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poglet··on 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
It's interesting how the online gameplay has changed between the different versions of the game as network latency has improved.

For example, being able to micro manage archers to dodge other archers, and time their shots is something that wasn't possible previously.

poglet··on A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?
Need some type of system to summarise it.
poglet··on Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults
It sounds like a public and private key pair, like in asymmetric encryption or public-key cryptography. The private key is stored on the client. The private key and users password are both required to authenticate against the public key stored the server.

An attacker would have no success with a dictionary attack (used in the article). Even if the password was in the dictionary, the private key is still missing.

poglet··on Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults
Agreed, it was a bit disappointing to get to the part where the password was added to the word list.

The author does point out that a 2,000,000+ hashes per second could be achieved so it might give insight into how quickly all accounts will be checked against popular word lists. If I was a last pass customer I would be thinking about changing passwords on all accounts.

poglet··on A new chat feature has been released by You Search
I've been experimenting with having it make recipes for me. It provided me a cake recipe however I didn't have the correct size cake tin, I asked it to change the recipe but use the size cake tin that I had. It was able to correctly adjust the ingredients.

I didn't end up following the recipe because (just like the compiling problems with its code suggestions) I wasn't willing to spend a few hours and have it turn out bad. I would love to see a YouTube channel of someone following AI recipes, I wonder if it could come up with some unique foods.

One thing I do enjoy using it for is providing healthy meal ideas.

poglet··on LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack
> that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.
poglet··on Unredacter: Never use pixelation as a redaction technique
I wonder if this could be used to reveal text that is too small or out of focus.

Also the example seems to go through one letter at a time, once the pixels become larger it might be required to cycle through entire words.

poglet··on Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
What smart light switches would you recommend?
poglet··on Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
> sometimes a panel requires a lot of pinching and zooming.

The iPad (12.9") is what got me into comics and manga, the screen size is almost perfect so it's a very pleasant experience.

poglet··on Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
I feel like it might be better suited for people like myself who constantly rewrite sentences multiple times until happy with them.
poglet··on Map of the Internet
Is there a way to export all of my countries IP ranges so that I can add it into a nginx filter to better protect my self hosted website?
poglet··on Map of the Internet
Both my phone and computer show in Australian subnets however when I had cloudflair's 1.1.1.1 app enabled on my phone it was showing within a Chinese range?
poglet··on Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
The Kindle version of the book is currently free for Prime users.
poglet··on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code
I recall a feature that would show a quote in a new document each time the application was opened. I'm not sure if This is the same quotes in the source.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about this on Google but it was documented in one of the older change logs.

poglet··on TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
I ended up just purchasing a phone mount that connected to the motorcycle. Set the destination before I left, seemed to work fine. But if you are willing to go to a bit more effort you can purchase USB charger that connects to the battery, and also get gloves that work with capacities screens.
poglet··on Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
Thanks for your reply, this was really helpful I will give it a shot.
poglet··on Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
Thanks, I did use Let's Encrypt and had certbot setup but didn't realise the renew process required port 80 open (I had blocked it on my firewall).
poglet··on Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
> I have set up systems for others that have worked with nearly no issues for years

The two issues I had over the years was: My SSL cert expiring (not really a Jellyfin issue).

My FireTV updated the Jellyfun app to a version that no longer supported the server version, this was pretty frustrating becuase I just wanted to sit down and watch some TV instead of messing around with a upgrade.

In saying that; Kodi also ran fine for years without issue. My main issues with Jellyfin are scrubbing difficulties and subtitles going out of sync or not being able to change their timings, same with audio timings.

poglet··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassium-keepass-passwords/i...

In the app description:

"KeePassium can work both offline and with your favorite cloud provider.

There is no setup: pick your database through the familiar Files interface — and that's it. By integrating with the Files app, KeePassium supports almost all storage providers, including..."

poglet··on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
It's not available.

On the iPhone you need to take it out of your pocket, wake up the screen by tapping it once, or lifting it to some angle that the screen turns on. Then you need to long press the on screen camera button.

If you enabled the double tap, you still need to take it out of your pocket and wake up the screen before you can double tap.

On Android you could have the camera ready before the phone is even out of your pocket.

poglet··on D3wasm 0.4 – Doom 3 in WASM
Unfortunately the game didn't end up shipping with shadows despite shadows being on the box art screenshots.
poglet··on Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers
It's unclear how it works, I received a prompt in Firefox to save my password, and I thought that it was the Firefox browser that would be saving my password however, it turned out to be keychain. Now the keychain message pops on all the time, I will have a look in the settings to see how to disable it.
poglet··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
Occasionally I have to clear my search history and 'start again'.

Once YouTube think's it knows what I like, I get 1 or 2 categories of videos I might watch and barley anything else related to my subscriptions.

poglet··on Google suspended our domain out of the blue – lyearn[.]com
From memory you use your Samsung account for that feature.
poglet··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
QC35 here and have been surprised how much better they were then the Sony equivalent at the time. If I stop audio on my iPhone, then play audio on my iPad - the headphones switch automatically.

In saying that, it seems to fail with more then 2 devices despite being able to remember 3 devices at a time.

If I have the headphones connected to iPhone and iPad, then want to use my laptop I will normally need to switch bluetooth off on the mobile devices before turning on the headphones - allowing it to connect to the computer. A little annoying but still faster then messing around with cables.

poglet··on iOS 16 Available September 12th
The improvements with photo sharing seem promising. Right now my partner and I have Dropbox Photo Sync enabled on our iPhones, but viewing the shared photos must be done through the Dropbox app.

But now with the new improvements it looks like there is an automatic option "you can share photos instantly right from Camera, choose to share automatically when other shared library members are nearby".

poglet··on High-dose Vitamin B6 reduces anxiety and strengthens visual surround suppression
After doing a Google news search for "high dose vitamin b6" I know now I'm going to have either less anxiety or major health issues.
poglet··on Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach
What's the best way to use unique emails. I get that Apple has the 'Hide my Email' feature but it's not clear to me how to best use it, especially outside of Apple ie. Where do I find a list of emails that it's created for me and what they were used for.

Temporary email services don't seem helpful either if you need to go through password reset processes or receive emails after the address has been removed.

Do people just use use custom domains with catch all addresses? Is this really the best way?

poglet··on Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach
Not sure how you've setup Kodi however I switched from Kodi to Jellyfin about a year ago.

I purchased a low powered computer with a Celeron N5100 (sorry I might have the model wrong) but I was looking for something that could support and transcode modern video formats in hardware, and connected my external drives too. From there I was able to install Jellyfin, then the Jellyfin clients on all my devices (TV, Phone, iPad etc).

It seems to work really well, espeicaly when exposing the server to the internet using nginx, a SSL certificate, DNS and a dynamic DNS provided by my Asus router. Unsure of the security of this or how to harden it -> VPN might be better for more security conscious people.

You mention you like the unique channels and the Newpipe feature, I don't think any of this is available in Jellyfin, it doesn't seem to be very customisable at all with the exception of a limited list of plugins.

poglet··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
I agree. I setup a Discord server for a few friends and it turned out to be infinitely better then current social media platforms when it came to keeping up with what everyone was up to.
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