends that I had back in middle school also had no issues, even though none of them were born in the US. On the contrary, I've been told at times that I speak Korean with an obvious western accent.

[–] tomalley8342 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's in reference to one of the recurring themes that came up in the blogs and streams of Terry A. Davis, sole developer of TempleOS.

[–] tomalley8342 18 points 1 month ago

GOG, because I don't care about badges and achievements and other trinkets, but I do care about DRM

[–] tomalley8342 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From what I understand, the end of the URL string is just one of the clues the browser uses to determine the "type" of received data (https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/), and the true behavior depends on the browser's specific implementation. A part of the process involves actually reading and analyzing a small portion of the received file to see if the file really is the type that the URL claims it is. For example, I started a quick python server, and made it serve the OP image, except I renamed it as a jpg file (without actually converting the image of course). When saving the picture inside the browser, Firefox correctly identifies the file as a png image: While edge incorrectly tries to save the image as a jpg image:

Regarding your "MP3" file specifically, opening it in a hex editor reveals that the actual file contents identifies itself as an M4A file, despite what the URL claims:

So, you should be good to download them any way you find convenient, and then just renaming them to the proper extension afterwards.

[–] tomalley8342 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's an exploit path to a UEFI bootkit, so at the very least you'd have to throw your motherboard away or find someone that can physically overwrite it through an external flash programmer or something. And the patch should be delivered through a UEFI firmware update, so if your motherboard is no longer supported you would have to buy a new one. And for laptops and embedded devices having everything soldered in, the motherboard is basically the whole computer, so I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration.

I guess it's true that if you have ring 0 access you're boned, bug if your ring 0 access gets upgraded into ring -2 access you are even more boned. They put those security boundaries in place for a reason after all.

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