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- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
Those mod devs are absolute assholes.
As per the decompiler code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to continue…
BriJee, Amigus, and Obsolete— sincerely, go fuck yourselves.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 5 weeks ago:
You’re barking up the wrong tree here, buddy. I’m not the person who said “it’s a few buttons.”
I was merely pointing out that from a conceptual standpoint, deep links don’t need a team of dedicated researchers to figure out. The difficulty—as you pointed out—comes in knowing how to work with the various different platforms and integrating the feature into existing codebases.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 5 weeks ago:
That’s not really the best example to prove a lot of work. Call links are actually pretty easy from a conceptual standpoint:
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Make a small website to accept
https://join.my.website/?callid=…&password=… -
Have the website redirect to:
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Have your app register as a
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When a
myapp:join/:callid/URL is visited, open the same window that would be used normally for joining a call by ID.
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- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 2 months ago:
Because a subset of people are idiots. Remember: some people think unions exist to steal your money, socialism is communist dictatorship propaganda, and privatization of government services is good for everybody.
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 2 months ago:
Obligatory fuck Nintendo, but I also blame the selfish dumbfucks who keep posting videos of themselves playing unreleased games on YouTube and Reddit. If you want nice things contingent on having software which exists in a legal gray area, don’t openly poke the litigious hornets’ nest.
- Comment on Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat 3 months ago:
Because people are technologically inept and buy into the propaganda that kernel-level anticheat is more effective than the alternative solutions.
- Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 4 months ago:
This would be more acceptable if they didn’t unconditionally use software encryption by default. But, nah. Microsoft is going to Microsoft and force their preferences down the consumer’s throat, and there doesn’t appear to be a way to upgrade it to hardware encryption without a wipe and reinstall.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 5 months ago:
I mean…
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It takes code from a remote source, compiles it into native machine code, and then executes said machine code.
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It exposes hardware information, sensors, and system statistics to remote actors.
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It can consume inordinate amounts of resources by mining for cryptocurrency in the background.
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It keeps trying to get you to change system settings.
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It’s hidden within the installers of other programs (thanks, Electron).
Out of context, those sure make it sound like malware.
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- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 5 months ago:
Chromium*, but yes
- Comment on SCOTUS agrees to review Texas law that caused Pornhub to leave the state 5 months ago:
In other news, the NSA adds blackmail to their income sources.
- Comment on X is about to start hiding all likes 6 months ago:
My theory is that it gives Elmo a way to promote authoritarian and anti-LGBT tweets without making it obvious that the algorithm is politically based.
- Comment on X is about to start hiding all likes 6 months ago:
It’s just another Tuesday for MAGAts.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 7 months ago:
You won’t know until you try.
- Comment on CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 7 months ago:
Internet Lackof Service Providers
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 7 months ago:
I’ve tried to see if this is real but I fail to find any source code leaks for Vanguard or if it has ever been leaked.
The variable names suggest it’s a decompilation.
- Comment on Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors 8 months ago:
You mean my 250W processor isn’t better than a 120W one from AMD? A 100W light bulb is clearly better than a 60W one, so I’m calling bullshit.
- Comment on Steam Deck hits over 14,000 games rated Playable or Verified 9 months ago:
Now it all works except for anti-cheat because
of those terrible cheaters.publishers are too cheap to pay for dedicated authoritative servers, instead relying on P2P networking that blindly trusts other clients’ game state updates.FTFY
- Comment on Would you like fries with that? 1 year ago:
The McFuckAround is nice up until the child support garnishments start showing up. After that, you’re stuck living with the Wendy’s Regrettinator.
- Comment on The ROG Ally is Still Getting Better (Updated Review) 1 year ago:
If “you are what you eat” holds true, that explains a lot.
- Comment on The ROG Ally is Still Getting Better (Updated Review) 1 year ago:
Should’ve joined the trades, my guy.
- Comment on Have another meme 1 year ago:
It’s easier to accept the grim reality we live in when you can make fun of it.
- Comment on Steam Deck as a laptop replacement? 1 year ago:
It gets a lot less painful when you can use Nix to install everything.