Gork

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[–] Gork@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

They say they get around the easy linking of a single wallet address to your identity by using subaddresses. I don't think this fixes it, it merely delays it.

The number of these subaddresses are capped to prevent botting. But suppose you use this account every day for years or decades. You've meticulously allocated subaddresses for different categories of spending, assessed the risk profile of using each one, and used them throughout the years until you're out of subaddresses.

Now you're vulnerable to having your identity tied to the account since the risk of getting had goes up every time you use any of your subaccounts. And this risk only increases the more you use your Worldcoin.

Even if the biometric privacy safeguards they built in (hashing yer Mk. I orbs) work perfectly, I wouldn't use it for the reasons I mentioned above, there isn't a way to ensure transactional anonymity if your account/subaccounts can be linked to your real identity regardless of the method.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Just speculation here, but is this a sign that CDPR is tilting more towards mainstreaming GOG over prioritizing game development? Valve did exactly that with Steam and they very, very rarely release games they make any more.

Steam is a cash cow that literally just prints money for them. I'd imagine CDPR corpos to be salivating over that kind of low maintenance income that comes with owning a large digital distribution gaming platform.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only appropriate response to that is

git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

At this point we might as well go full Roman as you suggested. MXMCIIV to MXMCCVII as indices.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

69¢, Nice. That had to be intentional.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This has been my experience as well. I've wanted to have my main be some sort of Linux for years, but there's always something that requires hours to try to fix that doesn't work out of the box. This is primarily due to drivers sucking since most of their focus is on Windows compatibility.

Tried Ubuntu in 2007 on a laptop. Could never get the WiFi to work correctly.

Another Ubuntu on a desktop in 2012. This time it was display drivers causing graphical glitches and crashes that I also couldn't really fix.

Mint in 2018 and again in 2020. A bit better experience than before, but less driver issues and more software compatibility with individual games that was frustrating, especially third party game libraries (looking at you Ubisoft).

I dunno, maybe it's a skill issue and I should just "git gud" but I realize that gud is not a valid git command so it doesn't help me here.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm I thought Toyota was focusing more on Hydrogen powered cars as a long-term strategy rather than EVs.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It sounds like you might like Kenshi. It's also an open world game that has no real quests and is all about what you make of it. The UI and controls are a little rough around the edges and the early game is unforgiving (to put it mildly), but I've never played any other game like it.

Imagine being dropped into a foreign world with different factions as a complete nobody and being a wanderer to the world.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Insects are taking... Our jerbs???

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The in game potatoes can have the tooltip description, "Po-tay-toes, boil 'em, mash 'em, stuck 'em in a stew."

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Deus Ex. The original one. It has such great story and gameplay but is dated by today's standards.

 

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