Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who needs it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I never even signed up for Twitter.

  The modern internet makes me want to live in a cave and grow moss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low River Levels in UK Raise Concerns of Drought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why invest in reservoirs and sewage systems, when you can just tell people not to use hosepipes, pump shit into the rivers and raise prices so you can pass it all on to shareholders?

  Set stringent standards, enforce them with zero tolerance, failures will be renationalised without compensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. The papers are already on it, in their bid to put Farage in power.

  The Brexit faithful will never stop believing and inventing new reasons it failed. Wrong type of Brexit. What Brexit did they want? Vera Lynn singing on the cliffs of Dover. Dying old men smoking in pubs. No muzzies. A flashback to a childhood without all the grotty bits they’d forgotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, remember when people used to break into offices to steal the RAM?

  My work experience in around 1995 was spent at a local computer firm.

  At one point a group of men in balaclavas showed up, the boss stopped playing Doom long enough to cover the security camera and hand over a bunch of crumpled banknotes, and I was handed this pile of SIMMs to put in a test rig to make sure they were OK to sell.

  I also had to straighten the pins on used/stolen 486 CPUs, and pretty sure at one point was taken to break into a warehouse. There was certainly nobody else in the whole building, and we loaded the van with a bunch of cheap looking boxes before taking them back to HQ.

  The boss was also banging a girl in my class, which in later years I learned makes him a paedo. Times sure were simpler in 1995.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even my smoke alarm singing the song of it’s people at 4am changed that.

  Turns out they expire after a number of years and detect smoke all the time. Certainly an exciting start to the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PFOA was banned 10 years ago in the US and 20 years ago in the UK.

  Any evidence that PFTE is harmful to that level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK that Teflon pans don’t need any seasoning and are still non-stick.

  What’s with all the tinfoil-hattery on this site about teflon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  aided in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages

  Not the best advert for MS’s AI products, is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone loves some good food;⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A beans doughnut looks mint, ngl. I’d expect to see it in Gregg’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did all the fixer missions in Cyberpunk and honestly wish I hadn’t bothered.

  It destroyed the pacing completely, and did nothing but waste my time. Like sure, they’re not automatically generated or anything, but they don’t add anything to the game experience.

  The same goes for pretty much every open world game that isn’t designed around actual exploration. If your map is a sea of icons, your open world game isn’t that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you also rate books by the number of pages?

  This attitude here is what has fucked up gaming more than any greedy publisher ever did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re trained on open source code and stack overflow answers.

  Neither of which are commonly written in assembly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately all the wanna-be Pol Pots out there also consider themselves to be leftists.

• ⁨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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think so, but a never ending stream of people continue to sit there glued to their phones through content and adverts alike.

  We’re probably already at the Demolition Man point of having a station just for adverts.

• ⁨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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the contest to find the world’s biggest cunt continues unabated.

  What will they think of next week?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin does all that and more.

  We’re no longer in the days of competing with a USB stick and hoping the TV will play whatever format it’s in, or using VLC and a laptop.

  They don’t even show you ratings for the stuff, because they want you to waste your time watching the junk tier shit they can still afford.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can it be triggered from a browser?

  Because if not, it’s another non-issue issue for most people.

  I think after the last round of exploits, most of the browser makers made timers deliberately inaccurate enough to prevent it being used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that’s just really sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming that Nextcloud handles all it’s moneymaking outside of the app (indeed it appears to be free if you host the server yourself).

  If Google were making 30% on a ton of in-app purchases, they’d let it harvest your fucking organs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, the best distro for a Windows user is one that runs all their existing Windows software (both applications and games) right out of the box.

  Does any distro even come close to doing that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Gentoo for a beginner.

  What better way to understand your new OS than by compiling it from scratch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Form an orderly queue, girls.

  Yet still not as creepy as the guy in that Mark Wahlberg film with the Romeo and Juliet law printed on a laminated card that he keeps with him at all times…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Do me a favour and block the audio as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So $89.99 then.

  Special edition with a 6" plastic Temu tat figurine and 1000 FREE BorderBucks will be $249.99.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s beans. I thought it was Wotsits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why it isn’t more common to open source really old games.

  You don’t have to give away the assets. ID gave away the source to Doom and Quake and people can still play them now. Yet here we are, 20 years later, and they’re about the only studio that ever bothered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At school we had a thing where if your ring finger was longer than your index finger then it meant you were a bummer. Never mind the fact that you can change that with slight angling of the hand.

  This is what those kids are doing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey girl, are you a bergenia pacifica?

  Because you’re a fucking Russian plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The clueless people are out there among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I realised this when I took money out of a cash machine in Tenerife.

  It shows you an exchange rate and a prompt to accept. If you press yes, you get scammed with a crap rate. It’s not really clear that if you press no you still get money but at your bank exchange rate which is almost certainly better than a scummy airport ATM.

  I guess it’s nice that you get scammed right out of the gate, because at least it puts you on guard for the rest of your holiday. Fuck that whole island tbh.