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- Comment on Dell Data Breach 6 days ago:
If sellers can prove that they never touch a customers home address they’re less exposed to data breaches which might look good on for insurance companies.
Honestly, this sounds it something a shipping company could provide. When you go to use Paypal for example, you get redirected to their site, put in your details and they complete the transaction without the seller knowing your financial data. The same could be done with shipping.
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 1 week ago:
My preference would be for WHOIS data to be private unless the owner wants to reveal who they are. I do think it makes sense to require the owner to provide that information to the registrar so it can be obtained by the courts if needed.
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 1 week ago:
I wish we had something like temporary/alias e-mail addresses for physical addresses. So you go to ship something, you provide a shipping alias which the shipping company then derives the true address from and ships the item. The moment the true address is revealed, the alias expires and can no longer be used. This way only the shipping company gets to know your real address and that is ideally discarded once the order has been completed. So forward shipping without the extra step.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
OOTL what’s the risk of Lethal Company? The cray amounts of mods that people pull down or something else?
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
That’s not really fair on Discord. The article mentions they received an injunction to remove the content so they were forced to do this. Anybody in the same jurisdiction would have to do the same:
“Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order,” reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
It does have to do with being a walled platform though. You as the Discord server owner have zero control over whether or not you are taken down. If this was Lemmy or a Discourse server (to go with something a little closer to walled garden) that they ran, the hosting provider or a court would have to take them down. Even then the hosting provider wouldn’t be a huge deal since you could just restore backup to a new one Pirate Bay style. Hell, depending on whether or not the devs are anonymous (probably not if they used Discord), they could just move the server to a new jurisdiction that doesn’t care. The IW4 mod for MW2 2009 was forked and the moved to Tor when Activision came running for them so this isn’t even unprecedented.
- Comment on Lego Fortnite gets driveable, customisable vehicles in Mechanical Mayhem update 1 month ago:
I haven’t played that much, but it’s essentially survival sandbox in a Lego world. The game has a village mechanic where you do tasks to level up your village and build housing/beds for people who show up similar to Terraria. The game feels like it’s focused around building Lego-style towns with a survival element. The game has prefabs you can buy and put together in the game, but you can also build them yourself without buying them (I think).
The thing I’ve been impressed by is most emotes and characters from Battle Royal carry over into Lego counterparts.
All this said, Minecraft remains king. Fortnite Lego feels very much locked down and I have fears over what happens if Epic lose interest in it. I would be very cautious to invest time in it like you would a Minecraft or Terraria world.
- Comment on Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up 2 months ago:
Good! You wanna automate away a human task, sure! But if your automation screws up you don’t get to hide behind it. You still chose to use the automation in the first place.
Hell, I’ve heard ISPs here work around the rep on the phone overpromising by literally having the rep transfer to an automated system that reads the agreement and then has the customer agree to that with an explicit note saying that everything said before is irrelevant, then once done, transfer back to the rep.
- Comment on Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance 2 months ago:
Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
- Comment on Work inside the machine of the music industry: How pre-saves and algorithmic marketing turn musicians into influencers 3 months ago:
We’re going to hold this song back from you and ask for a bunch of your details so you can listen to it once we’ve generated some extra hype. Pretty cool huh?!
- Comment on Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended 3 months ago:
I could’ve sworn there was backlash to the idea of using Snap as a workaround for Canonical removing 32-bit libraries (the Snap being proposed by Canonical) for exactly these types of concerns…
- Comment on Steam will now accept "the vast majority" of games using "AI" generation, but only with disclosures 4 months ago:
Not all content on Steam has DRM either so at worst you need an account and the client initially.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
The article seems to indicate they are using to reduce the amount of work that have to do in writing prompts, but still have translators review what the AI spits out. I think that’s different to SuperDuo which I believe is mean’t to use AI to be more conversational.
- Comment on Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support 4 months ago:
What do you think causes people to hold on?
If it isn’t on fire yet don’t fix it, probably. I’ve heard of people still using Vista, which is certainly a choice.
Windows 10 is free
It’s not free legally in Australia, the US and I’m guessing the EU (I think Portugal is a. exception here). The rest I have no idea. The legal free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8/8.1 ended some time ago even though Microsoft will still accept those keys. That said, if you’re willing to deal with the activation watermark you don’t even need to crack Windows to make it work without a licence. 😉
Linux is a great idea for tech savvy users.
I was never able to get past the “I need a Windows partition stage” because there would always be obe game that I couldn’t play. It’s making great strides though and is one hell of a rabbit hole to jump down!
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