2023 Reddit Refugee

On Decentralization:

“We no longer have choice. We no longer have voice. And what is left when you have no choice and no voice? Exit.” - Andreas Antonopoulos

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your favorite game consoles?English
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    6 months ago

    The first 3-D gaming consoles. What an era. I had the N64 in the late 90s and was lucky enough to get a used PS1 in the early 2000s.

    Mario 64 was the best for me. That opening title screen where you could stretch Mario’s face was hysterical. And then the opening cinematic was so breathtaking, just having that 3-D camera navigate around, with a musical crescendo ending with Mario Yahooing out of the warp pipe. I’ve never been so blown away seeing 3-D gaming. Then came Star Fox, and Ocarina of Time - Magical experiences that I’m getting goosebumps just reminiscing about them.

    And of course PS1 when I got to play FF7. Wow. While I hated the graphics (apart from cinematic) since I got this console late into the end of the N64 generation, this was a formative game.

    Getting all nostalgic here for simpler times. Having the magic of extremely senior and experienced devs bumping out amazing 2D masterpiece games on SNES, only to immediately shift into 3-D was great. Great time for gaming… before the dark times… before Horse Armor, live service, pay to play, “cut-and-paste-apology-letter-we-promise-to-do-better” broken games, and FOMO battle passes.

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your favorite game consoles?English
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    6 months ago

    Shout out to the 3DS. What an amazing portable! I have so many memories with it, and it was the only gaming device I carried with me EVERYWHERE because of street pass and spot pass. I bought all the bundle games for StreetPass because it was so much fun having iterative improvement with visitors to your 3DS. Integration into other mainline games was pretty great too.

    Not everything took advantage of the 3D aspect, but the games I played creatively innovated with it and provided new perspectives to solving puzzles.

    I freaking love my 3DS. Right now Steam Deck has surpassed it, but man what an era of gaming.

    Note: If you’re nostalgic for StreetPass, look up “Street Pass 2”. Despite Nintendo shuttering all the services, you can still work your way around and get StreetPasses to your console, but you’ll have to homebrew it.

    Other runner ups: SNES (I was a kid that wasted away on that console), Wii, Wii U. I used to throw Wii Guitar Hero parties with friends. Great times.

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    10 months ago

    The fastest method is contacting Bitwarden as another user mentioned. Bitwarden can discuss your options and may be able to help you recover access to your vault if you have emergency access setup for a trusted user or were on an enterprise plan. The second fastest method is starting over and changing the passwords to all the accounts you can remember or have bookmarked.

    Because of entropy, a pass phrase is extremely hard to “crack”. It would take a modern computer hundreds of millions of years nonstop to typically crack a pass phrase. Just ask people who hold Bitcoin and lost their 12 or 24 word passphrase (seed) if they were able to recover their BTC. If your passphrase was 24 words like a BTC passphrase, increase the recovery time to several billion years. No, this is not an exaggeration.

    Since you believe you know the starting letter of the missing word (and this assumes you’re 100% sure, there’s always risk your memory is wrong), you could start by using every word in the English dictionary that starts with that letter (would take you years). Hopefully all the other words are correct and you haven’t misremembered them or placed them out of order. If any word is out of order, unfortunately increase your recovery time to several million years. The other wrench in this problem is that Bitwarden vaults are not readily able to be brute forced. I won’t go into the specifics, but passphrases are not stored in “plain text”, but rather in “hashes”, which is kind of like a “fingerprint” of a file in that every file has a unique “fingerprint”. Bitwarden won’t let you constantly slam your vault stored on their servers with brute-force password attempts. You’ll have to figure out how to setup your own environment, using your encrypted vault, that would allow you to brute-force that local environment with your passphrase attempts, and set up a system that allows you to iterate until you have a matching hash. Since you’re asking for “a program to assist in guessing passwords”, I’m going to assume you’re probably not equipped to set up a local environment on your own and probably never locally backed up an encrypted archive of your online vault. So again, contacting Bitwarden is best.

    Finally, the purpose of a password manager is to have only one password or passphrase to write down (not remember, but write down). Never, ever trust your memory, because human memory is fallible - one fall to the ground and hitting your head could wipe out your memory or cognitive function. You didn’t even fall, and as you can see, you forgot your passphrase. Write your next passphrase on paper in graphite pencil (pencil lead last thousands of years longer than ink) and store it in a fireproof safe. If you want to be extra sure, you can stamp it in stainless steel. Don’t store things in lock boxes at banks - banks have a tendency to lose your stuff, or if they shut down they have no obligation to provide you the contents of your lock box. Don’t take pictures of it, don’t store it in an encrypted note on your phone, don’t cleverly try to split it into parts or store it in a book by underlining one letter of a certain a page, etc. Keep it simple, keep it safe for your future self - write it down and store it.

    Best of luck to you.

    https://bitwarden.com/help/forgot-master-password/

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•With the advances of medicine in the coming millennium casual conversations might be like "I'm 245", "Oh, I'm 332", "Damn, I'm just 119"English
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    11 months ago

    I don’t see this happening. Our organic bodies begin to dramatically deteriorate before we come anywhere close to age 100. We’ll have to stave off natural cellular deterioration with medicine and special treatments to prolong our lives now. None of those exist today - we only have surgeries to make ourselves look younger, and take certain steps to stay more healthy as we age. We haven’t beaten cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. Being wealthy today doesn’t solve those problems.

    Provided humanity doesn’t kill ourselves off by fighting against ourselves or losing the war against microplastics and global warming over the next 10,000 years, I see us migrating to a new form of existence. That may involve two branches: We become cyborgs, or we merge ourselves into the digital realm, effectively leaving our organic bodies completely behind.

    Our advances in robotics and prosthetics is quite likely to be the more preferred approach. If we could keep our brains alive and somehow transplant our synaptic makeup safely into a new mechanical body, we’ll dramatically extend our lives (until natural brain cells begin to break down and we cease to exist or become someone entirely different).

    The less likely approach is to upload ourselves into the digital realm, whatever that looks like. We already have a distributed, decentralized, and global internet. We’re experimenting with VR, and we’re starting to begin layering the digital world on top of the physical world via the use of Augmented Reality. Over time, perhaps we’ll be able to terraform the digital world and be able to achieve 1:1 digital likenesses of ourselves (an example would be seen in Sword Art Online, where humans put on a headset that transfers their consciousness into the Digital VR world where you can smell, taste, touch, etc, and would virtually be unable to distinguish the VR world from the human world). The brain after all is electrical impulses of prodigious complexity. We certainly should be able to replicate that ability, but the programming will have to dramatically transform into something we’ve never seen before. ChatGPT and “AI” are precursors to that evolution in our ability to one day emulate, and dare I say replicate, actual sentience. But we’ll need to build a new programming language that computers can understand and execute autonomous instructions that are not based on statistics or logical expressions - it would have to be similar to thinking, or true AI. We are nowhere close to that.

    Unfortunately any of us here reading this won’t be alive when any of this happens, but that’s where I see humanity going. We won’t be able to extend our organic bodies due to organic decay. If we do not become cyborgs or somehow migrate our existence into the digital realm, then evolution is the next step. Humans would have to evolve over the next million years in order to have longer organic lives, or we’d have to be able to splice our genes with animals that can live longer like certain tortoises. Then we’d be a new branch of human that moves on from the homo sapien line.