Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I DID grow up with Nintendo. The first gaming thing that wasn’t a DOS computer with asteroids and commander keen on it was a NES. Then an SNES. Then an N64. A few months after the N64 we got a Sega Genesis, and a PS1.
All that said?
…fuck Nintendo. Switch 1 games play at a higher resolution and better frame rate ON MY PHONE. I refused to buy a switch, and there’s no chance in hell I’ll get a switch 2. The fact that they say if they “detect” cheating or that your S2 is jailbroken they reserve the right, and built in the ability to, brick your device. Fuck them, get fucked, no fucking chance they’re getting a single cent, pence, fucking whatever out of me. Fuck yourselves well and truly to fuck! 👍🖕👍
Rant over 🥰
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.
I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:
If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.
Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.
Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.
- Comment on Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot 1 week ago:
Though fixed and never maliciously exploited, EchoLeak holds significance for demonstrating a new class of vulnerabilities called ‘LLM Scope Violation,’ which causes a large language model (LLM) to leak privileged internal data without user intent or interaction.
As the attack requires no interaction with the victim, it can be automated to perform silent data exfiltration in enterprise environments, highlighting how dangerous these flaws can be when deployed against AI-integrated systems.
How EchoLeak works
The attack begins with a malicious email sent to the target, containing text unrelated to Copilot and formatted to look like a typical business document.
The email embeds a hidden prompt injection crafted to instruct the LLM to extract and exfiltrate sensitive internal data.
Because the prompt is phrased like a normal message to a human, it bypasses Microsoft’s XPIA (cross-prompt injection attack) classifier protections.
Later, when the user asks Copilot a related business question, the email is retrieved into the LLM’s prompt context by the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine due to its formatting and apparent relevance.
The malicious injection, now reaching the LLM, “tricks” it into pulling sensitive internal data and inserting it into a crafted link or image.
Aim Labs found that some markdown image formats cause the browser to request the image, which sends the URL automatically, including the embedded data, to the attacker’s server.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I definitely would with Garuda. Like I said, they’ve removed basically all of the pain points of arch. I set my 70yr old dad up with Garuda, he’s been using MacOS mostly and windows for work for ages. The only thing I had to show him was how to open a terminal and type “sudo update” every few weeks. Everything else is as intuitive as any other Linux distro.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do it.
I would highly recommend Garuda Arch, takes the pain points out of Arch, more flavours than you can shake a stick at, forums are highly active with devs and mods responding quickly to issue posts.
- Comment on Judge Hints Anthropic’s AI Training on Books is Fair Use (1) 4 weeks ago:
Only if you can afford to pay the bribes
- Comment on The lemming anatomy 4 weeks ago:
I feel seen
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 5 weeks ago:
I know you said you’re not an Arch kinda guy…but I highly recommend Garuda.
Takes away most of the rough parts of running Arch, and comes in more flavours than you can shake a stick at. The forums are highly active, and Devs/admins/mods are very quick to respond to question/issue posts.
- Comment on Me too 5 weeks ago:
The town I grew up in had LITERALLY one single “Speed Humps” sign. It was in front of the main police station and had 3 cameras pointed at it. Still got stolen at least once a month.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 5 weeks ago:
Both hands. Like in games where you have a pistol or smg in both hands.
- Comment on Oh the 20s... 1 month ago:
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
Won’t someone please think of the metrics?!
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
paper thin security advantages.
And loads of highly intrusive, unremovable, anti-user bullshit.
- Comment on The Forever Winter's water will no longer drain away while you're offline 3 months ago:
I was hyped when I first heard about it. And with them dropping the shitty mechanic that was putting me off, I’ll definitely grab it at some point.
Looks like it’s 20% off right now, but reading through the recent(ish) reviews, it looks like it’s still in a state that I would likely find aggravating. Namely AI jank, and enemies spawning/despawning while in view.
That said, a positive review makes an excellent point:
@Mango-killa
We bullied the devs into releasing the game early and are upset that it’s unfinished. I love the concept, but still needs a ton of polish and tweaks to be perfect. Give em time to cook.
It’s been on my wishlist, despite the now defunct water mechanic, since I heard about it. And I’ll give the Devs the time they need to cook.
- Comment on The Forever Winter's water will no longer drain away while you're offline 3 months ago:
It was a stupid mechanic, and the reason I lost interest in the game.
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 3 months ago:
I seem to remember reading an article saying that they have to replace Phil often, and they’re (the long line of Phil’s) always in poor health, because they get fed and absolutely shit diet.
Easily could be remembering a figment of my imagination, and I’m too tired and lazy to look it up. So I look forward to someone with more motivation than me proving my remembering one way or the other. - Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 4 months ago:
Well, bought and paid for, may as well use em! Just because the .ml and hexbear folk are near clownish in their frothing evangelism, doesn’t mean they’re wrong about everything…
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 4 months ago:
It almost feels like it’s meant to be slapstick humour.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The NSA scoops everything, this is known. Deleting it in 24h won’t change anything, the data is already collected.
- Comment on Yep, you did. 4 months ago:
Isn’t it possible that all of the options we’ve thought of are incompatible with the basic nature of a few sociopaths seizing everything and grinding decent folk under their boot?
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 5 months ago:
I mean sure, it’d suck, but no one would be around to think it sucks, so it’d be fine 😎👆👉👆👉
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 5 months ago:
I’ve got a laptop running Garuda, it has and Intel APU(so integrated graphics) and a dedicated Nvidia 1660. Working better than with Win 11 on it. I did have to configure Heroic launcher to default to the dedicated gfx card, but that was about 7 mouse clicks tops. Steam games tend to just assume that you’ll be wanting the dedicated gfx to do the work, but some games ask. That said, out of the box, I had to fight win 11 for about 25mins to get it to agree that yes I did in fact want the Nvidia card to be used to run games.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 5 months ago:
Bump for Garuda. It’s decent, as simple as any installation I’ve ever had to do, comes well configured out of the box, and has a very active forum that the Devs keep an eye on and answer questions quite quickly.
- Comment on Tesla Owners Use Bumper Stickers to Express Feelings About Elon Musk 6 months ago:
More likely they bought them before they realised what a douche-canoe the asshat was.
- Comment on If you need an absorbing dungeon RPG this winter, here's one with over two billion floors 6 months ago:
Fair enough. I’ve not even got to the locked building. I’ve only put like 30 odd hours in. And I’m a bit of a shit gamer 😅
- Comment on If you need an absorbing dungeon RPG this winter, here's one with over two billion floors 6 months ago:
You guys have reached Golgotha?
- Comment on I'll have whatever he's having 1 year ago:
That’th kinda metht up
- Comment on Hails 1 year ago:
<3
- Comment on Hails 1 year ago:
Too far? …orrrrr…not far enough?
