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rollin

@ rollin @piefed.social

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  • 60 Millionen Datensätze mit persönlich identifizierbaren Informationen von Deutschen geleakt

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  • left the the doors

    Sehr clever, bravo 😁 Aber schau mal genauer hin – da stehen zwei „the“ hintereinander. Ist ja kein großer Fehler, aber es ist der einzige, den ich sehe.

  • 60 Millionen Datensätze mit persönlich identifizierbaren Informationen von Deutschen geleakt

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  • left the the doors

  • Russia gave two Nigerian recruits no training, then sent them into a “meat assault” in Ukraine – HUR

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  • English is very widely spoken there, it's the lingua franca (and one of the country's official languages), so anyone who can read is most likely able to read English. Sadly the people Russia preys on are quite probably mostly illiterate (in any language).

  • Gotta love those pupils

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  • I catch myself too often thinking that this is what it'd be like to be mauled to death in the jungle by a tiger.

    Me: "Oh aren't you a cute little kitty hey?"Tiger: *pounces*Me: "Blurrgh oof gosh your fur is sooo soft!!"*violently mauls with paw*Me: "Oh wow such huge toe beans!!"*continues violently mauling and biting*Me: *happy gurgling sound of blood filling up my trachea*

  • Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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  • It basically means dodging legal restrictions on investigation by using illegal (or at least inadmissible) means to obtain evidence, and once the police have it, they look for legal ways to get that same information.

    So everywhere "has it", the question is whether they use it. I don't know if there's reason to believe that EU police forces use such methods more or less than their US counterparts.

  • Bonobos can "play pretend"

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  • My cat did pretend once to eat some crisps I'd given her. She was sat on a chair looking at me pleadingly, so I put a couple in front of her and after a sniff she "accidentally" knocked them on to the floor whilst pretending to eat them.

  • [GOG][Free] Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 (was $8.19) - (until Feb 5th 6am PST)

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  • ok nice one! Should keep me busy

  • [GOG][Free] Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 (was $8.19) - (until Feb 5th 6am PST)

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  • have you got more info? I've had a little search and couldn't find anything about extra free installments. Thanks!

  • Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

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  • I am a bit of a worrier I guess, & overthink things too much. It's definitely not a crime to send requests to people just after playing online together, actually I think I should probably do it more.

    I also like to get friend requests from randos, it helps you get more involved in the game, especially co-op games like DRG. Plus it's not like there's a limit to how many friends you can add.

    Before writing this post, I realised I'd given away my DOB - first by saying my age, and then when they correctly guessed my star-sign (!), I told them the day & month. That made me worry that maybe I need to be more careful and so posted this here.

  • Ecosia: Why we saved 4000 tonnes of potatoes from going to waste in Berlin

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  • If I'm getting it right, they're basically questioning the quantities mentioned and how Ecosia is presenting this whole thing.

    The blog post says they saved 4000 tonnes, or 800 elephants, of potatoes from going to waste.

    However the 4000-tonnen.de website - which seems to be a site that Ecosia have set up just for this problem of surplus potatoes - says that only 174 tonnes will have been delivered to Berlin:

    Kommende Woche werden vorr. 132 Tonnen verteilt (nach 42 Tonnen in der ersten Woche). Dann wird es allerdings kalt - was für die Kartoffeln nicht gut ist - und mehr können wir auch nicht finanzieren.

    The last sentence says it's going to be cold which is bad news for spuds and in any case they are not able to finance any more.

    So are they really just saving 174 out of 4000 tonnes, and yet somehow presenting it as a victory against food waste?

    TBH it seems like a marketing stunt - not necessarily a bad thing, if they can draw attention to the difficulties of avoiding food waste. But still, they need to be honest and not deceitful or it can easily backfire.

    The big unanswered question seems to be what's going to happen to the remaining 3826 tonnes?

  • Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

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  • I do already have a discord account & if that's all they want to use, it wouldn't be an issue at all. Only if it's something weird they want me to install, like Team Viewer or some shit 😅

  • Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

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  • I hadn't heard of that one, a kind of social engineering attack. Definitely something to keep in mind!

    as a result I don’t add randos

    This is generally my attitude, and it sucks really that ignoring random friend requests is usually the sensible thing to do. Anyway so far this person does seem to be genuine and hasn't tried to get me to add a load of their friends or anything like that.

  • Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

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  • conceal your IP in non peer to peer games based on the settings under “Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking”

    Good tip thanks! Here's the Steam page about it. The upshot seems to be that Steam itself won't reveal your IP to others, but games might depending on how multiplayer is implemented.

    "Steam doesn't share your IP address with other players. Whenever peer-to-peer networking is needed, for example in a voice chat, that communication is always relayed. However, we don't control what games using peer-to-peer connectivity do."

    "If a game uses our newest networking APIs (ISteamNetworkingSockets and ISteamNetworkingMessages), the traffic can be relayed using Steam Datagram Relay (SDR), Valve's worldwide backbone and network of relays, and you can decide when to allow an app to share your IP address. Under Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking, there is an option that controls when your IP address is revealed"

    and crucially regarding the default setting, "Default. This will not share your IP address, unless it appears necessary to avoid excessive ping times."

  • Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

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  • They do appear to be an actual human yes, and one who does enjoy playing online games (because we play together and they are getting on with the game just like every other player). I've just looked at their account - thanks for the tip - and while they don't have loads of games, all appear pretty normal paid-for things, and all are kinda similar in appeal - e.g. The Forest, 7 Days to Die. Actually there are a couple of what could have been giveaways/freebies - but all those have zero hours on.

    So that does look very normal lol

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  • Yeah I am talking with them, they do seem legit so hopefully I'm just being paranoid/overly cautious.

    The reason I thought I'd post here is to make sure I've not missed something obvious and to understand what the risks are. I guess "something shady" would be asking me to do something weird like install unknown software, or asking lots of personal questions out of the blue.

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    rollin @piefed.social

    Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!

  • Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool

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  • Hey don't be so quick to dismiss it! The article says that apparently Elon Musk has promised “Real-time, high-quality shows and video games at scale, customized to the individual, next year.”

    Next year man! He promised it!! It's gonna be like, just any game you dream of will be instantly created, exactly matching what you imagined and with fantastic world-building and beautifully complex interwoven story-lines!!! It's gonna be amazing bro!!!!

  • Digital Independence: Berlin wants to introduce European payment service Wero

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  • is it pretty much a way to do bank transfers without having to give away your IBAN? I don't think IBANs need to be kept secret but they're a bit unwieldy to say the least - and transfers are not always instant.

  • Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies

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  • well yes exactly .. in that realm of the unknown, our imaginations can run riot

    it wasn't that long ago that there were still dark corners of the earth - well, more like vast tracts of unexplored terrain - in the Amazon, deep in mountain ranges, or in icy tundra.

    There dragons did roam, whilst flying demons did dart overhead, their ungodly shrieks turning the hearts of the bravest men to jello.

    There are no secrets on the earth any more, so we have to look elsewhere to satisfy our lust for meaning and importance.

  • ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’

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  • And the "World Wide Web" mostly means HTML - "hypertext" documents which can be published on the internet, and which are regular documents but with embedded links to other documents (hyperlinks), and a vision to ultimately create the "semantic web" - human-readable text which can also be processed by computers.