chunes

@chunes@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A malicious mod can trivially escape the sandboxed Lua environment to execute arbitrary code and gain full filesystem access on the user’s device.

  Yikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if that happens, techies will flee the web to something else. Gopher, Gemini, who knows. And then adapt it to their needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t just social media. It’s the OS. It’s all of normal computing. Next it will progress to hardware and then we are truly fucked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t understand why any school or government would use proprietary software, even 20 years ago. sad that this is something we even feel the need to celebrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that this will put a spotlight on crappy engines and devs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s as much as the gaming PC I built to play Skyrim on ultra settings in 2012.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you from personal experience that cleaning those giant-ass broilers they use will be one of the last things to be automated on this earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In an ideal world, this would be used to charge rich people more.

  How do I already know it’s the exact opposite though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The complement of the surface web is the deep web, not the dark web.

  Deep web = sites that are not indexed by search engines. Surface web = sites that are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy perfectly proving the point of why devs don’t want people to know what tools they use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect devs to disclose when they use photoshop, IDEs with autocomplete, and store-bought assets as well. Starting to sound silly? That’s because it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the time there’s blood in your stool, you can’t physically see it. That’s why you usually need to send in a stool sample to determine that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  14? I wish. From where I’m standing it’s closer to one. (Librewolf)