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- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 4 days ago:
Blogs and misreporting research to drive clicks
Name a more iconic combo
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 4 days ago:
The standard degree course is 3-4 years
I think this year’s intake will be the first where everyone at the uni will be post-chatgpt.
Between the pandemic and LLMs, I honestly reckon my uni experience from the end of the 00s is completely alien to those doing it today
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 4 days ago:
looks around
- Comment on Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet 6 days ago:
There’s also a maintained fork called Swanstation that is related to the retroarch project
- Comment on Look Mum No Computer is a musical twin-stick shooter action-RPG that looks wild 1 week ago:
!!!
I had no idea this was a thing!
Big fan of LMNC, so I’ve already bought it
- Comment on VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out 3 weeks ago:
And VMware goes for another rotation around the drain
The fact they won’t sell you a perpetual licence for a hypervisor you run on your hardware, is possibly the most ridiculous subscription model I’ve seen so far
- Comment on Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 3 weeks ago:
Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google’s home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.
It’s in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there’s always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 3 weeks ago:
Lol bit of a blast from the past with the old logo in the thumbnail image
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 months ago:
Potentially related: velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-b…
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 3 months ago:
Surely the sales are an equivalent there? Both ultimately mean the total price goes down and the store’s cut goes down accordingly.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely profiting these days. $11bn is a massive amount of revenue* for a company with the number of staff they do. But Steam are going to have disproportionately high datacenter costs compared to most other companies. As a rough comparison: Watching an hour of netflix at HD quality is about 1GB of transfer or so, Call of Duty is something like a quarter of a terabyte. Someone who downloads call of duty once would have to watch 250h of netflix to cost them the same.
Then remember they’re likely paying their staff very well, I would not be surprised at all if well over half of their revenue just goes to operational costs before any reinvestment.
*Checked the figure was revenue and not profit.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 3 months ago:
I’d argue it makes more sense for digital distribution, once the sale has been made in a physical store, there’s no ongoing cost for them.
A digital storefront has the ongoing cost of downloads and updates, as well as the distributed storage costs (Steam many copies of games all over the world to mean downloads are quick)
Data transfer costs back in the mid 00s mean that every install of a game like HL2 cost them a dollar or two. If a user ever uninstalled and reinstalled more than a couple of times (a lot more common back then with the limited storage everyone had), couple that with ongoing update transfer costs and most of the profit from a full price sale could be gone. If they never made any profit from the sales, Steam never makes it past its awkward years.
Data transfer is definitely cheaper these days, but then games are bigger and they probably spend a lot more on datacenter space than back in the day
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 3 months ago:
30% has been industry standard across any digital storefront until Epic found out they couldn’t beat steam by just paying for exclusivity deals. Then they decided to go down this race to the bottom strategy.
Steam is good because of that 30%.
Firstly, data transfer and storage isn’t free and is an ongoing cost for Steam even after purchase. How many times can you think that you installed a game, then deleted it and ultimately downloaded it again—Steam doesn’t get any more money, but that costs them. They could have done all the limited number of downloads or transfer speed limiting shit that used to be more common.
The profit they make on top goes straight back into Valve. They are a private company without shareholders to please and pay dividends to. This has allowed them to keep reinvesting into Steam and making it the best experience for the consumer they can—they’ve been rewarded with a load of goodwill and market share following that. You can guarantee that we wouldn’t have proton or the steam deck without the money valve made from steam sales.
Epic doing this is just another attempt to try and tempt developers to choose their store and not list on Steam. They have no interest in actually improving their offering, their only strategy is to try and find ways to put Steam users at a disadvantage and hope that people go “well I guess I’ll go for it on epic if I have to”. They don’t have any problem getting companies to list their games on Epic, this is 100% about manipulating developers to not list on Steam.
GoG is the alternative to Steam, and offers something that benefits consumers to compete with Steam in DRM free games.
Friends don’t let friends reward Epic for anti-consumer business practices.
- Comment on Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025 3 months ago:
FWIW windows server already is priced by the amount of cores you’ll use. Not saying that isn’t a bit silly, but it’s existing fuckery at least.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 3 months ago:
Super old school Apple networking IIRC
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 4 months ago:
Yeah 100%
This was a public poll after all so it smells a bit like fandom bandwagoning
- Comment on The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified 5 months ago:
Wait this game has been around for 7 years and I’m just now finding out about it?!
- Comment on Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan 5 months ago:
This seems like it could be huge from an e-waste perspective, particularly regarding electric car batteries
- Comment on Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5.2 brings fixes for Alpha Protocol, The Sims 2, Borderlands 2 and more 7 months ago:
Kinda crazy that Linux can support some older Direct X games better than Windows these days
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 7 months ago:
Colorado Santa brings the gift of games, your bank balance is the cookies and whisky
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 7 months ago:
Yeah I thought I was having internet problems for a moment there
- Comment on Steam Replay for 2024 is live, includes Steam Deck specific stats 7 months ago:
Oh that explains mine then
Wasn’t sure how I clocked an average of nearly 4 sessions a day
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH comes to PC on January 23, 2025 - it's getting optimised for Steam Deck 7 months ago:
Finally! I think I need to put some annual leave in
- Comment on Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal 7 months ago:
I can hear the facing worlds music in my head
- Comment on Caption this 9 months ago:
Finally a Mac that’s good for gaming
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation 10 months ago:
I forget where I read it but yes, future cyberpunk and Witcher titles will be built on unreal engine.
They’re not going to keep maintaining the engine if none of their future titles are using it, the engineering cost alone would be very high for no benefit.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation 10 months ago:
Interesting they’re still adding stuff like this given they’ve already signalled they’re not adding any new content to the game and abandoning their engine for the next project.
I wonder if something has changed behind the scenes or if they’re just going above and beyond in maintenance support
- Comment on Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year 11 months ago:
Holy shit even Google doesn’t do this with their screens
- Comment on Final Fantasy faces no "existential risk" despite lower-than-hoped PS5 sales, says FF16 director 11 months ago:
Hey square, you can have a day one sale if you release ff7r2 for PC already
- Comment on Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Good to have the option, but probably only worth it if you play anti cheat infested games or subscribe to game pass.