xantoxis

@xantoxis@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, and I’m glad of it, but look: tech companies DO fuck around. A lot. There are lots of ways to pressure individuals into cutting corners, and to pressure auditors and controllers to look the other way. The regulators might catch them, but there’s a very real possibility that a tech company fucks up REAL bad before they get shut down. They have a very long history of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And who’s going to make sure these tech companies actually run a nuclear power plant responsibly? Have they ever run anything responsibly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the bees weren’t attacking Mark Zuckerberg, they were just hanging out at the build site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Destiny creators Bungie lay off 220 people and form new studio within Sony to stave off financial ruin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “to stave off financial ruin” is some pretty intense editorializing by RPS. They missed an earnings expectation, and yet they still had the highest active player numbers in history on Steam. The made-up goal was intentionally unreachable, to give Sony the excuse to do this whenever they wanted. Bungie was fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Shows OpenVPN Traffic Can Be Easily Identified and Blocked⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do wireguard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The witcher games preceding Witcher 3 did very well, and TBH Cyberpunk turned out pretty ok as well. So I’m not sure your example really fits. For its own part, Larian was picked to make this game because the Divinity games are so popular and successful.

  But I’ll agree that it’s really unlikely to do this more than once on purpose, but clearly it can be done by competent studios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No we don’t. BG3 is great for a lot of reasons, but nowhere on the list is “it uses the rules of D&D”. D&D is a terrible game system. Make a game like BG3 that isn’t… that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsatisfied with merely shooting themselves in the foot, glassdoor has had the foot surgically removed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this written by one of Gabe Newell’s yachts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to like it, or pretend to like it, or justify why you don’t like it, or even tell people that you don’t like it.

  Totes fine to just dislike it and move on. For me I not only love LD but it actually brought me into trek fandom through the backdoor, and I’m currently watching TNG all the way through.

  But I’m not diminished in any way by you not liking it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh bet, the normal-looking human woman is the most popular? Wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s millions of examples of this. Everywhere there’s an oppressed minority group, that group eventually develops its own dialect that mutates quickly to make it easier to identify in-group members and to confuse authorities of the majority group.

  That isn’t a secure comms strategy though, it’s just something that happens organically. All the oppressing group needs to do is recruit a defector from the oppressed group and they can understand everything.

  Cryptography is how you do it. And cryptography exists and is easily accessible, unless you truly believe everything electronic has government spy tech in it, which is the realm of actual paranoia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know whether valve has violated anti-trust law or not, and I certainly don’t think gaben deserves any more protection from covid than the general public but;

  this is a stupid ruling. Why on earth can’t he appear remotely, as he requested? They can’t “adequately assess his credibility”? Are they gonna have an FBI body language expert on hand? Check his forehead for sweat droplets? There’s nothing they can ask him in person that they can’t ask him over a camera.