There was something in the manual if I remember correctly. Which you wouldn’t necessarily have if you rented the game.

Edit: just checked and I was wrong. Nothing in the manual. I must have been thinking of another game.

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_NES/Manual/formated/Castlevania_2-_Simon-s_Quest_-_1988_-_Konami.pdf

Considering how we use it. It is absolutely fascinating. Same for magnetism

Or the router, in another state, and the person with access to the closet/server room knows how to push a few buttons at best.

That happens once… and you get misconfigophobia for life.

The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

The hassle and delay is part of how it works. If there was a seamless catch all then it wouldn’t be feasible to make it secure.

Having a second physical factor, as much as it can be a hassle, is much better than any single factor.

Your password can be breached, brute forced, bypassed if there’s an issue somewhere.

Your biometrics can’t be changed so anything that breaks them (such as the breach of finger prints in databases, etc) makes them moot.

A single physical token can be stolen and/or potentially cloned by some attack in physical proximity (or breach of an upstream certificate authority)

But doing multiple of those at the same time. That’s inordinately much harder to do.

I will say the point/gist of the article is a good one. The variety of types some used here and others used there does make it a hassle to try to wrangle all the various accounts/logins. Especially in their corporate and managed deployment which isn’t saving passwords and has a explicit expiration of credential cache (all good things)

I was thinking of the term salinity.

There’s also heat exchange so you’ll have deep sea vents where there could be all kinds of caustic stuff and/or minerals.

So it wouldn’t necessarily be fresh even if that stuff wasn’t saline

Cloud hosting business insists its staff need to be onprem.

No, no. I’m looking for BWILA’s

Noble Knight: Fine, you continue to drive and see a sign that says 2 BWILA’s 15 miles.

Scoofa! I roll for mileage. 19, do I make the exit?

Noble Knight: sigh, yes.

Having representation isn’t difficult. And actually helps streamline the process for the court.

You’re not walking in there with high power lawyers after arguing for weeks about various things.

If there’s a PD you can listen to them and follow their advice. They’re so overworked it won’t be as effective as having your own but will still be better than none.

I’d still take one if that’s an option. A lawyer isn’t just somebody to defend you. They’re the ones best suited to guide you through the legal process.

You want the court to know it was a mistake? Ok, here’s how we argue that in such a way that it’s not admitting fault for some other legal aspect you need to be mindful of. And here’s a point we can make to see if they’ll change it to this other violation that has less of a penalty or doesn’t result in large premium increases with your insurance.

While I can’t speak to specific apps alot of times it’s house cleaning stuff.

Maybe some bug that affects a certain number of users is found and fixed. And the update resolves that bit, since you weren’t affect, you don’t notice it.

Other times it’s to include fixes in libraries they’re using. So, for example, a JSON parsing library may have a security fix and they updated their app to use that newer version.

Another could be some behind the scenes api/library updates. Maybe a service they’re using for content (such as interacting with Lemmy) or maps or advertisements is being updated and they need to point their app to the new service address or change how they interact with it.

And of course there could be feature updates but those, usually, would be things you’d notice. Although, in some cases, it may be packaged with the application but waiting for some criteria (a backend service to be ready) or may even be part of A/B testing where some users get one change while others don’t so the developer can see which features are preferred using real data.

Could even be a loose stick of ram.

And the movement they make doesn’t benefit from flippers.

Humans can shift their body forward and kick their legs which flippers can amplify.

If I recall correctly it’s important to be running ECC memory right?

Otherwise corrupter bites/data can cause file system issues or loss.

That’s a great summary. I’ve really enjoyed all of his books.

I can’t wait for December 6th when Wind and Truth releases.

I’m finishing a reread of the Stormlight Archive now.

And the powers, as in all the Cosmere, has limits which balances it out.

No endless pushes, flying, etc. every world has some resources or constraint so you’re not left with a “Superman” kind of scenario.

For a pure magic example

The Mistborn era 1 (books 1-3) are fantasty magic.

Mistborn era 2 (books 4-7) occur hundreds of years later in that worlds “industrial/steam” age. Still, with magic.

So, for example, some allomancers can push or pull on metals. In Era 1 that’s used for combat but also for rapid movement. An allomancer can fall from a wall, throw a coin and “push” off of it causing them to bounce forward and upwards. As they’re starting to reach the azimuth they “pull” the coin, catch it and repeat.

They also in combat throw and then “push” coins or metal fragments like shrapnel.

In Era 2. A sheriff (who’s an allomancer) leaps across a gully, aims and shoots a bullet into a wooden crate and then “pushes” on it to cross it.

Another time during a shootout one “pushes” gunfire away so it deflects around him. Not guaranteed to get all of the bullets but useful in situations like that.

There are other uses and other allomantic abilities but the entire shift of the format was just done phenomenally.

Can’t recommend the Mistborn series enough

Here’s more if you’d like to read about it.

https://www.copyright.gov/engage/visual-artists/

I remember when the DMCA was introduced and all the various issues arising from what and isn’t copyrightable when it comes to digital vs physical copies, etc.

Again I’d like to recommend Leonard French (Lawful Masse) on YouTube and Twitch for a copyright lawyers breakdown of these kinds of issues.