tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on The internet connects people 3 days ago:
No, but his neighbours do.
- Comment on math checks out 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly, British consumer rights guru Martin Lewis is currently running a crowdsourced data gathering exercise on this in the UK.
The purpose being to identify if companies are purposefully playing these sorts of message no matter their actual call volume.
- Comment on Anon watches some old and new movies 2 weeks ago:
Seriously. Saw that in the cinema and couldn’t hear a word.
- Comment on Anon watches some old and new movies 2 weeks ago:
In part due to this, it has also become trendy and normalised to have bassy dialogue and lots of environmental noise, because that’s the expected “epic movie” feel.
So it’s almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy that movies will sound this way, regardless of the anticipated audio hardware.
- Comment on people who chose luck as main stat 2 weeks ago:
Just another day on the job for pizza guy
- Comment on It's important to learn to communicate 3 weeks ago:
He’s not gonna shoot
- Comment on Why don't more websites/services offer 2FA? 3 weeks ago:
As a developer who has worked on similar systems, I can see why it likely ended up that way. Not justifying it, only understanding it.
In the case of banks, it’s likely that;
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They needed to make 2FA mandatory for all customers, rather than opt-in. This means they needed an MFA method which a person of any technical competency can use. SMS is the “lowest common denominator” here, so they chose it.
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The cost of sending SMS messages is high, but banks are (unsurprisingly) rich and can afford it
It would be great if banks offered better MFA methods, but development time in old-school banks is often ridiculously long as it is a very risk-averse industry that is also slowed down a lot by bureaucracy. It’s likely they would choose something else on the roadmap, and stick with SMS as simply “good enough”
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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 1 month ago:
This annoys me SOOO much.
I don’t drink carbonated beverages, so when I go into a place and don’t want beer then my options are basically coffee or water.
Fine in the mornings, but I don’t want a coffee at 5PM. So I guess it’s just water then huh
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima’s PSN login requirement will stop you playing multiplayer on Steam Deck 1 month ago:
It will stop me buying the game, is what it will do.
- Comment on You now have no excuse to not play Arkane Austin’s Prey - you can grab it and two other bangers for a fiver 1 month ago:
They both are to an extent, but I think Prey inherits much more of the DNA.
- Comment on The Riven Remake Arrives This Year 3 months ago:
The one that stumped us wasn’t even that! It was in a forest area where there is a ‘dragon’ statue and his mouth opens up to reveal a staircase to the upper level. And you do that by ::: clicking the top of one of the nearby lanterns which acts as a switch but we couldn’t find it! :::
- Comment on The Riven Remake Arrives This Year 3 months ago:
I first played Riven as a child, together with my mother on the family’s first PC, which was a Pentium 133 MHz with 16 megabytes of RAM and no Internet.
At one point we got totally stuck, and after days of fruitless wandering we were forced in desperation to call the premium-rate phone number that came on a leaflet in the box, just to get some hints to the solution.
Different times.
I played every Myst game since, and I’ll probably play this too.
- Comment on What a feeling that was 3 months ago:
Which was sometimes frustrating, but when they are funny and good bugs it’s amazing.
There’s a reason that so many speedruns on older consoles use the Japanese cartridges, because those versions came out first and have exploitable glitches the western release later fixed.
Bugs at that time were almost never totally game-breaking either, since that would have been a nightmare recall for the publisher, and so the final builds were tested a lot more intensively than games now.
- Comment on First known photos of 'lost bird' captured by scientists 3 months ago:
For a moment there I was seeing this photo as if the bird’s head was turned facing backwards over it’s body, and the beak looked like a horn.
I’m like “Is this lost bird a literal dragon or what?”
- Comment on Lol 4 months ago:
I’ve had this a lot.
I guess it might be because in the delivery person’s app this option could be very similar to the one they meant to select:
Handed to Receptionist
Handed to Resident
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 4 months ago:
Probably “All you need is love” read from the bottom of the stack to the top.
- Comment on Wonderful holiday scents 5 months ago:
The sixth, here-unnamed candle is “Sesame Seed Bun” for anyone else who can count and was wondering.
- Comment on Can't play an EA game via geforce now 5 months ago:
It IS a big deal though, that’s the whole point.
You had plans for today. You paid money for a service so you could make those plans happen, and then now your plans are toast. You paid money for nothing.
If you paid for a package holiday and then got denied boarding the plane for some garbage reason like “you’ve exceeded your maximum flight hours for today” (WTF?!l) then you’d be MAD and rightfully so.
Sure, this is just a game. It’s less important. But the principle is identical and your reaction should be to feel cheated and robbed, not just shrug and let EA get away with not giving you the service but still taking your money.
- Comment on The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman 6 months ago:
Those are ones where it’s a product sold by Amazon firts-party and Amazon themselves sent it for free.
- Comment on The Finals developers say they've found why movement speed feels slower, despite "no change" since beta 6 months ago:
This sort of thing is fascinating to me, including the anecdote in the article where Wofenstein players complained one team had a stronger gun, where the truth was both teams had identical-damage guns and one just sounded stronger.
Just shows that the perceived experience really is the important thing, and game designers can use all sorts of psychological tricks to tweak that subjective experience without changing the actual game mechanics at all.
- Comment on Films Re-imagined as Vintage Books 9 months ago:
These are absolutely gorgeous.
I love how many of them manage to capture the whole concept and theme of the work in just a single illustration.
Some of them capture it far too well, like if the book was real you couldn’t even use that cover because it’s an absolute spoiler, like :::Fight Club with the guy facing off against his own shadow lol:::
- Comment on Frankenvoyager 10 months ago:
The low quality of broadcast television really covered up a multitude of sins :)