laurelraven
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- Comment on New rules bring PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay under federal oversight 3 weeks ago:
This was, more or less, my immediate thought
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 2 months ago:
Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 2 months ago:
I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers
(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)
- Comment on Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals 2 months ago:
Such an underrated movie
- Comment on Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study 2 months ago:
This. Any time paying customers get treated worse than pirates, they’re only incentivised to pirate next time. It absolutely blows my mind that corpos seem incapable of figuring that out.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 2 months ago:
Heavy emphasis on maybe
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…
This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.
Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.
Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
Or I could switch to Linux…
OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 2 months ago:
This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 2 months ago:
Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves
There is no good guy here
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 2 months ago:
I’m not sure why that’s so surprising actually
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 2 months ago:
I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 2 months ago:
I mean, if someone gets arrested because a machine predicted they would shoplift but no actual shoplift had been attempted, I’d like to believe the case would be thrown out for lack of any crime having been committed, but I don’t know if I have that much faith left in humanity anymore
- Comment on Planet-smelting sim Satisfactory is now satisfactory enough to leave early access 3 months ago:
Yeah, it actually was visible while it was being constructed, but then turned invisible. It highlighted an outline of it when I pointed at it
Hasn’t happened again though
- Comment on Planet-smelting sim Satisfactory is now satisfactory enough to leave early access 3 months ago:
I don’t have that problem but once had a personal container disappear as soon as I placed it, probably related?
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 3 months ago:
For selling out all future royalties for a game in as huge and popular a franchise as GTA? Yeah, i think that counter offer is pretty fair actually
- Comment on AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support 3 months ago:
It’s like the two worst people you know fighting each other… Kind of just want both of them to lose
- Comment on The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff 3 months ago:
Looks like fun, I’d watch it…
- Comment on California Approves Privacy Bill Requiring Opt-Out Tools 3 months ago:
Not to mention, the GDPR has teeth… I don’t know if ignoring the opt out would be a GDPR violation, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
And while the laws aren’t remotely in the same jurisdiction, no browser is going to provide a different version just for California, so European users will likely get this as well.
- Comment on MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership” 3 months ago:
George Bush “Mission Accomplished” banner intensifies
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 3 months ago:
This whole removing features from a product that was where when I bought it is a concept that needs to die. I don’t care if you don’t want to support it anymore, I don’t care if literally nobody else uses it, hell I don’t even care if I don’t even use it, it was something I purchased that they’re taking away without consent or refund
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 3 months ago:
Both can be true
- Comment on What are some good flight simulator games? 3 months ago:
The 2024 version is coming out in a few months too