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- Comment on Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers 3 days ago:
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
I feel this is a stupid abbreviation that needlessly obscures the subject from readers, in favor of corporation-indulgent branding.
404 Media, please do better.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 2 weeks ago:
encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time.
If you’re counting in terms of viewer hours, then sure. However, given the rise of Twitch-style live broadcasts, I think the picture would be noticeably different if you count programming hours instead.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 weeks ago:
I editorializing titles as well, but so many headlines these days are written as clickbait, so finding a good alternative link is usually time consuming and sometimes impossible. I compromise by adding [the key info in brackets], which is widely recognized as acceptable when clarification is needed.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.
- Comment on Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators 2 weeks ago:
nonillion
noun
nō-ˈnil-yən
US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros
also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros
- Comment on India asks smartphone makers to preinstall its cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on phones 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Make Amazon Pay 3 weeks ago:
I was interested in the topic, but that web page is blinding. Pity, that.
- Comment on Dangerous Firefox WebAssembly bug went undetected for 6 months 3 weeks ago:
affected all Firefox versions from 143 through early 145, and Firefox ESR versions before 140.5
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 4 weeks ago:
The FBI’s report from August, prepared by its New York division, does not make clear how the bureau accessed the Signal group.
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- Comment on D&D tabletop-style RPG Battlemarked is out on PC today with a singleplayer mode for Baldur's Gate 3 nutters 4 weeks ago:
Never heard of it.
Demeo is a cross-platform cooperative adventure for up to four players that recreates all of the magic and camaraderie of gathering around a tabletop with friends to do battle against the forces of evil.
Huh. Looks like they combined a 3D virtual tabletop with a pre-made adventure, so you can play without a dungeon master.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 4 weeks ago:
Good judgment. There is at least one puzzle all about navigating a confusing area without a guide. Having a pre-made map would rob you of the challenge.
I second the suggestion of mapping by hand.
- Comment on JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens 4 weeks ago:
The posts in question:
JSAUX @jsauxofficial
We are developing accessories for the new Steam Machine—and the final decision seems to be in your hands.
Pick your fighter:
1⃣E-Ink — slow refresh, smart look.
2⃣LCD — bright, battery killer.
3⃣Dot-Matrix — retro vibes only.
Vote in the comments👇.
We’ll build whatever wins… probably🤪.xcancel.com/jsauxofficial/…/1990418613380186120
Ink or pixels? Either way, all Steam Machine product updates drop on Reddit first.✨
- Comment on It's not just you: Cloudflare, and half the Internet, is down 5 weeks ago:
You mean a single company being gatekeeper and man-in-the-middle to so much of the world’s web traffic?
What makes you think it’s not being exploited already?
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December 5 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s free to people who bought any of the existing campaigns. Not to new players.
- The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OSwww.cnx-software.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 1 month ago:
Kind of funny: When Wikipedia was new, people often said that you couldn’t trust information on it because anyone could have written it, even if they were unqualified, biased, or deliberately deceptive. I guess that’s still true today, but with the advent of automated misinformation generators, the Wiki almost seems authoritative in comparison.
- Comment on Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play 1 month ago:
My group unanimously chose to leave Fantasy Grounds after about half a dozen sessions, and it wasn’t because of the price. Too many usability problems. Too many surprising, unexplained behaviors. Too much of our gaming time was consumed by troubleshooting and wrangling the software.
We moved to Foundry VTT, and haven’t looked back. It’s not free, but a license is reasonably priced, paid only once, covers an entire gaming group (or several groups if they don’t play at the same time), and includes new releases forever.
Here are some free virtual tabletops. These are comparatively minimal, but might be good enough if your needs are modest, or if your group can’t afford a 50 USD Foundry license.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' UK petition has been debated in parliament: "The law works, but companies may need to communicate better" 1 month ago:
tl;dr: The government (at time of debate) didn’t think there was any need to stop killing games, suggesting instead that customers be told more clearly that the games they buy will eventually be killed.
- Comment on Looking for a cool person to join a 5e homebrew campaign from 8GMT to 13GMT on Sundays. 1 month ago:
I love seeing posts like this, and would consider joining if the table seemed like a good fit. (I don’t think this one would work for me.)
In case you’re not aware of it, you might get more interest here: !dnd@lemmy.world
Good luck!
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 1 month ago:
Screen size: 5.8"
Device size: 6.8"
CPU/SoC: unknownParent company:
Xinruizhi (Shenzhen) Industrial Co., Ltd.
www.xinruizhi-china.com/pages/about-us - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
Problems like those are unavoidable even on today’s Signal, because the service depends on internet peering relationships, internet service providers, mobile network operators, cell service, etc. Oh, and Amazon.
You usually don’t notice them because when any of those components experiences problems too often, affected users tend to get annoyed and switch to a more reliable one. (Also because you don’t expect to receive messages from as many people or as often as you do on Lemmy, so short outages are less likely to affect you at all.)
That would still be true in a distributed Signal, except that users could switch away from Amazon as well. Meanwhile, everyone not using Amazon would still be chatting during such an outage.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
We’re not talking about a distributed app, but a distributed service.
Email.
The web.
The entire internet.
The postal service. - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.
Exactly what problems do you have in mind?
There is no reason to assume that a distributed incarnation of Signal would have the same design as ActivityPub or Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
“The question isn’t ‘why does Signal use AWS?’” Whittaker writes. “It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers.”
To me, this reads like sophistry.
What happened here is a predictable result of Signal’s design. They chose to build a centralized messaging system. This made things significantly easier for them than a distributed design would have been, but it has its drawbacks. Having single point of failure is one of them. (In this case, that single point is Amazon.)
Trying to direct the public’s focus onto cloud providers instead of acknowledging this fundamental shortcoming in their design is, frankly, disingenuous. Especially coming from someone in Whittaker’s position.
While we’re at it, let’s also acknowledge that centralized design in messaging networks are problematic not just because of (un)reliability, as seen here. It’s also a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications with each other. End-to-end encryption cannot solve those problems.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 2 months ago:
cm0002 is effectively a bot account, endlessly re-posting things from .ml instances.
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 2 months ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 2 months ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 months ago:
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.