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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • I’m not saying you should trust every VPN provider. Some have shown to be nore trustworthy than others. Police have raided their datacenrers and not gotten anything (no logs). And they have gone to courts and said they don’t keep that info. However if you don’t trust your ISP, and purely use a VPN, the only info your ISP will get is that you use a VPN. Your encrypted bank packet that they saw before is now an encrypted vpn packet. The vpn will see the encrypted bank packet, but youmre right, you have to trust that they have more to gain by not looking and selling than they gain by selling your info and losing customers.






  • While your ISP can’t see everything, they can see metadata. They can see which websites you go to, which social media you use the most, where you bank, where you shop, etc. How much do you think it would take for your ISP to sell that data? If you happen to live somewhere there are laws againat that, you are slightly less at risk. Fines are only a deterrant if they’re more than what’s being offered for your data.

    That being said, this only protects you against your ISP or other purely ipaddress based info gatherers. Apps/social media/websites don’t purely use ipaddresses to track you.




  • If you don’t shy away from python, I just use the requests library most of the time:

    homeserver_url = “XXX”

    access_token = “XXX”

    room_id = “!XXX”

    url = f{homeserver_url}/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/send/m.room.message"

    headers = {“Authorization”: f"Bearer {access_token}",“Content-Type”: “application/json”,}

    data = “msgtype”: “m.text”,“body”: “Question of the day!”,}

    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

    Alternatively I also have a bot I use in NodeRed connected to Home Assistant.

    Double Alternatively, I’ve used AppRise successfully within various tools like ChangeDetection to notify me via matrix.



  • Depending on how you make the game some launchers can make sense. You can set display options before launching the game. Back in ye olden times some games would launch by default in a set resolution which often made changing that in-game difficult as it would be off screen. Also makes your first time launching it a better experience than some low-res garbage. Also, without a platform like steam they can handle updates.

    That being said, I don’t think most modern games need those functions. Graphics engines are pretty good at getting screen resolution from your os (not perfect). And platforms handle patches and updates.

    Now they’re mostly there to gather metrics and shove ads in your face, and enforce drm.





  • I agree with the truck mechanic. The map would have been too big without them. I also would have been cool with a fast travel mechanic from one unlocked safe zone to another.

    My biggest complaint was arrow retrieval. It’s not just me, but it’s either bugged or only working worse than DL1. Arrow retrieval for me is 1 in 20. I loved DL1 bow/arrows. I’d run around and gather a big group, jump up somewhere high and rain down headshots, and retrieve most if my spent arrows.