halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 day ago:
The writing is on the wall for Intel currently anyway. They’re not doing well, and several recent decisions seem to be the opposite of taking advantage of their capabilities to stabilize and turn around, just the crappy management choices to shrink and sell.
- Comment on Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks 2 days ago:
They tested 11 popular password managers, Keepass wasn’t one of them.
So if it wasn’t even tested for attacks that nearly every other manager fails at least 1 aspect of, then you should assume it’s not safe either.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 5 days ago:
Mandatory school advertising on your children. And people say advertising in the US is out of control…
- Comment on SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 1 week ago:
As designed for large companies, government contracts or not. Look at the tax payments for any large company and you’ll see minimal tax liabilities.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 week ago:
I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 1 week ago:
This is one of the few games I keep installed and jump back to just as a chill game that requires no intense planning or strategy. The mechanics are simple, well executed, and easy to pick back up after not playing for a while. So many games have tons of complex mechanics that are fine when you’re playing it, but hard to remember if you haven’t touched it in a while.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 1 week ago:
More like 2 with the proper amount of cream cheese.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
They never say what the “natural flavor” is.
A reminder that “natural flavor” doesn’t mean healthier or even something you might want over the artificially created flavors. It just means it comes from a natural source and is not lab created.
Castoreum, sometimes used for vanilla and raspberry flavoring, comes from beaver anal secretions. That would be labelled under a “natural flavor” and you’d never be told more than that.
I’ll take the artificial stuff any day just on principle there.
- Comment on Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google 1 week ago:
hardly anyone plays anymore
Millions of people still play Fortnite daily. Over a million concurrent on some days.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 weeks ago:
As Anthropic argued, it now “faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months” based on a class certification rushed at “warp speed” that involves “up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history,” each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.
So you knew what stealing the copyrighted works could result in, and your defense is that you stole too much? That’s not how that works.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 weeks ago:
Easy, replace all the CEOs at every company. Those are the connections. The computers can talk to each other to collaborate much faster than us mere humans. Tll
There’s no possible bad scenario from this whatsoever.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 weeks ago:
Potentially more effective overall given how so many CEO decisions seem to result in terrible outcomes because they don’t actually understand their product. Usually because they were hired into the company and industry, and have no actual experience with their product or how the company works.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Pebble is coming back.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue the entire C-suite should be legally responsible for anything the company does.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 2 weeks ago:
Nearly all of the vehicles have 4G/5G connectivity via AT&T. This isn’t a dial up connection. They can transmit whatever the fuck they want.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
That’s just the pretext they give to justify it. The real reason is surveillance. Now they have a way to confidently tie your accounts to your individual identity. And most of these solutions use third parties which will then sell that data as well, so now anyone can tie your account to you without you ever knowing.
Even if the government is barred from surveilling citizens in these ways, third parties aren’t, and the government can just buy that information, no warrant needed anymore.
And these laws never stop at porn, it’s drugs, LGBTQ information, etc. and they can always easily add additional things later with little fanfare.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
It is intentionally vague, because companies want to be able to weasel out of any and all accountability whenever possible.
But Mastercard isn’t off the hook either way even if we accept the rules as they are currently. Before this incident, Mastercard has been starting to censor adult content in general with rules changes. To the point where there was already a petition on the ACLU site about this exact type of censorship.
…aclu.org/…/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unj…
Mastercard is trying to weasel their way out of this particular instance because they didn’t directly have a hand in this video game situation, even though they clearly would agree with it based on other recent changes. They’re trying to play both sides by assuming that people didn’t know they were already doing these things.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.
Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 weeks ago:
That’s almost surely a result of how Valve works internally for approving projects. They operate with a flat management structure. With no bosses or managers, the employees themselves choose which projects to work on. The philosophy is that Valve only hires the best, and they should operate at their best doing what they enjoy instead of simply being told what to do.
Every employee at Valve is given the freedom to join whatever project they choose, or to create a new one. They are encouraged to work on what they feel if the most important project to the company and what will have the highest direct impact on their customers.
If the Valve employees wanted to make Half Life 3, they would. At this point the joke is that Valve simply can’t count to three. Half Life 1 and 2, them Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal 1 and Portal 2, Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike 2. Several of these have had other interim releases, especially Counter-Strike, but those were always based on the previous game and not a totally new game from scratch, much like the Half Life Episodes.
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 3 weeks ago:
Don’t discount the PR from Exelon being complete dogshit. Actively lying to the public instead of actually explaining what was going on and when getting caught by the public and called out by the media trying to double down.
It screwed the entire industry. It proved to the public that they couldn’t trust a company to tell them the truth when the issue wasn’t really bad. There’s no way they’d tell the truth when things were actually bad.
It destroyed the entire industry’s credibility in just a few days.
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 3 weeks ago:
The worst part of that is The Mike Island wasn’t so much a nuclear disaster, it was a PR and communications disaster.
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 3 weeks ago:
You know what else is efficient? Actual security instead of the theater they put travelers through currently.
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 3 weeks ago:
Oh I wouldn’t be surprised at all, most businesses are pretty small. I would be surprised if a Bank was that irresponsible, although not very surprised.
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 3 weeks ago:
Spoofing a MAC is easy but it still requires knowing both what an existing valid address is, and ensuring that it’s not already connected to the network. It’s only operational overhead when a new device is onboarded, after that the impact is minimal.
A policy that requires sending a tech is fine, but if you have hundreds or thousands of individual locations then you aren’t going to have a tech onsite at every one of them to quickly check and fix an issue, and you don’t really want to have to trust an end user to verify and/or make physical changes on site if you can avoid it.
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 3 weeks ago:
Also our bank had some kind of port security so if it wasn’t a recognized MAC address, the port just switched off.
And serious company will have this as basic security. It’s a fundamental function even available on your consumer grade router at home. While it’s overkill for that use, it’s basic security for a company.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 weeks ago:
Steam can 100% enter any market they want, especially something entirely digital like online payment processing. That’s pretty closely related to what they do already. They just have to have a reason to want to do so.
Steam makes a reported $3.5 million per employee from commissions alone. Possibly as much at $19 million per head across the board. To put that into perspective, Facebook, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, averages a net income of $780,000 per employee, and Apple at $476,000 per employee.
pcgamer.com/…/valves-reported-profit-per-head-fro…
Steam may not be as large as those companies, but they’re so effectively streamlined. So much of their profits come from existing systems that only need minimal maintenance as opposed to needing to constantly develop new products. It is a well-oiled money printing machine at this point. And nothing they do is based on any sort of speculation bubble threatening to burst at any point.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 weeks ago:
100% they would try to ban anything with any sort of romance in it if they could.
Collective Shout is a group of anti-porn nutjobs hiding behind a feminist facade.
Surprisingly, not American, the Australians decided to join the puritanical bullshit this time.
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 3 weeks ago:
Modern nuclear fission already solves this issue fairly adequately. We’ve already developed numerous ways to minimize and use nuclear waste, including reusing it in various other forms and even reactor designs. The actual amount of waste that doesn’t have an alternate use is pretty small. We just haven’t really attempted it. Most currently operating nuclear plants date back to designs from the 60s and 70s.
Not to mention things like modern Advanced Geothermal systems. Some of those designs even involve reusing existing old oil drill sites, and the same workers because it’s the same type of drilling. Don’t even need large amounts of retraining.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, a lot of energy drinks also take like crap and have weird flavors and aftertastes.
I can 100% see someone making that mistake if they don’t normally drink alcohol or energy drinks all the time.