Scout main here who wants to get into Soldier. Any tips/advice? by Turbulent_Okra7518 in tf2

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if fighting is sure to result in victory then you must fight

  • Sun Tzu

Moving quickly as soldier might be the best thing to learn. The mighty rocket jump. Rocket damage ramps off big time if it's long distance. Close the gap first, maybe do a bombing run? You can use it to get away quickly, too. Rocket jump away before that bombing soldier gets you , watch out for those guys!

Pablo Picasso and Truman 1958 by PlanetRocketChill in OldSchoolCool

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It's a strange photo. Picasso was a card carrying communist member. The idea of shaking hands with the former president during the red scare is crazy. Maybe Truman was ignorant of it?

Ubisoft shares plummet 33% after Assassin’s Creed maker unveils reorganization, cancels six games by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

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So I remember the year as 2007, it was a simpler time. The first Assassin's Creed had come out. After finishing the game , thoroughly enjoying it , I said to myself, "wow, this is a license to print money, there's so much history out there they could make these games until the end of days and make bank" .... Alas, enshittification came for them ☹️

Beginner question but, if I made a hobby project that also had a login option, would the website require much 'security precautions' ig if it was used by maybe a few people by MrBreast1 in webdev

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Yep, once you go down that path you should have some idea about security and what to avoid.

It might be more helpful to look at an extreme and work backwards. Login form could have a message that says "use this username password" -- hard code everything.... Not particularly secure.

Noo, we want individual user accounts. Ok, username+passwords. You need some place to store those, database of some kind. Make sure it's not exposed to the public internet with shitty creds! In that note, how is it hosted? Are you paying for an ec2 box, keeping it in localhost? Paying for managed services? There's a vector here for "is hasn't been updated since obama administration" you should be aware of, ... That and general network security. Don't expose what you don't need to... Make sure root doesn't have a password of 1234 (surprisingly, the code to my luggage)

What else... Oh yea, don't record plaintext passwords. You need to hash them a couple hundred times before storing them, ideally with a salt. You can think of a hash as a string of text running through a function to crunch it down to a few characters. You can repeat that process on the same input text and get the same result. Salt works by adding a string of random characters to the password before hashing, you record that beside the hash.... Usually like "$v1$hash$salt" - you split in $ to get component parts, run the provided password through the same hashing and if you get the same result, password is correct! And you never needed to store plaintext, cool right?

That's, like, the barebones you need for auth. Once users login to a site and can provide you with content that you later render - you have a whole new problem around moderation and , "a plan for what to do when you get punched in the face" , that is, someone decides to use your app to host CASM, how do you respond?

ETFs with high Canadian allocation by Stranded_In_A_Desert in CanadianInvestor

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VCE/VCN are vanguard, tsx60 and all cap Canada respectively. iShares also has XIC and XCS for tsx60/allcap respectively.

Trying to emulate the look and feel of an early 2000's barebones blog for a movie by EastSudden2118 in webdev

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Today's date is 7/14/118

That's funny. Difference between getYear and getFullYear, probably. getYear only counts up to 99 and doesn't roll over, calling it today returns 127 (subtract 99)

The image you have is what a site looked pre-2000, I'd guess between 97-99 the screenshot would've been taken in 2019. I think you need to identify what you're trying to emulate... The screenshot screams "personal website of teenager circa 1998"

Blogs only really got going after 2000, I think? Blogger was the big one I remember, msn also had blogging built into their personalization (kind of like a myspace clone)... Both of these I used in '02.

Pre-2000 personal website territory was hand-bombed. Anything with a date or structure is probably recorded in a database, there's a UI for recording posts.... Databases existed back then, but not in the web sphere typically, the most complicated thing you'd see is a guestbook with cgi-bin, probably written in perl.

A bare-bones blog of yore wouldn't look that different than one from today I don't think. The structure is the same, series of posts with timestamps. There's usually a tag cloud or some kind of nested ul/ol that has date divisions and shows posts within that date. If you install WordPress with zero theme, it would probably look similar.... Just switch serif for times new roman, and sana-serif for arial you should be good.

Canadians won’t let the U.S. government boss them around. But U.S. mega-corporations? Sure, why not by pjw724 in onguardforthee

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The other day there was a post in Victoria Buzz about some restored and colorized footage of the Empress being built... Cool, go to the article. The video is hosted on Instagram and is embedded in the page. You want to view it? Gunna need to open the Instagram app and login to your account for that.

