Havatra

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Steam Deal: 90% off on Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection. $2! Come on, you can fit it into your budget. lol. historic low btw. just sayin'. in c/gamedeals@lemmy.zip
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is a steal! Can recommend these classic games; lots of fun! And for Red Alert 2, I can recommend the Mental Omega mod for an extra experience and challenge!

russian-speaking or learning language buddy? in c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Здравствуйте! Я с удовольствием помогу! I'm also trying to learn, but am still only on A1 level.

I'd say a native speaker can possibly help a lot, but they need a certain aptitude in teaching language for it to be effective, imho. I've lived in Estonia for some years now, and have native Russian speakers for friends. They can help at correcting and introducing words and sentences, but explaining and teaching the grammar and structure of the language in a manner that is efficient is challenging.

Growing up with a language, there are a lot of things that feel "natural" to you. One such thing in Russian is which case to use where: You ask yourself questions like "to/by what/whom", and the answer yields the correct case. This doesn't make sense to someone who is learning the language, and they have no way of explaining how something "sounds" correct. Therefore you just have to learn it by heart.

I've recently signed up for classes at Tartu University, and I'm hopeful of getting to practice with people who are at the same level as me, so we can cooperate on figuring out of things.

I'd love more language friends! :D Let's share our resources and achievements!

No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I use it on Android all the time. I don't do a lot of advanced web browsing on my phone, but it works fine, doesn't it?

Ressources for unkown person having dark thoughts in c/Help_Others@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

There are many helplines for mental health, try and figure out where they are situated and provide them with the number to call. Ensure to be non-judgmental in the way you make contact, and don't push it onto them if they don't want/seek to help themselves (they might further shut themselves in).

The first step is always to realize it's a problem, and that will only happen when they feel safe enough to look at themselves as someone who "doesn't need to be strong" and tackle life alone.

It's difficult to know concretely what approach will be the most successful, and how to not be considered a potential threat by them, but I recommend the general kind approach: No judgment, a caring voluntary offer, and no obligations or time pressure.

I'm no professional, but I've had some events in my life. I hope this helps!

Denmark plans to severely restrict social media use for young people in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"tarded"? Exemplary childish personal attack there.

I think what they were referring to was the people doing the brainwashing, and general indiscriminate use of online services where they disregard consequences outside of their bubble.

It's a hard thing to measure, of course. But I think long-term the effort is better focused on the young indeed, and not the old farts at the end of their life.

Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A Hummer in Tokyo?! Honestly that's impressive, considering the width of most non-main roads there. But still, why would one need such a car in such a place? Tokyo works even better without a car at all, imho.

High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

No mention of which products, and no link to the study..?

Edit: Study is in post; thanks OP!

Just: a command runner in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally I find Navi better to use for the purpose of "not having to remember commands". It also provides a description of the command, fuzzy search, and essentially pastes the command in the current terminal, not having to think about current directory or user.

Just is essentially a collection of aliases, while Navi is a collection of pre-written commands in full length (with optional description).

Charging non-Europeans more to visit Louvre is discrimination, says major French union in c/world@quokk.au
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, it's discrimination per the definition of the word:

treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit

However, they should be at full liberty to do this, and it's not wrong any more than e.g. certain passport holders having to apply for a visa, or restaurants which have a dress code.

What are your flaws based on what other people say? in c/casualconversation@piefed.social
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

I first read "why" instead of "what", and it got me thinking, why do I base so much of my opinion about myself on what others say about me? Must be something about being social creatures and survival through society or some such.

Anyways, I feel like there are few things I haven't been called. To my face, I've been called argumentative, annoying, tiring, blabberbox, masochist, ignorant, dismissive, careless, dysfunctional, autistic, emotionless, ambitionless, indifferent, and even psychopathic, to mention a few. Nevertheless, I keep my chin up and try to do my best, ever improving, as that's all one can do really. We're not all compatible, and that's okay.

However, I've also been called a lot of good things, which are important not to forget nor dismiss! Like caring, friendly, honest, hospitable, crazy (the good kind), unique, intelligent, realistic, disciplined, humble, responsible, and proper.

The other day I was told I am both 50 and 15, sometimes even 5.

People who have moved away from your home town/area, what do you miss most? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I moved from a decently sized city (100k inhabitants) to a small city (10k inhabitants) in a different country. I enjoy the more peaceful environment, but I miss being able to casually greet and talk with random strangers, as I don't know the language here and very few people here know English. It was so much easier to find events and things to do when I knew what everyone around me were talking about, and the posters were easy to read. I oftentimes find myself using a translating app, but it's a hassle, comparatively.

