The_Decryptor

@The_Decryptor@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember one of the modders behind a UI overhaul talking about the response to paid mods, when users kept saying that a donation system was better, that in the entire time they’d been making the mod they’d only gotten like $50 in donations total.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.

  That’s when you bring up Kent State

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A single user mastodon instance has the same issues, any hashtags you can see will be from users you already follow. You need to subscribe to a relay to see more posts (Which GTS actually currently doesn’t support, so you need to follow tags from something like relay.fedi.buzz)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d run afoul of the whole “editing your own article” restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it really stealing if you pay for it?

  Xerox PARC had lots of great ideas, and then just never really commercialized any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tarlogic has detected that ESP32 chips, which allow connectivity via WiFi or Bluetooth, have hidden commands not documented by the manufacturer. These commands would allow modifying the chips arbitrarily to unlock additional functionalities, infecting these chips with malicious code, and even carrying out attacks of identity theft of devices.

  It’s not a backdoor, it’s a jailbreak. Sounds like they left the debug functionality enabled but just undocumented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s any consolation, in Australia that’d make you far-left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood why it’s just Apple that seems to get the blame for using Foxconn, they’re estimated to make 40% of all consumer electronics. Nintendo uses them for all their consoles (since the GameCube), Sony use them for their hardware (TVs, the PlayStation, etc.), MS for the Xbox, Amazon for the Kindles, Google for the Pixels, etc.

  I don’t want this to sound like whataboutism, but I’ve just literally never understood why people seemingly overlook all the other companies using them to place the blame solely on Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like macOS or Windows are any different there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough people buying Premium, eh?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which replaced Google Play Music, which was actually good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jack Dorsey may have had lofty goals for Bluesky, but he doesn’t even work there anymore.

  Which is a point in BlueSky’s favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine the stones would survive it, just fall out of the vanishing gauntlet. It’s not like the stones were a part of it, they were just being held in place by it, but then there’s the question of whether or not the contents of people’s pockets got snapped as well, we know the pager Fury had didn’t count as “part of him”.

  And no, they used the ant man tech to go back in time, no stones there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you trust that doctor?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tad out of date, but the Second Doctor claims he received a medical degree after studying under Joseph Lister in 1888.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time it was just an ad-lib by Jason Issacs, guessing he wished on a monkey’s paw for it to make sense in context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the problem with that, though? Systems like that are pretty much guaranteed to be isolated from the internet.

  Because things break down eventually, and when it comes time to buy replacement parts you discover that they’re effectively impossible to find. Then instead of having a nice, planned transition period you’ve got like a weekend to cobble together something to get it working again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will outlive us all⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  although I’m not sure what USB4 Gen 3×1 is, but it’s only x1 so can’t be that good, right?

  It’s the initialisation mode of USB 40Gbps, luckily not something users will have to deal with