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- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 4 weeks ago:
Flip the script - why have they mitigated bots in other games but not TF2? Is it because the strategy doesn’t transfer or is it because the implementation doesn’t translate?
And if they haven’t mitigated bots elsewhere - why would they do it in a crusty codebase like TF2 vs somewhere shiny and new.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 4 weeks ago:
Support for TF2 would be undertaken voluntarily by developers since Valve has a flat corporate structure.
The only way you get continued support for TF2 is convincing devs to work on a crusty old legacy codebase for a game that doesn’t make anywhere near the amount of money as other games that everyone else is working on.
TF2 is iconic - Valve just doesn’t care.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 4 weeks ago:
Ain’t gonna happen. Valve is all in on their new hero shooter
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 month ago:
When Apple offers small phones nobody buys them (see iPhone 13 mini)
When Android companies offer thick phones they lose out to the latest thin Samsung.
The phone manufacturers aren’t idiots - they do a lot of research into what will sell the most phones.
Battery life and thick < thin.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 month ago:
The size of the sensor limits the size of the lens as well as the way the optics are formed for the stack.
You will never get starry bokeh from a stack of lenses that are so tight.
There’s a reason that you’ll have filmmakers shooting in larger and larger formats - it changes image quality and the type of lenses you can use.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 month ago:
It’s not what actual consumers prefer though.
People can say that all they want but the marketing facts are that the thinner phones have consistently won out.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 month ago:
Congrats: you just proved you’re not the average consumer.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 2 months ago:
Remove the bump: make the phone thicker for more battery 😉
Unfortunately the average consumer consistently prefers thinner phones. Thicker offerings sell worse than their thinner counterparts.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 2 months ago:
The problem is fundamentally a physics issue.
You’re going to struggle to get depth of field on any pancake stack, much less one that is as miniaturized as a mobile phone.
Also your sensor isn’t actually nearly as good as a DSLR. A DSLR has a sensor about 5x the size of a phone and that makes a huge difference in the photos.
Here’s a handy graphic:
- Comment on A 14-year-old is charged in fire that destroyed a driverless Waymo vehicle 2 months ago:
The February 10th fire was reportedly caused by lit fireworks
That doesn’t sound that malicious tbh.
that were tossed inside the vehicle as it was surrounded by a crowd in Chinatown. Involved suspects were seen smashing windows and other parts with skateboards before leaving a fiery carcass for firefighters to put out.
Ah a bit more vandalism than just a stray firework. Sounds like he had an ideological issue with driverless cars.
Totally get it - we don’t need them. I hope he doesn’t get his life ruined by our absurd penal system.
Arson is always a dangerous form of vandalism but nobody got hurt.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Power + Volume Up?
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Genius. That’s such a good idea to find your phone.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Interesting. It’s definitely a Samsung default and I thought it was Google default too.
You can obviously disable it by turning off Assistant but if that’s not what you’ve done then there’s more to it than I thought.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Tasker is great for that. I also love the “send a keyword and tasker will text back with current GPS location” feature.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Default android is not what most people run. Samsung and Google defaults are assistant.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Yeah I don’t think that’s the default on Samsung or Google phones. Could be wrong.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Use biometrics - just know the tools at your disposal to lockdown your phone.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 2 months ago:
Power + volume up is usually how you do it I believe. Holding power down usually just activates an assistant.
- Comment on D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind) 2 months ago:
Why would you guess that? It’s so out of character for them
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now? 2 months ago:
The tweet they posted saying “Mission Accomplished” is a very indication of what’s next.
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
Authoritarian regimes often kidnap their own citizens in other countries, yes.
That’s not really what we’re talking about here though
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
Yeah reading the article it seems like Douyin is where the people were disappearing and TikTok is where the videos were suppressed.
They’re both owned by Bytedance out of Beijing so it’s not really much of a distinction.
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
I thought tiktok wasn’t available in China?
Do they mean douyin or was it them using tiktok?
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
Propaganda for what?
- Comment on Dark Souls 3 on external monitor 3 months ago:
No I didn’t. But honestly I can’t swear to the exact output resolution when I was playing.
- Comment on Dark Souls 3 on external monitor 3 months ago:
I wasn’t playing DS3 but Elden Ring.
It was not the best performance but unchanged from using the main screen.
Lately I’ve been streaming from my gaming PC so I can play on the couch, which means I get amazing performance.
But the external monitor didn’t degrade performance meaningfully.
- Comment on Dark Souls 3 on external monitor 3 months ago:
I play steam deck exclusively with an external monitor.
The monitor I use though is a bit unconventional. Xreal Air (Previously Nreal Air) - a pair of glasses.
It’s 1080p 60hz and looks like a large projector screen. Solidly crisp, comfortable with a couple adjustments: I’ve got 700+ hours of use out of them already and the only thing that seems like it might be crapping out is the USB C cable: which is just standard USB C 3.1
- Comment on Spotify doesn't allow podcast ratings unless you use the mobile app 6 months ago:
I don’t work for Spotify but I am a mobile app dev and while this could easily just be trying to funnel people into the app it could also be focused on preventing bots and fraud.
Mobile phones offer significantly better tamper resistance compared to laptops and PCs. If someone gives a rating from your app on a phone there are several different forms of attestation available to be sure it’s not a bot or fake account, none of which work on PC.
And if you’re trying to combat the rampant fraud that happens around review manipulation, that is one solution.
- Comment on Why do it 6 months ago:
Yeah
He only talks about 3 youtubers in that video, no less.
- Comment on Why do it 6 months ago:
Not just a lot of it: basically the entire thing was word for word lifted, followed by some really lazy find & replace