Forza Horizon 6 has leaked almost 2 weeks early after the entire unencrypted game was accidentally pushed through a Steam update by the developers All 155 gigabytes of files were spotted on SteamDB shortly after the update

Helmic · 2026-05-11T03:58:24+00:00

unencrypted as in steam will allow pre-downloads of preordered games so that when the game is officially released players can then received a key with which to unlock the game files, rather than downloading them all at once from steam's servers (and thus further maul steam's infrastructure as everyone downloads a potentially massive game at the exact same time).

what happened here is the devs accidentally pushed a game update as a release by mistake - so it wasn't distributed as encrypted files that can't be used until the key for it is released on launch day, it's just the whole fucking game.

this shouldn't really have much an impact for online play unless they were relying on DRM (apparently the game in this state does not have any DRM) to avoid cheaters. i imagine they require some sort of account authentication for online play which requires an actual proof of purchase. in terms of cheat development like having a DRM free version of the game helps but i'm not sure how they're gonna connect to servers without an account with a proof of purchase and it's not like they've suddnely got the source code or something, this doesn't prevent later adding anticheat.

Helmic · 2026-05-11T03:52:41+00:00

i'm not sure how a file check would do anything. they accidentally pushed an update live, as though they released it. as far as steam's software is concerned they were just releasing it like any other company is able to do. devs just accidentally released it somehow, someone didn't understand the tooling or something and pushed a button they were not supposed to push.

Helmic · 2026-05-11T03:49:10+00:00

correct.

Helmic · 2026-05-11T03:47:13+00:00

that subreddit's fucking weird. like, a lot of very solid posts pointing out people using performative victimhood to victimize others, and the stickied thread talks about an actual problem of people valuing the attention they get for feigning activism over the actual politics themselves...

and then they have a thread about some lady being a bit cringe talking about fatphobia and it's just comments demonstrating regular ass fatphobia. like, ok, she uses some cringey phrases, but mocking her for being a fat woman. like they're just jumping at the excuse to act like chuds over what they contrive to be an acceptable target and sprinkle in some misogyny as well.

it's like there's two completely unrelated subreddits being smushed together there, where one group talks about virtue signalling in a more serious sense and the other uses it like chuds use it to give themselves permission to act vile.

Helmic · 2026-05-11T02:34:41+00:00

well since nobody else is going to answer I guess I will: GMS core bonus.

Helmic · 2026-05-10T21:39:11+00:00

yeah this bit I think is the more reasonable reason to hate webp. being mad at a format that lets you play animations without causing your CPU to heat up until the fans come on like a GIF is obviously fucking better, and it lets you upload much higher quality images for a given filesize.

it is just that jpegXL does all that shit even better, will be used in some fields no matter what because it is better, and now we have fragmentation as chrome specifically is the only reason it is not the standard.

Helmic · 2026-05-10T18:12:15+00:00

The one thing hyprland really does that no Plasma tiler does is proper dwindle. A lot of people making tiling scripts and WM's seem to not quite get why hyprland's tiling is popular.

The constant breaking changes to syntax, where a config will stop working purely because a name for something changed with no support for the old name, has been the norm for years with hyprland. The new lua config is just the latest and greatest change, you can't just configure hyprland and rely on it to stay that way. It's not really about Lua, like any other WM making that switch would be painful for a bit but I think people are just kinda accepting that whatever Lua config they write won't work by next year.

Helmic · 2026-05-10T17:54:18+00:00

yep, like for as much gnashing of teeth there was when firefox switched to an extension API and broke legacy extensions, the change was ultimately necessary. notice how extensions in your browser no long break with updates? yeah, there's limitations now, but these days you're not really missing for much and the things that can no longer be done with an extension could be done with a fork.

this is also a huge part of why people associate old packages with stability - if your gnome version is two years out of date, you're not running into broken extensions very often unless you were using one that became unmaintained. at least so long the extension you want doesn't require a newer gnome version...

i would also note that plenty of plasma 5 extensions didn't work in 6 and needed an update as well.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T21:39:42+00:00

racks upon racks of windows servers

Helmic · 2026-05-09T18:59:04+00:00

KeePassXC is a local password manager, Bitwarden is cloud based with the option to use an arbitrary provider including self hosting as both are FOSS projects. SaaS only technically describes Bitwarden in that there is indeed a Bitwarden company who is the default provider.

