reksas
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- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
I made an account over decade ago, never really used it even back then because I was suspicious even then. Then i tried logging in years after that and they demanded passport or some other identification to even let me log in.
So i sent them a picture i drew myself, i would post it here but i dont think i have the file anymore. It was basically like a mockup passport with picture of a clown and a stamp with picture of middle finger. I hoped they would just ban my account or something since that is about best I can hope. They would never abide by gdpr request and even if they say they did there is no way to know if they actually did.
- Comment on RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design 2 days ago:
Was it done in such way it could just as easy to fool multiple scanners at the same time? As in scanning eye, finger and palm at the same time. Though I wonder how expensive/difficult/error prone it would be to implement something like that.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 3 days ago:
So they dont want people using remote desktop? I wonder when they start removing being able to have administrative rights to your own computer.
- Comment on What Are People Still Doing on X? 3 days ago:
you could use some other service as your main channel and only use those to direct people to that other channel. For example when you do some bigger thing. Deny them the content while taking advantage of bigger visibility.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
The music of this game and the previous one is really good
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 4 days ago:
then have them study ai and be even more fucked when it potentially fails
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 5 days ago:
Are they doing this on purpose? Why would they even do something like that?
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Here are some reasons:
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exclusivity deals, forcing them to drop from steam even after they first announced release on there. They also target crowdfunded games like phoenixpoint.
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The launcher is spyware
resetera.com/…/developing-epic-games-launcher-app…
forums.unrealengine.com/t/…/123592
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and epic is owned by tencent 40%
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They not really trying to improve their launcher but instead focus on hurting steam and by extension the users.
Its like some shady guy trying to lure kids to a van by offering free candy.
The launcher is security risk for your system reddit.com/…/epic_games_launcher_had_a_serious_se…
first comment on the reddit thread
>thlm 5mo ago Epic Games Launcher Incorrect Default Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVSS SCORE 7.8 This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Epic Games Launcher. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the product installer. The product applies incorrect default permissions to a sensitive folder. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE 2024-07-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2024-12-04 - Coordinated public release of advisory 2024-12-06 - Advisory Updated That timeline is disgusting
So in essence, its not bad because it trys to compete with steam. Its bad because they really dont try to compete and just do anti-user things. And people dont care because “yay free games I’m never going to look at again”.
If you want to see what actual competition looks like at the moment, take a look at GOG.
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- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 1 week ago:
if i admit to doing crime, i still have to face the law about it. Does bungie?
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
i have been waiting for long time for them to add enough content to be worth buying. If they are going this route, i guess i’ll forget about getting the damn game entirely
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 weeks ago:
i’m kind of grateful for starfield actually. Feels like I can see bethesda as it actually is, even though it was obvious even before. Its so easy to just not care about anything they do. They can release next elderscrolls all they want, its all dead to me. Even if they manage to make it decent i still dont want to even look at it. Its going to cost 80€ or something like that most likely, so that is so much money saved for something more worthwhile too.
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 2 weeks ago:
well, i guess i can stop feeling like i’m using wrong word for them then
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 2 weeks ago:
ai is just too nifty word even if its gross misuse of the term. large language model doesnt roll of the tongue as easily.
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 2 weeks ago:
there is a LOT going on in our heads and bodies that we are not consciously aware.
- Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead 2 weeks ago:
smaller studios dont have money or interest to pay game news companies to write favourable articles about them. So clearly the industry must be dead if bigger ones are going down
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 2 weeks ago:
if its well designed to utilize openworld concept. For example, kenshi is very well designed for openworld. Kingdomcome games are well designed for it too.
Being lazy and not feeling like doing every single thing in openworld game is good thing because it will make replaying it sometime later nicer by leaving content untouched. But if the content is just finding one more collectible then its just awful gamedesign.
I dont necessarily seek out openworld games, just good games that fall into the slots i like. Unfortunately things have been very barren regarding that to the point i’m starting to lose interest in games.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 5 weeks ago:
maybe they just consider those people successfully suppressed
- Comment on What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another? 5 weeks ago:
ImageMaybe eventually like this?
- Comment on TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles 5 weeks ago:
i liked the tv show of this
- Comment on Claude gets depressed, calls the FBI and attempts to shut down a vending machine business after being filled with existential dread. 5 weeks ago:
i read it first as “Creator’s flavoured children”
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
though their games aren’t worth playing in the first place
- Comment on Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town 1 month ago:
ah yes, the sujimon. that fun surprise when not expecting it at all
- Comment on Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” 1 month ago:
Yet still youtube allows lootbox opening videos
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 month ago:
"Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is described as a “virtual exhibition” of the new hardware. Per Nintendo: “through tech demos, minigames and other interactions, players will get to know the new system inside and out in ways they may never have known about otherwise.”
So its basically just something that goes on about how great and wonderful switch is? And they want you to pay for it? This is so stupid I’m not sure if its even anti consumer anymore but somehow managed to go beyond to new and exiting levels of awfulness.
- Comment on Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics? 1 month ago:
The goal is to keep that crap out of the body, not become filter
- Comment on If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash? 1 month ago:
no benefit in embarrassing them. Should instead keep taking the money and use it for causes that resist them while trying to maintain secrecy so you can keep it going longer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I just wonder if the research into its effects is going forward as fast as it can since if there was some serious harmful effect from it it would cost a lot of money to many rich people. They would definitely want to silence anything about it as long as they can just like they did with climate change.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 2 months ago:
when you dont have arguments that fit with what you want to do, you make up your own.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
i wonder if microplastic could affect this. Even if its inert it must do something if enough accumulates in the brain.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 2 months ago:
the ones who own the social media are the source of so many problems.