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- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 1 week ago:
The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything
Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the ‘remote’ location would probably be your house. ;p
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
Thank you for the link, that is exactly what I was looking for.
For the chat, going to link the main graph with that info (page 8):
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
I wish these reports would include required other costs, as solar needs to be paired with grid-scale storage or, more often, peaker natural gas plants. Both of witch are pretty expensive.
It may still be cheaper, I honestly don’t know, because all the reports leave such necessary, and expensive, things out.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's PC specs don't look too lofty despite all the booms, and Steam players won't need the pesky EA App 1 week ago:
And for Windows players, this means the game will have root access to everything on your machine. I can’t imagine desiring to give up that much control just for a game.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, ASUS is in an awful state. Their Armory Crate malware* really just takes the cake on the whole thing.
*It literally survives through a full format and will run on your computer without any human interaction if you buy an ASUS mohterboard. It’s malware.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 4 weeks ago:
Not even that, releasing the server software as a compiled binary would fit the bill.
- Comment on 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads 5 weeks ago:
I pack up full hard drive images from time to time (think 100+GB files). More threads is always welcome!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 5 weeks ago:
How I read this: ‘This legislation banning toxins would make putting lead sweetener in wine very difficult’
- Comment on THE FINALS is getting new kernel-based anti-cheat, likely to break it on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck 5 weeks ago:
I’m just happy I don’t have to think about kernel-level anti-cheats now. No way in hell do I want any game to have that much power over my machine.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 5 weeks ago:
That’s the required amount for it to continue in the UK legal system, correct?
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 1 month ago:
Yeah, that was a very, very odd choice.
You have Eve Online, a PC exclusive MMO. And you try to sell the playerbase on a PS3 game? Most of them literally don’t have the proprietary hardware to run that game but 100% of them have a gaming PC sitting right in front of them…
This isn’t to say don’t include the PS3, but why the hell wasn’t it on PC where the entire Eve fanbase is?
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 1 month ago:
CCP and their affiliates have been incurring sizeable losses instead. They released a mobile game, EVE Echoes, via NetEase shortly after the acquisition, but this has apparently fallen short of expectations, and CCP are now focusing rather heavily on “web3” games fuelled by blockchain bullshit. They are also still trying to make an EVE Online FPS, despite screwing this up three times in a row.
CCP had a one-hit-wonder and never again figured out how to make a game.
- Comment on Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler 1 month ago:
This is a good change. One of my friends had some confusion over the install button not appearing for some small games, he had to go toggle this on. It being available by default for all games is great!
- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 2 months ago:
And this is exactly why I use ProtonMail. My old Gmail is now a junk folder I check…about never.
- Comment on Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing 2 months ago:
Good on the judge for following up on the citations.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 months ago:
I see the subscription lasted the full lifetime of the subscription!
Victory!
Next problem please!
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 2 months ago:
Manual reviewers basically sort by ‘most flagged’ and start working down the list. By the time you get to just a few flags, it’s 99.99% BS flags, such flagged videos obviously would not be taken down and are in very, very numerous quantity. Videos that get flagged by more people are obviously more likely to be real flags and worthy of a reviewer’s time.
- Comment on Match to lay off 13% of staff 2 months ago:
Why the hell does Match.com have 2,500 employees?
- Comment on Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default 3 months ago:
The gold standard is providing something you know (a password) alongside something you have (an OTP or fingerprint). This is two-factor auth in a nutshell.
using your face, fingerprint, or PIN
You leave fingerprints and images of your face everywhere you go; and in the case of someone spoofing those, there is zero way to change either. Such public information is not the foundations of a secure system.
And a PIN is just a shorter, shittier password. Why the hell would we replace a normal password with the least secure, most shitty version of a password?
- Comment on Kansas wants to use AI to spot guns in schools. One major company won’t say how often the system fails 3 months ago:
You want to help people so they don’t feel murder is their best choice in life, and if they do, you need to stop the threat. Having a camera go ‘someone might have a gun, I promise this isn’t the 1000’th false positive’ right as they start murdering people isn’t helpful.
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 3 months ago:
Thank you. <3
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 3 months ago:
Would someone smarter than me explain the article a bit? I’m getting lost on what things like a ‘contained IP address’ is.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 4 months ago:
That’s terrifying. Means those users are significantly more likely to believe what it says.
- Comment on No, Microsoft is NOT dropping Windows 11 support for Intel 8th, 9th, and 10th Gen chips 5 months ago:
If this is true, Microsoft needs to explicitly lay it out in their support docs. The fact is their support doc for the newest versions of Win 11 specifically lists supported processors, and makes zero mention of 8-10th gen processor support, doesn’t even mention them as a backwards compatibility thing.
This news article then claims 8th-10th gen processors are still supported, and links to a support article that is specifically about support on older versions of Win 11. Nobody is contesting that older versions if Win 11 support such processors…
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 5 months ago:
Yep, the game runs fine on Linux. The developer, however, is intentionally breaking the game if you run Linux. Just EA doing shitty things, as EA does.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 5 months ago:
Why is 3/5 of the screen not the map? You know, the primary function of a map.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 5 months ago:
Man, those processors aren’t even that old. The i7-10875H came out in mid 2020 for example. That is a perfectly capable processor that can run most tasks without a sweat.
I’m so damn happy I got out of that ecosystem this year.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 6 months ago:
In a wider context. It prevents consumers of information from becoming producers of information. If you are in a thread (reddit, stack overflow, w/e) and happen to know an answer or have extra useful information, many people will type that out in a reply. However, with a chatbot, there is nothing to reply to. No place where the wealth of human knowledge can be expanded. Your experience and knowledge is kept to yourself.
This not only means the conversations never happen, it also means future chatbots don’t have this information to work with, as they require the conversations in the first place to draw from.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 6 months ago:
Used Win 11 at work recently, the explorer context menu still requires you to go through submenus to get to things like 7Zip; things I use constantly and aren’t in a sub-menu in Win 10. I’m not sure why Microsoft decided to ‘improve’ the context menu in the first place.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 6 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is good or bad, but every time they add a feature, all I can think of is the unfinished Control Panel --> Settings conversion that started in Windows 8, back in 2012. Microsoft seems to have a pathological inability to finish projects before they mess with something new (to leave it undone as well).
