aeronmelon
@aeronmelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Music Of The Sims (in web Winamp) 2 weeks ago:
I can’t get the Webamp player to load. The default player works fine.
- Comment on Europe is preparing a master plan to shift from proprietary technologies to open source 2 weeks ago:
Good, maybe this will keep business for forcing me to use Facebook in place of an actual website.
- Comment on Bully Online shoved into a shutdown locker, as the modders behind it say that's "not something we wanted" 2 weeks ago:
paid access
But it is something they asked for.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online's smaller expansions are "not in any way" a result of last year's layoffs 2 weeks ago:
-10 Persuasion.
- Comment on Hytale's first hotfix targets crash-inducing hairdos and buckets, as its devs outline update plans for the next few months 2 weeks ago:
I will be watching their careers with great interest.
- Comment on Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails 3 weeks ago:
“We’re putting this convicted pedophile in charge of the daycare. But don’t worry, they won’t harm any of your children.”
- Comment on Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava 3 weeks ago:
They upgraded baby chicken into a birb.
- Comment on GTA's Ned Luke gets swatted for the 8th time while streaming with Red Dead's Rob Wiethoff: "there's so many douchebags out there, Rob" 4 weeks ago:
Why would you expect cops to recognize a pattern of behavior?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Scenes in Any Movie 1 month ago:
“But movies already got product placements, Lieutenant Dan.”
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
Waits to see how long it takes for someone to post that XKCD picture
- Comment on 1 month ago:
“Dagnabbit, my internet-enabled catheter leaked my information to all my contacts again!”
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 months ago:
So it’ll be done in software instead with every player that supports it and few will notice the performance difference.
Other than those companies being cheapskates, this is kind of a nothing burger.
- Comment on Krafton CEO admits he did consult ChatGPT about the Subnautica 2 situation, and says he deleted the logs over confidentiality concerns 2 months ago:
- Comment on Embrace your messy, cringey teenage emo years in rhythm game X visual novel I Write Games Not Tragedies 2 months ago:
What an article title.
- Comment on Concord lives! Or, lived, as community efforts to revive it already appear to be on hold after some DMCA strikes 2 months ago:
Sony: “We can’t release this game because we don’t have enough money.”
Also Sony: spends more than that on lawyers to prevent anyone else from trying
- Comment on Worthy mod to pick up 2 months ago:
vault dweller loses an arm
House: “Start a lab and put him on interferon.”
- Comment on World Of Warcraft will get a new premium currency alongside Midnight for no obvious good reason at all 2 months ago:
I was thinking about going back to it.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 3 months ago:
In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.
There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 3 months ago:
As with most IT troubleshooting,
Time spent applying the fix: 15 minutes.
Time spent identifying the problem then discovering where it is in the system: 15 hours.
- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion 4 months ago:
“How could EA possibly get worse?”
Like this.
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 4 months ago:
They were going to CHARGE for security updates?
How is Microsoft in 2025 worse than Microsoft in 1995?
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 4 months ago:
“Under his eye.”
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 4 months ago:
No, I’m going to keep using LibreOffice.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 5 months ago:
“Just a little bit of history repeatin’”
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The Cyber Police are real?
Consequences will never be the same.
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 5 months ago:
7Zip - Windows & Linux
Keka - Mac
I understand it’s hard to move off of a trusted solution that has worked perfectly for so long, but there have been better alternatives for well over a decade now.
- Comment on Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved Source engine surfing 6 months ago:
Okay, sorry, I thought that was the Windows pipes screensaver.
- Comment on Russia and Belarus plan to create AI model based on “traditional values” 6 months ago:
The People’s Grok.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 6 months ago:
Drone-B-Gone ™
- Comment on FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse 6 months ago:
Cute.
I have a 256GB microSD card that disappears into the side of my MacBook.
This is perfect for people who have too much desk.
