Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

on top of that, unlike catchup mechanics in games, it's something we opt into with gear

we know what we are hoping for when we equip last ditch effort, and we are explicitly investing in a main of gear dependence that won't even proc if we do exceptionally well

and for it, the game is just more exciting for us, everyone we play with, and anyone who might be watching!

i can't even be upset about this because coming back from the brink of a knockout with a clean sweep as the timer is ticking down the last 30 seconds feels incredible

the more skilled and coordinated team is still going to win, but also that kind of push and pull makes matches absolutely intoxicating

i don't know why it didn't occur to me sooner

because like, early pushes that nearly knock-out, but don't are extremely common, and so are the snapback victories that often happen immediately afterwards

also pretty much everyone i know runs last ditch effort

HMMM

as a testament to the strength of gear abilities, i've thought, literally since the release of the game, that i had this terrible habit of getting complacent when i had an early lead, causing me to play more defensively and get steamrolled

turns out, i may have just underestimated last ditch effort

@lila ahah, oh my gosh

i should have looked closer. disinformation at a scale no kidding

@Wunkolo there's a fun balance with federation policy too!

like, i enjoy drawing things! but i'm also on a whitelist-only instance, meaning that even though i'm safe from certain types of people--i'm also more insulated, so significantly fewer people even have the chance to see anything i do

this trade-off is worth it for me right now! but it would be a much bigger problem if i relied on commissions as a source of income--and it really does show why someone might want to stick to birdsite

@monorail ahh! i definitely did the most theorycrafting in gen 6, when i wanted to make a competitive team with a lot of pokemon that weren't tiered high on smogon (and mawile, because i love mawile)

so there's a lot of changes since then that i completely missed

@monorail oh huh! you're right

it looks like it was bumped from a 75% cut to a 50% one in gen 7!

@monorail (in case someone reads this without knowing what it does, it also cuts speed by 75%! meaning you can outspeed things otherwise-colossally stronger than you)

@monorail gosh, paralysis used to be the least useful and most intermittent free turn effect imaginable to me

but now, it's basically the "oh hey! now i can topple teams 3 times my level if they don't know what's up" status effect

@codl ohh! that heavy splatling one looks ready to gooo

splatoon pokemon will never not be Kind Of The Best Thing

thrilled to discover how many artists i appreciate are actually good people

is there a name for when someone you've paid attention to for years milkshake ducks, but only for you specifically because you learned the language they were spewing their garbage in?

oh my. i feel like we might be in for some fireworks when usenix security 2023 starts

https://wrv.github.io/h26forge.pdf

tl;dr - h.264, the most ubiquitous video standard on the planet needs direct hardware support to be fast, which places untrusted input at a higher privilege level than pretty much anything

also, the specification for it is so big, and implemented independently by so many different vendors that simply by making a library to mess with it, new exploits basically flowed like water

@ticky@octodon.social ooh! this is a tricky one. my first thought is pretty messy, but maybe pieces of it might be usable~

so, shizuku uses the same permission as tasker's adb wifi in order to do privileged actions, which means you can actually use tasker to shut down your stuff too! (it's the "restart" action set to "shutdown")

that doesn't get around the reboot permission issue of course--it just means you might need one fewer puzzle piece to get what you're hoping for

as for the adb permission reset on reboot; save for attaching a pi zero to your quest to accept adb connections, i feel like your best bet probably is to find a way to get autoinput, unfortunately (but i could give you the tasker author's email if you wanted to try that!)

that said, if you don't wanna do that, and are okay with possibly a lot of extra work, another option could be to grab a wireless mouse/keyboard app, sniff its traffic, and then just replay it to simulate the input to shut down maybe? if you can't find any of those, vnc servers or other remote access apps may work too

if you grab a capture from one of those, it might literally only be a matter of redirecting the input file into netcat pointed at localhost in termux

if you find you need to manually start something like this on boot, you could start the activity from tasker on boot--or run apktool d --force-manifest on the app apk to extract the manifest xml and see what intents you can use to poke at it to script it to start

if you don't want to need to simulate input for all privileged actions, and just want the adb permission on boot, you could also create a set of inputs to enable adb over wifi in dev settings and to screenshot the qr code it tells you to connect with

if you trigger an action like this with an intent from termux:boot (intents can be sent from termux with "am broadcast --user 0 -a net.dinglish.tasker.enable-adb-plz" or something similar), you can make the script wait for a screenshot to pop up, decode the qr with zbarimg or something similar, and then use that info to establish a local adb connection

that way, you could just use a normal adb command later with termux:tasker when you want to do something more privileged in general (of course, including shutting down without needing to rely on the existence of any external input at all)

that said, this still relies on still finding an app that would let you script/intercept input

if you can't find any of those, while it's only a slight step-up from having a pi zero, an inputstick might also do the trick since you could use it to script keyboard and mouse inputs to be sent through an actual usb input that looks indistinguishable from using the actual hardware, so it would be guaranteed to do anything you could with an actual keyboard and mouse (and as a bonus, they are also just generally useful for keepass2android reasons if you use that on another phone and need to type a 256 character random password into the nintendo switch or something)

@SirTapTap@mastodon.social oof, good luck!

and remember that git reflog is basically undo if you ever regret doing something in specific!