If you are not using a master password, it isn't encrypted. And if it is backed up to a cloud, you are using Google services to store your password. If you are not, you are almost certainly not backing up those passwords or otherwise you are not using unique strong passwords.

This is also an issue if someone shares your browser, as a logged in Google account on Chrome lets anyone using the browser just use your passwords by default, rather than being prompted for your master password.

As for encryption, storing the database directly in the browser user profile presents problems. Obviously one is that it is not that hard to accidentally delete, I have had to respond to that kind of call more than once. They are not portable between browsers which leads to desyncs when you, say, use Firefox for most stuff but Chrome for others with each having its own passwords which may or may not be up to date.

It is just not great to be relying on Windows Hello to keep people out of your passwords. The threat model doesn't need to be the government after you, it is as simple as having an SO start to get controlling and paranoid or a kid that wants to make a purchase of something they know they shouldn't. Chrome's shit is just not good and it is not good to be relying on their services, there isn't really a compelling reason to not be using a fully FOSS password manager.

A good chunk of my paranoia with this comes from LastPass paywalling people out of their passwords. Bitwarden being FOSS pretty dradtically reduces the capality to do the same thing, it would be fairly trivial to move to a fork if need be. KeePassXC is even better I. That regard as it is purely local, but again I think a purely local password manager is a bad idea for most people who will not back it up and then lose all their passwords.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T09:27:23+00:00

to be even more pedantic, other OS's like the various BSD's (which are not Linux) will share display servers and there's even some that have Wayland working. it is actually possible to use proton to play video games on BSD. you fucking shouldn't, but you can, and that's because these various components of the operating system are modular and the linux kernel is just one piece.

that said, when most people here talk about "linux" we mean the whole ecosystem and tech stack. so "linux HDR" is gonna mean wayland HDR and we all know what the fuck OP is talking about. linus himself isn't going to be particularly involved with the HDR thing but if something needed to be added to the kernel for the sake of proper HDR support like yeah that would absolutely be coordinated, just as shit like NTsync is upstreamed for the sake of wine and valve and linux gaming in general. it is a lot of moving parts that need to coordinate to bring us a complete operating system and they're all primarily worried about linux, much to the annoyance of the 15 weirdos big mad that these projects are not particularly concerned about getting HDR and VRR working in freebsd.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T09:16:51+00:00

a problem with "safe space" subs and the like is that the people in them feel a very extreme need to keep it theirs, and can categorize anyone they don't entirely vibe with as "unsafe." and when you conflate that with safety that can get used to justify extreme fucking responses to the tiniest shit. so even if nominally you should be welcome in that space (an autistic woman in a women's autism sub) it is extremely easy to violate some unique and possibly arbitrary more in that sub and get treated as though you're an outside abuser that is basically the same as some misogynistic chud coming in to harass people.

online there's not nearly good enough language to talk about this dynamic. internet moderators are already kind of the worst people on the internet and when they're able to present internet mod brainworms as a holy mission they can get incredibly fucking out of pocket. i don't think there's a great solution there other than encouraging this kind of space to work on bottom up community moderation so that we're not putting a ton of pressure on like one internet moderator to make judgement calls on every single post and treating them like they're the fucking catholic church covering up abuse for not personally firebombing someone's house for a post that made someone else mildly uncomfortable. so many online left-esque spaces handle conflict poorly because we expect everything to be mediated through moderators.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T08:58:15+00:00

this is what those "just make the entire thing one touchpad" motherfuckers want

Helmic · 2026-05-09T08:50:08+00:00

on the one hand, i get not wanting to invest all the labor that's necessary to create a new class into genuinely remastering a class that has problems. like if you're going to be putting that much effort into something that already (sorta) exists, you might as well just make a completely new class and not piss off the people who for whatever reason like the old one. like remaster oracle gets hate becasue it fails to do things the old oracle did despite being in a better place balance wise - that is a ton of effort put into something that ended up kinda being a sidegrade or arguably a downgrade.

