halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 3 days ago:
Whistle lower deaths need to be treated by the courts like other destruction of evidence, because that’s what it is. The jury being instructed to assume the most damaging version of what that evidence could have contained.
A whistleblower isn’t going to kill themselves out of nowhere. To get to that point they were undoubtedly being threatened by the company.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cable 1 week ago:
Cool… So give it a different number. Not a damned point release.
Why does everyone want to follow the stupidity of USB-IF and make it impossible to know what the damned thing is capable of?
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 3 weeks ago:
After working retail for more than a decade… Those people deserve it. The type of person to argue with an employee about whether they carry something or not solely because Google said so, are the quintessential Karen. They deserve every bit of unhelpfulness right back at them for the misery they sow everywhere they go.
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 month ago:
Same with the Model 3.
I have to disagree with them not being obvious however. Nearly every new person in my Model 3 goes to grab the emergency release immediately. I even added vinyl door open stickers next to the button to make it more obvious and it still happens almost every time.
- Comment on MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions 2 months ago:
No idea why anyone is surprised that an influencer product has a price premium.
- Comment on Just 5,000 people use the Rabbit R1 every day 2 months ago:
The last person I’d trust to give accurate numbers. If that’s what he’s saying publicly, it’s likely even worse.
- Comment on Just 5,000 people use the Rabbit R1 every day 2 months ago:
Surprising it’s that high. How are they getting these numbers? Actual daily use or some other fudged metric?
- Comment on Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead 3 months ago:
This is exactly what it is. It is not enabled by default, a developer has to specifically enable it. Meaning the developer wants to force you through the Play Store for whatever reason they may have.
- Comment on Starlink says it will block X in Brazil 3 months ago:
They’re not really though.
Brazil’s complaints are about misinformation being actively spread on the platform, andTwitter not only failing to moderate it on their own, but refusing to moderate when the accounts are specifically pointed out either.
The TikTok ban fundamentally goes back to the Chinese government controlling the company. Regardless of what TikTok and the government claims, only an idiot would believe they don’t have control over a social media platform based in China. Even if the servers are US-based, the Chinese government will have access whenever they want.
- Comment on Starlink says it will block X in Brazil 3 months ago:
Oh look, he caved already. Guess that’s what happens when your accounts are frozen and you can’t make money in the country.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 3 months ago:
That sums up my thoughts pretty well honestly. It is a generic Ubisoft open world game, with all the same tricks. But the story is decent, different than the traditional Jedi stuff usually made, and some aspects of the game play are pretty fun. Others are the generic Ubisoft formula, which is to be expected.
It’s better than I expected, nowhere near worth $110 or whatever for the game and season pass, but worth the U+ subscription for a month to try it out.
- Comment on Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players 3 months ago:
I can understand why they don’t put a Linux-specific icon, because there is such a variety of builds and hardware permutations that people could start complaining “it said it could run on Linux but it doesn’t run on my Linux.“
Steam already indicates which games will run on Linux, without any distro or configuration caveats. There’s literally an entire section of the store for “SteamOS & Linux” games, and games that support multiple platforms have the system requirements listed for each of those supported platforms.
We’re just talking about putting the icon for the platform they used on the review, to help you filter reviews that may be more or less relevant. Linux users complaining about Linux related issues aren’t relevant to Windows users for instance, and vice versa. Same goes for the 15 or so MacOS gamers I guess too.
- Comment on Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall 3 months ago:
I’ve been saying for years that fines for these issues need to be based on revenue, not profit, and tripled. Unless they’re selling their products for a 300% profit margin, they still lose money because of the bullshit. Anything else can still be justified as a cost of business.
- Comment on Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players 3 months ago:
I was referring more to just like Windows, Linux, MacOS icons. Not specific distros. As a Windows user for instance, Linux issues from any distro probably don’t matter to me.
- Comment on Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players 3 months ago:
Just have another option for multiple devices or types used beyond a certain threshold. Just like here they’re using a majority of time spent playing on a Deck to show that icon.
- Comment on Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players 3 months ago:
It should also show icons for the OS as well. Since games can have dramatically different issues and performance depending on the OS sometimes. Having an icon showing a review is from a Linux machine compared to Windows for instance can help figure out if your system might be affected by reviews mentioning something that all seems to be from one type of OS.
Heck, I’d even take it a step further and have it include basic system specs for each review since Steam already gets that info.
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 5 months ago:
They already are, the media just reports on every one of these crashes. Even just reporting on each human fatality daily would put things closer to perspective even with every autonomous accident being reported as if it were the end times.
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 5 months ago:
Liability of an accident doesn’t factor into those statistics. They include all accidents regardless of blame.
And you act like that exact scenario hasn’t happened with human drivers. In Arizona alone, 3.5 people die every day in traffic incidents. Given the number of dumb fuck road ragers brake checking other drivers on the road, stopping in the middle of an intersection and getting hit probably happens at least once a day, probably more.
Yet even with all those fatalities, and other accidents in general, the autonomous systems still have fewer incidents per mile driven.
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 5 months ago:
Per mile driven, all of these autonomous systems are statistically better than humans at driving.
It’s mostly because humans are dogshit at driving, but you are a lot safer using these systems than not, despite media reporting.
- Comment on A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online war 5 months ago:
Ah see I stopped playing or even looking at it when the NYT bought it. At the time, that was the assumption since their other games are behind the paywall.
Instead, loading it up right now, it just looks like they have insanely large ads taking over 1/3 of the vertical space on lyn1440p monitor and forcing me to scroll to even see the full on screen keyboard.
Pretty shit UX there, as expected from every news site in the modern age.
- Comment on A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online war 5 months ago:
How long until the New York Times buys it out to put behind their paywall like Wordle?
- Comment on Pornhub to block two more states over age verification laws 5 months ago:
The one way we might actually get some online privacy laws in this country.
- Comment on US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks 8 months ago:
We need to start having both financial and criminal penalties for companies actively ignoring security issues like this.
- Comment on ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise 8 months ago:
Where are they deriving this statistic from?
Probably new phone sales.
- Comment on Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten 9 months ago:
For large corporations, keeping recordings for a long period is common.
I was at Sprint retail back in 2010 when information was leaked by a coworker at my retail store. The internal security team that came to the store less than a week after the leak, had recordings from the cameras 6 months prior that they were referencing when talking to all of us.
A small business may only be keeping camera recordings for maybe a month on a local DVR, but a corporation with their own data centers are going to keep those a lot longer. ESPECIALLY a government contractor where the logging requirements are much more stringent.
