MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores 15 hours ago:
Fuck recaptcha
- Comment on China’s Smart Glasses Are Already Leaving Ray-Bans in the Dust 1 day ago:
I actively hate these. People who wear them I don’t want to be around nor talk to.
- Comment on Steam Controller reservation system is now live 4 days ago:
Same
- Comment on Steam Controller goes out of stock as Valve get a ton of "Game Console" shipments 1 week ago:
I wish they’d just do what frame.work does. Pre-order and kill scalpers by letting everyone order it and just push back delivery. Then everyone gets one and it pretty much kills scalping because people can just wait for it.
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting a free Endless Mode, optimizations and a big expansion 2 weeks ago:
OH endless mode! Sounds fun
- Comment on Roguelite spin-off shooter Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core arrives in May 1 month ago:
Rock. And. Stone.
I am so stoked. I love everything DRG and I have constantly been impressed by the developers. Hell you can even go back and play past “seasons” and there aren’t any micro transactions beyond skin bundles for real money as DLC. They honestly put so much love and care into drg and it really shows.
Will def be buying this day one.
- Comment on CachyOS founder explains why they didn't join the new Open Gaming Collective (OGC) 3 months ago:
Ah yes. The classic this open source maintainer should donate his time the way I think he should.
A group project is non-optional. How someone donates their time is entirely up to them.
- Comment on Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75% 4 months ago:
So, I’m guessing they coded it originally with an LLM, and then used more LLMs to optimize and fix the shit from the first pass.
- Comment on Unix V4: Only known copy may lurk on recently unearthed tape 4 months ago:
What is this referring to?
- Comment on Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs 4 months ago:
Don’t be ignorant. That isnt what this is at all. It’s not like the game has more access, it’s actually less. They’re just enforcing hardware attestation.
Basically just the motherboard saying, (cryptographically) yes as far as I know, the kernel and system running are secure and weren’t modified. And in this case they found a bad bug in that system, and next year they may start requiring people parch update their motherboard firmware to a version that doesn’t have the bug.
So this, is not a root kit, and does not grant them “bios access” they want to be unable to modify the BIOS / OS at boot just as much as they want cheaters to be unable to do that. It’s the same as the general cryptography paradigm, there is no secure backdoor to cryptography, and it’s the same here. If RIOT had access to the UEFI (BIOS), cheaters have access to if. They’re just leveraging an entirely safe attestation from the UEFI to say it is secure.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 5 months ago:
CBP, ‘civil forfeiture’ aka we can steal your shit, and all this shit is unconstitutional and illegal.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 months ago:
Yeah I mean clickbait titles gonna clickbait. Linux is great and steamos / proton are amazing. It’s incredible how well they do perform, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves lol.
- Comment on As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out 5 months ago:
100%. At that point the data center is just stealing from everyone else.
Every one is just subsidizing the data center with their electrical, water, etc… Bill.
- Comment on Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch: Am I addicted to my smartwatch? 5 months ago:
Love my pebble, and it isn’t a data sucking privacy nightmare. It’s simple and not addicting.
- Comment on India is rolling back mandate that forced smartphone makers to pre-install Govt. cybersecurity app 5 months ago:
Today,
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
Right I feel like an ultra simple car / truck with no fancy features but an electric motor would actually being something to market that would sell. Eap when it should be $30k or less.
- Comment on Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy 6 months ago:
Imo, better to allow it cautiously, with restrictions, and very explicitly mark code as AI generated when it is, than to have people submitting code secretly made by AI.
Furthermore, let’s be honest AI knows anything it knows about coding because of open source code. So take what you can get I guess. Just keep the quality up.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 months ago:
That’s the key. They want to mine and sell the data
- Comment on Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews - Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Yeah cloudflare is too large.
- Comment on Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games 7 months ago:
All the things we didn’t ask for.
- Comment on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl finally gets night vision and more upgrades 7 months ago:
Yep. Will def pick it up once it’s done lol
- Comment on Mozilla now lets Firefox add-on devs roll back bad updates 7 months ago:
Seems like there’s a security vulnerability here. Ship bad extension. Update code to not be bad. Conditionally rollback based on remote server. Can pick who you attack conditionally and most people don’t have bad code running.
- Comment on Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment 7 months ago:
Amazing. Love it
- Comment on Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite 7 months ago:
So any game that needs anticheat is shit? I guess you only think single player games are fun then
- Comment on Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace 7 months ago:
100% this. I really love these small indie games where you buy it. And… Surprise you actually own it. It works and it doesn’t need a weekly patch for the monthly season pass.
And then for some reason the devs actually love what they built and they keep giving updates which is amazing and an added bonus but far from expected and definitely not necessary because the game is already complete.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 8 months ago:
Heh that’s cool. For now. Enshittification must march on
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 8 months ago:
Yeah. I agree with this
Additionally, GamePasses are designed to force developers to have to use them. If enough people are using it, they’re going to be way more resistant to paying additional money for a game that isn’t in the game pass. This means that it locks users into a platform, and takes the consumers away from the game makers meaning the developers lose. Lose if they are on the game pass, lose if they aren’t.
Just another enshitification where the middleman is the only winner.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 8 months ago:
Yeah it’s bad for consumers which means more money for Nintendo (and publishers) Reselling a physical game card nets 0 profit for either Nintendo nor the game publisher. They really have 0 incentive to go out of their way to support it, sadly.
- Comment on AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content 8 months ago:
Sounds like a feature not a bug. Steal the content and take away the source of the content? Win win. Then the content can only be obtained via the AI.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 8 months ago:
Yeah this. You’re telling me this isn’t just an OSS project by some mel in their basement?