AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If a product is free, you are the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you trust your VPN?

  A comprehensive checklist:

  • Is your VPN completely free?

  • Has your VPN a referral program with discount codes and money if a friend joins?

  • Is your VPN sponsorized by big streamers?

  The more “yes” you find in that list, the less you should trust your VPN.

  • Is your VPN audited?

  • Can you access those audits?

  • Can you pay in anonymous currencies (cash or crypto)?

  • Can you track them to their real parent company?

  The more “no” you find in that list, the less you should trust your VPN.

  If your VPN has checks all the wrong answers, you should dump it ASAP (if you are worried about privacy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ok Microsoft, I already didn’t want to upgrade to Windows 11, you don’t need to keep convincing me to not upgrade to the next one after 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Junk Store 2.0 has released⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to hear about the kidneys! And let’s hope for the best with the nerve damage. Life’s not always kind to us, but it’s good to see you are keeping a possitive attitude. It really helps when facing adversities!

  Can’t wait for your new content! It’s always a nice read to have while I have my morning tea!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Junk Store 2.0 has released⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I love to see new launchers coming to deck and linux, I’ll have to pass on this one. I don’t see any reason to use it over heroic, and much less considering there is a sub to pay.

  I could have considered it if it was a one payment solution, but I really don’t want to add another sub to another service to my life.

  On side note, I haven’t been present lately on lemmy so I didn’t read your latest posts (I’m now giving them a read) but I came across two new posts from you today after you said you were taking a pause in that weekly deck news posts from 3 weeks ago and I just wanted to say that I’m happy you are still writing.

  Hope this means you are feeling better! 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For once I agree with the tangerine mussolini: paying for all copyrighted stuff is not doable, hence I pirate all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every big name in the videogames industry wants this initiative to fail, but none wants to be the one making it fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Not a good precedent. But in this case, I think there’s a silver lining in that valve is removing shovelware while retaining the capacity of selling adult games.

  Although Valve should be the one setting the rules here. And the rule should be that games portraying borderline (or even outright illegal) situations, such as incest, should be banned from the store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Checks the list of removed games

  And nothing of value was lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton plan to delay Subnautica 2 and deny the studio a $250 million bonus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, sounds like one of those games that you should absolutely pirate instead of buying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever could go wrong?

  A kitchen toy that tells the kid to prepare a pizza using glue mixed with the mozzarella?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TechCrunch: Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The enemy of my enemy is not necesarily my friend. However, when two of my enemies start killing each other, I can’t help but to cheer for both of them, hoping for one to kill the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit! 80€ for a game that’s a fake physical edition on consoles is outraging. As much as the price on pcs where the physical is not even a possibility.

  Good thing, I hope the sales keep low for a while to serve as an example of what to not do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you could buy this thing at their asking price it means that you either had spare money to spend on it as if it was nothing or you were dumb enough to buy an item you didn’t need for an amount you couldn’t afford.

  And in both cases, I don’t have sympathy for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky you it’s only $80. In Europe they are going for 90€, so I guess we’re passing the 100€ barrier on any game with dlc.

  And people will pay. These are the fanatics that can’t live without a mario game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spiritfarer devs release 33 Immortals, the early access co-op hellraiser that plays like an MMO raid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s another game I’m not getting (even though I LOVE the concept) because there is no steam.

  Oh well, their loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone still thiking those assholes are “free speech warriors” is an idiot who deserves whatever happens to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh well, looks like it’ll be another gaming gen in which I will buy zero AAA games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was talking today about this with a couple of colleagues.

  In my field (industrial programming) there’s a real fear that we’re going to be substituted by AI. And… I think it’s probably going to happen. And it’s going to be reaaaaaally fun: because things will go like this:

  one day, my boss will realize that chatgpt can make a program for a machine in 10 minutes instead of 2 weeks. And with zero knowledge about programming, he will fire me.

  Then, chatgpt will create his next software for a machine, and he will start making money like crazy because he cut the costs to a fraction and reduced shipping times to almost zero.

  And things will go nicely. But one day, the machine that works under the software chatgpt made, will injure or worse, kill a person. And my boss will then learn the hard way that chatgpt can’t be held responsible for that death and him, being the only one left, will be charged for that death.

  Soon after that, he will start looking for new positions again, either as “software advisors” who check the code before it’s shipped so he can discharge the responsibility on them, or as programmers to do what they were doing some months ago, but this time, for more money, given the precedents.