aeronmelon
@aeronmelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails 3 days 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 4 days 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" 1 week 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Waits to see how long it takes for someone to post that XKCD picture
- Comment on 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Embrace your messy, cringey teenage emo years in rhythm game X visual novel I Write Games Not Tragedies 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
“Under his eye.”
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 3 months ago:
No, I’m going to keep using LibreOffice.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 4 months ago:
“Just a little bit of history repeatin’”
- Comment on 4 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 5 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” 5 months ago:
The People’s Grok.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 5 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.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 6 months ago:
Maybe stick to making vanity records for the superfans / vinyl collectors.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 6 months ago:
Translucent != transparent, but you might be on to something.
Maybe it works better on slim drives with a lower ceiling. Larger drives with space above the disc might allow the laser to refract and generate garbage.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 6 months ago:
Consumers knew about 2000 because Me was such dogshit regular people started using 2000 despite the drawbacks.
Most consumers didn’t know or care about Windows NT, or Windows 2003, 2008, and so on.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 6 months ago:
aw…
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 6 months ago:
That doesn’t make syncing the same as backing up, that’s an actual backup service with a sync feature added to it.
By all means, share links to such services if you have any.
