Ghost is cinematic, sure. But I still like the classic dark souls parry sound. It’s like a gasp, and then a giant creature kneels before you so you can fuck it up.

Do you know what a memory stack and assembly are?

If you want code that does assembly operations A, B, and then C, you might be able to accomplish it by scanning loaded memory (or its corresponding binary) for bits that, when translated into assembly, do:

A

D

return

This set of three instructions is a gadget. In practice, it’s a location in memory.

And then you find another gadget.

B

C

return

Then, if you don’t care about D, or D does something irrelevant that won’t screw up what you’re trying to do, or won’t crash the program, you can replace the stack with the addresses of gadgets one and two. When gadget one returns, the stack is popped and then gadget two executes.

Since the computer did ADBC and D was irrelevant, the system executed your ABC malware and now you win.

Is finding gadgets that execute actual malware hard? Surprisingly not!

I was expecting it, too. I thought the AI picture of Trump as pope meant he had pulled strings to get an American, and was planning on combining that with his Deus Vult - tattooed secretary of defense to start a literal Crusade.

This is about the thing that happened years ago, not about pipe bombs discovered now (in anticipation of the Jan 6 that is occurring in four days)

And don’t skip the ad nine minutes in, it’s hilarious.

The TLDR is that the founder is a nervous introverted nerd, so even though it looks like it, he wasn’t intentionally lying when he mentioned things that were going to be in the game. Even taking the interviews into account, what really drove the hype train was the price tag and collector’s edition.

Yes we all now know that they are “the good guys” because they went back and added a bunch of free stuff to the game. But unfortunately this type of integrity should never be expected in the future, especially from a publicly traded studio who is legally obligated to do what is profitable (which probably means taking the money and running, or adding micro transactions or other things).

A great comeback story, for sure. And I hope their integrity continues. But keep in mind that Blizzard, Rockstar, and even CDProjektRed have all “fallen”.

I prefer to reduce demand, instead. Everyday people who feel happy and safe don’t feel the need to be violent.

Do you… remember taxis?

Yes, public transportation is awesome and I wish it didn’t suck where I live. But publicly traded companies are legally obligated to look out for themselves. The problem is government, yo - that’s what decides what corpos can’t do according to what society feels is “right”.

Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s common.

“I bet your tiny hands couldn’t even hold an ar15”

No fucking way any sane person would wanna be at a gun range with him tho

They’re not selling the copy, bruh. They’re selling a technology that very few understand. Smart people pretend they get it, but they don’t. That’s how rare the math is.

Whatever happened to copying isn’t stealing?

I think the crux of the conversation is whether or not the world is better with ChatGPT. I say yes. We can tackle the disinformation in another effort.

Thanks to you I finally decided to watch the video of him donut shopping and it didn’t seem that bad. Just some out of touch rich guy struggling to make small talk.

But nowhere near the level of couch-fucking weird everyone’s been claiming.

So yeah I guess it would be better if he were a total sociopath and could more convincingly fake excitement during small talk?

The part that made the video bad wasn’t his behavior, it was how clearly the staff knew it was a meaningless publicity stunt. The staff has enough braincells to know that this guy’s policies, if elected, would do nothing to make their lives better, and that they are just pawns to make him look like he appeals to common folk. This is not something specific to this candidate, but his entire party.

They should’ve just declined him as a customer, or insisted that no recording at all could be done on their property. That would have sent a clearer message to him, unless you think the existence of this video helps the Kamala campaign because they will overreact to it and add it to the “he’s weird” pile. I agree he’s probably that bad kind of weird (I believe all Republicans are either so rich and selfish it is indistinguishable from being straight up evil, are racist, or being blackmailed) , but I don’t see that being demonstrated in the video.

There was a recent article titled “look at these fucking weirdos” where they address this. It explains that they are the bad kind of weird.

The article covers this

Redo the primary?

Finally, people can enjoy cheese pizza in peace.

Facebook is Meta, no one cares about Microsoft.

So the acronym is MANGA

I think their point is that once biology is involved it’s no longer a social construct.

I also think that people conflate sex and gender and it makes things unnecessarily confusing.

For sake of argument let’s stick with binary for now.

There are words that describe sex. There are words that describe gender. And there are words that can be used as a shortcut for a combination of both.

For example (and if you don’t like my example substitute your own words): a masculine female is often called a tomboy or described as butch.

TERFs probably feel that the term woman is a shortcut for feminine females, and that those who aren’t female but are feminine are not Champagne, they are sparkling wine. And it’s easy to see why someone would be insulted by that opinion. Strictly speaking, being told “you’re not a woman” isn’t necessarily an attack, or stating that you shouldn’t exist. But yes (obviously!) people with extreme views jump onto that bandwagon and are willing to kill/oppress to make everyone the same cuz they can’t handle weird people.

Yes, trans people are weird (queer means weird!). But weird isn’t bad, and people who think weird is bad are not people I would want to hang out with, even if they also happen to be trans. Pride is about pride: own your weirdness.

Do people not use Manjaro for this?

Defragging is about… defragging: making the data contiguous (a continuous stream along one arc of the same radius) so it doesn’t have to jump around.