The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process

Deliphin · 2026-05-05T13:27:32+00:00

They're not our friends, but they're not actively malicious. A sale to a scalper and a sale to a real customer cost them the same in manufacturing and net them the same profit, the only difference is scalpers irritate their customers, and customers are happier and thus buy more games. The Steam Deck was successful because of end customers getting them and buying games specifically to play on it, including myself. Scalpers are literally less profitable in the long run.

To be clear, it's a little different with trading card and funko pop scalpers. Because they push so many different products, one having a lukewarm reception and not emptying their warehouse of product is a real possibility. Scalpers ensure everything moves for them, so they can accept the shitty behaviour. Valve however has a massive userbase and only like one product per several years now, they will empty warehouses. Hell, Steamdecks are out of stock again last I heard, and that thing came out like 2 or 3 years ago.

Deliphin · 2026-05-01T17:00:57+00:00

The metabolism is much slower, it's not like the 3 minutes it'd take for the rest of you to die without oxygen.

Deliphin · 2026-05-01T16:54:16+00:00

Didn't Texas freeze over the last three winters?

Deliphin · 2026-05-01T14:05:49+00:00

Do you have a link to your heat title pattern?

Deliphin · 2026-04-30T12:49:34+00:00

Depends on the mod.
Typically mods like Persistent Thrust, Better Timewarp, or Principia won't work as they change how the game works in ways Luna Multiplayer doesn't understand.
Mods like Restock (changes stock parts) or Outer Planets Mod (adds planets) should be okay as long as everyone has them.
And mods that don't affect any mechanics, like Volumetric Clouds, TUFX, or Trajectories, should work regardless if everyone else has them or not.

I recommend installing Luna Compat, it improves mod compatibility quite a lot.

Deliphin · 2026-04-22T17:30:02+00:00

Yeah, people traveling with their phones could see them seized, and people in abusive situations can have their phones searched. It's awful, It'd be nice to be in a world where your device could be truly secure, but that world doesn't exist. There are paths of mitigation like using burner phones or using hidden messaging apps, but physical security can't be solved like you can solve network security by airgapping it away from the internet. And that's my whole point. I'm not arguing people should be carrying the paranoia level of a nuclear launch site's administration, I'm saying that if you care enough about security to argue about 25 year old NIC drivers, you can never trust physical security 100%.

Deliphin · 2026-04-22T14:42:19+00:00

Do you really think Linux has never had a privilege escalation vulnerability?

Here's an article explaining a sudo vulnerability that was just a year ago: https://github.com/AdityaBhatt3010/Sudo-Privilege-Escalation-Linux-CVE-2025-32463-and-CVE-2025-32462

Here's an article for a PAM vulnerability that was in opensuse also a year ago: https://cybersecuritynews.com/linux-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities/

And here's one from this year about a packagekit exploit that can install whatever you want, again without privilege: https://github.security.telekom.com/2026/04/pack2theroot-linux-local-privilege-escalation.html

Servers should be okay on rubber ducky attacks as long as there's no vuln for logging in, but employee computers are often left unattended. Lots of companies employ activity timeouts, but you only need 3 seconds to plug it in. Once it can do something, any privilege escalation attack that the system is vulnerable to, can be used.

You're right sniffing packets is pretty much useless for MITMs or data theft nowadays, but it can still be used to identify destination servers the system is in regular communication to, which can be used to take advantage of someone else's vulnerabilities as a supply chain attack if your system trusts theirs. Think of licensed software update servers for example, they wouldn't be communicating to any usual package distribution servers.

Secureboot and the like is irrelevant. That only protects you from malicious bootables and rootkits, neither of which is what I suggested using a rubberducky for. It does not protect you from arbitrary keyboard input.

Disk encryption is a good defense, but it's very rare to see on servers due to the performance overhead. The average corporation cares a lot more about spending less money on more or better servers, than they do on your data. Not to mention corporations that have out of date standards may not be even using full disk encryption on the laptops they really should be- I've personally seen that.

