Day 757 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I went and finished the main story. The Main Story makes me just feel the need to ask, why are the main games like 13 sequences? Like, i love the long stories but i find these games with only 9 sequences to also be perfectly serviceable. It definitely helped a lot with playing them back to back and feels a lot less like there was a crunch too.

Also from what i understand, Brotherhood and Revelations were smaller games meant to keep up the annual release of the franchise until 3 was finished. I wish they had kept doing that if they insist on the yearly release. Give us some direct sequels that are smaller in size and scope and give the “big” sequel more time in the oven. I can’t help but feel like having one studio dedicated to an individual release so we get one release a year is hurting the games.

I also wanted to mention that i loved the whole segment with Ezio and Altair. Followed by Ezio talking to Desmond. I love that it’s doing all the weird ass time stuff without messing with time travel. Plus i loved Ezios speech to Desmond.

Anyways, i found a way to get ahold of the DLC for this and play it, so i want to do that. I only have a little bit left at this point to 100% though so i think i want to do that first. The main struggle has just been getting 7 Master Assassins. It’s a lot of waiting around here for them to level up. Admittedly if i was going to do this though i should have done it earlier. This one is kind of on me i feel.

Anyone know of any BeaconLink projects?

community.oppo.com
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Seems this is for One+ and Oppo, but with alt Android OSes like Lineage, would be nice to have it back and available. I’m too dumb to code and prefer not to vibe code it. Unfortunately, I installed lineage almost immediately when I got this phone, and am missing a lot of features I didn’t look into until now.

Edit: since this was for Oppo, One+ received capability with an update, making me think this special protocol would work for anyone’s device. No special hw required. Maybe there’s a way to dump the app/feature files from a ROM to build into an app?

notebookcheck.net/Free-update-gives-OnePlus-phone…

I created "Slingshot Speeders" which is a free browser 2d top down racing game using realistic orbital mechanics

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masland.tech/slingshot-speeders/

No account required! Your goal is to get your orbit into the green zone as quickly as possible using as little fuel as possible. For anyone who’s played games like Kerbal Space Program, you should know exactly the vibe.

If you have any suggestions or feature requests, please let me know. I hope to add PvP real time racing soon with rounds, more chaotic maps that have moving gravity wells, and more! (maybe even combat?) Currently there is a leader board for best score.

It uses Rust Bevy 0.19 and is compiled to WASM in the browser, purely server side authority, impossible to cheat or manipulate the server state from the client side. A full client-server architecture and client prediction system.

Thanks for playing!

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

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Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines A- driven software development. Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce are only a handful of the entities whose access secrets were exposed.

The revelation was posted on Tuesday and Wednesday by security firms CloudSEK and Hudson Rock. CloudSEK said it found cloud keys, repository tokens, SSH keys, Kubernetes secrets, package publishing credentials, environment variables, and AlI provider keys that could allow attackers to gain access to more than 2,500 organizations.

The credentials were extracted during a 40-minute window in March while the victims used compromised versions of LiteLLM downloaded from the package’s official location in the Python Package Index repository. Hudson Rock said it made the discovery after analyzing a 195TB file that it obtained. Neither firm identified the source of the information.

Education through Entertainment -- Encouragement of Climb

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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50591135

In a similar vein as our last “education through entertainment” title, Laid-Back Camp, is Encouragement of Climb (Yama no Susume), another cute-girls-doing-cute-things series, this time about mountain climbing.

As with Laid-Back Camp, Encouragement of Climb features real-world locations, gear, and conditions as pertaining to hiking (such as keeping fed on the trail, and dealing with altitude sickness). The learning imparted by the series is limited to Japanese geography and information about hiking, however Encouragement of Climb features such accuracy and passion about the topic as to land the series squarely in the “educational” category. A successful manga series, it has been adapted into multiple anime seasons as well.

AdGuard promises to keep filtering Facebook ads

The team behind uAssets, the filter lists used by uBlock Origin, says it will stop fixing ad-blocking issues on Facebook. They say Facebook keeps finding ways around new fixes, making the work increasingly difficult to sustain.

