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  • Played both as a kid and found them really cool

    0 desire to touch them nowadays and wouldn’t recommend younger people to experience them

    And it’s not like I don’t like the old games I played back then, I play a lot of Super Mario World from time to time (though in fairness exclusively ROMhacks except about every 10 years where I look at the original again). Sonic Adventure for me just didn’t age well.

    But that’s fine, not every game has to be a timeless classic. I have good memories of the games and that’s what’s important



  • Laser@feddit.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldMatrix 2.0 Is Here!
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    15 days ago

    What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

    Your organization can’t host a federated Signal server, and email isn’t private.

    Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?

    My previous organization has used it for over 4 years without issues, however mostly limited to text.

    How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

    Simply using? Not very much, basically like Lemmy.



  • And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

    I’m in favor of more of them, but I don’t think the current ones aren’t working. It was clear from the beginning that they’d be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They’re not using it so sanctions get worse.


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    20 days ago

    Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

    I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

    And then what? They’ll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn’t he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

    The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

    One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.


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    20 days ago

    We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.

    We have entered that territory at least 10 years ago.

    The rest I agree with. But I also think this is in fact the right move: you need to create pressure that hurts both the leadership and the people.






  • Laser@feddit.orgtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comIt's all in the name
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    1 month ago

    A secret police is something different from officers without uniforms. A secret police is an instrument of the ruling party to oppress opposition and are part of a “justice” system outside of the official one, e.g. secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don’t have to be revealed) and you’ll be put into a secret prison where your relatives can’t find you. The fact that they don’t wear uniforms goes beyond why regular police goes it: it’s to create an atmosphere of fear that everyone around you could be secret police, and that they can just arrest you, and there’s nothing you can do.