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Got me surprised when I realized it is a browser game. Driving off-road in Hills gives Just Cause 3 wingsuit over fields vibes.

Feedback, Off-World was incredibly laggy.

Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:58AM (#32798889)
Enforceable where? How? An agreement with an exchange of value is not always enforceable either. So, although I too hope exchange of value would add more legitimacy to an agreement, it is not always the case.
Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:43PM (#31562190)
I literally had to reinstall this to a new free instance on Saturday after getting my instance deleted accidentally.

I have been tracking and exporting backups of my finances using Firefly since 2020. I am young, my finances are nothing fancy, they are mostly credit card purchases, my salary, and my rent.

I love the flexibility of personally serving this on a dedicated server. Similar to the other commenter it consumes a lot of my time too. I tried to automate by writing small custom shortcuts in Apple Shortcuts for repeated things like posting a grocery purchase. Firefly has a comprehensive API, I have widgets on my homescreen showing my credit card balances at all times etc.

I like knowing how much I spend on grocery each month, how much I spent clothing last year vs this year, the effect of having a Costco membership. It is fun and I am sure in the next 10 years it will be so much more interesting looking at data from early years.

Re:Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:29PM (#31372723)
Exactly what I felt. I got to learn about Flipper Zero a couple days ago and since then I see it online everywhere.

I always wanted to "jailbreak" the NFC cards and key fobs I get from work and apartments. This minimal device seems fun and functional.

Probably thats why if you search on eBay there are a lot of scalpers.

Re:Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:38AM (#31049537)
I wrote my graduate school thesis on Intel SGX. I was not a good student in grad school, my thesis was not some innovative thing but now it is completely useless.

Edit: There is another comment linking an article from Intel saying SGX is full steam ahead in Xeon. Yay my thesis is not useless!

I always wonder what the real effects of these kind of blocks.

For even average users of the internet, it was easy to overcome this block by just putting a "0" in front of the domain name. 0wikipedia.org is a clone of wikipedia and it was accessible.

WHOIS search shows 0wikipedia domain name was created on 4 May 2017, just five days after the block.

I am a Turkish grad student in the US. Whenever I visited Turkey, I would get surprised by the error page, remember that it was blocked and overcome it by just putting a "0" in the domain name.