Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 4 days ago:
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
I use cachy on my laptop but I wouldn’t call friendly an arch based distro that during setup asks the user “which of those 19 desktop environment do you want? Choose wisely only one”
It doesn’t even have a gui to install new software (at least, I am not an expert, I chose hyprland and it didn’t install that, and when I manually installed KDE Discover and the GNOME software manager, they only show and install flatpak apps - but because I’m not an expert I might have messed something up)
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
There’s a chance it will happen outside the USA.
Deciding to send to the landfill every PC sold after 2018 is a decision that they saw analyzing only numbers from big American corporations. “Anyway they lease the computers and have a refresh every 3-5 years”
But the rest of the world?
Here in Italy I still see people on Windows 7
When I traveled in southeast Asia I saw people using windows XP
Or Brazil, where the import taxes make a windows 11 compatible PC ultra expensive
Regular people and small businesses , especially outside the USA won’t simply buy a new PC just because Microsoft and Intel needed the line to go up.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓
Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job
- Comment on do it cowards 2 weeks ago:
Because now you need an app to know if you have diarrhea
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 2 weeks ago:
That seems nice, it’s even on gog
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Those fingers are definitely human fingers
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 4 weeks ago:
And of course the description of that insta post is the usual bot scam
Get your Amaz0n g!ft card from my bí0
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 4 weeks ago:
Ahow many updates receives an app, is now considered a “good” metric somehow now. So now if dependabot pushes a PR, it’s a new release on the app stores (of course without testing)
The algorithms on the app stores now consider the app “active” and push the app “up” in ranking
There was a certain billionaire bragging about his app getting 3 vibe-coded updates a day while the competition “only” got 3 a week
So, they can’t write a real change log. What can they write? “Dependabot updated leftpad from 1.1.3.2 to 1.1.3.3” “untested: updated Gradle from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3” “200mb update to change a comma in the Hungarian translation”
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 weeks ago:
And the huge drawback that if the kid finds some “easy trick to win matches” on YouTube and gets vac banned, the parent also gets vac banned
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 weeks ago:
For PC games that’s impossible, at most you can find a disc-shaped steam redeem code
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
I’ll be the asshole: why the fake money wasn’t immediately converted to real money giving directly the exchange address instead of a locally hosted wallet? Except bitcoin all the shitcoins are devaluating in real time
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
It’s trivial to detect running in a vm and behave differently
It’s more like “why the industry standard to allow games installers to run as admin is widely accepted?”
Or “why a crypto wallet needs to have unencrypted files in the user home, ready for exfiltration?”
- Comment on No thanks 1 month ago:
I wish they wrote down the date somewhere and don’t ask me again (probably they don’t want so don’t need to bother with storing sensitive privacy data)
But I registered in 2008, at this point they can assume I’m at least 18, no?
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 1 month ago:
RIP Vimeo 2004-2025
Bending Spoons works like this:
- They immediately stop any development
- They fire all the engineers because now the app is in maintenance mode
- They quadruple the subscription prices while nerfing all the free plans
- They change the license of the user generated content, so they sell it to ai bros
You got data in our servers? Pay the ransom or lose it!
Their CEO is a ruthless version of Elon musk
- Comment on The other one is "who deserves food" and you fail if you dont click all the boxes 1 month ago:
From “be evil” Google we might expect some variant of recaptcha where you need to click on the squares where some kid is hiding behind some rubbles, to train their genocide ai for a better genocidal job
- Comment on Love when they shit post 1 month ago:
Isn’t something like:
You are absolutely right, and I apologize for that error. Thank you for the correction, it helps me learn and improve. Let’s try this again with the right information…
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 months ago:
There are a lot of tragic stories of people that had the idea “I’ll slash the tires to this trucker to teach him a lesson” but instead they got a physics lesson
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
it’s not almost worldwide? By reading all the forum posts with us nerds damning the bank app developers for the antiroot checks, it seems a widespread problem
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
in order to login on the bank webapp, a token must be generated on a dedicated smartphone with all the google spyware installed, and the app that generates the token refuses to run if the bootloader is unlocked, or if the device is not “certified” by google
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
It’s almost already like this. In my country every single bank reinvented the wheel by creating a single purpose app which does what aegis does (otp generation from a seed) but with some bits changed (one for example “encrypted” the seed with ROT13) and with draconian measures like bootloader must be locked, adb must be disabled, and are using literal exploits to see if you have “forbidden” directories on /sdcard like/sdcard/magisk even if no file access is granted
- Comment on Right... 2 months ago:
In my country someone did an unofficial dub of Superman (1978) where a subplot was changed to Clark Kent miraculous semen used as massage rub against back pain. (Title changed to “Sperm-man”)
Maybe this guy accidentally watched this documentary with machine translated subtitles and got the wrong idea
- Comment on Right... 2 months ago:
According to the article, it was his own
Apparently back pain was an ongoing problem for the gentleman, and he’d come up with a rather innovative plan to treat it by introducing his own ejaculate intravenously and intramuscularly.
For the previous year and a half he’d been giving himself a monthly shot of his own self-made tonic. In the wake of his most recent bout of back pain, he had even upped his dose to several injections
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
i wonder how someone can choose the 10 most salient lines of code ever written
manually summarizing 6 months of commits seems also a thrilling job
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
iOS appstore app testers hate him!
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 months ago:
For something electronic it’s extremely unlikely. In this case I’d be surprised if they have more than 5 American employees, the support number for the official us branch is a payphone in Houston? (Location makes sense because the box is definitely designed in Texas)
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 months ago:
Weird, because baofeng is such an American name. Definitely designed in USA.
Ah wait. They mention package designed in USA. Yes that is totally believable. And then a unique color theme for the American version.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 months ago:
Not surprised. stripe, PayPal, visa and Mastercard wouldn’t just give up to millions of dollars in fees just because a small Australian group asked for it
- Comment on Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole 2 months ago:
What the fuck? They did a mistake implementing a half-assed protocol and it’s the end user that has to pay for it?
The “usb ignition” debacle didn’t teach anything to those assholes?
Also, wasn’t them that used a default passphrase in creating a SSL certificate for the CAN bus or something like that so everyone could reverse engineer that?
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 2 months ago:
It’s 27 HP. 27 HP. Literally nobody could tell the difference with a blind test unless on a Dyno or on a racing track.
And on an ev I would pay extra (one time, fuck subscriptions) to have less HP because that translates to more range, longer life for tires and cheaper insurance.
In this specific case I’m ok, because it only takes money from gullible people.
If it was something way more useful like GM that is intentionally disabling carplay or android auto because in this way they can sell a map/data subscription, FUCK THEM!