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  • 520@kbin.socialtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlcodeStyle
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    7 months ago

    So this looks like it’s based in Java code.

    A public class means that any bit of Java code, including that injected by an attacker, can see and mess with the contents of that class.

    A private class, in contrast, means that other bits of Java code are restricted to running the class’s predefined functions.

    In theory it is supposed to help with the security of the data. In practice if an attacker gets to this point, you’ve got much bigger issues.





  • 520@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlI dislike wayland
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    7 months ago

    Ah yes, everyone who disagrees is a shill. How productive.

    The funny thing is, the people in the comments have done a much better job than you at providing actual arguments as to why Wayland isn’t great.

    But here’s the thing about Wayland: it can and will get better. Unlike X11, the codebase of the various Wayland compositors isn’t 30 years of hack after hack making it an unmaintainable mess.

    If we want to make desktop experiences that rival Windows and MacOS, including future versions, we have to make these kinds of changes. If we want to adapt to changing computing landscapes, we have to make these changes.

    Wayland isn’t perfect but the Linux desktop world is in a much better place with it than without it.




  • Someone would need to know what accounts you have (which are not stored on my email)

    Aren’t they?

    Access to your emails means access to your messages. If I see you get a lot of Amazon email, I can reasonably assume you have an Amazon account.

    Most services send you emails at least on registration.

    then know the password to access them.

    Nope. Because I have your email account. And the usual method for resetting a password is via an email sent to your email account. That I’ve already compromised.

    That’s if they are able to bypass the 2fa I have set on each account that offers it.

    That last part is a pretty big asterisk. Sites that offer it are in the minority still. That also assumes your 2FA method isn’t email.

    And it’s also too bad for them, because I use different email address per account, which can be rotated and changed (if the damn site allows you to update your email).

    You do realise the average person will never do this, right?


  • There was less of everything overall but I thought it was the limit of the console and the possible engineering around it.

    This was indeed the case but not in the way you think it was. Remember that BoTW was developed for the WiiU. The WiiU was substantially less powerful than the Switch.

    Nintendo ERD are no strangers to squeezing every last drop of performance for its target platform. They are absolute fucking wizards. BoTW was absolutely mind blowing as a WiiU game in the same vein that ToTK is mind-blowing as a Switch game. They used every possible facet of the target console’s abilities to get the results they did, and every new thing in ToTK is a result of the Devs having better specs to work with.

    For example the fact that we weren’t using discs any more meant that the loading from the surface to the Depths could be relatively seamless, as card read speeds eclipse that of Blu Ray.

    The boost from 1.5GB to 3GB of operating RAM meant that more things could be added to the world, including more enemy types and the sky islands.

    The Switch also gets a considerable boost over the WiiU with regards to CPU and GPU power too, though it isn’t as dramatic. What it really has over the WiiU is access to more complex rendering modes, and these are used to address issues some had in BoTW like draw distance.