MrTolkinghoen

@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I love graphene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that. I love my 6ghz WiFi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeForce NOW on Steam Deck really can be a game-changer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I stream from my PC with moonlight / sunshine and it really is a game changer for AAA games. I.E. oblivion remastered ATM ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DJI Romo: DJI's first high-end robot vacuum spotted in close-up photo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Valetudo is the only high end vacuum I’ll ever want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And there it is. Fuck xfinity/comcast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just a VR headset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Maybe you can pick the default messaging app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re still doing the exact same shit, just a little more transparent about it: Treat your customers differently based on if they’re new or not. Basically these plans just make it more obvious to customers. If you don’t cancel your plan yearly and resubscribe as a new subscriber, you have to pay an extra $180 a year. Simple as that. And you still have to do that every 5 years.

  Honestly it’s insane. Esp the I still have to cancel after 5 years to keep not getting fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, I know that it’s not kernel level, I just fail to see how, someone with complete control of the memory, can’t defeat all anticheat. To be fair, if it isn’t a client authoritative game, it could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stalker 2's broken A-life system is finally working as designed, according to GSC Game World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I held off on buying this. Does it feel good / worth buying now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… You can cheat then.

  Valve really needs to offer some sort of hardware attestation so the steamdeck can actually offer anticheat. As long as people can compile their own kernels any game has already lost from the start

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | House Bans WhatsApp on Congressional Staff Devices Over Security Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it not actually an allow list vs a deny list. They should be clearing apps that can be installed and not the other way around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I can’t wait to get mine and be in complete control of my data. No cloud bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah idk why people are caught up on this. Encryption is good and absolutely fundamentally important to society. And yes, shitty people can use it too, it doesn’t make it bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading the reviews, I can’t believe the devs don’t make saves forwards compatible or have a migration process.

  Would pick this up but that part is just insane. Unable to migrate your castle to another version of the game with new features…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google continues to do everything they can to close android down and force everyone to use their os. Imo this is a direct attack on graphene OS and anyone based on aosp. Now for every release developers will have to manually merge basically an unusable mess of changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying, that a private key within the TEE expired… So they probably had to write a custom TEE program in-order to rotate it? Along with actually securely delivering it.

  So… Did we (someone) manage to capture it? Ultimately though each device is going to have to request a new key, so even with a jailbroken TEE you’re still only going to be capturing the key for that specific device. The key would be how they implemented the verification that an expired device was allowed to get a new key and that verification… Idk not an expert in widevine keys and such but I assume that cert chain expired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually can’t believe how long this took them to fix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really haven’t seen any details. Most comments I’ve read indicate they think you already have to have access to the device and that this is just undocumented opcode calls. I.e. not a remote Bluetooth stack issue or remotely exploitable.

  Given an opcode, as noted in the article (vague on details) and yes, I did read it. This doesn’t give me much cause for alarm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Musk trying to prove haters wrong with X revaluation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but enshitification marches on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that there may come a point where screenless and disconnected cars become more and more valuable. That and jailbreaking cars is going to become a requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Google Spyware to Enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Graphene OS says no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.

  Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%

  Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%

  Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.

  Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.

  This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*

  *Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)

  Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.

  Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.

  Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the government should get to control what apps, websites, etc… we can and can’t use to communicate with our fellow humans.

  Strengthen data privacy laws. Algorithm transparency laws. Look at gdpr and TikTok being sued for sending their data back to China. Etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just such a bad precedent though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death by a thousand substacks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good read. Self hosting and owning your own brand, domain, identity, etc… Is the future. Also to be clear, most people only need some simple HTML to properly share what they have to say.

  Yet another enshittification service.

  Enshittification is reallybjust another way to say bait and switch.