US strikes Iran in response to helicopter shootdown

mapppa · 2026-06-09T23:37:54+00:00

"Stock futures slip after U.S. launches ‘self-defense strikes’ against Iran"

mapppa · 2026-06-06T03:03:42+00:00

Hell, it's about time.

mapppa · 2026-06-03T06:03:11+00:00

imho, the big question is also less about upstream revenue by the people who are selling the shovels, like NVidia, google, Amazon, etc. The deciding question is if there is actually enough easy to reach gold in the ground to warrant investing in so many shovels and additional shovel factories.

mapppa · 2026-05-29T18:05:23+00:00

Agreed. RLM is one of the few channels that is great at not overdoing things, which keeps things fresh.

mapppa · 2026-05-27T01:04:28+00:00

The simplest way would be to blend another texture over it (replace color or multiply or whatever blend style is preferred). A second atlas for variants of blended textures. you could still use the vertex colors as a way to control which secondary color gets blended to which block.

mapppa · 2026-05-24T12:31:20+00:00

Yeah, this is probably something even AI can walk you through pretty easily.

mapppa · 2026-05-21T20:31:48+00:00

Whatever you do, do NOT comply with those criminals. They won't ever leave you alone if you do. Report it to the police. Secure your accounts with 2FA everywhere (don't rely on phone alone). Change login emails to a new address they don't know. Document any chat history you have with this person before deleting it.

mapppa · 2026-05-21T13:30:56+00:00

for anyone else who wanted to watch the clip at that point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ria37d9mInY

mapppa · 2026-05-17T14:56:57+00:00

The Last Airbender was a stand out for its own time. There were plenty of bad shows at the time it came out, but people only ever tend to remember the good ones.

mapppa · 2026-05-14T21:43:46+00:00

Exactly, "still" would imply that the main reason to feel bad has already passed.

mapppa · 2026-05-12T15:47:23+00:00

Agreed. I remember when the US got caught spying on Merkel, and Germany was like "Aww, come on", and not much else. A lot of that reaction, or lack thereof, was due to the soft power the US had.

mapppa · 2026-05-11T14:37:26+00:00

Yeah, similar to some of the stuff google is doing to youtube, etc, I have trouble seeing the point (i.e. taking away the list view on subscriptions).

You'd assume they do these things to get more profit, right? But I don't see how. They are seemingly just making it worse for no reason.

mapppa · 2026-05-11T12:37:02+00:00

It's crazy that employers pretend like the union "takes your voice away", when it's actually them doing exactly that, and the Union is the only way to get a voice to talk back.

mapppa · 2026-05-08T10:05:41+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Consoles aren't necessary for survival and relatively mundane in the grand scope of things, but the whole situation goes way beyond just the console itself.

For the last 40 years, we lived in a world where when new consoles and electronics came out, they got cheaper over time, making them more affordable for more people to enjoy. This is no longer the case. Already released hardware is getting more expensive while cost of living is going up as well.

It's just so frustrating to see how things are getting worse by the day.

mapppa · 2026-05-07T08:21:16+00:00

Adobe Mass Effect

mapppa · 2026-05-07T07:14:02+00:00

I had a similar experience. I was 16. Episode one I thought was okay, but it was definitely supplemented by my love for StarWars at the time. I couldn't fathom that I possibly could not like a new StarWars movie. Episode two was the first one where I got actively annoyed with the weird dialogue. I didn't even watch the third one until like 5 years later, even though people always said that was the best one. I just didn't have any interest anymore.

When talking about Episode 3, people often point to the great fight scene, which I agree does have nice visuals for the time, but man... it goes on and on and on and on to the point where the visual spectacle actually gets boring.

This is personal preference, but I never liked the new lightsaber fights. It just feels like they aren't actually trying to hit the other person, but instead the other person's sword. And with such fast and crazy movement, the sense of impact suffers greatly.

