ozymandias117

@ozymandias117@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

  I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Qualcomm exploit chain brings bootloader unlocking freedom to Android flagships⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

  A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

  They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can’t torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.

  It’s not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C

  The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood is about to get real dark with all the vengeance porn they are going to start pumping out post-epstein.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, I could count on a single hand the number of Hollywood movies my coworkers have talked about in the last two years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2009 would be back when it was a native application, rather than just a web browser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glasses with an IR emitter to blind their cameras?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can tell you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly an advertisement, but the issue being discussed doesn’t require you to have an account or visit X/TikTok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Graphene modifies AOSP for much more security.

  E.g.

  • you can disable USB data at a hardware level
  • Receives Kernel updates even faster than Google’s phones
  • uses a different memory allocator, hardened_malloc
  • changes the way zygote launches apps, so ASLR actually works
  • doesn’t allow apps to ptrace themselves
  • disables JIT per-app
  • disable network access per-app

  I dont think e/OS is as security oriented, more privacy oriented

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…

  I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t send group texts over SMS

  I’d guess the group chat is stuck sending messages to RCS (basically Google Proprietary) rather than MMS

  This is the same problem iPhone users have dealt with for a long time when switching to Android and their number is stuck in Apple’s I message system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me

  In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I haven’t seen mentioned…

  Slack was taking a big market share over MS Lync

  Microsoft rebranded to Teams and gave it away /for free/ to companies, getting them to decide “well, it covers enough basic features… We can save x million dollars/year”

  Without thinking about what happens once Teams is the standard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since it says 11 production lines…

  11 lines = 57.8 million

  57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would have expected worse than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Silksong is the perfect example of the project management triangle. It's good, it's cheap, but boy it sure didn't release fast.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their point was Cyberpunk was announced in 2012, and the first playable build was 2.0 in 2023…

  Although cyberpunk is certainly harder to implement being a 3d high res game vs a 2d platformer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A cosmic bitflip is unlikely to lose all the data

  In a video, you’ll get one frame of distortion (if it’s a key frame, it may be several seconds of distortion)

  Similarly for a text file, picture, etc.

  99.999% of the time you wouldn’t notice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of times I’ve been debugging something and a coworker messages “I asked CHATGPT and it said [obviously wrong thing]” makes me want to gouge my eyes out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the US really tried to take Greenland by force, I think China would see the opportunity and try to align with the remnants of NATO

  Whether the other countries in NATO agree or not… Dunno

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can’t use.

  It’s a different physical interface.

  Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards… 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, the last one is great.

  Now when I get asked “what do you think about Copilot,” I can just say, “I prefer LibreOffice”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows uses them by default for updates (they call it “Delivery Optimization”)

  apt-p2p exists, but it’s not installed by default, so is unlikely to have enough peers to be useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you are using a feature phone, or a standard Android/iOS device with their tools preinstalled

  If you try to use it with a free operating system, it’s not possible.

  Here are the instructions for installing the bridge code on Graphene: grapheneos.org/usage#esim-support

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the phone manufacturer, it’s fewer traces and less mechanical design work.

  From the carrier side, it requires you to have their spyware installed to register the Sim

  From a user perspective, someone can’t just steal your Sim and put it in another phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That really is how these companies think.

  I’ve seen car companies selling $100,000+ cars sweating over whether we use a $0.10 more expensive part that would last 3x longer than the cheaper one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s common for the antennas to contain both GPS and LTE. I think the fuse would power the whole fin?

  On the head unit side, they’re generally separate cables

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what most? cars used for a long time (there is also GENIVI)

  Many manufacturers are switching to Android as the base OS so they can just hire app developers rather than developers that know other UI toolkits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On most cars, it’s probably easier to unplug it on the head unit side. They’re generally designed to be accessed for repair