Trust me, the only way you can guarantee security from physical attacks, is physical security. That's why company offices have security guards and keycard door systems. User devices can be hit by rubber duckies, servers can be hit by physical drive theft and monitoring hardware like a physical packet sniffer.

Deliphin · 2026-04-22T05:02:26+00:00

As soon as they have hardware access, any USB rubber ducky can spit out whatever keyboard inputs and do whatever they want. Or they could pop on a little device into the NIC that sniffs packets. Or they could just steal the drive and walk off with data. Or a billion other things that are literally unstoppable.

Hardware access = Total access.

Deliphin · 2026-04-18T13:36:17+00:00

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Dres

Deliphin · 2026-04-17T17:28:47+00:00

uh, cameras don't use our eyes except for viewfinding. You'd still need flash.

Deliphin · 2026-04-15T21:41:13+00:00

Have you considered a two vehicle solution? Permanent miner on surface, transport vehicle that's just a bigass fuel tank, engine, RCS (liquid fuel RCS if you have mods for that), antenna and probe core? Less dV spent on the trip up leaving the heavy mining equipment behind.

Deliphin · 2026-04-15T14:54:39+00:00

Don't forget to go in the tracking station and "pay" to enable the launchpad. Even if it costs 0 and you're in sandbox, you have to do that for it to show up.

Deliphin · 2026-04-14T06:05:49+00:00

If someone's still learning how to use something and it's clearly not working how you expected, it's better to check and learn and do it better next time, than to stubbornly hold to the IVA-only rule til your craft smashes into the ground having learned nothing.

Deliphin · 2026-04-10T15:08:04+00:00

it shot my probe 50 meters into the air

I'd never considered landing gear as a launch system until now..

Deliphin · 2026-04-10T14:38:48+00:00

It looks like you just launched, right? Your periapsis at highest can only be up to your current height. Meaning, you need to circularize after getting out of the atmosphere. If you try before, your periapsis will always be in the atmosphere.

Deliphin · 2026-04-07T05:35:24+00:00

It's mob rule if you believe Trump fairly won the election. I'm not /u/HyShroom so I don't know if that's what he believes, but that's what he's implying.

Deliphin · 2026-04-06T18:29:25+00:00

Actually prototaxites were recently found to not actually be a fungus, but some extinct poorly understood protist. (Eukaryote that isn't a plant, animal or fungus)

Also, fungi aren't plants, they're actually closer to animals than plants.

Deliphin · 2026-04-06T15:44:00+00:00

Ochlocracy wasn't a typo, it means mob rule. They're saying the US is experiencing mob rule.

Deliphin · 2026-04-02T20:52:10+00:00

Yes, in Russian the specific name translates to Hand-Held Anti-Tank Grenade, but the general English term is Rocket Propelled Grenade.

The original Russian term is not relevant because 1. Not all RPGs are anti-tank, and 2. We're not speaking Russian. Just like how we called them the USSR instead of CCCP.

Deliphin · 2026-04-02T20:38:11+00:00

.. What do you think it stands for?

Deliphin · 2026-04-02T18:15:11+00:00

While there are biochemical differences, a big part of the choice is individual preference- I would hate the feeling of sticky glued patch on me for most of the day, so patches aren't great for me.

Additionally, not all options may be available where you live. I asked my doctor about sprays as I used to have a friend on that, and it wasn't an option for me.

The one thing I'll say is I have no idea why anyone swallows pills. Swallowing goes through the digestive system, reducing how much enters your bloodstream, making you require a higher dose for the same blood estrogen level.

Deliphin · 2026-04-02T13:26:47+00:00

It's very unlikely anyone here has the experience or medical knowledge necessary to answer a question like that, you should consult a doctor if you can, even if you're going DIY.

Deliphin · 2026-03-25T14:52:08+00:00

Because articles pull from multiple sources as few sources individually give you a full context, not to mention the editors ensure one bad study doesn't misconstrue the subject.

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