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- Comment on CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) 1 day ago:
Agreed that if someone submits a dmca request they should be egregious enough that they’re willing to pay for lawyers and court fees. If they’re not ready to commit to that then it’s not that severe
- Comment on Halo Infinite's Last Update Arrives This Month As Devs Move To Other Halo Projects 1 day ago:
It works surprisingly well on Linux
- Comment on Why I uninstalled ublock origin, this is WAY better!! 1 day ago:
Recopying my comment. Worked in the ad industry for a short while, and yes this will fuck with their metrics, not not in an obvious way. You have to know how companies make their money to really understand why it fucks with them:
It’ll be a long game. As you “click” they’ll think you’re REALLY interested. However it won’t matter since you won’t see them.
Where you’re really hurting them is they use the Click Through Rate (CTR) as a metric. They know that less than 0.01% of people click, but the real metric is the sales funnel. If they can prove that you saw the ad and then eventually it led to a sale? Oh marketers lose their shit over that.
So, this destroys that conversion metric. They’ll see way more click through, but the conversion metrics won’t align. That’s decades of models and algorithms that have been built to show that they’re good at that… Going to zero. That’s the metric that other companies pay gobs of money to advertising companies to prove - that their ads were not only seen but led to tangible sales.
And that’s why everyone should do this. Ad companies know you’re going to attempt to block ads. This fucks with them as an industry, and I couldn’t be happier. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. After all, we’re doing what they want!
- Comment on Why I uninstalled ublock origin, this is WAY better!! 1 day ago:
It’ll be a long game. As you “click” they’ll think you’re REALLY interested. However it won’t matter since you won’t see them.
Where you’re really hurting them is they use the Click Through Rate (CTR) as a metric. They know that less than 0.01% of people click, but the real metric is the sales funnel. If they can prove that you saw the ad and then eventually it led to a sale? Oh marketers lose their shit over that.
So, this destroys that conversion metric. They’ll see way more click through, but the conversion metrics won’t align. That’s decades of models and algorithms that have been built to show that they’re good at that… Going to zero. That’s the metric that other companies pay gobs of money to advertising companies to prove - that their ads were not only seen but led to tangible sales.
And that’s why everyone should do this. Ad companies know you’re going to attempt to block ads. This fucks with them as an industry, and I couldn’t be happier. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. After all, we’re doing what they want!
- Comment on CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) 1 day ago:
Well, not that they were top of the list but I’ve been considering a new von provider, and well they’re out of the running now
- Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer 2 days ago:
Great line at the end:
…Windows tries to be a friendly town for everybody and the zoning board forgot to include a neighborhood for the weirdos who build their own furniture. We don’t want to take over your town, we don’t even want to change it. We just a workshop with sharp chisels and permission to make a mess. Give us that and we’ll stop complaining about the art you choose for City Hall.
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- Comment on How Did The World Get So Ugly? 3 days ago:
Well from that image possibly adjusting the colors and taking photos on cloudy days affects how we see things
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 4 days ago:
Just activated! Thank you very much!
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 5 days ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 6 days ago:
Sounds like it’s a site wide push about Microsoft products:
YouTube’s AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos • The Register share.google/6PRfgQ35EwMxTx81M
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 6 days ago:
From that level of crash I’d assume mostly cosmetic, maybe a tiny bit of damage right behind the hood, but yes I assume once the bits of truck were moved out of the way it just started up and kept going, probably visiting the shop on its next service stop is all
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 6 days ago:
Started is tih as you see, 3 to 5 massive diesel-electric engines, taking quite a while to max speed.
Stopping is interesting. The engines have their own brakes, but three engines can’t stop a train that long by themselves, the brakes would just melt. They are set mostly like a parking brake when you are already stopped.
The actual brakes are air brakes, with a tube of compressed air connecting from the front of the train to the back. Each car has its own brakes then that are applied as pressure is released from the brake system. Going into emergency brake is essentially all pressure being released and all brakes throughout the entire train engaging, and that is what we are seeing here.
