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- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 4 hours ago:
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 12 hours ago:
I don’t want them to control what I say or think, just what other people say or think, and I want to be the one in charge of all that, or at least be on the side that’s in control of that. – An uncomfortably large portion of the U.S.
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 1 day ago:
All this AI pressure is coming from somewhere. I think Altman got to all the CEOs and convinced them the day I was the future and they’re all heavily invested stock-wise.
They’re all starving to get more AI and back to the office because their personal fortunes are tied up in those endeavors.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 days ago:
The $10 games were trash in 1982. You’re going to spend 30 on something like Q-bert polygon.com/…/atari-et-ads-commercials-videos-198…
in 2025 Money, that’s $99, assuming you got it used I gave you 50-60
is there even anything wrong if a game only takes your attention for a hundred hours
I don’t think so, but you’re the one who mentioned it :)
but I got hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay out of Qbert. Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 days ago:
$10 in q-bert days is like 50-60 now :)
Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?
Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere project, Factorio, Minecraft, Dreamlight Valley
Arcade games were great because it’s what we had. Sit a kid in front a Q-Bert now and try to get 1000 hours out of it.
Stuff is getting too big, there’s too much emphasis on making it pretty to sell it rather than making it fun, but I don’t know that we could go back to arcade games. I fear our nostalgia is a half-dose of Stockholm’s syndrome.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 days ago:
Pay enough for them to afford two kids, a house and a car without dual-income and don’t have them work so many hours they can’t enjoy them.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 2 days ago:
The ruin of modern games is the perfect shit storm of:
- The quest for the other side of the uncanny valley, making releases closer to decades
- The death of the in-house game engine.
- The half-baked attempt to cross-platform consoles with PCs
- The half-baked attempt to cross-platform mobile devices with consoles
- The merger of Live Service Games and Free to Play
- Game prices not following inflation.
- Everyone and their brother trying to take a major cut.
Shit is more complex and resource intensive than it has ever been, we’re hardly even looking to optimize these days if it works.
You get to choose from a couple of engines, who want a serious cut, or a free engine who has serious problems on consoles.
You need the game not only to pay for itself in sales, but in in-game sales without making it to gambley or making it too pay to win.
Adjusted for inflation, Mario Odyssey is $20 less at launch than E.T. was at launch for the atari.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 days ago:
Tiny little hedgehog voice: I’ve been a bad boy. A bad bad boy.
(Might be a girl having trouble getting my phone to load anymore than a thumbnail worth of pixels)
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 days ago:
Nah, they outed a French activist due to a court order. Maybe they’re learning though…
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 6 days ago:
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
Then grab what content you want from dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here’s English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/)wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content
if it says science or basketball, it’s just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 6 days ago:
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 6 days ago:
I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.
I still don’t worry about the balance, but I get it.
I don’t even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random
ooxoxx ooooxx
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
I don’t care to argue politics with them, but outside of that subject, a lot of the .ml crowd have useful and helpful responses to other ares.
We all suffer from limited worldview. I’m not sure any of us do a particularly great job of seeing things from others perspectives.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
They can buy plenty of shit with your karma, It’s a book personally written by you about you.
It’s just not any good for ‘you’
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
You have to be nice to someone they don’t like.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
That’s a Lemmy feature. Hexbear and ML run how they want, world runs how they want. If you’re pissing someone off some place enough to get banned, it’s probably not the best place for you and best to leave them to their echo chamber. If you go wild, you can stand up your own instance and ban any instances you don’t like.
If someone wants to make a safe-space echo-chamber, they can totally do it.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
Yeah, can’t just hang out over there being a decent human being, they want to the the new compliment to X
- Comment on Yahoo wants to buy Chrome 1 week ago:
Sounds fine to me, I’ll continue to keep not using it
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 2 weeks ago:
Burn the house down, free steak
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 weeks ago:
If Jimmy shows up in a black Toyota Camry with the right license plate, that’s one thing.
I’d like to think that if Jimmy is your walking buddy, you might notice these kinds of things, tho :)
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 weeks ago:
How do they get by having their actual picture?
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 weeks ago:
You know… There’s a lot of women that wouldn’t dare to walk alone at night. That white Kevin has been vetted by Uber and has a paper trail.
How about not just a white Kevin but an Armed Stacey, or a security guard Michelle.
of course, it’d probably cost MORE to get someone to walk with you because they’d have to not only drive there and walk but walk back.
- Comment on For all you inked people 2 weeks ago:
I home i’d be ‘late’ at my own funeral. The late rumba. I ain’t holding that shit while I’m alive.
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
Kind of sounds like a bot. Thing is, I agree with it so I’m torn.
- Comment on OK now you know why there will never be a Second Comming 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes you have to fiddle with that antenna a little bit to make sure the reception is as good as you want it to be.
- Comment on OK now you know why there will never be a Second Comming 2 weeks ago:
It must have been incredibly rough for a white-skinned guy to make it in the Middle East 2000 years ago.
/s
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
It’s possible that it’s just people managing contractors. You used to have to really blaze trails to make stuff like this happen But now, every part of the equation is a solved task. Most of the work is weaving together the APIs of a dozen different storage and hardware as a service companies.
It’s also possible that a stressed out startup doesn’t take time to update their about page beyond their management when they’re looking to get seed capital.
In any case, the likely either be sued or bought out before they get any kind of serious momentum. The broligarchs don’t take kindly to competition.
- Comment on Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption 3 weeks ago:
Happened at a non Google data center near me years ago. Even though the PDUs were powered by the battery matrix all the time, the sense on the switchover relays from utility to generator were miswired after some critical hardware maintenance was done.
At the next generator test, when the generator shut down at the end of the test the battery is refused to switch back to utility.
It was a really big data center, and a really big power feed. There was no easy way to manually fix it because the contactors were so big that it was an arc flash danger. They lost a good portion of a day getting a power engineer on site to confirm the state of everything and get them reconnected.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 3 weeks ago:
techcrunch.com/…/notorious-image-board-4chan-hack…
The’re kind wild west about Doxing people. They’re all about to be doxed.
There’s a lot of Alt-Right on there.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s in the monkey’s psychology that they’d never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They’re a pretty poor pick for a random value generator.