ryper
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- Comment on We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? 2 days ago:
I know the implication is supposed to be “Not to his face”, but if the boss a huge mistake it’s good to have some record (like an email) that you told him.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Star Gates McFadden Pays Tribute to Patrick Stewart: His Portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard Gave People Hope Around the World 1 week ago:
For anyone who skips the byline: The whole thing is written by Gates McFadden. I expected some preamble from a Variety writer and was confused by the opening paragraph.
- Comment on Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota 1 week ago:
Microsoft releases patches every month, and often patches for the patches, and still they can’t have their software ready for a change they know is coming.
- Comment on Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce 2 weeks ago:
It says about 30% took the offer in April. Microsoft probably planned for similar uptake this time, so they might really be trying to get rid of about 18,000 employees.
Someone in the Ars comments said even if everyone took the offer, that would only bring MS back to their 2020 staff count, which really doesn’t sound catastrophic.
- Comment on Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emails 2 weeks ago:
These accounts are for playing online, not buying games.
- Comment on Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emails 2 weeks ago:
I just signed up for an account last week. Fucking record time to a breach.
- Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emailswww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 3 weeks ago:
RPS’s article has the most accurate title: “We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher” because “programming is hard”, announce company we’re somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 3 weeks ago:
The OP acknowledges the vibe coding, but the opening from Epic’s announcement is worth quoting:
Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.
It’s like they’re saying “Our launcher sucks and we couldn’t fix it, so we used AI to make a new one”. Other companies have been able to make good launchers without AI, but Epic just couldn’t do it.
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 4 weeks ago:
Obviously Bose-Einstein condensate accumulates on headphones, not windows. Duh.
- Comment on Life Hack #53 5 weeks ago:
I guess that could work, if the drive thru had a hose that could reach that far…
- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 5 weeks ago:
And to be fair, third party apps often bypassed their ads. So Reddit had a legitimate grievance there.
Reddit has an ad-free subscription, Reddit Premium. The sensible thing for Reddit to do would have been to limit third-party app access to Premium subscribers, but they demanded the app developers pay up instead of the users.
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 1 month ago:
Idiots will pre-order anything.
- Comment on When did humans stop creating wonders? 1 month ago:
Old wonders: I wonder how they did that?
New wonders: I wonder why they did that? - Comment on Bunnies are metal 2 months ago:
You might also get to see incorrect depictions of animals from our time that are extinct in the future, depending on how much information is lost between now and then.
- Comment on TV shows on streaming services showing the titles in every language in history for each episode 2 months ago:
The people who did the dubbing for other languages deserve to be credited, and there’s only the one video to go with all the different audio tracks. A “Next Episode” button will usually show up before the credits get to that part anyway, so if you’re sticking around that’s a you problem.
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 3 months ago:
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
- Comment on Happens a lot 3 months ago:
Like I tell me mom, you asked if you could hug me but you didn’t say anything about me hugging you back.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 3 months ago:
Capital expenditures are for things that are expected to last a long time, like buildings and vehicles, so I guess the accounting rules around them are meant to allow the costs to be realized over a similarly long time. The idea is probably that companies would be less likely to invest in capital if it meant taking a big hit all at once. But I’m not an accountant.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 3 months ago:
How can something be profitable, but also have negative cash flow?
It’s been about thirty years since I took an accounting class, but I think capital expenditures like this AI spending are amortized over several years and don’t fully count towards present expenses. So the chunk that counts for this quarter/year can still be small enough to make the company profitable (income > expenses). Free cash flow I would guess is money that came in minus money actually spent, so something like a $1m capital expenditure might count as $100k for this year’s expenses but the full $1m for calculating cash flow.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" 3 months ago:
If Pike’s fate were truly sealed his future self wouldn’t have needed to come back and tell him changing it was going to go badly for the Federation.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" 3 months ago:
I don’t think there was anything that showed they couldn’t change the past; Pike just made the right choice to avoid changing it. If they tried to shoot down the missile and something went wrong, that I would maybe take as a sign the past is fixed.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 3 months ago:
At the end of June they announced this would be rolling out “over the next month”. So anyone who can use old reddit without logging in could still run into it soon.
- Comment on Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites "fighting" against piracy streaming 4 months ago:
It’s by IP:
The maths is brutal. On a match day, blocking just 4 to 20 IP addresses knocked out more than 400,000 unrelated domains. The outage lasted as long as the game.
None of this is new in kind, only in scale. Courts across Europe have long ordered providers to block pirate sites. Spain runs one of the continent’s most aggressive regimes. What has changed is the plumbing. The web now runs on shared infrastructure, so a crude IP block is a shotgun, not a scalpel.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 4 months ago:
Premium includes Google’s equivalent of paid Spotify. Premium Lite and free users get something closer to Spotify’s free tier.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 4 months ago:
The tier makes sense, if not the name. Google insists on including music streaming in Youtube Premium, and Premium Lite is a cheaper tier that doesn’t include music streaming. It’s missing some other features too, but it beats Premium for people who just want to not have ads and for some reason won’t use an ad blocker.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 months ago:
They also just announced that the PS3 and Vita Playstation Store will be shutting down, starting next month in certain regions and everywhere by July 2027. At some point in the future it will be impossible to buy games for your old PS6 because it doesn’t support discs and the Playstation Store dropped support.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
Apple could use higher quality drives, or have to pay a premium for being weird and buying controller-less drives, but yes, a big part of the difference is probably just higher profit margins.
Apple raised prices on a bunch of stuff today, and the iPad Pro upgrade is now £900.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
The £800 to upgrade the iPad Pro isn’t just paying for storage. The 1TB and 2TB iPad Pro have an extra CPU core and 4GB more RAM vs the lower storage tiers.
- Comment on First Auction Of Set Pieces From ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Coming This Friday 5 months ago:
Same rules as the Starfleet Academy auctions:
The rules for the new auction remain the same as the previous ones, requiring bidders to be residents of Ontario or place a deposit with a Canadian bank. Bids can be placed online, but you need to pick up items in person as 403 auctions is not shipping anything.