This won’t affect AdGuard’s Facebook filters. We maintain our own rules and will continue updating them.

There’s nothing to celebrate here. It shows how hard it is for small, often volunteer-run teams to keep up with tech giants — and how important their work is for everyone who wants more control over what they see online
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From xcancel:

The team behind uAssets, the filter lists used by uBlock Origin, says it will stop fixing ad-blocking issues on Facebook. They say Facebook keeps finding ways around new fixes, making the work increasingly difficult to sustain.

This won’t affect AdGuard’s Facebook filters. We maintain our own rules and will continue updating them.

There’s nothing to celebrate here. It shows how hard it is for small, often volunteer-run teams to keep up with tech giants — and how important their work is for everyone who wants more control over what they see online

uBlock Origin offers some AdGuard rule sets, so I don’t know exactly what this means for existing uBO users.

‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected

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The appeal of Roku is that, whatever you happen to want to watch, there will almost certainly be a live channel for it. Just want to watch Little House on the Prairie? There’s a channel for it. Just want to watch Duck Dynasty? There’s a channel for that too. Purely want to watch nothing but local news from Wisconsin? Guess what: there’s a channel for that too.

But despite this wealth, a section of the population was still to see its needs fulfilled. What about people who hate plot and vision and the sight of people speaking convincing dialogue that synchronises perfectly with the movement of their lips? What about the people who just want to watch an unyielding torrent of eerily weightless nightmare fodder? Well, good news. Roku has finally caught up.

It was reported last week that Roku launched the Fairground AI Creator TV channel, the first free, all-AI streaming channel that pulls content from roughly 100 AI creators around the world. Early reactions were, to put it mildly, not great. The Verge compared it to eating from a trough, while Futurism called it “bottom-of-the-barrel slop”.

In truth, you will not watch Fairground AI Creator TV, and that’s sort of the point. This is television with vanishingly low production costs. Compare an hour of this cheap slop with, say, the tens of millions of dollars it takes to produce an episode of Stranger Things, and you’ll soon understand why executives might find the prospect irresistible. In this landscape you don’t need breakout hits, just enough stoned and curious students at 3am to turn a profit.

That said, I have actually just spent a few hours watching Fairground AI Creator TV, more out of self-hatred than anything else, and it would appear that the early reviews are right. On the plus side, the channel is evidence that artificial intelligence has come on in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years. Had this been attempted in 2023, we would have had a 24/7 feed of mutant Will Smith choking down handfuls of writhing spaghetti, and everyone would have vomited themselves dry. Generally speaking, what Fairground has to offer is much better.

However, it is still awful. Categorically, catastrophically awful. The channel doesn’t so much offer shows as a drifting dreamscape of bad ideas rendered as horribly as possible with no thought paid to scheduling. At one point on Wednesday, a shrill high-frequency anime gave way to a long and staid German-language short about Nazi bureaucracy. After that came a sort of Gladiator ripoff that had all the dynamism of an exhibit you’d see at the fourth-best museum on a poorly planned family holiday.

Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment

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A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Meta to pay $567 million for a fund that would alleviate the “public nuisance” created by its social media services. The order to pay for youth mental health care is in addition to $375 million in civil penalties that a jury ordered Meta to pay earlier in the same case.

[Episode] Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 • Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 4th Season - Episode 12 discussion

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Day 756 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new update with the creature fighting i wanted to enter Orbo (pointed at above) into the arena. I haven’t actually done that yet though because i got side tracked helping a friend with his main quest. I did get to do some other stuff though.

I namely got to make a base for me and my friend to camp out in. What was extra nice was that i had my ship that i built so i could take shelter there until i built the base. One of my favorite things was just sitting here and chilling while waiting on the processor to run.

After my friend set off on his own, i took Orbo out too a moon and decided to actually acquaint myself with the new mechanics. Only, i hadn’t realized how stream lined they were. I noticed the evolution mechanic namely and decided to push towards that as my goal for the day.

My only guess to get the stuff i needed was the store on the Space Station. Turns out though the evolution stuff wasn’t there. So, that ended up being a waste of time. Before next time i think i’m gonna do some research into how to get my hands on that.