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Yeah, grandma’s been sending me those ‘good luck’ chain mails since the nineties, and I’ve still not seen any luck at all.

Here you go, ‘Walking on Thin Ice’, the last song recorded by John Lennon. With Tony Levin on the bass.

Kefir is great for complaints from the stomach. And great in general.

It’s in base 36.

That was in fact one of the original propositions of communism.

Languages accepted by the user is like the second header in http. It’s in all your requests.

Is that community blocked on .world? Can’t find any certain info on that, only the list of blocked instances — but Voyager doesn’t show anything in that community.

For Firefox:

Auto Tab Discard: makes living with a hundred open tabs manageable.

Copy Selected Tabs to Clipboard: allows copying the tab title + address in various formats like Markdown. (There’s also an addon like this for links, I forget what it’s called.)

Imgur redirect blocker, Load Reddit Images Directly: block the webpage wrapping for images on Imgur and Reddit

Leechblock NG: blocks specified sites after a certain time spent on them. Useful for Reddit and such.

Lemmy Keyboard Navigation: a sliver of the functionality of Reddit Enhancement Suite

Save In: to quickly drop an image or a file download into a particular directory under the downloads folder

Search By Image: self-explanatory

Swift Selection Search: when text is selected, shows a popup to search it on various sites. Useful to invoke Wikipedia, Wiktionary, IMDb, etc.

Temporary Containers: like a private window, but in tabs instead, and with multiple private sessions at once. Plus the tabs survive browser restart.

Viewhance: proper image viewer in the browser, with zooming, rotating, etc.

Stylus and ViolentMonkey: to patch looks and behavior on sites that I use often.

‘Antiyoy’ is a simple strategy game, fit well for shortish sessions. Free and with minimal permissions. Iirc ‘Antiyoy Classic’ is offline-only, while the regular one has multiplayer.

‘Diplicity’ is a multiplayer-only (afaik) strategy like ‘Risk’, but with zero element of chance, only diplomacy. However the games can be rather slow, from what I’ve heard.

‘Fabularium’ is an app for running text-adventure games — one of many such apps, but I like it because it supports modern game formats. You’ll need to download the games themselves elsewhere, mainly from ifdb.org — there are a lot of games, some of them with quite novel mechanics.

‘Hocus’ is a geometrical puzzle with impossible shapes. Iirc additional levels are paid.

I’ve heard that ‘Mindustry’ is a good open-source clone of ‘Factorio’, but idk how it plays on a phone screen.

I’m guessing things might’ve changed since then, as this story is pretty old. I doubt it that they gotten newer versions of Cellebrite to screw them again.

Vulnerable software is different from malware.

Iirc there was also the part of the story where the exploit for Cellebrite’s thing was included in Signal, and Marlinspike said that data on any device scanning Signal with Cellebrite software would be poisoned.

There’s of course also ‘Lorem ipsum’, which might be too well-known, and rather obscure ‘Hamburgevons’.

In web development, it’s customary to create a user named something like Constantine Constantinovich Constantinopolsky and see that the interface accommodates it everywhere.

I struggle to choose a name that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb

A buddy of mine played many Western fantasy RPGs, and christened the characters with various elegant and dreamy names, until he started ‘World of Warcraft’ and met two guys called ‘Foot in my Mouth’ and ‘Get Yer Hands Off’. After that, his characters were named something like ‘Bitten by a Shark’.

Some racing games, and in particular the third-party app Crew Chief, allow the player to either set a name or choose an addressing like ‘dude’. I don’t like using a personal name, so my racing engineer says stuff like “an incident in turn five, mate”.

Similar to the classic, Etaoin Shrdlu.

Actually, when I played ‘OpenTTD’, i.e. the remake of ‘Transport Tycoon’, I wanted the game to broadcast telemetry of my enterprise’s economy, so I could dump it into a spreadsheet and gawk at the numbers. This indeed could’ve also been a second-monitor activity (or rather, second computer since I played on a tablet).

Try ‘Wreckfest’: it’s similar to ‘Burnout’, but with better physics. Also ‘Circuit Superstars’ for a top-down racer with decent physics, pit stops, and multiplayer.

There are also ‘The Crew 2’ and ‘The Crew Motorfest’, ‘Tokyo Xtreme Racer’, ‘Asphalt Legends’, ‘Formula Legends’, ‘iRacing Arcade’, and of course ‘Forza Horizon’ 4/5 — but I haven’t played any of these, so ymmv.

SuperTuxKart is alright, from what I understand. They’re also making a new version apparently. Though I’m not into karting arcades, so dunno for sure how it compares.

When I was replaying ‘HL2’ around ten years ago, I ran around the whole map looking for where I can get outside of the plot course, especially in the slower parts of the levels. This culminated in me driving the hoverboat up a three-meter-high wooden platform, falling from that platform myself, and not being able to climb up again to get the boat. After which I had to run from the attack helicopter on foot, and swim by myself later on that level.

I use about the same approach in the original ‘Deus Ex’, which I’ve been replaying recently: investigating every nook and cranny, being 100% stealthy, trying to go where the game shouldn’t allow me to be. I actually found an exit from a scripted part of a level where only one path is normally possible — though there was nothing to do outside of that part. The game also gives experience points for getting into some remote or secret places.