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bou, in In your opinion, what is a thing that lived up to the hype it had or still has?
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The Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.

style99, in Deleted
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The concept of belief is rooted in free will, is it not?

Pechente, in In your opinion, what is a thing that lived up to the hype it had or still has?

The Nintendo Switch when it came out. I was super hyped and somehow the console even exceeded my expectations.

Playing Breath of the Wild for the first time was amazing and even after 6 years the console still feels modern to me.

Darkwatch00, in In your opinion, what is a thing that lived up to the hype it had or still has?

Bluetooth earbuds. Took me the longest time to buy a pair. Now I have them all the time.

Gatsby, in Deleted

You react to choices the specific way you do because of experiences you've had previously.

Reverse time without changing anything, you'll always make the same choices because you're having the same thoughts each time every time, because you've been conditioned the way you are.

The universe doesn't "know" where it's going, but the plan is already in action. You can choose whatever you want to do, but if you were the same person in the same circumstance, you would and will always make the same decision.

schmalls, in In your opinion, what is a thing that lived up to the hype it had or still has?
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  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  • The Harry Potter books and films
heartlessevil, in Can you steal a user's identity if you gain their old domain name?

I imagine it works exactly like email where it is possible to inherit someone else's expired domains.

Checking out the relevant specifications: ActivityPub and WebFinger

  • Both of them identify users by URL, there is no numeric ID, UUID, or public key.
  • Using IDs or UUIDs would not be secure since the imposter could just copy the ID from the previous user as well as the username and domain name.
  • Verifying identity would necessitate the user having a public key as their unique identifier, and federated servers performing a challenge-response that requires the user to have the corresponding private key for that public key.

In conclusion, it certainly seems like you could take over someone else's domain name, and I suspect that public key cryptography is the only way to avoid this.

(edited to add: expired domains aren't the only attack surface here, domain takeover is also a thing, either by transferring the domain or simply changing the DNS records.)

Vampiric_Luma, in Why vote on posts?
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A lot of interesting perceptions on the upvote system here.

It's another form of user moderation. Is the content relevant to the community you're in? Upvote it. Did it help you? Was it a thought-provoking comment chain? Upvote it, it might help others!

Is is irrelevant, such as a dog photo in a cat community for example? Downvote it! Rude comment or flamewar? Downvote it! If you still want to see it, now it's easily sorted at the bottom. :)

A lot of areas of this site, such as the comment section here, can be organized by these votes for your convenience and sanity. You can also identify potentially malicious links/suggestions based off the like/dislike ratio on a comment. A helpful tip is to hover over the number beside a comments time-stamp near the top of a comment. It'll display the full ratio!

TechyDad, in What is the worst superpower that you can think of that is actually kinda useful?

Clumsy Vision. You shoot rays out of your eyes that make the person mildly clumsy for a few minutes. Not like Slapstick Comedy levels of clumsiness, but just like tripping over their shoelaces or looking back and running into a pole clumsy.

You've won a few battles (like that time the purse thief mistook you for an A lister superhero, ran away, tripped over their own feet, and twisted their ankle), but you're mostly useful for anything other than occasionally stopping petty criminal behavior.

kabukimeow, in Do you need to vent about something?
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Depression. I am very lonely. I have no plans for the future. Everything feels meaningless, most of all my existence.

darkhog, in Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?

Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?

Cargon, in Do you need to vent about something?

I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

archomrade, in Do you need to vent about something?

I’ve been trying to get assessed for ADHD for almost a month now, and the therapist i’ve been trying to schedule with has been dragging their feet for WEEKS.

Both my brother and father have ADHD, my brother was diagnosed when he was a teenager but my dad was diagnosed in his 50s (I am 30). I work from home, which works great and I have no regrets, but when I get distracted, i get distracted HARD. I am constantly getting up, I have about 60 tabs open on multiple monitors, about every 30 seconds I think “I should look at xy or z” and open a new tab. When i’m not working, I have to have 2 or 3 things on at a time (read social media app redacted, have a tv show on, play with my dog, ect), and I have constant decision block in choosing how to spend my free time. It’s getting to the point where I’m up until 2am or worse towards the end of every deadline. I have a bunch of side projects I really want to dig into, but I can’t seem to maintain focus on any of them.

My insurance covers the costs of therapy but only within network, so I feel a little hamstrung to use this therapist because they’re the closest to me and have great reviews and seem to have an approach I would appreciate, but JESUS CHRIST just respond to my fucking emails! To add to the stress, I feel very self conscious of the perception I might be fishing for drugs, and ever time I send a follow up email i feel like i’m making it look like I don’t really need help.

I feel like i’m failing my wife, and my employer, and my friends, and I just want some help so I can get my life a little more in control. It’s exhausting.

Otome-chan, in Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
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It's called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.

astigma, in Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
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