[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago

That's not much of a justification though. The existence of another community does not negate the validity of content in this community. After all cross-posting is a thing

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago

Think of an awful lot of features but they're all developer facing.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

This is the thing I don't get. Long-Term they will make way more money if their mobile games are good otherwise they get a reputation for putting out crap and overall less interest the next time around. The best long-term strategy would be to put in effort, especially when the return is so good.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Playing first person shooter on a mobile phone sounds like literally the worst possible experience. You need physical controls for accuracy touch screens are terrible for that plus of course you're obscuring a good chunk of the screen with your fingers.

There are a few good mobile games, although I admit not many, but the good ones work with the limitations of the medium rather than trying to simply brute force through them. Good ones include things like Hitman Go, Threes, And a fairly possible Eve Online mobile game, which was only really let down by being Eve Online.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I don't think it's going to get much more broadly used than it is now. I work in cyber security and there have been password hacks like this since practically the beginning of the internet. It's called a rainbow table attack, It mostly relies on the victims being complete idiots.

You don't even need to have a particularly secure password to be safe from it, you just have to have a unique one from site to site. Even if in other respects it's relatively weak it will still defeat a rainbow table attack.

The point is this stuff has been going on for decades and people are still making basic fundamental errors, so I can't see how that's going to change in the future. Maybe we should require everyone to take some sort of basic proficiency test before they're allowed online.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 16 hours ago

I guess but if a shadowy company wanted my DNA they could get it easily enough even if I don't hand it over to them so I'm not sure how much point there is in being protective of it. Anyway what are they going to do with it, that a medical company couldn't do?

The government already has my blood from back when they were doing medical testing, so it's all a bit of a moot point anyway. Also an insurance companies took some blood and they did an MRI scan so they have my brain as well. Jokes on them if they choose to clone me, I'm bloody useless.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 23 hours ago

The first time I heard about concord was when they shut it off. I don't know how they expect a game to do well when they did absolutely zero advertising.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nice try. I'm not on that website it'll probably explode.

That's what they have now exploding websites. I think it's a CSS attribute.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah this is what I'm confused about. In a lot of simpler devices like this the BMS is actually a daughter board and has no physical connectivity to the main circuits at all. And even if it had access you generally do not have the capacity to rewrite its code, because again code updating is not something that was ever expected.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 2 days ago

Getting batteries to release energy isn't very difficult, even getting them to release it quickly isn't very difficult. What's difficult is getting them to release it over the course of a few milliseconds. Which is what you would need for an explosion.

If the battery simply dumped all its power over the course of 30 seconds that's basically just a fire that you can run away from.

Also I wouldn't have thought a pager had that much charge, I wouldn't have thought this sort of thing would be possible as they would tend to just go off with a loud bang, assuming you could even get them to release all the energy at once l, which again I wouldn't have thought was possible.

For fairly obvious reasons I don't think we're ever going to find out how this was done.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

You can just quotes the sections that are relevant. That is what everyone else does.

Every time you do stuff like this it always gives me a headache trying to follow what you're trying to say, It always looks like you're cutting words out of newspapers in order to form a ransom note.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk -4 points 3 days ago

So what they should have said is to make the image negative.

That's being a standard image editing function since the days of film but you have to use the correct terminology.

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