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- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 1 week ago:
I feel like you misunderstood me on purpose…
Funnily enough I thought you were playing along with the bit, so I guess I misunderstood
Figured “enlightened vim user” was a bit more of a giveaway than it apparently is
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 1 week ago:
Vim is hardly an IDE unless you have added a shitload of plugins (which is fine if you want to do that, arguably a plus to have the option)
Notepad++ is way too bloated for a “simple notepad replacement” and often lacking when you need something more serious than that
Although I guess vim never shipped with malware, so I guess it’s lacking in that particular notepad++ feature
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 1 week ago:
All of this would have been easily avoided by its users if they had just listened to the enlightened and switched to vim
I’d rather never turn my computer on again and run away to live in the woods than use notepad++
- Comment on Sony Patents Buttonless Adaptive Controller With Customizable Layouts 1 week ago:
Unless they have some magic tech to deform the surface and do the same fake click Apple does with their touch pads, this is going to suck massively.
You shouldn’t need to look at your controller, basically ever
- Comment on Sony Patents Buttonless Adaptive Controller With Customizable Layouts 1 week ago:
The steam controller was a bit inferior to the steam deck control setup and used touch pads instead of buttons in a lot of layouts.
The steam deck (and new steam controller) layout is much better because it’s essentially touch pads added to a conventional controller layout
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 1 week ago:
Hmm, seems exactly like the kind of training data you might need to create an AI that does VPN traffic analysis to then sell to the likes of Palantir/autocrats
- Comment on Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store 1 month ago:
GPU shortage V.2?
I mean, did the first one ever end?
- Comment on Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next 1 month ago:
Given the rate this stuff has progressed in a few years, don’t count on being able to recognise it by eye forever.
And frankly, even if a large minority of people can still identify the difference immediately (which tbh I reckon is close to the point we’re at now), that makes for a majority that will glance at an image and take it as real without question.
Those people can vote and shape our world
- Comment on Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next 1 month ago:
Where do we go from here?
Looks like oblivion, frankly
- Comment on Valve discontinues the entry-level Steam Deck, considerably raising the starting price 1 month ago:
A tenner says this is due to the component price inflation we’re in the middle of
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck's days are coming to an end, as Valve wind down production of the OG model 1 month ago:
I’m surprised they were still making it tbh, I assumed it was just existing stock
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 month ago:
Hmm
My immediate reaction is “stay in your lane, Gabe”
- Comment on RAM is ruining everything 1 month ago:
The ram cartel produces exactly enough ram to keep prices stable, increased demand means the produced supply is not sufficient so prices rise
This is not a capacity issue, it’s forced scarcity and collusion laid bare
- Comment on How Snapchat manipulates its users through notifications 2 months ago:
Facebook did this shit too when I last had the app installed
You’d get a notification about one of your friends and clicking it just took you to some random brand’s main feed page
- Comment on YouTube experiments with messaging and video sharing inside its app 2 months ago:
I look forward to in 5 years time where my 2 factor Auth app finally adds an arbitrary DM function no one wants
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode 2 months ago:
That’s not the same unless something has recently changed. The scheduling just stops it from scheduling them during the day, it doesn’t make sure everything downloads in a single night.
And even then, that’s not a “do all it right now” button
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode 2 months ago:
Now it would be nice if they could add a download all button (if only for Steamdeck)
Going into that download screen and telling 20 games to download now before I’m going on a flight or something is a pain in the arse
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 3 months ago:
Damn you guys are sprinting towards cyberpunk dystopia over there aren’t you?
Shame you won’t even get the cool aesthetic as a silver lining, just more tacky gold if anything.
- Comment on RyzenZPilot - Intelligent Power Management for AMD Ryzen 5 months ago:
Holy shit who puts ads on a GitHub.io page?
Was interested, but not with poor judgement like that on display
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 5 months ago:
My brain always processes upside down twitter logo as the sonic team logo
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 5 months ago:
Aren’t the current models only about half as dense as lithium Ion?
Taking up twice the space for a tenth of the cost seems like a pretty acceptable trade-off for the house scenario
- Comment on LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds 5 months ago:
Surely it would be better for the environment, at least, to hire one of those GeoGuessr guys
- Comment on Go on the hunt for or a simple pilsner in a world full of craft beer in Dude, Where Is My Beer? A New Hop 5 months ago:
Love the art style of this
Wishlisted
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 5 months ago:
It’s been a bubble since GPT2 guys, get with the program.
There is zero chance even half of all these AI product companies still exist in half a decade.
Now if you don’t mind I reckon I’m gonna Alta Vista search for CDNow and then webvan something from pets.com
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 5 months ago:
Maybe some of you finally paid for it, this wouldn’t happen!
… Who is still using it in 2025, though, really?
- Comment on iRobot’s future isn’t looking up 5 months ago:
Oh wow, so somehow I’ve entirely missed Roborock’s existence until now—cheers for the recommendation!
That one with the robotic arm on it is crazy
- Comment on iRobot’s future isn’t looking up 5 months ago:
I’m not in the market for one today, but I’m probably getting a robovac or two in the next couple of years.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good one that can be regarded as relatively trustworthy. I’ve got a home assistant setup already and don’t mind some minor mods/soldering, if that’s the best option, but off the shelf with no faff is obviously ideal.
- Comment on Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked 5 months ago:
Well I’m sure if you’re a criminal trying to access police radio and you figure it out, it’s not really in your interests to let everyone know about it
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 5 months ago:
Kinda sad in a way
Our first ISP was AOL back around 1995
- Comment on Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News 5 months ago:
Wow, perplexity wants their logo on this?