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- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 17 hours ago:
If you think about it, they’ve been doing that for a while with experimental life extending stuff, of course now they’re a bit more likely not to die with modern medicine being so good
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 6 days ago:
Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 6 days ago:
Yep, that one. I saw it on their telegram first, they make a similar system for quads too
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 1 week ago:
Ptashka Systems make a reusable one. A bit more expensive but the net cartridges themselves are less than half the price of Tenet’s launcher. Same net size too.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
You don’t have to accept pairing, if both devices are discoverable they can see each other. It doesn’t have to be some app, you can be discoverable with 0 apps installed. That’s what I’m talking about with rudimentary tracking.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
Anyone with a spectrum analyzer can see people using their earbuds, they can’t deduce any useful information from that. Several analyzers? Yea, can triangulate signals, so what. They still can’t know for sure who they belong to, since BT doesn’t transmit identifying info unless you’re pairing (aka discoverable), and even then it can be randomized.
Also I posted in in a different comment but I’ll leave this here too.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
From a quick search, bluetooth classic has 79 channels, and if there’s 2.4Ghz Wifi in use, it has 14 in damn near the same frequency range.
If you’re worried about tracking - there are far easier ways to do that than hope your BT devices are discoverable and then try and match the (possibly randomized) device IDs to you.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
Depends on the device, there was a story recently of a Nissan infotainment system that was perma-pairing as long as you had the options screen open afaik. If your earbuds are pairing close by, as is the machine - you can probably make some rudimentary motion tracking. Gonna be inaccurate as hell though, and it relies on both devices permanently being in pairing mode.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
This part though is way easier to explain with interference. A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 week ago:
Most likely works, since evaporation helps keep your temps down
- Comment on “When the fun stops, stop.” Addiction experts consider the rise of gambling in the U.K. a test case 2 weeks ago:
They have a lot of money to pay for ads and most platforms showing them have no morals. Money doesn’t smell and all that.
- Comment on ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered 2 weeks ago:
They stuck the model Y’s new added front camera right under the “grille” shape (where the black trim ends and body colored panels begin), so the rest of it being so bland doesn’t have an excuse. The rest of it’s front cameras are under the front glass, they could at least make an interesting fascia, even if they had to keep the dimensions roughly the same
- Comment on ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered 2 weeks ago:
Looking at their recent facelifts, I don’t think they have many good designers left
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 4 weeks ago:
I’m happy that the people who built tools of terror (that are of particular significance to me) are getting fucked. I’m not happy which way/fashion they’re getting fucked. We’re on the same page here.
I’m not gonna write paragraphs about the nature of oppression and theory of state building, I don’t think that’s gonna help anyone. Simply stating my feelings about one particular oppressor. I don’t even know if they’re gonna be dethroned. But I do know the people of that country (and those of perpetrating ones) have infinitely more power over their future than my words on here. And actions support neither side.
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 4 weeks ago:
That’s not how it works.
How what works? My feelings about the situation?
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad that at least one oppressor gets to the “find out” part. I’m sad it’s not mainly the people they’ve been oppressing that are doing it.
Let’s hope that changes when it’s the others’ turn.
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam 1 month ago:
Pirates keep winning
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 1 month ago:
wow you’re such an empath
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 1 month ago:
The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
I’d rather stay exactly the same tbh
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 1 month ago:
the same way they were 10-15 years ago
So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
Can’t help someone who doesn’t want tho get better. We’ve seen this happen to him several times.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 2 months ago:
Exactly, it’s an awful treadmill. EA as a whole was at nearly 60% profit last year. Coupled with layoffs, it seems they’re trying to keep that infinite spend as potential as possible lol
I just hope something good comes out of recent ex-rspn teams.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 2 months ago:
Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.
They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 2 months ago:
Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.
- Comment on For all you inked people 2 months ago:
There are positive aspects to coming out if you’re in the closet. What’s the positive aspect of face tattoos?
It makes one happy?
Yes, everyone is free to do it. Everyone else is also free to judge them for it though.
What’s the point though. They are already judged enough, I don’t think it’s a good idea to worsen that.
- Comment on For all you inked people 2 months ago:
Internet isn’t a single community, so yes.
- Comment on For all you inked people 2 months ago:
“They get a pass because they normalized it sooner”
- Comment on For all you inked people 2 months ago:
You can absolutely cover up face tattoos. It’s even easier in colder climates. Also, and I know it’s a bit of a reach, but coming out publicly is a permanent change that you know you might be discriminated against for. Should everyone stay in the closet because it brings fewer negative future effects?
Let people do what makes them happy, after all, it doesn’t hurt anyone (except themselves for a bit while getting it).
- Comment on PRAY TO THE ELDER GODS 2 months ago:
More likely it’s edited to shit Image
- Comment on Day 270 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 months ago:
Mute the poster?
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 3 months ago:
I’m a visual learner btw
