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- Comment on AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada 1 week ago:
“hello mister” -> “ayy cunt”
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 5 weeks ago:
Can it figure out my downclocked card? I can’t run mine at default settings or it crashes. :'(
- Comment on Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass 1 month ago:
FitGirl wrote some decent information about the tactic on their website. There’s already repacks specifically marked as Hypervisor repacks.
- Comment on Valve say Counter-Strike 2's reloading needed "higher stakes", so you now dump all the ammo left in a clip when you reload early 1 month ago:
Compared to almost every other FPS it already had relatively high stakes.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 2 months ago:
They probably already have way too much hardware to just scrap the Frame and Machine.
They might just do a limited release thought. I guess that’s what I would do.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 2 months ago:
A company is valued by what somebody is willing to pay for it.
So kind of, yes.
- Comment on [Deck] Make it make sense 2 months ago:
Inverted Y axis players are believed to have a higher intelligence.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Valve stated that they want this to be self sustaining by selling it at a normal profit.
Maybe with the RAM prices they’ll turn this back and just sell without a loss and focus on profits from Steam itself.
Right now I don’t think even they have the answer yet. They don’t have the volume to get the RAM prices down or stable so they’re getting buttfucked as much as the rest of us.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 4 months ago:
That’s the same instruction it has from the start.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 months ago:
The question was for a dumb TV and not just any TV.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 months ago:
That one is 27". I think that’s way too small for the living room. I also consider 120hz to be overkill for some couch gaming and movies.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 months ago:
Do you know of any big dumb TVs or monitors that I could buy in Europe? I only know of Sceptre TVs which are mostly meant for businesses and storefronts but they are extremely hard to get in Europe.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 5 months ago:
If you use Mullvad you get a token instead of an account. It’s not linked to any email address. You can then pay directly to this token using crypto. You can even send cash in an envelope. If you use Tor to get a token and pay, you’re as private as can be.
The thing however is that VPN providers can always see what IP address is using their service. So however private your account and payment is, in the end you always have to trust the provider that they are not logging IPs.
If you are buying from Mozilla, then both Mozilla and Mullvad get access information. This means that buying from a reseller is less private by default.
- Comment on Dangerous Firefox WebAssembly bug went undetected for 6 months 5 months ago:
They praised WebAssembly so hard but it’s obviously such a dangerous vector.
- Comment on Grab a free copy of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for a limited time 5 months ago:
- Comment on Arc Raiders' latest update nerfs an overperforming pistol, rebalances boom damage and also has ducks 5 months ago:
They should have upped the damage of all other guns instead.
- Comment on Old School RuneScape is getting its first new skill since it launched, and so the XP grind begins anew 6 months ago:
Most awful idea of a skill. It’s literally a minigame.
I stopped playing because of how undemocratic their fake “democratic voting” is. Whenever something doesn’t pass they just change a few things around and try again until they get what they want.
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 6 months ago:
Ouch.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 6 months ago:
There’s two arguments I have against your comment:
- Fiber is fiber. If even 1% of the connection is not fiber you can’t claim FULL fiber. That’s just not correct. It’s like claiming a dish is completely vegan, ignoring the fact it includes eggs, which makes it not vegan.
- There’s definitely a difference in fiber and copper wiring. Fiber is faster and allows for more bandwidth. For most home connections this is overkill and not noticeable. But an IT guy like me definitely prefers fiber over copper.
In my country it’s illegal to call it full fiber if it isn’t 100% fiber. That’s why the ISPs found a loophole and now call it “dynamic fiber”. They made me waste a shit ton of time troubleshooting why I wasn’t getting the fiber speeds, only to see a tiny print on the bottom of some KB article that said “only for those who have full fiber” after which I had to waste even more time trying to figure out what type of connection I had. I literally bought the “fiber” pack.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 6 months ago:
For that price I can probably hire a Groom of the Stool.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 7 months ago:
If UAC bypasses weren’t left unpatched I would have kept my own one so I could reign chaos as soon as Microsoft drops it.
You know what, I’m keeping it anyways, so I can prove an argument by telling you about it.
I’m sure many malware developers have tons of exploits ready for when support is dropped.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t worry at that. People said the same thing about Internet Explorer.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
I have been burned out by project managers way too hard to have any respect for the capitalist tech world. I have 15 years of programming experience yet I’m literally looking for a job on a farm or warehouse.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Well the guy from the article is named David Lu and added a function with the name
IsDLEnabledinAD. That by itself deserves an article. - Comment on 8 months ago:
For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man’s triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don’t forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 8 months ago:
It will eventually show the locations of where they use this AI.
- Comment on Candy Crush Developers Set To Be Laid Off By Microsoft Are Reportedly Being Replaced By The AI Tools They Were Told To Build 9 months ago:
This isn’t a problem, because the profits of said AI tools go to the original developers. Right? RIGHT?
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving 9 months ago:
Hands-free calling is considered safe in most countries so I don’t really see this as a problem.
The bigger problem is the capitalist hellscape where you’re supposed to be on the road but also in meetings at the same time.
- Comment on Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions 10 months ago:
Extremely troubling.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next 10 months ago:
I think that’s a very big stretch and I don’t think we’ll see that any time soon. Microsoft is already losing market share and they can’t do much more of this type of stuff because more and more people are getting annoyed. (Including ones with a following such as PewDiePie)
Anyways, Linux is great.