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- Comment on New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges 2 days ago:
But THE BLOCKCHAIN! Remember that time before everything was AI this and GPT that?
A simpler time where you could pay thousands of dollars to “own” a digital file nobody wanted and could freely copy.
A time where words like “memecoin” were commonplace on national news stations.
A time when everyone was trying to get you to invest in something they didn’t understand because the lines kept going up?
- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 1 week ago:
AI code probably broke it.
- Comment on Finishing a video game can trigger “post-game depression,” study finds 1 week ago:
This must be why I’m so chipper - I’m too ADHD to see my games through to the end! No I will not meet Hanako at Embers, I’ll start another game and forget about it until I need the disc space back.
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 1 week ago:
New rule, all AI content “accidentally” left in game releases should be replaced with Weird Al (with an L)
Too cheap to hire voice actors? Now all your NPCs sing Amish Paradise. Slop together some brick textures? Now Weird Al’s face gets tiled on every surface.
- Comment on Microsoft ditches plans to inject Copilot into a key part of Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
You mean that thing I disable right from the start anyways?
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 2 weeks ago:
Like the article said, alternative to Google/Microsoft, not something private or secure
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 3 weeks ago:
Friendly reminder for those on work computers, Firefox can be installed as a user app without admin rights by just declining the admin request when it pops up.
On Mac, just drag the application to your user apps directory (
/Users/<you>/Applications). - Comment on Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent 4 weeks ago:
But definitely keep doing it everywhere else.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant update brings a fancy gravity gun and customizable trucks 1 month ago:
Whelp, time to boot this one back to again
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 1 month ago:
The downloads themselves are signed—however some earlier versions of Notepad++ used a self signed root cert, which is on Github. With 8.8.7, the prior release, this was reverted to GlobalSign.
- Comment on Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program 1 month ago:
Great, now I’m eyeing buying FF8 again for the 5th time. What is wrong with me?
- Comment on Cursor is better at marketing than coding 2 months ago:
Seriously, are you worried they’ll sue? They don’t want to open themselves up to discovery on this one, I guarantee it.
- Comment on New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads 2 months ago:
They discovered that the malware can operate in a mode called ‘phantom’, which uses a hidden WebView-based embedded browser to load a target page for click-fraud and a JavaScript file. The script’s purpose is to automate actions on the ads shown on the loaded site.
Ooohh nooooo. Will no one think of the poor advertisers and their wasted ad money??
I know viruses are bad and this exploit could probably be used for more nefarious purposes, but I’m having a hard time getting upset about it.
- Comment on Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support 2 months ago:
Given its rocky path to get here, I have 100% confidence early access will be a buggy mess.
What remains to be seen is 1) if they can clean it up fast enough to stay relevant, and 2) if it will be a compelling enough upgrade to draw people away from Minecraft.
I suspect 2) is going to be incredibly difficult to get right. Sure the gameplay might be better, but Minecraft is one of the most overly documented and heavily modded games ever. If they want to convince people to give up years of work optimizing every aspect of that game to come play in their sandbox they’re gonna have to get clever.
- Comment on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 3 months ago:
Ben Seaverston
- Comment on Amongst all the success, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive isn't interested in expansion 3 months ago:
Good. Infinite growth is bad for games.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 3 months ago:
No, but those are already installed and logged into on my work PC, and admins can remote into my work PC at any time. Unless it requires a separate password prompt to enable and disable, they are fully capable of toggling it.
Also logins are managed by a company AD/SSO. They can easily reset my password and log into anything and everything.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 3 months ago:
Of course, if your manager requires you to turn it on, most employees will feel pressured to comply, but Microsoft stressed “it is not possible for admins to consent on users’ behalf.”
Pretty sure an Admin could remote into my computer at any time and tick a checkbox. I find it hard to believe that anything is “not possible”
- Comment on Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS 3 months ago:
I played a lot of OW1, moved on a little before the launch of 2, and just watched it crash and burn from afar… Maybe one day I’ll give Blizzard another chance, but I doubt Activision will let that happen.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 3 months ago:
Looks to be B2B focused. I don’t see a price anywhere, but can request a quote, and their references to data sovereignty makes me think it’s “self"-hosted, as opposed to an E2EE cloud solution.
Could be wrong, I was just scanning, but it feels much more focused on big businesses with large dedicated IT departments.
- Comment on The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with "financial distress", claims report 4 months ago:
Who needs money when you can just have the company you’re buying take on debt to pay for its own buyout, then let that debt slowly rot it from the inside out.
- Comment on Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet 4 months ago:
Which you’d think would be incredibly easy to do
Minecraft has a gigantic base of players and modders, a “better” Minecraft would need to draw a similar crowd or convince them all to give up years of customization and optimization to switch en masse.
Hard to imagine any game pulling it off without going F2P, which, bleh.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 4 months ago:
Attack Troll with Nasty Knife
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 4 months ago:
If they do start adding AI slop it’ll all be cloud hosted, of that I’m certain.
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 4 months ago:
Not sure I have much hope for Nvidia holding back on “AI” features in the long run
- Comment on Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s the video and details 4 months ago:
Don’t you have phones?
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 4 months ago:
Maybe? Hopefully? This makes people ask why its so important to Microsoft for Edge, a “free” service, to be your default browser…
Probably not, but still…
- Comment on The Steam Deck now lets you do low-power, screen-off downloads, finally 4 months ago:
You download the thing but then no screen.
- Comment on Claimed Rockstar Games Employee States That Firings Were Indeed Over Unionizing 4 months ago:
More specifically, many of the 30+ people at the UK branch were brought to the HR office under the “friendly guise” of just needing to talk, only to be told they were fired and then “frogmarched” out of the building.
Wrong authoritarian corporate-controlled government.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 4 months ago:
Honest question, what are y’all doing on YouTube most days?
I go on about once or twice a month when I need to repair a thing and I can’t find a good written description of how to repair it.
Also I visited the other day to make sure my bluetooth headphones were connected before a call (I watched a video of goats doing goat things for 4s).
I’m curious what content is drawing in folks on Lemmy who probably skew towards my demographic.