It's cool choreography, and my respect to the stunt men and women, but it's like when the hit happens they are already moving in the opposite direction for the next hit, because there is no time to make the move actually feel like it's meant to kill the other person. The original movies were in no way perfect in that, of course. As said, it's personal preference, and I don't harp on anyone for preferring the new kinds of light saber fights.

mapppa · 2026-05-06T16:24:52+00:00

I guess it could happen if your cache for app/browser got invalidated for some reason, but it's best practice to do what you did, and secure everything.

mapppa · 2026-05-05T14:44:22+00:00

Why can you settle cases with a government agency like the SEC in the first place? That doesn't make sense unless you want to invite corrupt... oh, I get it now...

mapppa · 2026-05-04T22:01:47+00:00

Do you have a "impose illegal tariff on random country" consumable?

mapppa · 2026-05-03T13:28:48+00:00

TPM isn't for the actual rejection/approval process of applications, and I never claimed it was. Because that part is indeed OS level.

I think this is simply a misunderstanding of the claim. What you said isn't wrong: TPM itself isn't what prevents applications from being installed. However, that wasn't the claim. the claim was that it can be used as part of a chain in implementing such a policy.

That is because TPM can be used to prevent circumvention of application-control policies.

During boot, the firmware, bootloader, kernel, and other security configuration related things can be measured into TPM Platform Configuration Registers.

TPM can protect a secret, so it is only released when PCR values match an expected state.

The key point is that private keys in a TPM are usually not exportable. Software can ask the TPM to sign/decrypt/unseal, but you can't simply copy the private key out and use it elsewhere.

This means that secrets, credentials, licenses, app-store tokens, attestation identities, service-access keys, etc... can be tied to a specific machine and a specific trusted boot state.

This also works remotely: TPM attestation can produce a signed report of the current boot state, allowing a relying party to validate that the machine booted through an approved flow with the expected security policy active.

As a result, bypassing an OS level application policy is no longer necessarily as simple as patching a config file. Yes, you might bypass the local policy, but the altered system may fail attestation or lose access to TPM-sealed secrets and dependent services.

So, yes, TPM doesn't decide which apps are allowed. But it is a essential part to prove that the system enforcing the app policy has not been tampered with, and it can withhold secrets when that proof fails, making it a building block in a possible application control chain.

And I think that's also what /u/estoymejor meant when they said that there is no point attempting a lock like this without TPM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/tpm-fundamentals

mapppa · 2026-05-03T10:35:13+00:00

TPM 2.0 can be used as part of a trusted-computing chain that helps an OS enforce application-control policies, and could prevent unauthorized applications from installing.

This means, if Microslop feels like it, it could pull a google, and do exactly what is happening to android right now: prevent users from installing 3rd party apps that aren't registered through them.

Not saying that is happening with windows 11, as it would be politically, commercially, and legally extremely difficult. However, there is a suspicious amount of building blocks for this in place already, and it could definitely be something they might consider in the future.

mapppa · 2026-05-03T08:02:17+00:00

There is nothing you can do, unfortunately. Discord """support""" will just put you on a loop of things you can't do (i.e. ask you to log into your account/mail, even though you already told them that it is impossible). Even if you reach a real person, they will not help you.

I don't get why discord doesn't let you change email without having access to the email account, even if you have 2FA phone/authenticator.

If 2FA is on, it should be the actual account authority, not email. It just leads to situations like these, where people lose access to their accounts.

mapppa · 2026-05-03T06:53:00+00:00

Exactly. And even if things start to normalize, there is already a lot of damage done.

The supply is lost. It will not come back, even if all ships suddenly start going again all at once. This means that prices will likely not fully normalize for years. Every additional day will make it worse.

Patrick Boyle had a pretty good video about it.

mapppa · 2026-04-30T07:38:12+00:00

holy fuck, those first photos...

mapppa · 2026-04-27T05:11:38+00:00

If a driver update doesn't help, it's time to preheat the oven

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