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- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
Absolutely agree. An aspirational goal to an open standard is not an open standard.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
Bluesky Social has pledged to transfer the protocol’s development to a standards body such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the near future.[11]
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
How are Oz and Phil so high on this spectrum?
- Comment on Your smart fridge can now warn you when you’ve spent too long in the shower 1 month ago:
Even the picture is ridiculous. More resources went into that one bathroom than most of us will use in a lifetime of showers.
- Comment on Consume 1 month ago:
Steel might be difficult to digest, but it is very caloric dense.
- Comment on Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’ 1 month ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
I’d say both artists did well to capture the essence of their subject.
- Comment on Mark Cuban: "The Mainstream Media Truly Leans Right" 1 month ago:
What a brilliant take by this blogger. Mainstream media must be left wing because individual journalists (who don’t control the media) donate to Democrats. Truly infallible logic.
- Comment on rabioli 1 month ago:
Those poor raccoons. I don’t know what an autistic raccoon looks like, but these scientists should be ashamed of their… hmmm. I actually have no idea what the conspiracy behind animal vaccinations would be. Big science profiting just doesn’t fit right.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 months ago:
Yep, they’re trying to create their own virtual tabletop, which will fit perfectly with that.
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 months ago:
DnD Beyond is laying all the ground work for full enshitification as they do a soft push away from 5e to whatever the fuck live service subscription and micro transaction model they’ll be pursuing.
- Comment on YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top 2 months ago:
As you said there are people who don’t want to switch from Chrome and Google, but at this point if you’re taking about a ten step fix+it plan, is really does make more sense to just use Firefox and DDG. Or searx, I’m pretty sure that’s still fewer steps.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Both are great games, with 1 being a little rough around the edges but still very playable. The gameplay is different enough that it’s worth playing them both imo. Story might be better if you play 1 first, but I played through 2 first, then went back later to play 1 and was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
I probably vehemently disagree with some recommendations to play BG 1 and 2 btw, your mileage may vary. It requires very specific builds and knowledge of DnD, or lots of trial and error. You can easily build a well rounded group and find yourself unable to progress because of lacking one very specific thing. If that doesn’t sound to annoying, it might be worth a shot. If nothing else, rolling characters is fun.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
I didn’t see these in the list:
Wyldermyth - indie fairly unique story building campaign with turn based tactical combat.
Wastelands 3 - post apocalyptic RPG with good story, choices, and characters. Great tactical turn based combat. Other than the other Larian games this is closest to filling the BG 3 shaped hole.
Halo Master Chief Collection; 1 - 3, Reach, and ODST are amazing co-op. We’ve played through all of them multiple times. 4 is… disappointing.
- Comment on Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse 3 months ago:
Logitech mice always get better with age, they give you extra clicks for free with each touch of the button!
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 3 months ago:
Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.
- Comment on Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing 5 months ago:
Once again pirates get the best service.
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 6 months ago:
That’s skipping over the fact that recovering deleted data, even if it isn’t overwritten, is not an “oops”. It it takes extra effort, and if that data isn’t being protected it would be overwritten incidentally as drives are used.
There is a big difference in a database between “flagging” data and actually removing the association of the data to the database.
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 6 months ago:
The article is being disingenuous about data not being deleted unless it’s overwritten with 1’s and 0’s. Technically that’s true, but:
Most data being deleted is equivalent to a piece of paper being placed in a trashcan, and it’s “permanently” deleted when that trash gets hauled away to a landfill (or supposedly recycling but that’s another topic). Technically it’s still forensically accessible, but it isn’t accessible by any normal means. That piece of paper may not have been incinerated, but for the majority of practical purposes, it’s gone.
Apple never hauled the trash away, even though they claimed they did. There should be no way for them to accidentally restore those photos, just like there’s no way for you to accidentally get a piece of paper back in your trash bin after it’s been sent to a landfill.
Focusing on the 1s and 0s skips past the fact they failed to complete the first, obvious, essential step. If they didn’t delete it the simple way, they would never have gotten to the 1s and 0s step. This isn’t just a simple oversight, and those pictures were still very easily accessible, just not to the people who should have been in control of them.
- Comment on The deepest sinkhole in Florida has a deadly secret. Here’s why you should stay away 7 months ago:
I think deepest sinkhole was already enough information
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming Thrones of Decay expansion gets huge pricing change 7 months ago:
This title and article are basically press copy from CA. The relevant bits with a side of sales bullshit:
if you don’t fancy shelling out the full £19.10 for all three factions, you can grab new bits for either Nurgle, the Empire, or the Dwarfs for £7.49. If you do buy just one to start off with - say, to get a feel for the quality of Thrones of Decay as a package - you’ll get a 15% discount on the remaining two packs in the future.
The move is the latest from developer Creative Assembly in a bid to regain trust with its community after a disappointing DLC release in Shadows of Change and a series of PR blunders.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 8 months ago:
I really hope you’re right
Also be fine if Larian just goes with Pathfinder or their own IP next time. Hasbro can fuck right off.
- Comment on Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS | Waterloo News 8 months ago:
Maybe because they’re naive enough to assume that just because they’re lying bastards they can tell when other people are.
- Comment on Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name 8 months ago:
No argument here, but it’s point of existence (besides profit) is to shield that identity. There’s no future outside of Everything Everywhere All At Once where this suit leads to a forced identity reveal. Worst case for that company is a settlement.
- Comment on Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name 8 months ago:
Hmmm, this sounds like click bait. No way a suit over authenticity is going to force an identity reveal.
–checks article
Yep, just a suit over a group responsible for verification dragging their feet.
- Comment on One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. 11 months ago:
And a much much better religion than scientology.
- Comment on Nvidia's success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you're sitting on a fortune in stock? 11 months ago:
Yep, that’s why it’s so important that people who produce value shouldn’t be able to retain it! Silly employees.
- Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users 11 months ago:
I agree those are good things to do.
But… Blaming people who are being fucked over by forces generally outside their control is not really going to help their or our situation. Expecting or demanding “people” to just change is also not realistic. Even if they wanted to, time, effort, energy, knowledge, skills, and attention are all finite. This is just one important issue or source of exploitation among a sea of others.
- Comment on A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur... 11 months ago:
Needed to make sure they didn’t have room to name the legislation.
- Comment on Who needs stars in a boring dystopia? 1 year ago:
Not to take away from anything you just said, but it’s a different thing to claim you would do something in an impossible and hypothetical scenario, than to name a currently powerful person and say you’d make them dead if you could.
- Comment on As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance 1 year ago:
There are more than two options for messaging now.
Both primary phone platforms are kinda shit though.