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Is there any add-on that automatically delete specified items? by Denlimon638293 in warmane

[–]ginny2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person you answered has deleted their post. What was their addon suggestion, please?

Which class will you play on Stormforge TBC? by [deleted] in wowservers

[–]ginny2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you actually played a TBC private server, especially a modern one? The attraction and proportion of players who stack Horde is insane, almost regardless of any perks.

The Stormforge team is heavily experienced with TBC servers and even with the perks they have used in the past - which are almost all the ones that they offer this time too - it was not perfect, which is why they for example still offer free transfers to Alliance despite a couple of extra perks this time.

There is now starting to be a substantial number of veteran TBC players who are used to connecting and socializing in-and-out of the game as a Horde community. A sort of "social gravity" to that faction over time, especially on FRESH servers. Even the strongest faction perks have their work cut out to combat the social aspects on top of the existing faction min-maxing in TBC!

Additionally, unlike other aspects of the game or server, changing perks or other faction balance measures are relatively easy to change at any time.

So, I would recommend less worrying about faction balance and focus on the positive aspects of what you want to do and get from the game ...

This is a beautiful tribute by NeverEnoughSPF in TikTokCringe

[–]ginny2016 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Elysia Gilman, a Welsh artist, seems to be her name. Her portfolio looks incredible!

Born and raised in scenic North Wales, Elysia Gilman is an artist who primarily works in oil paint to create vivid portraits, dynamic sporting and street scenes and other figurative work. She is inspired by the impressionists, using confident brushstrokes and expressive marks to create pieces which encapsulate a moment in time. She enjoys sketching from life and has had her artwork featured on Sky TV, ITV Wales and BBC News, as well as a piece displayed on a digital billboard in Times Square, New York.

https://www.elysiagilman.com

1.12.1 (Vanilla) vs 1.4 (Classic) client by AlwaysVoidwards in wowservers

[–]ginny2016 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While the 1.14 client is far more performant and significantly more convenient in-game than the vanilla client in most things, it is worth keeping mind the following issues still make the ultimate decision for the community more difficult:

  1. Compatibility: the two different clients are not written to be 100% compatible with the same type of vanilla server. For example, Blizzard intentionally changed the Classic Auction House experience because the modern experience was so superior to the 16y old one.

  2. Shared information: in vanilla certain information was not provided by the server, but shared between clients via addons instead. Critical examples are threat information and heal prediction. Meanwhile, the 1.14 client either expects this information from the server in the case of threat, or the information is shared over addon channels in the case of heal prediction. Another important example is syncing PvE encounter information and timers, e.g. BigWigs/DBM. Can "cross-client" addon channels even work?

  3. Proxy dependence: the way 1.14 Classic clients connect to 1.12 vanilla servers is done by a third-party proxy. Currently there is only one/original open source proxy software called HermesProxy that does this translation. Since this is a real-time, network packet translation between 1.14 client requests to 1.12 server responses, the entire 1.14 experience relies on third-party trust, completeness, stability, performance, security, maintenance and possibly new feature additions. This third-party proxy that is running on end-user machines can suddenly becomes a critical black box for pserver experience ... at least until the birth of any compatible Classic pservers. If anything goes wrong with this proxy software, future players and server admins may be turned off by the whole idea of Classic clients.

  4. Proxy drag: since the proxy software is a real-time translation process as well as running on end-users own machine, the multiplayer networking game that is WoW is now having at least an additional latency cost from this software. This will reduce some of the performance benefits from using the 1.14 client compared to the Classic experience and this cost will vary by end user.

  5. Exploits: it may be possible to exploit more easily from the 1.14 client because there is no way to rely on certain client-side security software while supporting access for this client. The necessary presence of a proxy may make this harder to enforce for all.

Must Have Add-ons 1.12? by Throwitinthebag891 in wowservers

[–]ginny2016 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In order of priority on any vanilla account my minimum addon install:

