Yeah, the bank that manages my mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if you’re on a new computer. And something about Firefox keeps it from remembering my machine, so I have to do the text message 2fa everytime.

Right now it’s working fine, but they had a period of a few months where the text messages would take 10-15min to send after you tried to log in, and the log in attempt would expire after 5 min, making it impossible to log in. All of which could be avoided if they would let me use a 2fa app.

Now the question is who did it better, 8-bit guy or Technology Connections?

No, the version they released isn’t the full parameter set, and it’s leading to really bad results in a lot of prompts. You get dramatically better results using their API version, so the full sd3 model is good, but the version we have is not.

Here’s an example of SD3 API version:

And here’s the same prompt on the local weights version they released:

People think stability AI censored NSFW content in the released model, which has crippled its ability to understand a lot of poses and how anatomy works in general.

For more examples of the issues with SD3, I’d recommend checking this reddit thread.

A few reasons:

• I feel like any other major company with Steam’s marketshare would be far less consumer friendly than steam.

• Steam funnels a lot of money into Linux, and Linux is very popular on Lemmy. If you use Linux, you are benefiting from Steam’s success.

• Steam is just nice to use, and has good deals. It’s nice to have my games in one place, and I don’t know if any other storefront with as many nice user benefiting features as steam.

Here a link to bypass the paywall:

http://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/electric-car-battery-longevity-right-to-repair/678641/

I don’t think the title translated correctly for me.

So how do triple rainbows work?

I really respect that they added offline mode. Shows that they actually cared about the game, even if they were forced into it.

Qubes is linux isn’t it?

Oh for sure, but it’s definitely a concern for stuff like this. It’s a lot easier for valve to just expect people to pass login info down as a way to pass on an account.

Valve actually migrating purchases from one account to another risks upsetting publishers, and requires whole new policies on how to verify death and verify who should receive the account. Finally there’s the risk of scams and having to resolve them. Overall it’s a lot of headache for valve, I’m not surprised they’re not jumping to offer it officially.

If steam did allow transfers this way, I can imagine it being a new type scam where people fabricate death documents to steal steam accounts.

Fun Gambling Facts:

• Did you know that 99% of gamblers quit before they win it big?

• You can win up to 2000% of your money, but can only lose 100%

• The odds are always in your favor, as you are the protagonist

• If you ever get close to winning on one round, that means the next round you will win

• The less money your wallet, the bigger your chances of winning are

This kind of thing is funniest when you imagine the guy driving home and being completely bewildered about why he’s on a billboard.

I read a similar story recently about a guy targeting his roommate with highly specific Facebook ads, let me.see if I can find it.

Edit: Here it is, it’s a fun read

There are some very vocal people who will tell you that proton is just a stopgap measure, and shouldn’t be relied on for the future of Linux gaming.

That said, I know the devs have been putting in effort/patches to make sure the proton/steam deck experience works well, and I consider that just as good. All I really want from devs is actual support of the Linux platform, and if they choose to do that through a tool like proton I’m ok with it.

It’s very unfortunate for Mac users though.

Shadows of Doubt is an incredible game, and I highly recommend it.

The snipers missing their shots is a pretty funny problem honestly, sounds more like it’s an issue with how they identify that they have a clear shot rather than an actual accuracy issue.

Also, part of how the game simulation works is that when one of the simulated people decides to commit murder, they have to acquire a weapon to do so. So if someone decides to kill as a sniper, they will either already need the gun/ammo for it, or they will seek out a black market dealer to buy from. However apparently once they’ve bought ammo, that ammo becomes unlimited, leading to the huge ammo piles when they can’t actually get a clear shot on their target.

There’s a website called shadyurl extender, it can be used to make any website look like that.

Unpopular opinion, but the extra “iss” is unnecessary for reading the word, and with this being a newspaper article they have limited headline space.

Clearly this is just efficient debloating of the article title.

League of Legends I think just started using it as well, breaking it’s linux support.

So several smaller lemmy instances (like sopuli, ani.social, reddthat, etc) are having some serious slowdown issues right now and are having delayed federation with lemmy.world. From what I understand, the suspected cause is a kbin bug, where it’s glitching out and spamming the fediverse with infinitely repeating federation updates. Several lemmy instances have blocked kbin over it (including lemmy.world and sopuli), but it’s still causing issues and slowdowns.

There have been multiple attempts to reach the admin for kbin about it, but his developer accounts seemingly went dark 4 months ago (according to his commit history) and he’s not responding to any messages. Mbin has seemingly already patched it according to their resolved issues/pull requests, but it’s looking like kbin may have to be cut off from the rest if the fediverse unless the dev resurfaces.

My windows install started corrupting my hard drive every 1-2 weeks. Completely unrecoverable requiring a fresh install. I installed Linux to try to see if it was a hardware issue, and it worked fine without issues. Ending up just sticking to it. Couple years later I built a new PC, and tried windows again. I enjoyed having all my games work again (this was pre-proton so Linux gaming was hit or miss), but really hated the experience of using windows after being free from it for so long. Went back to Linux, and have been here ever since (about 10 years now). And thanks to valve/proton, I no longer feel like I’m giving anything up to use exclusively Linux.