Zagorath

The fact that the “camera” in this is shown as detecting people taking “3 blue” and “2 straw”, obviously with “-berry” being implied, makes the natural conclusion that the camera is also detecting “1 grapeberry”. And now I want to know what a grapeberry is.

Is this account a bot? It’s taken over literally my entire front page (when set to “subscribed”), and some of page 2, with multiple posts in a single minute at times.

There’s definitely users who will do that here. There are on any platform open to sign-ups by the general public. But my experience has been that it’s very likely to get removed if mods or admins are made aware. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a positive response on Meta.

In all seriousness, I’m struggling to figure it out. I thought it might be an Ingress-style game which could be interesting for the Monopoly IP, but the Wikipedia page makes it clear that’s not the case, without being clear enough to understand what it is.

I mostly agree. The one thing I will say in favour of defederation is hate content. Meta has incredibly lax moderation. People can literally say “this person deserves to be killed”, or even “I would absolutely murder this person if I came across them” and Meta will be like “yeah we understand this may be disappointing to you, but we’re gonna allow that to stay” if you report it.

I like to think “faincé” use pronounced like “fancy”.

Google+ was a Facebook-like social media. It was only ever supposed to be real names, so no issue.

perhaps i’ll ask again, though.

I think it really depends on whether you think there’s any benefit that could come from that. In whether you believe having an official label to describe the problem and receiving treatment for it would be worth it for you, or if it would be getting a diagnosis purely for the sake of having the diagnosis. And that’s something only you can know for your own situation.

One of my pet peeves is when I ask a question of someone, and they reinterpret my question (without communicating that reinterpretation), then give me the answer to THEIR question.

Not quite the same thing, but relatively similar. It irks me to no end when I ask a question that has some (either explicitly stated or—at least I thought—implicitly stated) elements that I understand. And then people answer the question by re-explaining the thing that I already understand. Sometimes they leave it there and the answer is completely useless. Sometimes they then move on to help explain the part I wanted help with, in which case I usually just try to move on, but that irking is still there in the back of my mind. Happened to me recently enough on this site to have immediately jumped to the front of my mind again when I read your comment, every single one of the answers provided rehashing what I thought were 101 elements I had demonstrated an understanding of in the wording of my question. Most at least moved on from that 101-level to provide helpful answers.

I allow for the possibility that their question IS the right question and give them their answer immediately, even though all of the conversation context suggests they’re not interested in the plane departure, but instead my travel plans

The second part of this is called a “frame challenge”, in the sense that they’ve “framed” the question as “when does the plane leave”, but you’re challenging that because you think they mean “when do you leave”. I like to explicitly tell them I’m frame challenging, if I recognise that that’s what I’ve done. I like to think it lets them know “hey, this person thinks they’re helping even though they aren’t directly answering, but feel free to ignore it or clarify if they’ve made a mistake”. It’s also handy because in more complicated situations it can get the querant to reevaluate what they really want, because they may have just assumed they needed something particular that they actually didn’t need.

Yeah so my recommendation is that for cycling, wearing knicks or bib-knicks is a better idea. The padded chamois is much more comfortable while cycling than unpadded regular clothes, even regular non-cycling-specific sports clothing. They’re also explicitly intended to be used without any underwear. I think with the exception of wearing them around to the shops, knicks are a much better option for cycling than leggings.

I don’t have any more specific advice for running, because I’ve always worn loose-fitting running shorts. Leggings may be the best option for you there.

There’s some significant comorbidity between ASD and anxiety disorders, so it wouldn’t be too surprising.

It’s also a spectrum, so you could be “more autistic” than the average neurotypical, while still not “autistic enough” to actually receive a diagnosis.

Asexual is a sexuality, like gay or straight, not a gender identity. It can go with “he”, “she”, or “they” depending on the person.

Yeah it bothers me too. It’s not as easy as @movies@lemmy.world suggests though, I think. Yes, apostrophe means you’re using a contraction, so “it’s” should be easy.

But apostrophe also means possession in almost every other case. “It’s” and “there’s” are literally the only examples I can think of in standard English where an apostrophe can be used, but cannot mean possession. Native speakers still have no excuse, but it is a bit of a weird oddity that has to be learnt.

What really bug’s me is when people randomly throw apostrophe’s in where they just make no sense, on what should be simple plural word’s or even just verb conjugation’s. And it happen’s all the damn time. (I’m so sorry.)

You would still use “their” there.

Yeah it’s pretty incredible. I don’t know if I ever played without at least resource cheats as a kid.

I do remember knowing the triangle infantry beats cavalry beats archers, but also thinking “more expensive units must be better”. So I would build m@a-line to counter scouts or knights, rather than spear-line. I probably never built more than 20 vills, either.

forgotten password/recovery questions

This is the security industry’s dirty little secret that doesn’t get talked about in public enough.

All the excellent security on a site, including complex passwords, perfectly secure storage of a salted hash of that password, multifactor authentication using TOTP, etc., is completely moot if someone can just hit “I forgot my password” (or “I don’t have my second factor”) and bypass it by doing an email loop. You instead rely on the security of the user’s email account.

In the linked comic, Munroe assumes an attacker knows your method. The attacker isn’t brute forcing character-by-character, but word-by-word, with an attacker who already knows you’re using 4 random words.

Best I can find,

According to security.org survey data, in 2021, 22% of Americans said they used a password manager, but in 2023, the percentage increased to 34% with a further 10% of users saying they use a security passkey or other physical password device.

So in the most generous interpretation of that, just over half of people are not doing anything secure.

Haha, yup.

I was a bit misleading though, because I also play a lot of the 2.5-year-old AoE4, and a tiny amount of AoM and AoE3 (and expect the amount of AoM to go way up later this year when Retold comes out).