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- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
This. There is no practical reason to separate privacy and security in this way.
If bad actors can access your data without your consent, it doesn’t matter if you call it a breach of privacy or security. It’s still a breach. At best, playing semantics like this allows a corp to claim a system filled with backdoors is “secure”. Utter marketing nonsense.
- Comment on Dragunov sniper rifle 1 day ago:
More so than the commonly called “artificial intelligence”, in fact.
People can be really, really dumb, but they’re always sentient.
- Comment on Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations 1 week ago:
IfWhen - Comment on DNC Chair Live Updates: Democrats Elect Ken Martin 2 weeks ago:
Welp. I guess that’s what we should expect from the “opposition” party.
- Comment on Good luck, applicants. 4 weeks ago:
My original comment was about the PhD specifically, which is necessarily research focused.
But even so, I’d argue that it is prudent as a blanket statement about grad school generally. Wages across entire classes of roles can stagnate relatively quickly – more quickly than you can get a graduate degree – and if it happens, you’re still stuck with the grad school bill.
Entering a program which costs you directly means minimally taking significantly extra risk, and it should be presented as such.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 4 weeks ago:
Way back when, people were wondering if Cyberpunk could pull off a No Man’s Sky-type of reversal of opinion.
Now people will wonder if the next game released way too early can pull off a Cyberpunk 2077.
- Comment on Good luck, applicants. 4 weeks ago:
And, though these times may be dark, never, ever go into a PhD program that costs you tuition directly or does not provide a stipend.
- Comment on The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel 4 weeks ago:
I guess what I should have said is: the art style, the design, everything about this looks like the Disney version of Star Wars. It doesn’t resemble Star Trek in the classical sense.
- Comment on The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel 4 weeks ago:
This could say Star Wars on it and look no different.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
This just in: rich people want to get richer by charging more for the same product.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
Super Contra for NES (sometimes just called Super C). Stupid shoot em up action done to perfection.
Metal Slug games are great in emulation; similar to above.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 month ago:
Really liked him in Hell on Wheels. Surprisingly believable as Thomas Durant.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
It’s probably only a matter of time before smart TVs are designed to use mobile data. I can easily see companies doing that to ensure you have no way to avoid the ads.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 1 month ago:
The fact that it’s immutable isn’t necessarily good for people new to Linux. If something does go wrong, or the user wants to change something significant, most of what they read online about how to do that will not work like many other distros.
For experienced users, sure, there probably isn’t much difference.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 1 month ago:
Or literally any other distro.
Pop is probably much easier to be up and running vs. Bazzite.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
This is a good, nutshell explanation of late-stage capitalism.
As far as the answer to “what’s the endgame”, I do not know. I suspect that many or most of these rich folks are so moneyblind that they don’t know either. Or, they simply don’t believe that their collective actions will eventually cause the system to fail.
But most likely, I think, is that they believe someone else will bear the majority of any negative impact. Of course this makes less sense in the face of a systematic collapse, but again: it’s probably very difficult to see when you have dollar signs in your eyes.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 month ago:
I was probably 10 when my best friend (at the time) and I would play Super Contra on the NES for hours. We loved everything about it. We’d get as far as we could. We’d give each other lives. We could sing the soundtrack. When it was game over, we just restarted it.
Those days were simple and beautiful. I don’t think another game could give me anything like that experience, since it wasn’t really entirely about the game.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
We regret to inform you that MI5 and MI6 will now be designated MI1 and MI2 due to budget constraints
- Comment on One what? 1 month ago:
Killing the Cybertruck.
With Tesla quality control, a fire is just a bug, until it kills the truck.
- Comment on No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related? 1 month ago:
The mouse cursor showing up correctly rules out a physical connection issue to the screen.
What is supposed to be on the screen right now? Is it just the deskop, an app, a game… ? That might provide more insight.
But I’d guess a hardware issue off the bat. Something with the GPU, or perhaps more specifically with VRAM.
- Comment on New social experiment 1 month ago:
snap
- Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital 1 month ago:
It is probably worth mentioning that Blu-Ray DRM at this point isn’t the pain it used to be – in fact Blu-Ray can also be ripped like DVD, so it’s still an option if you want a hard copy of something in HD (specifically 1080p Blu-Ray – 4K Blu-Ray is a different beast).
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 1 month ago:
I think the issue is a bit more nuanced. Graphics have gotten so good that it is relatively easy to get character animations which sit in the uncanny valley.
The uncanny valley is bad. You can have beautiful, photorealistic graphics everywhere, but if your characters are in the uncanny valley, the overall aesthetic is more similar to a game which didn’t have the photorealism at all.
In the past, the goalpost was at a different spot, so putting all the resources towards realism still wouldn’t get you into the valley, and everyone just thought it looked great.
- Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital 1 month ago:
The irony is that some folks probably skipped Blu-Ray on purpose because they didn’t like the DRM. Then they got streaming instead, partly because Blu-Ray sales flattened which allowed the industry to more quickly focus on streaming and subscriptions.
Had more people bought into Blu-Ray despite the DRM, it would be more difficult for the industry to get away from physical media.
But this is a common trick, also. Both streaming and DRM are bad. The optimal solution (physical media without DRM) is something the industry just won’t do.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 1 month ago:
No it isn’t the same, but it is something. I’d sleep a lot better knowing I at least had a run down farmhouse on the way instead of working until I die to pay the rent.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 1 month ago:
Generational wealth is a huge cancer on the system that isn’t talked about enough. You can’t fix wealth inequality with nepo-babies running around.
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 1 month ago:
No but if you fill the room with water then it should be way faster
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 months ago:
I mean… I guess I don’t get it then. GIMP is incredibly stable, so
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 months ago:
Well tbh, I don’t know the state of GIMP on Windows, but it definitely isn’t designed for it. It should not be buggy or crashy – at least it isnt on Linux. So I mean… Why Windows?
CS6 definitely runs on Linux via Wine. I’ve done through CS8. But again… There is little reason to do so assuming you’re running GIMP on the intended platform.
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 months ago:
Not sure what you mean. Most functions are available, except for AI enhanced functions of Photoshop.
It’s pretty straightforward. But support for Adobe seems hard to break.