Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 days 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 2 days 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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... 5 weeks 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... 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
iOS appstore app testers hate him!
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
Come on, there are dozens of way more useful features that can be unlocked without paying VW using obdeleven, I’m sure the same can be done for this.
This is just a fancy way for a driving profile, like eco, sports, normal. Think it like “sports+”
99% of people wouldn’t feel the need to enable this even if it was free but buried in the app menus
And the most important thing is that there’s still the option to get it lifetime and tied to the car, so when you sell the car the new owner can still use it, unlike Tesla where you pay $10k for “full” self driving but then when you sell the car the feature vanishes into thin air and they keep the money without refund
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
ECU hacks exists since decades ago, it is simply a different, more conservative curve because the car it’s a vehicle for urban usage and doesn’t need to be racing competitive.
They call it unlock but it’s a different power curve and possibly the 159 kmh limit removed (but with an ev you really don’t want to go over 130 unless you’re racing, the power consumption is so high that you need to stop to recharge after just 100 km)
I repeat, that this is not something like heated seats or android auto/car play support (BMW did those as a subscription), something that renders the car almost useless if removed.
99% of owners won’t even think a second about this option
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
You racing in the city?
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
It’s completely different. It’s a car that was sold with an option at moment of purchase. 145 HP or 200 HP for more money? Normal people chose the 145 HP because cheaper and pay less taxes and insurance and because when you drive in the city the 50 HP do not make any difference.
Suppose one day the owner needs to win races at the nurburgring instead of commuting or taking kids at school, so they give the option of unlock the full power instead of buying a new car.
If it was something like “from today you need to pay a subscription if you want to open the back windows” I would agree with you, but in this case it’s a power unlock that was known from the moment of purchase and not a surprise shock.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
The car was introduced 5 years ago, they launched this unlock right now where only the 0.1% of users will actually care and the kind that needs external validation from higher numbers is already with a newer vehicle.
IMHO with all the telemetry gathered they noticed that the motor can sustain higher than spec bursts of power for a short time and tried to cash in that
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
There’s a $650 lifetime unlock option. What’s the difference between this and the “m series” for BMW that costs $20k over stock, that must be purchased at the time of order??
At least gives an option to the user, if it’s not fast enough for winning races at the nurburgring, then they can unlock full performance for $650.
In city it makes no difference except using more energy and consuming tires faster than expected
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
If you drive like a maniac you put more stress on the components, and on the id 3 the warranty on electric parts is up to 8 years. This offsets for them the risk of someone breaking components under warranty before the mean time to failure.
Almost all car brands are selling a faster trim that’s the same hardware with just different code in the ECU. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that it could be done after the first purchase and there’s also the option of permanent unlock.
Now, for safety I wouldn’t have it made a completely software solution but required a visit to dealer to install bigger breaks and check all the car stuff (oil level in brakes, if the steering is correct, and so on)
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
15k? Price crashed like that? When I asked the price in 2020 they told me 45k and I laughed for weeks after that
The fact that they pay the sim card data plan for only the first three years from purchase was known from the beginning. I’m ok with paying but not the price they’re asking. They’re using a $10/year iot sim card for remote access, but want $150/year from the customer? LOL get fucked I would never pay that.
PS: how the remote air control works? I tried the Peugeot one and
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Allowed activation only if battery was over 50% which is a stupid artificial limitations
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Literally took 10 minutes to boot and 8 minutes to send the activation signal to the car. In that time I could go to activate it manually
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- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
I hate this kind of artificial limitations but in this case I’m totally fine.
Why would you pay for something like that? The stock id 3 has enough power to drive in the city. If someone instead needs to race at the nurburgring, then can unlock the extra power. With more power available and a sporty drive, the car components (motor, battery, gears) get more stress than if you just commute in the traffic.
In a city or in the highway, when you drive safely according to the speed limits you don’t need 300 HP or more under your ass
And if you’re someone that just needs a higher number to feel validated by others (look at that! I paid for the extra Speed mode!), then I’m fine with that, takes money from dumb people and has the potential to make the vehicle cheaper for everyone else.