edge [he/him]

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Cake day: September 24th, 2022

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  • edge [he/him]togamesWaifus will help us build Communism?!
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    5 hours ago

    Everyone has been naysaying to me about this for years on here but my finger is on the pulse, the Chinese are gonna do it

    Reminds me of that game where you play as a post-revolutionary government trying to reverse climate change. It lets you research fusion and says there's some percent chance of getting it done, but it's actually coded to never work.






  • The one that their court used to justify anulling the election results.

    "Wah, our opponent got too many likes on social media, that's clearly foreign election interference and we need to overturn the results of the democratic process we say we care so much about."

    "Oops, turns out it was actually our fault."

    The candidate that won was a shitty right-winger, but they're likely going to get away with this and Western countries will be free to use the same bullshit excuse if a leftist ever wins.


  • edge [he/him]totechnologyI hate 2FA Hell
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    1 day ago

    There's still TLS, so even without end to end encryption of the messages, the only parties that should be able to see the contents are you, the recipient(s), and Discord. So either Discord has to willingly give over the messages, or a larger data breach of Discord has to happen.


  • edge [he/him]totechnologyI hate 2FA Hell
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    1 day ago

    SMS is very unsecure but companies use it. I think that's what Discord uses on sign up, but they don't allow free numbers like Google Voice.


  • edge [he/him]totechnologyI hate 2FA Hell
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    2 days ago

    Steam's preferred 2FA is getting a code from their app. It looks like it might be TOTP technically but they don't freely give out the secret for use in another app, but there might be ways to extract it.

    Google offers TOTP and used to let you set it as the default, but now I guess they want to push their own in app prompt so you have to pick the "try another way" option every time.


  • edge [he/him]totechnologyI hate 2FA Hell
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    2 days ago

    Maybe try contacting your school's tech support? I imagine it's a common scenario for all kinds of accounts, maybe they'd give you temporary access (after verifying your identity and previous enrollment) to move any accounts off it.


  • edge [he/him]totechnologyI hate 2FA Hell
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    2 days ago

    A phone number requirement is to stop people from making a bunch of accounts. Emails are free and unlimited, but phone numbers mostly cost money and like you said they have some way to know which numbers come from free voip services.

    Of course phone numbers are also more closely linked to your private identity, as they usually have to be in your or someone close to you's name. So that makes data gathering easier and makes it easier for feds to snoop on your shit if they really wanted (Discord will comply ofc).



  • The US Speaker of the House is as democratically elected as any Prime Minister.

    but there is nothing to stipulate the nominee has to be a representative. That has just been the precedent so far.

    The same is true for the British PM and I would guess many other PMs.


  • 68%, favor allowing parents to make medical decisions about their minor children, including whether or not to vaccinate them against measles, polio, and other disease.

    Poorly worded (probably intentionally) question. Many people would think "of course I want to make medical decisions about my child" and say yes to that question even if their decision about vaccines was to get them.

    The tweet calling it "support for parents opting their children out of vaccines" is misleading to the point of basically being a straight up lie. But that was the intent with the wording of the question in the first place.


  • edge [he/him]toCutepond friends
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    8 days ago

    Would make good card art. Poliwag, Politoed, Surskit, Wooper, and Lotad as normal cards, then a full-art Quagsire.





  • One detail of the CEO killing I haven't seen discussed much: he was walking to the hotel where the company event was being hosted... from the different hotel he was staying in across the street.

    If he just stayed in the same hotel as the event, this wouldn't have happened. What's the point in using two different hotels in the first place?

    I wonder if companies will start making sure their executives stay in the same building as the events they're attending.