MrTolkinghoen

@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing. Love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So any game that needs anticheat is shit? I guess you only think single player games are fun then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. I really love these small indie games where you buy it. And… Surprise you actually own it. It works and it doesn’t need a weekly patch for the monthly season pass.

  And then for some reason the devs actually love what they built and they keep giving updates which is amazing and an added bonus but far from expected and definitely not necessary because the game is already complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh that’s cool. For now. Enshittification must march on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I agree with this

  Additionally, GamePasses are designed to force developers to have to use them. If enough people are using it, they’re going to be way more resistant to paying additional money for a game that isn’t in the game pass. This means that it locks users into a platform, and takes the consumers away from the game makers meaning the developers lose. Lose if they are on the game pass, lose if they aren’t.

  Just another enshitification where the middleman is the only winner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s bad for consumers which means more money for Nintendo (and publishers) Reselling a physical game card nets 0 profit for either Nintendo nor the game publisher. They really have 0 incentive to go out of their way to support it, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a feature not a bug. Steal the content and take away the source of the content? Win win. Then the content can only be obtained via the AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this. You’re telling me this isn’t just an OSS project by some mel in their basement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg 8 can subtitle your videos on the fly with Whisper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s pretty cool. Also given that it’s ffmpeg, I assume they did it in an agnostic way where you can toss any model at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can’t hear our orders. It’s killing the livelihood of creative workers. It’s the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It’s making search engines unusable. It’s a justification for corporate layoffs. It’s plagiarism. It’s killing information access. It’s taking credit for the work of visual effects artists. It’s a serial liar. It’s harming our critical thinking and memory skills. It’s mecha-Hitler. It’s the really annoying popup. It’s wealth inequality. It’s a crutch for the loneliness epidemic. It’s the industrial polluter. It’s the scammer faking your voice for predatory phone calls. It’s the military-industrial complex. It’s the book that could kill you. It’s exploiting social media algorithms with fake content.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they depend exclusively on the Google safety net attestation service this is true. GrapheneOS supports even stronger attestation though, they just have to choose to implement it properly: grapheneos.org/…/attestation-compatibility-guide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 modder makes NPC cleanliness optional in order to avoid popular "non-sexy mods" being "hidden unnecessarily"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious extremists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Clickbait shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble is officially Pebble again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait for mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Messages testing RCS’ new MLS encryption, Details page redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now if only Google would open up RCS to non Google messages apps. It’s just another walled garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paying the Subnautica 2 team their promised bonus would be "embarrassing", Krafton's CEO allegedly told the game's chief over lunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, the buyers truing to get them to take a smaller buyout before firing makes it clear they’re doing what they can to avoid paying it. At the same time, the way the incentive was setup both parties were of course going to try to win here. No one who has 250m is going to part with it without a fight. And vice-versa.

  Hindsight is 2020, but the reward structure should have never been setup based an arbitrary deadline but instead on a total level of success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love graphene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that. I love my 6ghz WiFi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeForce NOW on Steam Deck really can be a game-changer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stream from my PC with moonlight / sunshine and it really is a game changer for AAA games. I.E. oblivion remastered ATM ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DJI Romo: DJI's first high-end robot vacuum spotted in close-up photo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valetudo is the only high end vacuum I’ll ever want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And there it is. Fuck xfinity/comcast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just a VR headset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Maybe you can pick the default messaging app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re still doing the exact same shit, just a little more transparent about it: Treat your customers differently based on if they’re new or not. Basically these plans just make it more obvious to customers. If you don’t cancel your plan yearly and resubscribe as a new subscriber, you have to pay an extra $180 a year. Simple as that. And you still have to do that every 5 years.

  Honestly it’s insane. Esp the I still have to cancel after 5 years to keep not getting fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, I know that it’s not kernel level, I just fail to see how, someone with complete control of the memory, can’t defeat all anticheat. To be fair, if it isn’t a client authoritative game, it could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stalker 2's broken A-life system is finally working as designed, according to GSC Game World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I held off on buying this. Does it feel good / worth buying now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… You can cheat then.

  Valve really needs to offer some sort of hardware attestation so the steamdeck can actually offer anticheat. As long as people can compile their own kernels any game has already lost from the start

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | House Bans WhatsApp on Congressional Staff Devices Over Security Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it not actually an allow list vs a deny list. They should be clearing apps that can be installed and not the other way around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I can’t wait to get mine and be in complete control of my data. No cloud bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah idk why people are caught up on this. Encryption is good and absolutely fundamentally important to society. And yes, shitty people can use it too, it doesn’t make it bad.