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- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 days ago:
Too bad they never made a sequel to Origins. ;)
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 6 days ago:
Has anyone made Nintendo Litigation Simulator yet?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
Problems like those are unavoidable even on today’s Signal, because the service depends on internet peering relationships, internet service providers, mobile network operators, cell service, etc. Oh, and Amazon.
You usually don’t notice them because when any of those components experiences problems too often, affected users tend to get annoyed and switch to a more reliable one. (Also because you don’t expect to receive messages from as many people or as often as you do on Lemmy, so short outages are less likely to affect you at all.)
That would still be true in a distributed Signal, except that users could switch away from Amazon as well. Meanwhile, everyone not using Amazon would still be chatting during such an outage.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
We’re not talking about a distributed app, but a distributed service.
Email.
The web.
The entire internet.
The postal service. - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.
Exactly what problems do you have in mind?
There is no reason to assume that a distributed incarnation of Signal would have the same design as ActivityPub or Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
“The question isn’t ‘why does Signal use AWS?’” Whittaker writes. “It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers.”
To me, this reads like sophistry.
What happened here is a predictable result of Signal’s design. They chose to build a centralized messaging system. This made things significantly easier for them than a distributed design would have been, but it has its drawbacks. Having single point of failure is one of them. (In this case, that single point is Amazon.)
Trying to direct the public’s focus onto cloud providers instead of acknowledging this fundamental shortcoming in their design is, frankly, disingenuous. Especially coming from someone in Whittaker’s position.
While we’re at it, let’s also acknowledge that centralized design in messaging networks are problematic not just because of (un)reliability, as seen here. It’s also a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications with each other. End-to-end encryption cannot solve those problems.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not being a dick?
Bold of you to assume this question is about being a dick, rather than helping friends who can’t afford games, or just plain curiosity.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 4 weeks ago:
cm0002 is effectively a bot account, endlessly re-posting things from .ml instances.
- Comment on yt-dlp - Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads 5 weeks ago:
Why Deno?
Deno is sandboxed by default and does not allow filesystem or network access.
I’m glad to see they’re using the safety-focused option by default.
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 1 month ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 1 month ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on have some standards 1 month ago:
What is 2k?
- Comment on BIG MILESTONE! We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social. 🎉 1 month ago:
I like having someplace nice to go when the previous place grows into a noisy echo chamber.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 1 month ago:
I just about always prefer repair to replacement. Even if I’m not in love with the thing, less expense and pollution is always good.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
You can replay any game, of course, but Clair Obscur’s gameplay is mostly on rails with basic JRPG combat repeated over and over again, so I wouldn’t bother. (Honestly, I found the gameplay boring within a dozen hours or so.) Its music is where it really shines. You could buy the soundtrack alone for a fraction of the price.
BG3’s atmosphere is good. The soundtrack IMHO less inspired than Larian’s previous soundtrack and not really outstanding like the one in Clair Obsucr, but still decent. And as a game, BG3 has a lot more to offer.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
For interesting game mechanics and replay value: Baldur’s Gate 3.
For beautiful music and scenery: Expedition 33.
If I had to choose, it would be BG3.
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 2 months ago:
Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.
DSL is just as capable of this as fiber optic. As long as both ends of the connection have power, your comms are fine, as you noticed in the early days.
My guess is that your more recent DSL service relied on a loop extender located near enough to your home that it was affected by local power outages.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press 2 months ago:
As PCGamer’s Andy Chalk suggests, the suspicion is that the lawyers have picked Unknown Worlds as plaintiff, rather than Krafton, because they think they’ll get more sympathy that way from Johnny Average Gamer.
For good reason. Many of us had never heard of Krafton until we learned about them avoiding payment of the bonuses they promised to the people actually making the game.
- THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governmentswww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet 2 months ago:
License: Proprietary
- Comment on The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI 2 months ago:
Lemmy really hates piracy… in this specific context.
Specifically, Lemmy hates it when corporations profit by using people’s work without permission or payment.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 2 months ago:
I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for more than a decade.
All my games work. Most Steam games work with very little tweaking or none at all.
I occasionally have to apply workarounds for Blizzard games due to a broken Battle.net update, but this doesn’t happen very often and usually only takes a couple days for the community to figure out a workaround. The last few updates have been fine.
Games with certain anti-cheat systems, especially kernel-mode ones, are known not to work. I don’t care, because I wouldn’t allow those to run on my hardware anyway, due to them being invasive and dangerous.
Welcome to the party!
- New Zealand engineers discover process which creates zero-waste battery productionspectrum.ieee.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk? 2 months ago:
It’s always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren’t strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them.
If you’re concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a paper towel spool. The graphics card’s weight will probably hold it in place.
In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives eventually die even when no magnets are around.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen that video, but I suspect I would agree. RDR2 is something of a paradox.
They did an amazing job on environments and characters, and then turned around and hobbled the game with bizarre PC controls, a save game system and unskippable cut scenes woven from pure contempt for the player’s time, and dog shit mission mechanics that punish the player for any attempt to exercise agency and really have no place in an open world game.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 3 months ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.