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- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 day ago:
By asking users for almost no identifiable information, Merrill wants to protect them from one of the most intractable privacy problems in modern technology: Despite whatever surveillance-resistant communications apps you might use, phone carriers will always know which of their customers’ phones are connecting to which cell towers and when. Carriers have frequently handed that information over to data brokers willing to pay for it—or any FBI or ICE agent that demands it with a court order
This is pretty pointless i believe. Your sim location can always be triangulated which means you will immediately identified if you ever go home with the sim card active.
All the feds have to do is either know where you live, or any specific location they know you were at, or your phone number and they will instantly have the same degree of insight as they would have had if you signed up to the provider with your name.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 4 days ago:
These loading time projections were based on industry data
Good reminder that lots of industry “knowledge” is just as scientific as the story your great grandpa always used to tell about the war. So much stuff just gets established once and then never questioned again.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 1 week ago:
This is enough to keep something like an ESP32 running throughout the night, but it would be way easier to just add a little battery instead.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
Proton is definitely no good. Ads, freemium, AI garbage, Bad 3rd party client compatibility, CEO loves Trump, collecting excessive metadata that they are then regularly forced to hand over to the cops, etc.
Its better not to put all your eggs in one basket so dont try to find a single provider for all your needs.
All email services will be able to read your emails unless you encrypt them yourself (PGP). So there are no “private” email providers really. What you should look for is just a functional provider that works well with proper clients like Thunderbird (available for desktop and mobile).
This is a list of many tried and tested servers, just pick any of the “OK” ones: providers.delta.chat
Deltachat is an app that allows you easily use email in and end to end encrypted way while making it look like a standard instant messenger. For this to work properly the provider needs to support 3rd party clients properly, so this list gives you a good look at the technical quality of the email provider.See how Outlook, Proton and Tutanota are non functional? Thats because they dont implement the email standard properly in order to lock users into their platform and apps.
- Comment on Unity games are coming to Fortnite as Epic continue attempting to build a metaverse thing 2 weeks ago:
Im not gonna lie tho, i love minigames in games. Gwent in Witcher 3 and the arcade boxes in fallout for example.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Indie games are boomin as usual :D
- Comment on "Stop this from happening again": UK politician calls out Rockstar over GTA 6 developer firings 3 weeks ago:
Wdym, again? You need to punish them so hard they would never even dream of doing anything like it again. Prison for the decision makers is not too much.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 weeks ago:
I badly phrased it tbh, so its a fair misunderstanding :)
One thing i kinda dislike about all ARM devices ive played with so far is the lack of a proper replacement for the concept of a BIOS. I want a subsystem for multiboot and toggling hardware features as well as tuning and stuff like that.
Sure its cool that you can just flash an SD card and it works, but you can keep that as default functionality while still allowing more customizability.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 weeks ago:
The most you will be able to play on device will be stuff that would run on a phone.
Which is why i wrote this. The translation layer and additional requirements for VR will further reduce the selection of playable games. But yes technically you can run x86 programs on it, just not at a “playable level” for 99% of games.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 weeks ago:
how they’re now also running x86 code on ARM at a playable level
The answer is that they arent…
At least not most games. It doesnt even have active cooling. The most you will be able to play on device will be phone games basically. But that is not the point, the thing comes with a custom wireless adapter to stream video from your computer to the headset, so primarily the processing will happen on the computer / steam machine. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt to fully shut down in April 2026 5 weeks ago:
And no word about releasing the server code :(
- Comment on Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware 1 month ago:
Its been more than 24h and the site is still down. It only loads the main page but all links are dead.
- Comment on Twitter is changing how it handles links to try and keep you in the app 1 month ago:
Tbh mastodon annoys the shit out of me with how it handles linking and cross instance posts.
Every time you open an off instance post in a new tab (middle click on post body) it actually opens that post on that instance instead of your own. Then it forces you to click through the below warning. Because of how mastodon works, you basically always want to open posts in new tabs, otherwise you lose your feed position. The devs say its a safety/moderation decision but that makes no sense, because if you open the post normally (leftclick) it opens on your own instance just fine. - Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 2 months ago:
They block porn afaik, but not journalism. Journalism is illegal in the UK so that is a problem of course.
Seriously tho what i mean is war footage, Gaza footage, images promoting “proscribed” groups, etc.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 2 months ago:
Definition wise thats not a “free market” its a market thats regulated in their favor. Its totally correct to say that capitalists hate free market capitalism, because they could never compete if they didnt constantly get tax payer money shoved up their asses and laws passed that prevents competitors from taking any of their marketshare.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
Yes, this just levels the playing field so i think there is little to no downside.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 3 months ago:
its just being done for the wrong reasons
Thats what i meant by that. Its not the 10% stake itself that hurts the company or economy, its how Trump is utilizing it.
I dont give a fuck about Intels well being or how well the US economy is doing, but if this leads to normalizing government involvement in essential industries again, then that would be a win globally. - Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 3 months ago:
Nah this is just red scare tactics from Intel. This is not actually an entirely “bad” move by Trump, its just being done for the wrong reasons. People have been asking the government to start doing this kind of thing again for decades. The most prosperous period in US history was during the height of government interference in the market.
- Comment on Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet 4 months ago:
As i learned yesterday, the old fully copyleft licensed code works just fine and literally nobody cares if he stops supporting it in newer versions.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 4 months ago:
PayPal is a US company. Everyone should expect them to eventually put bans political content that doesnt align with the Trump admins policies. When that time comes, Valve and Steam is either going to become a worthless racist, queerphobic, science denying, shithole or it will hold the line. Lets hope its going to be the latter.
- Comment on Anubis, tool to stop “AI” crawler abuse, gains non-JavaScript option 4 months ago:
I was happy to see Anubis have a place in the canvas and quite a big one too :)
- Comment on Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock 4 months ago:
146€ worth of games for free, nice :)
- Comment on Germany asks Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores 5 months ago:
The request follows similar measures in other European countries and is driven by concerns about data security.
Then also ask them to remove all Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI apps please :)
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 5 months ago:
Efficiency is also a major problem i think. You can always just slap a higher power APU in there, but then you also have to cool that thing. And that means either a higher RPM fan or a larger device with a bigger radiator.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 5 months ago:
Yeah there isnt anything of the same size with significantly more power afaik. Gotta go with a laptop then if u need the power.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 6 months ago:
Well thats sounds like a pretty good source. What a joke Microsoft is ffs
- Comment on The WRC games rally behind a new publisher weeks after being dumped by EA 6 months ago:
Imagine all the buy ups of game IP slowly reversing because the publishers mismanaged so bad that the CEOs are scared that their 6th yacht wont possible.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 6 months ago:
It mostly still exists, you just arent interacting with it.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 6 months ago:
You have no idea what you are talking about. You can own and resell any physical piece of game media. If you have a gameboy cartridge, nobody can take that game away from you. If you have DRM free game files from gog, nobody can take that away from you.
The only case where this disgusting lincense shit is possible, is when games require being online and logging in to unlock the DRM.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 6 months ago:
the fact that I don’t actually own my games
It doesnt solve this in the slightest. Steam and game publishers can always take your games away without prior notice.
