ursa.solar
S-Class Maverick Hunter, Master Rank Monster Hunter.
Solarpunk Socialist & Linux Zealot. Free as in freedom.
The future must be free, open source, and powered by the sun.
He/Him
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Cozy Grove is explicitly about empathy, as your goal is to explore an abandoned island and soothe the ghosts trapped there by helping them work through their problems. It's similar in gameplay style to Animal Crossing, just themed around camping on an island instead of building a house.
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has many good and evil pathways to choose, but the Azata and Gold Dragon paths stand out. Azata focuses on freedom and empathy directly, whereas Gold Dragon focuses on understanding and redemption. Companions are also exceptionally well written in this game.
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Cassette Beasts is a game where you take the form of beasts recorded on cassette tapes, and after helping them and gaining the trust of your companions, you can fuse with them in combat. The antagonists of the game are direct manifestations of mankind's worst impulses, chief of which being Conquest.
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Final Fantasy XIV's main storyline is centered around cooperation and empathy. It's so thoroughly committed to the idea that a significant portion of the Endwalker expansion was dedicated to helping the citizens of a country you had been at war with survive and rebuild after their country collapsed.
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Got COVID a second time, but this time I had a smart watch. It's one thing to know COVID feels real bad. But it's terrifyingly morbid to look at the data after the fact and realize your sleeping heart rate nearly doubled, from low 60s to around 110.
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me
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Saying "drumpf man bad" is not nearly enough. His ideology is a total failure that consistently leads to fascism everywhere it is tried, and he's still lamenting it as is conservatism didn't fail us, but instead we failed it.
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No, not really. He still believes in the myth the the GOP can be redeemed, that this is just a misstep. He does not accept and understand that this isn't an aberration or bug, it's a feature. This is the natural end result of his "true conservatism". It always comes to this.
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When a post lands on my feed with a song called "Solar Winds" on a site called "Bear Blog", I can't not click it. I would be inviting the scorn of the fates themselves.
This is song a vibe! I'm gonna have to set aside some time to browse the rest of your posts.
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People need to understand this: don't waste your breath engaging bad faith actors. They will never admit they're wrong, they don't care if they lie. Starve them of oxygen instead of taking the bait.
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Don't read too far into it, it was just a quick analogy I pulled off the dome for what responsibility a creator has for their creation.
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Take it easy, we don't need to lash out. Let's not behave like we're still on Twitter.
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We have this strange assumption that we're owed Stein's votes, but not Trump's votes or non-voters. I don't understand it. It's extremely shortsighted and seems to only be promoted by influencers who are more interested in keeping you angry than offering you solutions.
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You know who else's votes would have covered her loss? Trump's votes. And also non-voters. But we don't talk about that for some reason. We just hyperfixate on these few thousand votes instead of the millions that voted for Trump or didn't vote at all.
We need to maintain some perspective here.
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Stein isn't responsible for the Republicans nominating Trump and lining up behind him in the first place.
I'm not sure why we're treating Republicans like they have no responsibility for their own actions. This is what their ideology leads to. We shouldn't accept anybody that doesn't renounce it.
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Except this rightward fascist trend isn't just happening in America, it's happening all over the world. Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is conservatism.
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"The base" are republicans too. That's how democracy works. They chose their leader. Yes, a small number of people at the top didn't initially support Trump, because he represents them losing control of what they created. That doesn't absolve them from creating it in the first place.
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And I don't think people like him deserve forgiveness without repentance. They created this monster, and unless they fully accept responsibility for it, we're only setting ourselves up for failure again. People like him can and will create another Trump. I don't want that. Do you?
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Conservatives supporting Trump is why Trump won, actually. And people like Kinzinger are responsible for creating the party that elevated Trump in the first place. We can't afford this myopia that focuses on a handful of fringe weirdos over the actual party of fascists wielding power.
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All the bad ideas of conservatism that he still supports are what led to this moment we're in. His ideology is literally why we don't have nice things right now. You can't be against Frankenstein's monster but love Dr. Frankenstein himself.
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The lead is buried in this article, but it's by smea, basically the progenitor of the entire 3DS homebrew and hacking scene
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If I had a nickle for every time the 3DS scene was connected to controlling buttplugs, I'd have two nickels
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I'm muting all the accounts that do nothing but bait engagement and it's made the site much better. Strongly recommend it. I don't need to see a constant stream of Twitter screenshots or hashtag resist lib memes. Let's make this a positive place that stands for something, not just against something.
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I do also have an Xbox pad, and can confidently say it's fine. It's nothing special, it gets the job done. I like that it uses AA batteries.
But if you're happy with your PS4 controller, no need to buy something else, just gotta let Steam do its thing.
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As they said, you gotta let Steam control it. Steam -> Settings -> PlayStation controller support, set it to "enabled in games w/o support". Steam will translate it into a fake Xbox controller for any game without built-in support.
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Yeah I was mainly doing file operations and comparing dates and stuff rather than anything deeply integrated into Windows, so I was just getting irritated with how often I had to create a big fat object just to get a single variable from it using multiple lines of code, instead of just one command.
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Ha, I'm the opposite. Maybe if I got more into powershell I could learn to appreciate it for complex tasks, but coming from bash it felt so unnecessarily verbose when I was trying to accomplish fairly simple tasks that could be accomplished in literally 5% the typing in Bash.
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Ain't that the truth. The biggest source of vulnerability in most companies will be their own users, and most of them will be on Windows. Luckily I'm not on pentest duty (yet) so I haven't needed to do much more than rudimentary powershell for admin tasks, but it's high on the list.
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For what it's worth, I agree with you in principle. I'll go to bat for the idea that, fundamentals to fundamentals, Linux clears Windows in nearly every way. However, you will never convince somebody of it by being aggro about it.
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It can look fake, but a quick google for a Wikipedia article on the person or company will 99.9% of the time give you the real address to compare it to. No system works perfectly at a glance, but this one would be really damn hard to fool if people knew how to use it
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In both cases what you're really validating is control of the domain anyways, so it makes more sense to just store the data in the DNS record and skip the extra traffic and requirement of running a server.
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It's effectively the same thing with more steps. With bluesky's implementation they only have to pull the DNS record, with mastodon's approach you do that but also have to connect to a server; but that doesn't actually validate anything new. If I control the DNS record, I can point it to any server.
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Oh it will take ages, most people don't understand websites or domains on a basic level and don't even know that Bluesky offers that feature, let alone what it means. It's an uphill battle, but it's better than basically anything else anybody has tried so far.
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Most famous people have websites. Just link that domain to your bsky account, and teach people what that means. That should solve the issue for the most part.
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A good way to unfalsifiably link an identity to an account is tying it to a domain name. Nobody in the world but me can have just "ursa.solar" or any variation of "something.ursa.solar" as a handle because I own the domain name. We just have to train people to understand and look for that.
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In a similar vein, sometimes I don't answer poor tech questions because I won't be responsible for leading someone to their own doom. In my experience, it's very hard to get someone to accept "Do not do that" as an answer, and I don't always have the energy or time to try.
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Matrix is good, it has end to end encryption by default, so your messages can't be read even by the owner of the server (or other ne'er-do-wells) as long as it's enabled.
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Need some time to think about this one
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I think this guy has some valuable opinions that everybody needs to be involuntarily subjected to
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You just gotta roll your own kernel, what's so hard about that?