Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 hours ago:
I DID grow up with Nintendo. The first gaming thing that wasn’t a DOS computer with asteroids and commander keen on it was a NES. Then an SNES. Then an N64. A few months after the N64 we got a Sega Genesis, and a PS1.
All that said?
…fuck Nintendo. Switch 1 games play at a higher resolution and better frame rate ON MY PHONE. I refused to buy a switch, and there’s no chance in hell I’ll get a switch 2. The fact that they say if they “detect” cheating or that your S2 is jailbroken they reserve the right, and built in the ability to, brick your device. Fuck them, get fucked, no fucking chance they’re getting a single cent, pence, fucking whatever out of me. Fuck yourselves well and truly to fuck! 👍🖕👍
Rant over 🥰
- Comment on [deleted] 11 hours ago:
If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.
I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:
If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.
Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.
Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 14 hours ago:
M$ and Apple both extensively use OSS projects in the creation and maintenance of their own products. And neither really fund many/any of the projects they use. So this would directly benefit them even further.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 14 hours ago:
And also do away with concerns about data security. As far as I know if you’re using the M$ office suite stuff like email gets routes through American based servers. And that gives the US government access.
- Comment on Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot 1 day ago:
Though fixed and never maliciously exploited, EchoLeak holds significance for demonstrating a new class of vulnerabilities called ‘LLM Scope Violation,’ which causes a large language model (LLM) to leak privileged internal data without user intent or interaction.
As the attack requires no interaction with the victim, it can be automated to perform silent data exfiltration in enterprise environments, highlighting how dangerous these flaws can be when deployed against AI-integrated systems.
How EchoLeak works
The attack begins with a malicious email sent to the target, containing text unrelated to Copilot and formatted to look like a typical business document.
The email embeds a hidden prompt injection crafted to instruct the LLM to extract and exfiltrate sensitive internal data.
Because the prompt is phrased like a normal message to a human, it bypasses Microsoft’s XPIA (cross-prompt injection attack) classifier protections.
Later, when the user asks Copilot a related business question, the email is retrieved into the LLM’s prompt context by the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine due to its formatting and apparent relevance.
The malicious injection, now reaching the LLM, “tricks” it into pulling sensitive internal data and inserting it into a crafted link or image.
Aim Labs found that some markdown image formats cause the browser to request the image, which sends the URL automatically, including the embedded data, to the attacker’s server.
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 1 day ago:
Sugar already exists
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 1 day ago:
If you were the real Sprog, this correction would have been more poetic.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 1 day ago:
❤️
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
Almost certainly they won’t. But yeah, you’re ruining the joke.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
Get the fuck outta here with that! Any red blooded microphile knows XP was PEAK windows experience. The lower opacity of windows in Vista was a bright spot in an otherwise disgusting experience.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
Pretty sure it disappointed most people
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 days ago:
I believe that was the joke?
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 week ago:
For slagging you pre-edit
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 week ago:
Sure, that’s average 5th year apprenticeship GNU/Wizard territory…there are adequate distros for people who open the “updates available” alert once every year or so. Ease them in. Fuck…
As a wise lion who was a Jesus allegory once said:
Do not cite the old magics to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
Now…I’m not old enough to ACTUALLY have been there when it was written… you’re still being a dick.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
As a stone mason, I object to this statement. Rocks are useful.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 2 weeks ago:
… MFR…do NOT leave us hanging!
- Comment on Judge Hints Anthropic’s AI Training on Books is Fair Use (1) 3 weeks ago:
Only if you can afford to pay the bribes
- Comment on The lemming anatomy 3 weeks ago:
I feel seen
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 weeks ago:
My voice is fairly deep, so even when I’m speaking quietly it travels. Beyond not wanting to have everyone on the bus hearing about my business, it’s fucking rude…
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
Cool, I’ll have a look!
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
Hey, Newpipe’s a banger too, just not what I found first. I fully support anything that takes away from Google’s profits
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
And Revanced for android is just 😘🤌 chef’s kiss.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 weeks ago:
It took a few years, but now unless it’s really important or she thinks I’m probably not on the bus, my wife now texts to ask if I’m able to talk. I hate people who do these things and I feel incredibly uncomfortable speaking on the phone when I’m on public transit.
- Comment on Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice 4 weeks ago:
Why? Strippers are called performers or dancers.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that SK(and a vast majority of the rest of the world) have declining birth rates. South Korea doesn’t have a “staffing” issue, they have a people being born issue. And most of the rest of us are gonna start feeling it soon too!
If something drastic doesn’t change for SK soon, in 30-60 years they won’t have enough people working to cover pensions, let alone UBI.
- Comment on First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android 4 weeks ago:
Probably been in the Google idea/product graveyard for the last 9 years
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 4 weeks ago:
Actually what Google is doing here is quite pathetic.
So business as usual then?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Look, just cause you can’t pull it off doesn’t mean you need to belittle Andre about it.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 weeks ago:
I know you said you’re not an Arch kinda guy…but I highly recommend Garuda.
Takes away most of the rough parts of running Arch, and comes in more flavours than you can shake a stick at. The forums are highly active, and Devs/admins/mods are very quick to respond to question/issue posts.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 4 weeks ago:
Both hands. Like in games where you have a pistol or smg in both hands.