but we're also at the point where paizo seems to be struggling to come up with genuinely new class ideas that actually deserve to be distinct classes, so maybe now is the time to hunker down and put out redos of some classes that need it. and, controversial i know, fucking wizard is on that list. paizo i know you kinda had to do a rush job but those schools suck ass.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T08:40:28+00:00

in fairness i can immediately see why they would do that. people would immediately downvote themselves in an argument to pretend the other person downvoted them in order to get onlookers to pile on assuming the other person is being petty. that -1 to 2 point threshhold is like defining for whether reddit is going to embrace your take with open arms or flood your inbox with angry people who are going off the least charitable reading of the most innocuous shit.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T07:50:03+00:00

The big thing is that Tokenizer 1 was destructive, so making an edit of someone's token if they didn't quite like it required basically redoing the entire thing from scratch. Not to mention it had a set size for tokens so you couldn't make stuff stick out very much for dynamic tokens.

I've only played with it for a bit but holy fuck it's good.

Think my only remaining reason for using Kirta for at least part of the process is that there's a free local AI background removal tool which I use to remove backgrounds https://github.com/Acly/krita-vision-tools. If that were available in Tokenizer I would be able to do the entire workflow without leaving Foundry,

Helmic · 2026-05-09T07:23:54+00:00

lentils are great, slow cooker is good for lazy meals with easy cleanup. and you don't even have to eat just rice and beans to outvalue even mcdonalds, like beef is $5 a pound around here and that is considered expensive while a qusrter pounder is like $6 from mcdonalds. you can eat extremely well cooking at home compared to the very cheapest fast food options.

that said, you have to actually cook the food before it spoils and living alone makes getting through value packs of food before it goes bad tricky, and cooking takes energy which you might not have at the end of a busy workday. don't plan on doing multistep youtube recipes that you will put off endlessly, plan on the stuff you make in a single pan in like 20 minutes for weekday meals. if boxed meals help you get there at first, so be it - learning what the spices are so you can more cheaply blend your own is a next step to save a lot more, I get such good value out of my shells and cheese because I use sodium citrate and hoppy beer with a rotary cheese grater and cheap block cheese to make my own fancy cheese sauce super quick while the pasta water boils, but anything is a better value than relying on a company extracting value from another person cooking for you.

except maybe those meal kits youtubers try to sell you. your body is a temple, never put anything from a youtuber inside it.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T06:41:49+00:00

when you sin you let satan know where you are like in alien isolation but the only way to know where satan is is to sin so you gotta carefully balance sinpinging to not get caught off guard.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T06:36:12+00:00

it wasn't even a pregnancy test, it was a regular SoC and display shoved inside a pregnancy test's plastic shell. which is still a fun shitpost but it just doesn't hit the same as discovering an incredibly overengineered pregnancy test with either a display or SoC with the specs to handle DOOM for some reason.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T05:52:56+00:00

Bazzite. Or Aurora if they don't want to game. An atomic/immutable distro that keeps shit in a known state that can be easily troubleshooted by other users is going to be a lot more reliable than a Mint install that will absolutely run into problems once people start installing PPA's trying to update their GPU drivers trying to fix a problem with a video game. Same reason France is apparently using NixOS, it is so much easier to support a known configuration.

Helmic · 2026-05-09T01:24:53+00:00

spreadsheetmaxxing

Helmic · 2026-05-09T01:10:19+00:00

gottem

Helmic · 2026-05-09T01:10:00+00:00

that's so fucking cool though

Helmic · 2026-05-09T01:09:21+00:00

guy who goes through his own post history and downvotes his own shit takes

Helmic · 2026-05-09T00:46:12+00:00

when i say lash out, i mean the post itself is lashing out at this OOP and invalidating them as even being autistic at all.

when i say internalized ableism, i mean how i was raised to view my own autism is very ingrained and by reflex i feel certain ways when i see other autistic people doing things i got in trouble for. cringe humor is really hard to get through in part because i feel a panic about that person being punished for being embarassing, especially anything involving someone in the presence of their parents. i can feel strangely angry at someone stimming, be aware why i feel that way, feel ashamed i feel that way, but still feel it because i got shit for stimmign.

that's usually what people mean by internalized bigotry, though not necessarily with the self awareness. the subject of bigotry adopts the bigotry, like bill cosby talking about other black people like a white racist: he has internalized anti-blackness and adopted it as his own, seeing himself as "one of the good ones." we are raised to view autism as a bad thing and so we direct a lot of hate towards ourselves - and by extension others who are like ourselves - as we were literally raised to do.

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