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- Comment on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom 16 hours ago:
Imagine coming into consciousness only to realize you are a simulated human brain that your entire existence is play Doom.
- Comment on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project 1 week ago:
Let me guess without even reading the article. It’s Omarchy, isn’t it?
- Comment on GoPro says it's moving into AI data centers as part of a $285 million merger 1 week ago:
This is nothing, there was shoe making company recently who also pivoted towards AI.
- Comment on New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make 3 weeks ago:
Malware has features as well.
- Comment on 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | PatronView 3 weeks ago:
Why would a website owner use this instead of Anubis. Not bashing it or anything, just curious how it differentiates?
- Comment on Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images 4 weeks ago:
Can someone explain to me how is it possible to watermark text? Because it makes no sense to me.
- Comment on Even 10 years on, Sean Murray feels like he could work on No Man's Sky "forever," even if he knows "there probably is some end date" for it 4 weeks ago:
Never played it, but I still remember all the memes about how bad it was. It’s hard to believe they’ve been working on it for 10 whole years after release. Good on them.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 1 month ago:
It does work with screen readers but their solution seems far from ideal. Also, that relies on the fact that the scrappers don’t typically run JavaScript.
Screen readers (used, for example, by people with visual impairment) work from the source code, where your words are already swapped. The font only fixes things on screen, so a shielded block would be read aloud as fluent, wrong English. Shielded sections in our React tier carry aria-hidden to stop that. In its place, an opt-in beta ships the correct text encrypted in the page. A button only screen readers reach asks the reader’s browser to solve for the key: a chain of steps where each one needs the answer to the last. It also needs JavaScript, which most scrapers never run. The cost currently lands on the reader: up to twenty seconds on a slow device. That is friction, and it is the part we most want help fixing.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 1 month ago:
Pretty much, yeah.
The font must be sent to the browser so it can display the original words. Anyone who downloads it can therefore inspect it and work out the substitutions. That is unavoidable. But our goal is not to stop someone who deliberately targets a specific site. Instead, it is designed to disrupt large-scale automated scraping, which processes many sites without examining each one individually (because that costs money). ShieldFont currently ships with three different word mappings and gives publishers the tools to create their own, so decoding one mapping does not automatically reveal the others.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If the whole idea is to just add some friction then you can use your password manager to generate a password for that profile you can’t possibly remember, instead of using a numeric PIN. That way each time you want to switch to it you will have first to go unlock your password manager.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered's lengthy patch drought could end with its Switch 2 release, which Bethesda say includes "optimisations" they hope to bring to PC 1 month ago:
I stopped caring quite a while ago. Now I am waiting to Skyblivion which is finally around the corner.
- Comment on Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine 1 month ago:
I have heard many people say they would consider buying it if it was much cheaper, even though they have a capable gaming PC. Also, it doesn’t cost Valve anything offering a barebones version. Unless they don’t want to do it because their stock is limited and it is not just an issue of RAM and storage availability.
- Comment on Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine 1 month ago:
They could easily sell a cheaper Steam Machine by selling a barebones version without RAM or storage.
Especially when it comes to the storage which is by far the biggest cost after the RAM, I am pretty sure there are tons of people who already have a spare NVMe drive they could use.
- Comment on "Never say never": Criterion aren't ruling out a return to Need For Speed, but Battlefield is their only focus for now 1 month ago:
Riders on the storm…
- Comment on Valve's Steam Machine gets competition in the "Stim Machine", a cheeky French PC box that's already reportedly been re-named 2 months ago:
isn’t that what Valve wants anyway? The whole point of the Steam Machine just how it was for Steam Deck was to increase the SteamOS adoption to reduce the control Microsoft has over them with Windows. The more companies make SteamOS compatible devices the better is for adoption.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 2 months ago:
Slightly off topic, but if you need a QR code scanner there are really good open source ones available on F-Droid. Such is SecScanQR which I have been using for quite a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Welcome to Europe!
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 2 months ago:
They can definetly use signals like VPN usage, not allowing third-party cookies and whatever else to force this verification mode if they want to. They may not be doing it right now but nothing prevents them.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
- Comment on Pumping out new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games faster is reportedly the plan at Xbox, as the spectre of potential corporate rejigging looms 2 months ago:
Do you go to the Cloud District very often? What am I saying, of course you don’t.
- Comment on Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server 2 months ago:
The MCU only has 3KB of SRAM so probably not. I think you need at least something like a Pi Pico or an ESP32 for that.
- Comment on Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server 2 months ago:
The question is why a disposable vape needs a high performance 32-bit 24 MHz ARM MCU. What exactly does it do that can’t be accomplished by an 8-bit microcontroller.
- Comment on Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic 3 months ago:
Why on earth would my bank or utility company need to verify my age though my OS when they have all my info already?
- Comment on Oops - someone nearly caused a fire with the Steam Controller Puck 3 months ago:
Plus the puck attaches magnetically, which means you could even detect it using a hall sensor if you just wanted to use 2 pins for whatever reason.
- Comment on Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable" 3 months ago:
No, because he didn’t. What I meant is that he said what the article quotes.
- Comment on Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable" 3 months ago:
Linus Torvalds. Pretty weird title though.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 3 months ago:
The survey didn’t ask when their current PC was built. Just when they plan building a PC in general.
- Comment on App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows 4 months ago:
Because they are safe! Unlike those Withguard and Veracrypt things.
- Comment on Memory shortage set to run until 2027 as chipmakers focus on AI 4 months ago:
More like at least until 2027.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Nothing wrong with the statement. Federated doesn’t mean decentralized.