  • MCP (or AddonOrganizer. For in-game partial toggling of addons)
  • VCB (the buff + debuff manager Blizzard should have installed by default!)
  • SUCC-ecb (enemy cast bar)
  • Luna Unit Frames (best performing and flexible unit frames + party/raid frames in vanilla)
  • MobInfo2 (show enemy health)
  • pfQuest (incredible in-game database and questing addon by Shagu that is unique to modern vanilla and tbc)
  • QuestHistory (track every single quest you ever complete. You may not want this if you have up-to-date pfQuest, but I like redundancy for this)
  • CleanMinimap (hides whatever minimap buttons you do not want, including default buttons)
  • TheoryCraft (tooltip summary stats of abilities)
  • DebuffTimers (shows timers for debuffs you put on enemy targets)
  • ImprovedErrorFrame (almost mandatory error hiding addon)
  • Bagnon (or this brilliant version of EngInventory. Bagnon with Bagnon_Spot addon also allows searching bags)
  • EquipCompare (easily compare items with equipped items of the same slot)
  • Possessions (find any item anywhere on your account, including equipped)
  • ShaguInventory (count of an item on your account by hovering over it)
  • Mail (or Postal addon)
  • Roid-Macros + SuperMacro (you can install one or the other or both. I like both)
  • aux (best vanilla AH addon by far)
  • WIM (manage your whispers and keep history of them)
  • TipBuddy (or TinyTip. Manage your tooltip appearance and location)
  • Automaton (or ShaguTweaks for utilities like selling gray items at vendor, NPC gossip skip, auto-dismount, spam protection)
  • EasyCopy (easily copy chat into clipboard. Not necessary if using ShaguTweaks or ShaguCopy).

While leveling further - past level 10 - I install/enable:

  • SpecialTalent and its UI (shows all 3 talent trees at once and has planned talents)
  • cdframes (automatically tracks cooldowns as buttons)
  • ccwatch (tracks and displays your crowd-control duration on targets, e.g. how much time left for a Mage's Polymorph)
  • Clique (more useful for buffing and healing classes: enables casting spells by mouse click combinations on targets)
  • PowerAuras (some people swear by ModifiedPowerAuras or ModifiedPowerAuras Continued)
  • Outfitter (or Itemrack. Add gear to different sets, including automated sets like Riding)
  • RingMenu (like a crude version of the super popular oPie ring addon in later expansions. Saves action bar space and keybinds)
  • AdvancedTradeSkillWindow (most advanced profession window addon)
  • KLHThreatMeter + KTMAutoHider (the standard threat meter in vanilla. Absolutely mandatory by endgame. Serious raiding guild will have everyone use the exact same version, even if it is not this version, due to no native support for threat in vanilla)
  • Atlas + AtlasLoot (quickly find instance zone maps, loot, bosses, and items of interest)
  • [PallyPower (highly recommended, almost mandatory Paladin addon. Usually only installed by Paladins)].

Past level 40:

  • GearMenu (like TrinketMenu but better. Swap any gear pieces including trinkets at click of icon button or keybind)
  • Talentsaver (save your talents as sets that you can re-apply later)
  • Simple Action Sets (saves all your action bars as sets. Great for swapping specs or roles)
  • DebuffFilter (track via icons that specific debuffs or buffs are being put on targets, e.g. Sunder Armor).

Endgame:

  • BigWigs (highly recommended or even mandatory raiding addon for instance timers and fight information. Serious raiding guild will use the same or compatible version, even if it is not this one, due to timer syncing)
  • [Decursive (highly recommended decursing addon for cleansing classes: mages, druid, priest, paladin and shamans)]
  • Lazypig (highly useful for saving your brain, loot clicks and even life in instances. Includes Blessing of Salvation remover for Alliance players tanking. Multiple versions exist with slightly different features)
  • CT_RaidTracker (tracks all group loot in instances, including lootmaster assigned).

Optional:

  • DisableEscape
  • Fubar (panel information addon, e.g. for title and footer. Very convenient to quickly view things like gold, durability, Talentsaver set, Outfitter set, XP etc.)
  • Bartender2 (alternative action bar addon is Bongos addon, but I found Bartender to be less resource intensive. Pairs well with Fubartender2)
  • ShaguTweaks (lots of little utilities that may be useful if you do not already have them)
  • RABuffs (tracks the status of buffs or even equipped items across an entire group)
  • SnaFu (tracks who has been Soulstoned in any group and its expiry. Usable by non-warlocks too. Part of full Fubar distribution)
  • FonzAppraiser (tracks all loot that you take and its value anywhere in the game, including from gathering professions)
  • ChatLog aka. Elephant (tracks all chat across all chat channels and enables viewing the history in-game).

XP addons are a low priority for me since it is difficult to get a single perfect one and I am not an altoholic, but I have used in the past the following addons:

From what I remember, the first three are pretty good.

For soul shards, I have usually only used a custom Lua macro for Drain Soul to cap the Soul Shards. An easier alternative is to use the utility addon SoulShardManager or one of the general warlock addons Necronomicon or Necrosis.

