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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Per the patch notes: www.playstation.com/en-gb/…/system-software/

  “By updating, you can enjoy additional features, improved usability, and enhanced security.

  Please note, to play Blu-ray discs, your PS3 system needs a renewed Blu-ray player encryption key. Please update your PS3 system software to the latest version to renew the Blu-ray player encryption key.”

  I havent actually tried to watch a bluray on custom firmware since, but I’m a weirdo who uses it for playing games so that doesnt matter to me.

  I dont see any money being made on the ps3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Sony though, they care so much about playstation customers they even went to the effort of updating the ps3 firmware in March this year to improve things for their customers.

  I mean it would be crazy to suggest they would do that for a console they discontinued a decade ago just to try and fuck with people who have the temerity to run custom firmware on hardware they bought and paid for 20 years ago…

  Sony business logic is fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that. I just buy the physical book if kobo dont deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont think its an “instead of scenario” youncan boycott all the peopoe that wont provide a decent product on reasonable terms at a fair price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol i read it as facsist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can de-DRM your kobo ebooks i think. They havent blocked pc downloads like amazon did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Gets Massive UK Tax Breaks on Profits Made From Public Money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Palantir

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far-right activist Tommy Robinson says "Russia is not the enemy of Britain" as he travels to Moscow to meet Elon Musk’s father⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a bellend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use noscript en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript

  It starts with a default position of blocking everything (which breaks a lot of sites) but as you use the internet you just tell it to trust the domains that you need and permablock those you don’t. After a few weeks, you find your regular sites are taken care of.

  googletagmanager and fascistbook are obvious blocks on most sites. Same for trust pilot and the like.

  It can get more complicated when you try to buy something as that does legitimately require scripts from other services like stripe, worldpay etc. Or from shopify and the like.

  You always have the option of temporarily allowing the page to do what it wants if you just find the pagelist too overwhelming but it is worth just experimenting and reloading the page till you figure out what is necessary and what is not. Set once, and it’s done.

  Another option is to have a second browser not running noscript, that deletes all data on exit, and use that for purchasing.

  Bonus fact, most news sites with paywalls, run those paywalls with JavaScript. No script, no paywall. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason to be aggressively blocking attempts to run JavaScript from marketing domains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And they will always be monstrously wrong when they say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If these people really want to stop anti-semitism, they need to separate semitism from zionism, and accept that a human being can be appropriately appalled by genocide, have a corresponding anti-zionist opinion in reaction to that, and still not have any issue with the Jewish faith or the broader population. Personally I feel sorry for non-zionist jews who are consistently being misused as shields for a bloodthirsty, elitist, genocidal zionist agenda, pursued by people too cowardly to accept direct accountability and appropriate public condemnation for their actions.

  Inviting Nigel Farage and snubbing Zack Polanski makes a mockery of the whole thing and undermines the stated intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyright law needs to change with things becoming public domain much sooner than the currently do, but… If a bunch of billionaires want to profit off someone elses work by using material to train AI, they can bloody well pay fairly for that use, or accept if the owner of that material refuses to permit/license them.

  The basic premise that there is some universally accepted ‘need’ to train ai models is just not one i can see as valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish I could upvote your comment more than once. Thank you for the injection of clarity.