Are there any selfharm-communites on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Despite there not being a lot of activity in the communities mentioned in the comments here, I think posting there might still yield some results. Even if just a single individual engages with you, that single individual may very well turn out to be a great conversation partner.

I've personally had some quite deep and dark conversations myself, and one good individual can in many cases be "sufficient".

I hope that you find some cool people out there, and keep up the hunt for achievements in both games and life!

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Why are people using the "þ" character? (lemmy.zip)
 

It might be specific to Lemmy, as I've only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can't possibly be easier than just writing "th"? And in many comments I see "th" and "þ" being used interchangeably.

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Poland launches deposit-refund system for drinks bottles and cans (notesfrompoland.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37017069

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Hak5 holding a contest for their WiFi Pineapple Pager ringtone using RTTTL (youtu.be)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47763401

Link to the contest: https://hak5.org/contest (Google Forms)

Submissions are due by September 26, 2025 and must be in Ring Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL). Multiple entries are accepted.
Entries will be judged on originality and suitability. Composers should reference the RTTTL Specification and will find this online player / RTTTL composer quite helpful.

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Hak5 holding a contest for their WiFi Pineapple Pager ringtone using RTTTL (youtu.be)
 

Link to the contest: https://hak5.org/contest (Google Forms)

Submissions are due by September 26, 2025 and must be in Ring Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL). Multiple entries are accepted.
Entries will be judged on originality and suitability. Composers should reference the RTTTL Specification and will find this online player / RTTTL composer quite helpful.

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Lynx-R1 Headset Makers Release 6DoF SLAM Solution As Open Source (hackaday.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/37907

Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.

Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.

The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)

As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.

A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.

It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.

From Blog – Hackaday via this RSS feed

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Looking for: Browser extension for intercepting and modifying HTTP req/res (lemmy.zip)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42291691

Good day! I'm looking for is a way of creating rules to intercept, modify, drop, and replace HTTP requests and responses, hopefully even with regex(or similar) capabilities.

The best extension I've found that seems to suit those needs is Requestly. However, it seems like they have some shady practices of bought/bot reviews, like here on AlternativeTo.net, where you can see the review are made by accounts that are created the same day of the review, and never used since. The same pattern can be found on ProductHunt.
Is there perhaps an audit of their Github repo somewhere?

I've also looked at apps like mitmproxy, but I was hoping for a solution that is in-browser.

I know that Firefox and Chromium has the built-in dev tools for this, but this is only applied with the dev tools actively open; I'm looking for a more persistent solution.

Please let me know if this is not the place to ask, and if there are other places I should try and look instead/also.

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Looking for: Browser extension for intercepting and modifying HTTP req/res (lemmy.zip)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Havatra@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Good day! I'm looking for is a way of creating rules to intercept, modify, drop, and replace HTTP requests and responses, hopefully even with regex(or similar) capabilities.

The best extension I've found that seems to suit those needs is Requestly. However, it seems like they have some shady practices of bought/bot reviews, like here on AlternativeTo.net, where you can see the review are made by accounts that are created the same day of the review, and never used since. The same pattern can be found on ProductHunt.
Is there perhaps an audit of their Github repo somewhere?

I've also looked at apps like mitmproxy, but I was hoping for a solution that is in-browser.

I know that Firefox and Chromium has the built-in dev tools for this, but this is only applied with the dev tools actively open; I'm looking for a more persistent solution.

Please let me know if this is not the place to ask, and if there are other places I should try and look instead/also.

Edit

My goal is to do something to the effect of uBlock Origin, but instead of just blocking/hiding, either replace with local files, or intercept req/res in order to manipulate them favorably, without being detected. I don’t know what uBlock does under the hood though, apart from its resource blocking and CSS-derived hiding.

Example: Watching a video on youtube, an ad is about to get loaded, but instead of the hiding/blocking strategy uBlock uses, intercept the GET/POST, save the important flags that are uniquely served to your device that would indicate that you have successfully been served the ad, drop the rest, and then answer with what would be a valid response for “I have watched the ad in its entirety”. So the server basically saying “Here, I give you this page and this script with both vital and ad contents. I now expect you to provide the corresponding hash that these two files will create through a series of functions. If you don’t, I will assume you’re blocking me, and I won’t provide further contents.”, and I’ll simply respond with “Here’s your hash! wink”.

Essentially, I wish to experiment with trying to be completely invisible in the blocking, by providing responses as if I have loaded and watched the ad, with all anti-adblock implementations through scripts and dynamic loading “intact” and unaware.

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