Ludicrous0251

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ben Seaverston

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amongst all the success, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive isn't interested in expansion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Attack Troll with Nasty Knife

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you have phones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You download the thing but then no screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claimed Rockstar Games Employee States That Firings Were Indeed Over Unionizing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evidence? From the “most transparent administration”? You must be new here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield's new battle royale is free-to-play and out now with 100-player matches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s FTP from EA, so I’m going to guess “shallow, redundant, buggy, and crammed to the brim with microtransactions”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love 2D pixel art, but the 3D art style here does not do it for me - I wish them the best of luck, but I dont think I’ll be picking this one up any time soon.