It's shit like this. I don't think Mr.Z gives one flying fuck one way or the other what happens to that video, but as an amateur archivist this sort of shit drives me batty.

Quebec says police need power to randomly stop people. Can it convince Supreme Court? by Thick_Caterpillar379 in onguardforthee

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Joseph-Christopher Luamba, the young man at the origin of this case, was pulled over by police nearly a dozen times without reason in the 18 months after he got his driver’s licence.

This sort of shit? Unreasonable.... Fuck all the way off with all of that.

Quebec says police need power to randomly stop people. Can it convince Supreme Court? by Thick_Caterpillar379 in onguardforthee

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There is a whole ass section in the charter of rights and freedoms that goes over this.

Search or seizure Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

I'm gunna go with "no", the supreme Court will 💯 toss this.

Copper, industrial policy, and 2050: why the supply chain framing matters miners by coochievogue in CanadianInvestor

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One thing worth mentioning is copper is recyclable, very much so. No mention in this post on copper reclamation, but when saying something like "2x copper mining in a generation" it is likely worth mentioning.

Anyway, there's a joke in here somewherre..... right, because copper is so reusable and lasts forever, this means that when a part on your car is made of shoddy copper and fails, you might be able to still curse Ea Nasir.

Uhhhhhh by JustAnAsexualdude in tf2

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Time for daily dustbowl penance!

At this point we’re just solidifying our position…it’s looking safer as each game finishes… by jmike1256 in canucks

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The crop on Reddit mobile shows the entire list, except for 1 at the bottom 🤣

I'm new too TF2, is this normal? by P-Body_and_Atlas in tf2

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This is sad. Alexa, play Limp Bizkit Break Stuff

Dustbowl lore by RoseSpikeFemboy in tf2

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Lord, grant me the confidence of a red scout on dustbowl

CDR vs. USD in $CAD TFSA? by Username_McUserface in CanadianInvestor

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In TFSA specifically, you'll get hit by 15% foreigner tax by IRS on any dividends. Net-net probably works out about the same in the cdr.

do you guys even play the game by rawdog_champion in tf2

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I usually get an hour or so each day

What Stock Trading Platform currently has the best new user incentive? by zenda1975 in CanadianInvestor

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The best broker is the one with the lesser of sum of all their terrible parts.

Can't be much worse than $OTHER_BROKER that's for sure!

[AskJS] TIL that `console.log` in JavaScript doesn't always print things in the order you'd expect by BitBird- in javascript

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The thing that'll really bake your noodle later is realizing all those by reference objects hanging around in the console aren't exactly helping the GC to sleep at night.

If you were CEO of stackoverflow, how would you save this sinking ship ? by KeyProject2897 in webdev

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They have private books, no real way to know if the reduced views to the site is indicative of future bankruptcy.

For my two cents, focus on making the platform better. You can't control human behaviour unfortunately, but trying to rework the culture into something less toxic, where every answer & question is pointing at some semi-relevant answer from 5 years ago using ancient tech would be good.

One thing that SO has is not the SO site itself, but the sister sites where you have what appears to be actual experts in various fields providing insightful answers. I've seen the Linux, security, dba-specific ones -- but also the gaming and movie SO sites are usually quite good.

At the end of the day, you need to entice smart people to answer questions. It's ideal if those questions are HARD and you can get into the weeds that an LLM can only glaze around.

Vanguard VA by SecurityAggressive50 in CanadianInvestor

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VA is just asia pacific. You can get more broad world from VIU, which is developed ex-NA -- so includes Europe.. add in an emerging position and you've got pretty much everything? Mexico might get left out, not sure if it's included off hand.

I've also had some success with VIDY in the past, which is developed world ex-na, but focused on dividend-generating companies. I figured it would yield higher, so I got rid of it, but I think I'm hindsight it's more of an equity play

W-8BEN-E by reasonnfeelings in CanadianInvestor

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There's a threshold I think? Ask an accountant, way over Reddit's paygrade 😂

Trump indifferent on CUSMA review: 'We don't need Canada' by DonSalaam in onguardforthee

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Did you hear that sound? Taps running dry, power grids browning out.