With that though, the train is still tens of thousands of tons of mass moving at a max track speed of 55mph. It’s going to take some time to slow that down, even with every brake being applied.
Don’t fuck around with trains.
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 6 days ago:
I’ll take one, if you don’t mind, I’ve heard everyone talk about it but never tried it
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 6 days ago:
Dipshit driver just standing there almost got wiped out by his truck being whipped around like a piece of tin foil. If you’re in that situation, you run
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 6 days ago:
Think of the mass of a freight train carrying over a miles worth of material behind it. Then a truck
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 1 week ago:
I legit laughed out loud at that. That is hilarious. Of course it’ll bite them in the ass, but in the short term it’s literally more important that AI look like it’s cutting job than actually cutting jobs
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s not that. As far as the stock market is concerned Microsoft has succeeded and plateaued. There is no where else for them to grow in the first world.
So they are not giving up on consoles. No, this marketing campaign wasn’t for us, not by a long shot. They’re going to Africa, to South America, Asia, they’re trying to lower the bar for entry so they are the first ones in everyone’s minds over there.
Don’t have an Xbox? Here’s a handheld. Can’t afford that? Game streaming from the cloud. This is infinite growth capitalism and there simply aren’t enough people to sustain that, so they need more people.
- Comment on How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value 1 week ago:
Yes… That is the choice. That’s the entire point of the article.
- Comment on How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value 1 week ago:
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Rush
- Comment on Beefed Up TwitchCon Security Couldn't Stop The Internet's Issues From Spilling Over Into Real Life 2 weeks ago:
Honestly a good article, and a perfect example of performative security. Security was ever present, hassled people, wore tactical vests and made a big show - but still did nothing of actual value
Twitch backpedaled and said they’ll add moar security, but won’t do anything to actually protect creators like grant them their own security guard.
To me, it’s obvious. Guy didn’t have a knife, didn’t threatened her, it’s some lonely creepy dude who doesn’t respect her and very sick in the head. They don’t need another row of metal detectors, they needed someone managing the line and access to her so he couldn’t just walk up to her, and if he did still make it that close then an immediate boot out of the premises with charges for assault filed with a permanent from all future events.
Instead they just… Let him walk around and be chill, and sounds like he was only banned well after the huge backlash.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Seconded. Really depends and very dependent on the person and source.
I noticed quite a bit with my OLED TV sitting about 7 feet away from it. My wife doesn’t care, and she would say it doesn’t make a difference until we watched something that was truly done well like Dune.
There’s too many variables here to say “doesn’t make a difference”. We can safely say “diminishing returns” which is universally true, but not that there is no change
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they need to start rotating egress ips regularly. It’s a cat and mouse game
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s from DS9’s Trials and Tribble-ations
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah conveniently the photo they chose left uhura out…
Probably just a coincidence
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Someone mentioned this idea, and it makes sense tbh. They have a team who hasn’t done unreal engine together, what better way to teach the entire team unreal than to redo an older game completely in it. The teaching time is now profitable and they have a base engine ready for the next halo, already customized for it.
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 2 weeks ago:
Oof okay so they definitely fucked up architecture wise BUT:
We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done.
Douchebag CEO right there. God knows he was just like FIX IT NOWWWW to them and forced them to work overtime because of this. This is a complete rearchitecture. Sure it can be done, but it’s not a one night change.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Legit what changed? It looks exactly the same. FO4’s issues weren’t because it looked bad. I mean, it seems like I might as well just pick up my existing copy of FO4 and play that again.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 2 weeks ago:
Man I do love me some crazy promises tech bros make. Talk to me when it’s a reality. Even then, meh. I like not having a screen in my eyeball.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
I’m taking it as it was mostly completed by the time Microsoft bought them, the story and everything had already been decided, so hopefully an easy win for Obsidian. Future titles started under Microsoft though… idk