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- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
Air Force One is going to smell like fries forever now.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 weeks ago:
You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 weeks ago:
This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…
- Comment on Important information 1 month ago:
I won’t understand until I hear piratesoftware explain it.
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 2 months ago:
Oh don’t worry, there’s going to be more.
A lot of companies are working on live service games in hope of being the next overwatch/destiny.
Some even have multiple (like Sony) in the hope that even one of them takes off.
- Comment on Any artists out there? 2 months ago:
The “fuck spez” map drawing from Reddit
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
Yeah I agree
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.
It’s just shows how they’re just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 3 months ago:
This is an excellent shitpost and made me laugh very hard.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
It’s not on mine yet.
So some a/b testing maybe
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Thank you for letting me know. I will too.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 5 months ago:
That is… a lot of people
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 6 months ago:
We’re riding this wave over in the Total War community too. Broken game, weak and overpriced DLC.
We kicked off (and then all their other games managed to flop at once, so they came crawling back) and now we’ve got a notable amount more effort into the DLC coming at the end of the month, as well as price cuts, refunds and redoing of the bad DLC.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but I’m seeing positive movements in general on legacy resting-on-laurels games.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I always liked how GOD had a blue checkmark.
Like, “over here is confirmed to be the real Barack Obama, and over here is confirmed to be actual God”
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
Subverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.
- Comment on Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs 8 months ago:
It seems like it’s super useful.
When you want to demonise, discredit or intimidate.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
I also don’t want to be marketed at. If it’s good I’ll find out organically.
And I don’t want to find out about it at/before release-time. Because then I’ll want to buy it on release.
That’s the time the game is most buggy and least optimised (maybe also unbalanced too).
Complaining it didn’t sell well enough on release is some real crybaby stuff as well.
“It didn’t go exactly the best way I wanted it to go 😭😭”
- Comment on GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice 10 months ago:
This has sent me down such a rabbit-hole.
I thought Ray Liotta did the voice for Michael. This whole time.
Like how the Trevor actor’s face is used for Trevor, I assumed they used a (de-aged) Ray Liotta’s likeness/MoCap.
That’s so strange. I’m surprised Ray didn’t have anything to say about it (or maybe he did and it’s forgotten now).
- Comment on What the hell! Let's all just go crazy! 11 months ago:
Oh sugar, I already do
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
While you are employed as… “Beach”?
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
Apparently you need to clear the plugin’s cache semi-regularly.
As sometimes it won’t update itself as fast.
- Comment on US immigration enforcement used an AI-powered tool to scan social media posts "derogatory" to the US | "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts" 1 year ago:
I for one welcome… blah blah
Yeah this is scary and honestly why I’m super careful what I put online. Well, mostly.
There are professional social media checkers who will find your hidden/locked social media (and Reddit etc).
They get hired by recruitment agencies or companies who are hiring.
And on the surface it could be to check no one is a secret nazi/chauvanist etc
But I bet there’s secondary data about political leanings or how “appropriate” your friends are.
Or if you’re willing to be a part of the old boy’s club (coke and strippers is fine for execs, but you can’t have a nephew who is in a labor union etc).
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
Tidal app is good but slightly off (mainly with offline mode, but probably there’s a way to do it once you get used to it. I just don’t need offline mode that often).
Apart from that it’s a solid player.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
And that’s where we get the term “slash” fiction.
- Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me. 1 year ago:
Honestly this is every car chase in every high profile movie.
They somehow stay very clean and shiny the whole time.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 1 year ago:
There’s a lite version that’s only for the ads.
It’s cheaper than the full 19.99.
While that might still be too much, I just wanted to point out that if you don’t want ads, it doesn’t cost the full 20quid.
- Comment on Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets 1 year ago:
It’s a common justification, but “if I don’t do [bad thing], then someone else will do [bad thing] instead, but worse” feels like an excuse we’ve heard before.
After all, there’s systems you could put in place to handle scalpers.
But Ticketmaster et al actually have them baked into the business plan, so have no intention of making change.
It’s the same reason there’s no politicians trying to bring rents down. They’re all bloody landlords.
- Comment on Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets 1 year ago:
Well the thing is, she really needs the money.
- Comment on When did Christians get involved in politics in USA? I was watching young Turks clip on youtube. There was an exmuslim guy he said pat Robertson forced Christians into politics. So when was it? 1 year ago:
There’s a great “Behind the Bastards” podcast that dives into it.
It’s name is “how the rich ate Christianity”.
pca.st/…/525c077b-30ae-49ab-91dc-65da7a555352
If you’d prefer to read, they list all their sources in the episode notes.