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  • groet@feddit.orgtopics@lemmy.world•Lima Peru
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    2 months ago

    Lima is … difficult. Its a gigantic city growing well beyond its own capabilities and infrastructure. 99% of houses are unpainted brick without a proper roof and cables just hanging out. There is so much poverty, stray dogs and smell of piss even in the touristy areas. During more than half the year you will not see the sun because it is always covered in haze and smog (dust from the desert + cold moist air from the ocean). The outskirts growing into the desert are the most depressing sight of human existence I have ever seen.

    The bike lanes are nice but limited to Miraflores (the tourist main quarter). Baranco is very nice and artsy, as are some of the rich areas. There are very nice restaurants, theatres, museums etc if that is your thing though. And if you spend some time in more rural Peru, returning to a modern city with shoping malls can be nice too.

    All in all I would not recommend going to Lima as your destination when going to Peru. Stay for 2-3 days then get the fuck out of there to the actually beautiful cities like Arequipa.


  • Brothers: a tale of two sons

    You play two characters at the same time. The left half of the controler for one brother, the right for the other. Many (not so) special abilities can only be done by one brother and the corresponding button is on that side of the controller. Its a short game that can only truly be experienced once so beware the spoiler!

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    At some point the older brother dies. You now only use half the controller until the surviving brother overcomes his fear of swimming, which was an ability of the (now) dead brother. Just standing in front of the water and realising that I have to use the dead-brother-controlls to control the alive brother was mind blowing. Its also really emotional to a point that would not be possible without that twist. Using a button that was assigned to the dead brother just elevates the feeling of growth of the alive younger brother





  • That is just factually incorrect. Many plants produce the exact molecules or proteins that are used as hormones in humans. Hormones do much much more than influence breast size. In fact most hormones are completely unrelated to gender and sex. Ever felt stressed? Hormones. Ever felt hungry? Hormones. Actually … ever felt anything at all? Hormones. And plants do the same. They also feel stressed and they use some of the same hormones in the process.








  • That is not the point of TPM only unlock. Tell me, can you access the files on a windows system that automatically unlocks bitlocker and then boots to the windows login screen? What can you read without a user password? If you try to boot a different OS and read the data from there, the bitlocker encrypted drive will not be automatically unlocked.

    Bitlocker TPM only mode is ment to protect against a stolen hard drive and attacks in which the whole laptop is accessed by attackers (like someone breaking into your hotel room while you are at breakfast). Now bitlocker is broken in TPM only mode and many vulnerabilities exist, but conceptually its purpose is not only to protect against a stolen hard drive.


  • To expand: both bitlocker and LUKS (what OP probably uses on Linux) can unlock without userinput from TPM or require a user password or use the TPM and a password. Its just the defaults are different. In all cases, the TPM/passwords are used to decrypt the Volume Master Key that is used to de/encrypt the actual disk. If you change your password you don’t have to reencrypt 2TB of hard drive and wait 20+h.

    With TPM only unlock, secure boot/verified boot is used to ensure the hard disk is accessed using the correct operating system and no meaningful changes have been made to the system since the last boot. With bitlocker, several vulnerabilities in bitlocker allow full decryption in TPM only mode because windows is fundamentally broken. So you should always use pin+TPM unlock.

    PS. about the encrypted user data: that is not part of bitlocker. It encrypts the whole drive and that’s it. DPAPI is a windows component that encrypts some user data with the user password. For example chrome cookies are saved in DPAPI so even an administrator can not read your cookies while you are not logged in to the system (if you log in they can read everything)