Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stay Mad 15 hours ago:
Except that Biden is in no way evil. Being old is not evil, and his administration has done a lot of great things.
- Comment on Pornhub to block two more states over age verification laws 1 week ago:
Anyone paying will use a VPN. Or find less legal avenues.
- Comment on Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense. 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see what their test environments are like. You can’t test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.
- Comment on Four US college instructors stabbed in public park in China 2 weeks ago:
But there’s not much news because of heavy censorship by China.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
Which I’m sure was true. It would certainly be a lot faster to debug FSD after a number of deaths for each bug.
- Comment on Android's new anti-theft features 1 month ago:
So worst case you might turn off this feature.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
Judges are smarter than that. So are juries.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
“their breath” is the traditional end of that phrase.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Stack overflow was the pioneer of hallucinations.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 month ago:
The idea is that the biggest barrier to entry for small business and entrepreneurship is healthcare.
- Comment on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices 1 month ago:
I moved to AntennaPod from Google podcasts. Would recommend.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 month ago:
the ability to just take a few months off and burn your savings is increasingly not viable.
Universal healthcare would help here.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s AI trying to hit keywords.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 month ago:
hindustantimes.com
Is not a source I’m familiar with. But everyone wants to believe it, so upvotes it is.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
batteries catching fire don’t mesh with garage storage
Your gas powered car is more likely to burst into flames than your electric car.
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 1 month ago:
They tend to make breaking changes every other release, which is always the release that people hate. (Granted, I don’t know wtf they’ve done with usability in Windows 11, but at least I can’t move the taskbar anymore.)
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 1 month ago:
It is. Currently I don’t have a machine where I can both install and test code.
NCIS found the best solution to security years ago.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
They did, but Elon asked one of them for a latte and they brought him one with 2% instead of oatmilk so he gutted the whole department.
/s, because it might be to be specified.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
Kinda weird that the top of the league subreddit isn’t filled with people complaining about their bricked PCs, isn’t it.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 month ago:
Yeah, VaultWarden sounds like the answer.
- Comment on the struggle 1 month ago:
Astrology can be fine as long as you don’t take it too seriously. It’s not much different than a favorite color or lucky numbers.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
The mods for one, absolutely. Also it’s just a much, much smaller developer with much less oversight (even internal) and less to lose if they were caught.
And trying to sell this data for a price that would matter to Riot would make it even more likely to be caught, and maybe land someone in prison. Screenshots are not okay.
The game itself is probably fine. Most things are probably fine. The mods are absolutely more risky. And all of this is more risky than Vanguard.
Part of it is also the high profile. Part of it is the attention and pushback.
If you want real corporate spyware, check your car in your garage.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
Okay, do YOU honestly think Riot is taking screenshots from regular players and sending them to their servers?
Or is it more likely that this is propaganda stemming from people who make money selling cheats (and those who are convinced by those rumors)?
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
I’m a professional software developer. The people hacking league of legends are doing it for money. Guess what kind of activities make money.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 month ago:
I haven’t been entirely happy with Bitwarden for other reasons. You can’t self host and share with one other person without paying them $40/year. Their advertising is deceptive, because they say you can do both for free. But that one or the other, not both.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
It’s not really any different than any other application you run on Windows.
User level access is all that’s needed to upload the majority of your files. And we’re all trained to push yes to the admin access button all the time.
If you really want to be secure, you need to have a different OS/hard drive for your games, and not allow that OS to access your secure drive. I haven’t yet gone this far, but it’s reasonable. Lethal Company on Steam is much more of a risk than anything Riot, including Vanguard. Tarkov was enough of a risk that I wouldn’t install it at all.
In the future this is a change I might make, but Riot isn’t in the top five of reasons why.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
A much more reasonable complaint than this bullshit.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
Which is why I’m almost certain it’s not happening. So far the only source is a cheat forum. I wonder what their motivation is.
Even in corporate dystopia where they monitor you every 15 seconds screenshots are frowned upon. You never know what kind of sensitive data that can reveal.
There’s no way Riot is doing it. The backlash would be immense, and they absolutely know it.
This agitprop stems from the makers of cheat software who are mad that the risk of using their hacks will go through the roof. Sure, you can still get around it. But now if you screw up it’s a hardware ban.
They’re gonna lose a lot of accounts that they sell at $10/pop.
I wouldn’t mind talking more about security, but I’ll save that for another comment.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
A cheating website doesn’t like Vanguard. Big shocker.