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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.

    It was such a mindfuck to play!

    You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It’s just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.

    I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.




  • The main risk on company laptops is confidential data on the machine itself or any access the machine has to internal resources, so most locks are designed to be hard agaist that. The device itself tends to have more “bypassable” protection.

    By which I mean: If the machine is locked down, it’s usually possible to clear and reset the lock somehow as long as you’re fine losing the data on it.

    The specifics vary, but try looking up the model and instructions for resetting and wiping the BIOS/UEFI and see if that has any hurdles.




  • Desktop computer: Installing a keylogger, for example, is cheap and require skills like “can purchase a cheap and simple technical part” and “can plug in a USB”, which are skills you can assume a CS student will possess.

    Laptop: Same, but have to open the laptop and install a less standard straightforward loggrr on the internal cable. This require more effort and patience.

    Phone: I have no idea, and I am a computer scientist who spends time thinking about this. I mean, all phones can be opened with corresponding equipment, and the touch screen is connected to the internal computer with a cable, but they differ in details per model and the space to work with is tiny. The research investment is significant and model dependent. Meaning, the effort cost is quite high and they’d need extremely strong motivation.








  • Your question is already answered correctly, so I’m just chiming in with thoughts on a similar situation :)

    If you weigh both dice, it gets interesting again.

    The obvious is to make one die roll always 3 and the other always 4, and get 1/1 chance of 7 but that’s boring and you’ll only get a few throws in before you’re obviously cheating.

    Dice are arranged so that opposite sides always add up to 7, meaning you can get 1,2,3 around one corner and 4,5,6 around the opposite corner. So if you weigh opposite corners on each die, you get a 1/3 chance of rolling a 7 by varying combinatons. You might get away with a few more rolls like that.


  • That is a strange way to say she’s 57…

    But anyway! Range varies wildly with age. 6 years is something you at least ponder at age 25, but will feel like “same age” around 50.

    My feeling based on what people seem to at least not care to even gossip lightly about: max 1 year at age 15. 5 years at 40. 10 years at age 60+.

    Wider ranges are not problematic, but gets into at least “interesting to talk about”. E.g. “They are 33 and 40! Huh! Good for them.”


  • It’s also such an broken idea that I can only imagine it comes from american tech bros who have a childish view of the world.

    “Yes this area is germany people in germany speak german so websites must german problem solved”

    No:

    • I am Norwegian. I sometimes gasp TRAVEL. Taking a train through Germany to get to France doesn’t mean I want Google to go all “Dieses Suchenwiegenflassen gewürst fleinmescht bitte” at me when I search for pictures of cute cats.
    • Some countries have multiple official languages.
    • Some people technically in Norway living close to the border just speak swedish.
    • Expats.
    • I don’t want badly translated websites in Norwegian. Just give me English. Microsoft Bing for years had a setting that when translated back to English said “Number of results: Car”.