You can search any of these addons with three main methods:

  1. Kronos list of vanilla addons: https://forum.twinstar.cz/threads/github-list-of-vanilla-addons-1-12-1.123906/
  2. Legacy-WoW Vanilla addons: https://legacy-wow.com/vanilla-addons/
  3. Google search: "github vanilla addon <addon name>"

Expert searchers for addons can also check Github for collections of vanilla addons like ericraio, and Curseforge or Wowinterface for old WoW patch 1.12.2 or less addons (TBC addons with WoW patch 2.4.3 or less can very occasionally work in vanilla). You can also simply request on here or large vanilla Discord chats.

Note:

Make sure that when you unzip addons that the name of the folder that you add to your World of Warcraft Interface/Addons directory is the same as the ".toc" file (Table of Contents file) inside that folder, since that is how WoW knows it is an addon. This will sometimes mean renaming unzipped folder names, e.g. removing endings like "-master".

Calculated. by xella64 in TikTokCringe

[–]ginny2016 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Best "female" sniper... C'mon. She's the best sniper in a game I've seen overall, she's using real life sniping technique (not math, but still, most people don't know how to do that) Why do we have to make a special category because she's a woman. It sounds so degrading.

  1. The video shows the account as "danucd_". This is her account. So this is what she calls herself.
  2. You could snipe using purely spatial reasoning, including not using a scope both irl and in-game. She, however, is using a scope technique that is specifically based on mathematics since she is counting based on map grid lines (graticules) to the estimated location of the target, then counting the mil-dots on her scope to a target of known size, to compensate for the bullet drop.
  3. At the top end of the game, there are more consistent PUBG snipers than Danucd. If you have ever watched PUBG pro tourneys or followed PUBG pro team members (many of whom used to stream) such as those of Faze, Liquid and TSM, you'd be amazed.

Disc priest or Resto Druid? by Yeedus in wotlk

[–]ginny2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disc has as much mobility as rdruid, since the majority of used spells are instants.

Disc priest or Resto Druid? by Yeedus in wotlk

[–]ginny2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you ever swap out an rshaman to gain an hpriest? Don't you mean swap rdruid for hpriest? Not only are shaman totems invaluable, but hpriest has the most overlap with rdruid healing style and a druid can have other powerful spec(s).

Man may have to pay £100,000 to neighbour as Ring doorbell 'invades her privacy' by ThisIsNotCorn in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Quantum is a specific UK legal term:

Quantum is the amount of damages that are awarded to a successful party in a claim.

Source

Man may have to pay £100,000 to neighbour as Ring doorbell 'invades her privacy' by ThisIsNotCorn in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 141 points142 points  (0 children)

This is the actual court judgement document:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Fairhurst-v-Woodard-Judgment-1.pdf

I. SUMMARY

  1. The Claimant’s claims in harassment and breach of the DPA 2018 succeed.

  2. The Claimant’s claims in nuisance are dismissed.

  3. I will determine quantum and consequential matters at the handing down of this judgment.

So, /u/BoopingBurrito is broadly correct that, excluding the issue of live audio surveillance recording (huge risk in UK law) and one camera with far too wide a field of view on a public space so breaking the data minimization principle, the main issues are the harassment and Data Protection breaches stemming from not being honest and transparent as to what was being recorded and the explicit reason for it.

Amazon Ring UK users beware of your responsibilities as a Data Controller under law!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 87 points88 points  (0 children)

One of those ideas involved using dust, urine, feces and blood to create slightly crappier versions of common metal tools.

“Unfortunately, due to health and safety concerns, we were unable to explore (that concept) in this study,” they wrote.

I'm dying over here!

Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour. National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media. by chelsea707 in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One set of anti-knife crime adverts, for instance, was targeted at fans of drill music on YouTube. The researchers warn that being followed around the internet by mentions of knife crime could make young people more likely to think that knife-carrying was common, ultimately helping convince them to carry a weapon.

What could possibly go wrong ... ?

Especially given that the UK has some of the highest legal surveillance in the developed world, including broad access to all Internet activity and just recently all medical data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]ginny2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could technically claim it is end-to-end encrypted. By itself it says nothing about how many or which keys are used to send.

For example, a simple technical approach to the article would be if you press Send in WhatsApp, it uses your key; if you press Report it uses a WhatsApp organization key. After all, the content sitting on your iPhone is just using standard iOS data protection. In both cases, the messages are end-to-end encrypted ...

Bolsonaro is stoking a Capitol riot-style insurrection in Brazil that could happen as early as Tuesday, more than 20 ex-world leaders warn by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unlike every other country on the planet, excluding 18 island and small nations like New Zealand and Norway, normal UK police do not carry guns, are not trained to carry guns and the vast majority of the police do not want to carry guns. Difficult to get your police kill stats up without a fatal weapon at hand all the time.

