JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 2 days ago:
All bicycles are velocipedes, but not all velocipedes are bicycles.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 2 days ago:
But are you sure bicycle means two wheels, and not every other wheel? Maybe we should call them twicecyles to avoid the confusion.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
GTA 6 is developed and being published by Rockstar Games. BG3 was developed and published by Larian. If you want to be that strict about the difference between CD project and CD project Red, we can ignore it.
Blue Prince was developed by Dogubomb and published by Raw Fury. It has a 3rd party publisher, therefore it’s not indie by your very clear definition, no?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
Which means Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and GTA 6 are indie titles, while the majority of the indie game award nominees and winners are not because they have 3rd party publishers.
Well defined indeed.
- Comment on Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler 2 weeks ago:
IIRC here in Finland they keep failing yearly inspections constantly because the balljoints and bushings etc are always completely shot as they can’t handle the extra weight of the batteries and massive torque from the motors.
- Comment on Could President Trump Bring Japan’s Tiny Cars to America? Not So Fast. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
It doesn’t. The website would ask for an id check, you would generate it on the provider side and give the randomized ID to the site so it could go check it’s valid and let you through. Without an account, it would act like a temporary 2FA code.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
How would you propose I prove to you at a reasonable certainty that I am an adult, without showing you my ID, or showing it to someone else you trust to tell the truth?
And also somehow prove that the ID I gave was not fake without the government that issued it telling you that it’s genuine?Well, I actually could do it because I’m old enough that most of my accounts are already over 18 years old, but I don’t think requiring every new Pornhub user to wait 18 years is a reasonable solution.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
But it’s quite clear by now “we aren’t going to implement age verification on the internet” isn’t going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future, and places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy. - Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple “Is adult: yes/no” answer connected to a randomised ID from them. - Comment on Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits [Aftermath] 2 months ago:
That’s how you end up with Horizon Zero West having 3500 credits, because you credit every single employee of every single company and division that even looked at the game for those five seconds.
- Comment on X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles 2 months ago:
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 2 months ago:
Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?
Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
Touché .
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 2 months ago:
Give the EU some time.
And if they don’t remove it, oooh I wanna see the GDPR report microsoft sends me after three years ehen I ask for it.
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 2 months ago:
Huh, seems that quite a few LShift + LCtrl + LAlt + LWin + <key> have hardcoded links: Y opens Yammer, L for Linkedin, T for teams, O for outlook and so on. TIL.
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 2 months ago:
Possibly, kinda depends how it’s implemented, does it need the software to trigger some AI software or not.
Back when Microsoft got some copilot hotkeys put on laptops, they send the perfectly reasonable “LShift+Win+F23” key combination :)
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately 2 months ago:
One of the best builds to make CP2077 absolutely horrible to play is stealth + tech weapons. You spend all of you time crouched behind boxes, first trying akwardly to sneak your way in, and then shooting through them with the wallhack weapons.
Meanwhile other players clear the same mission in 45 seconds looking like the worlds biggest action hero badass with sandevistan and katanas and hacks and shit :D
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 2 months ago:
Kinda. Same as me, they know why the launch failed, but don’t say anything about why the notifications didn’t get sent.
Steam has a section for the developers for setting up the release date. It specifically states that you need to be careful with it, because two weeks before that date you start getting visibility on the “upcoming releases” list, and will then show up in the “new releases” section, and once that happens, you can’t change it.
And Planet Centauri is showing their official release date as being “3 Jun, 2016”, not the 2024 date they left Early Access as it’s supposed to. So did they mess that up and the notifications were actually sent, but they went out nine years ago? - Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 2 months ago:
Why it happened I can’t say, but I know what caused the failed launch - the game has an early access date and release date both in 2016. Steam didn’t send the mail that the game had released when it left EA because from their point of view, it had already released nine years ago.
Other games that have recently left EA have their release date update to the date they leave EA.
- Comment on YouTube Live adding joint horizontal/vertical streams, side-by-side ads 3 months ago:
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 3 months ago:
If you are going for Lineage, you might as well go with some more customized variants like CrDroid or EvolutionX, as long as there is an official build. They are Lineage but with more customizability. And with pixels, you can always take your first step of de-googling by getting GrapheneOS.
Though
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 3 months ago:
I just upgraded from my trusty Pixel 4a to a refurbished Pixel 8, it would have turned 4 years old next week. The battery was completely shot at the end, I got maybe 2½ hours of screentime.
I would have been perfectly happy with just swapping the battery and using it for the next four years, but I got an okay deal on the p8 so eh. - Comment on Midjourney's troubles get worse as Warner Bros Discovery sues the AI image generator for copyright infringement 3 months ago:
So, no commissions or patreon support if you are drawing fan art, got it.
- Comment on PS5 Digital Edition consoles are reportedly getting a quiet storage downgrade | VGC 3 months ago:
And a really shitty one, price difference between those two for a manufacturer ordering things in quantity is barely anything. Sony saves $5 per console, users lose 20% of their storage.
- Comment on PS5 price is an ‘unexpectedly large’ barrier for Monster Hunter Wilds sales, Capcom president says | VGC 3 months ago:
If someone has those kinds of hours in a new game it’s a sign of having no life, but playtime starts stacking up real fast - just three hours a day gets you to 1000 total in a year, and MonHu World is seven years old.
For me that game was Deep Rock Galactic, I played it for around 700 hours in the first year or so just by running a few missions each day. - Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
And it’s not like this is new, Redditmethis has been a thing for, oof, over a decade? Well before all of this AI stuff.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 4 months ago:
It is not, it’s an officially recognised human right.
- Comment on This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery 4 months ago:
Obviously, assuming you have that hill.
Slightly harder to do in places like the Netherlands for example, where the tallest hill is 322 metres, and the second tallest that isn’t part of that same mountain range near the Belgium border is just 110. - Comment on How To Be Evil in RPGs When You’re a Chronic Goody-Two-Shoes 4 months ago:
The only way I could manage my evil dark urge & minthara playthrough was to leave Karlach entirely unrecruited. Not that you could even get that far with her anyway as she doesn’t agree with evil choices and will sooner or later leave.
