ruleryak · HackerTrans

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If you're like me, basically everything other than search results in a search engine is noise. To that end, I direct my Google searches directly to the "web" tab of the results. This chops off news, shopping, video, images, etc from the initial results you see but you can still change to those tabs just as easily as ever. In your browser's settings just find the option to manage search engines, add a new one, and set the url to use to https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 and you land on results. No AI misinterpretation of what you're looking for. No confident nonsense that directly contradicts reality sitting at the top of the page. No judgement or chiding (Google's results AI has flat out told me my opinion sucks mid-search more times than I'd like to admit). Just results.

ruleryak

letzten Monatdiscuss

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ruleryak

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

lol, yeah - we got really good at tearing down the public space and getting everything into the container truck and then pulling it back out and building again. Party for whatever portion of the day we could, and then speed-run the teardown when the first drops of rain started coming down.

ruleryak

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Last year was tough - it rained for hours 5 nights in a row and the first rain night was accompanied by 70 mile an hour winds that did a massive amount of damage to camp infrastructure throughout the city. The roads in half the city were ruined by emergency traffic that kept on running throughout the storms, and the result was a lumpy nightmare that shook things loose from cars and bikes at a much higher rate than most years. The mud absorbed and hid things and made cleanup a far more grueling process than it usually is. We endured and did our best to still find and remove everything - breaking up mud clumps and raking/sifting through the dirt at the end of the week to find all that embedded trash. There are no public trash cans, no event dumpsters, etc. I can say from having been there almost every year since 07 that this was by far the hardest year for "mooping" - the process of spotting and picking up any item that shouldn't be on the ground - but that the group mindset endured and we somehow still trended downward in terms of overall trash.

I think the main difference between this and 2023 (the previous "mud burn") was that this time we had all the rain in the first half of the event, and then had relatively great weather for the second half. In 23, it closed out with the mud and people fleeing, leading to a spike.

ruleryak

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Completely asinine take. Blanket statements like AI is a scam and AI is not useful and AI is not actually AI at all... what a complete joke. We're using it every single day to accomplish tasks successfully at a scale and speed that wasn't possible even a few years ago. Fact. It's happening every hour of every day with more people figuring it out all the time. Richard Carrier is a contrarian lunatic, and he's applying his same flawed methodology of conclusion first, evidence never to the greatest technological revolution in human history.

ruleryak

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Many a crack back in the day was even more simple still, we'd just find and alter the right JE or JNE into a JMP and we're off to the races. As the author found, the tough part is just finding and interpreting where and how the protection was implemented. If throwing the exe in a hex editor gave you access to String Data References (not always the case, but more common than not) then you'd just fail the check you were trying to skip, find that string, hop over into assembly to see what triggered loading that, and then just alter the logic to jump over it when the time comes.

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