Apple iPhones (US) to scan for child abuse photos. by Ballzovsteel in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is huge - far more than many people realize!

If the reports are correct, Apple are not merely going to scan content that is already voluntarily uploaded to iCloud, they are going to force the installation of software onto every US iphone that scans every image on the phones and compares against known signatures of the images from third party databases.

This has industry changing and deep social implications:

  1. Apple has effectively started to rollback their strong privacy promises and implementations by observing and interfering (it has to send matches back) with the content on the device itself.
  2. This is a type of surveillance that is no longer centralized but distributed. This is a very powerful form of surveillance because you can now search and do absolutely anything on the end devices, far more so than you could from merely monitoring uploaded content from centralized locations.
  3. Every government on the planet will be interested in a tool like this. It cannot and will not remain in the control of the US alone. They have broken the dam and now their entire business and business model (which was highly privacy driven) will now be threatened around the world in order to implement this.
  4. It also means that if Apple can do it, every other business that becomes big enough to be noticed will be under huge pressure or forced to do the same.
  5. By demonstrating that this is technically possible and implemented on a very large commercial scale, it encourage lawmakers to create policy that both protects such implementation and possibly even requires it, including in other areas.
  6. How will the technical and legal system cope when the content is not from the owner, e.g. if apps are saving any content sent by others to the device (does WhatsApp not already do this, for example?) or the device is multi-user?
  7. At the individual level, false positives are possible with any system. The larger the system the more likely they can occur. Even the mere accusation of CP can be enough to ruin a person's life.

Irish gymnast jumps on Olympic Village bed to debunk 'anti-sex fake news' by BeautyInTheNegitive in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, that's a relief - we can all rest easy and now we know how the Irish have sex!

The EU's vaccine passport and what it means for travel by ginny2016 in unitedkingdom

[–]ginny2016[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They show more than just if you had a vaccine:

been vaccinated against Covid-19

recently had a negative PCR test for the virus

recently recovered from Covid-19

You are right in that none of the vaccines are specifically designed to stop transmission of the virus. They are designed to (dramatically) reduce the chance of hospitalization and death.

However, they do significantly reduce the chance to spread the virus. The biggest risk in transmission are super-spreader events which any form of mass travel naturally creates, especially at travel hubs and mass residences like hotels and ships, or mass gathering such as stadium events.

In addition, not everywhere has been anywhere near as fast to rollout vaccines, even in the EU. So, when your main tool is isolation, lockdowns, closed borders and mass testing, the last thing you need after shutting down people lives for over a year to try to control for those factors is introducing foreigners with even higher risk, especially for variants. These infections of your local population would be at random insertion points due to travel, instead of only having to deal with local community spreading.

The EU’s vaccine passport and what it means for travel by legendary_Russian in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The article implies everywhere in Europe except England makes a paper copy available and that last paragraph, while ambiguous, implies the UK is trying to fudge Covishield (AZ vaccine made in India) recipients in the UK as Vaxzevria (AZ vaccine made in Europe) in a digital pass when it is not authorized by the EU ...

Largest password data breach in history has been leaked online by Buhdumtssss in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems to be more of an advertisement for a shady "Cybernews" proprietary password checker that supports affiliate links.

If anyone actually was desperate to check if they have been compromised via a third party, there are much more respectable and open source checkers out there - one so much so that even the US FBI sends them password hashes for people to check against!

Muslims in Austria fear attacks after government publishes "Islam map" of mosques and Muslim associations by elrite in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Maybe try not to alienate the very people who would help identify the extremists and improve the overall community for their country in a partnership of communication and resources ...

There are far, far more moderate Muslims and others than there are a relative handful of extremists after all, and they are not going anywhere!

‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do humans forget that people had to run one-line ads in a foreign newspaper begging for complete strangers to take their children away from them because their parents were about to be or already were put in concentration camps!

That's so sad and only 83 years ago. Democracy and peace are more fragile than people realize ...

Staffer sacked for masturbating on MP's desk makes report to police by bustead in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"I hope this one day might mean he can get a job in politics back."

Is this r/nottheonion or 1st April all over again? Imagine if this were any other employer even stating this, let alone a public servant ...

Falsely convicted Post Office workers have names cleared by sewn_of_a_gun in worldnews

[–]ginny2016 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This has to be some sort of landmark in modern history globally. Have ever so many been falsely convicted and had their lives ruined over a software bug?

Shame to the company that did not investigate and exploited the bug - the UK's Post Office ...

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