corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass 2 days ago:
‘Loss’ due to piracy was always like 3%. It costs way more than that for this mess. They don’t have to be good, just annoying enough to keep 97% of people paying.
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 days ago:
Excellent point. Is it bouyed on petty theft? Should visa take that hit or should it be insurance?
- Comment on Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors 2 weeks ago:
How much methane is that gonna burn?
Isn’t methane bad for the environment?
- Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit 2 weeks ago:
There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.
- Comment on SSD prices in yet more trouble as two of the biggest hard drive makers have already sold out their 2026 stock 1 month ago:
My disk purchases this year: Crucial, WD, and then Seagate.
I’m the cause.
- Comment on Pinterest Reportedly Fires Employees Who Built a Tool to Track Layoffs 1 month ago:
We used
slapcatanddiffat SCO, fwiw. - Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 2 months ago:
Once you Newegg, you know.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall 2 months ago:
should’ve just went
should’ve just gone
- Comment on Minnesota health care owner charged with yearslong Medicaid scam topping $3M 2 months ago:
yearslong
years-long
- Comment on DeepSeek to launch new AI model focused on coding in February, The Information reports 2 months ago:
AI model focused on coding in February
Where did January go? Why not models focused on January coding? Is March going to be next?
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 2 months ago:
I may play it one day. It’s it a controller game, or can I kick it with a mouse and keyboard?
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: Game creator sacked us for trying to unionise 3 months ago:
They want to force toxic work schedules without extra pay or downtime. Because #dotcom
And probably no benefits.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 3 months ago:
You mean Seamonkey.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 4 months ago:
avoid games/etc over AI content, and the actual AI content is really minor
There’s no gradient for how much Ai goes into a game, so a little taint qualifies as diseased.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Ubisoft isn’t the company you go to for a focus on the customer and a thumb on the pulse of the industry. They were one of the first to require this authenticated umbilical to their servers or the game would crash, while operating from a country and era where internet wasn’t 100% solid. Many non-urban areas around me now will suffer disconnections and blips constantly as over-used infrastructure drops a random packet here and there. They know this, they knew this, and still.
Given they’ve always presented a little self-centered, I can imagine what they’re really saying is that from their point of view that Ubisoft is struggling because their customer base is dwindling from a lack of stable, playable games.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 4 months ago:
I love the many ways the Dead Sea Effect is getting press during these otherwise joyless times.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 4 months ago:
hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything
Not immediately. Take the job now and get the finances under control. But don’t stop interviewing and applying, and move from a position of strength into a better job when it comes around. And if you’re back at the old job that ditched you, then ditching them isn’t so hard this time.
Always take care of the basic needs - money for food, money for clothing, money for shelter - before moving up the Maslow pyramid.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 4 months ago:
Yeah. The issue isn’t what Ai can do, but more that CEO/CIOs have been sold magic beans.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 6 months ago:
Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.
It’s funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn’t have been far worse. It’s an art.
- Comment on The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes 6 months ago:
regular software engineers
Regular competent software engineers
Same thing. Otherwise there’d be air quotes.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 6 months ago:
But, as per the Dead Sea Effect, they’re not gonna shed the people they think they are.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 7 months ago:
Good excuse to lay off without paying unemployment while power-tripping. That’s all these kinds of things usually are about.
You know who will be the slowest to adopt any Ai assistance? Senior devs. You know who this guy just fired? Senior devs. If you want to know the people you never want to fire, I have news for you.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 7 months ago:
everyday
“every day”, if you mean ‘daily’.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 7 months ago:
why do everybody want to make it count letters and stuff like this?
We do not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat, as they say; yes. But we also do not applaud the tenor who can’t even do that.
- 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 7 months ago:
it’s debut
Yes. It is.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 8 months ago:
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it’s the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don’t use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they’d delete my account, I guess, because I don’t use that name there either.
Wheeee.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 8 months ago:
Glossed over after someone was shouting about my “A Child.” I think it’s an honor roll student thing but I wandered off.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 8 months ago:
For now…
- Comment on GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup - Aftermath 10 months ago:
Fetch
- Comment on Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status Over Alleged 'Propaganda' 11 months ago:
We need to.move the hosting
… And cover this heavy-handed approach in an NPoV smackdown that will never be deleted.