Dremor
@Dremor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 week ago:
The day it happen we’ll just have to defederate them, which other social networks can’t.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 1 week ago:
A really strange way to hide the free game, for sure 😅.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
If you like creature collector games, Cassette Beasts is the best one I played so far.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 1 week ago:
Well, now that everyone who want to play day one bought it, the only remaining market are !patientgamers@lemmy.world that are waiting for a sale to buy it.
And considering it is on the game pass, 4.4 million is quite good.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 weeks ago:
This.
I use my own email domains for more than a decade, the only time I got blocked was because the website didn’t allow “.dev” domains yet (it was very recent at that time). But my .info goes everywhere.
- Comment on New moderator for this community! 2 weeks ago:
That’s indeed what we asked to do next time for big events. Bit when no such big event occurs, it’s OK.
In my opinion, the following trailers are acceptable :
- Announcement of a new game -> so we can start talking about that game
- Announcement of end of early access or of game release (like Hades 2 recently) -> So we can talk about the game at its release state
- Major update of updates of a game (as soon as it isn’t too often) -> So we can discuss how that specific update make that game evolve, for better or worse. I’d honestly still prefer those one to be kept to their dedicated communities, but one from time to time won’t kill anyone.
Globally, that’s also a way to advertise dedicated communities for that specific game, so I think that’s alright.
We’ll discuss all of this with the incoming community rules update.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Incredibly cursed. Who asked for this.
Their shareholders, I suppose.
- Comment on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co's "Most Popular" list 2 weeks ago:
Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that one is not an ad in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list 2 weeks ago:
Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that’s not an ad in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 weeks ago:
Not exactly. It would mean it isn’t better than humans, so the only real metric for adopting it or not would be the cost. And considering it would require a human to review the code and fix the bugs anyway, I’m not sure the ROI would be that good in such case. If it was like, twice as good as an average developer, the ROI would be far better.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 weeks ago:
Writing 90% of the code, and 90% of the bugs.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Connecticut do have a D in it: mine.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 2 weeks ago:
Not for all use cases, but for most it is.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
Hell no. I’m well aware it is a good audio brand (german I think, but may be mistaken)
What I wanted to say here is that I prefer an objective good quality product, adapted to my needs, to a brand name. Even well known brands sometimes make bad products.
As an example, I have a Sony WH-1000XM3. But if I’d be interested in an XM4, there is no way in hell I’d buy an XM5, because of some shitty choices they took (no more foldable design, forced adaptative ANC). Maybe the XM6 will end up of interest to me, I did not yet check its specs, but considering I recently changed my current XM3 battery, I won’t be back on the market until the XM7 or XM8.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
I trust in independent reviews, reproducible tests and hard numbers, not in brand cultivated images and subjective choices. I don’t care if it comes for Audeze, Sony, or a Chinese Knockoff, numbers doesn’t lie.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot of very good Bluetooth headphones from Bose, Sony, and the like. If you take a look at lab tests, most of lf them got a frequency response pretty close to the ideal curve, and ANC helps a lot to isolate outside noises that would drown out the music on wired headphones.
But I do agree about choice, just not on the blind refusal of using USB-C adapters. That’s unfortunate that they removed it, but it has some good reasons. A headphone jack wasn’t made to be waterproof, and if some managed to make some of them waterproof-ish, it is often by enclosing it into its own little sub-enclosure, with a good short-circuit protection (because even a tiny water drop in there mean a short), both of which takes place.
Same goes for the DAC, we got so far into miniaturizing it, and inside interferences are so high now with new technologies, it probably wouldn’t be viable anymore to have it inside the phone itself. Even larger device, like the Steam Deck, have problems preventing interferences on the headphones jack, so that must be an even bigger problem on something as tinny as a phone 😅 - Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
A replaceable usb-c port is great too. My previous Nokia 8.1 died because of that, and my previous FP5 needed a replacement after 2 years of use.
But I agree that Fairphone have work to do on waterproofing their phones. It was hard with the previous hand removable back panel, but now that they added screws to the back panel, it wouldn’t be that much of a a stretch to add some o-rings to further waterproof it. I’m sure they could get it to IP66 rather easily, maybe IP67 with a little more work.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
They have to be user removable, not hot-removable. Take a FP6 as an example, you have to remove a couple of screw to get to it, then another couple to remove it. What are forbidden will be glued batteries and back panels.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
they are cable-less, thus need to be charged separatel
If you wish for ANC you’ll need a battery anyway, and most people do want ANC these days
they are cable-less, thus it is easier to lose them
I’m loosing my wired headphone far more often, for a simple reason: them having a battery allows me to make them beep, given they are near, of course.
bluetooth implementation is a potential security vulnerability
Sure, and so are wired headphone as they act as an antenna, broadcasting to anyone with an appropriate receptor anything you say and/or hear.
As for the implementation vulnerabilities, at least it can be patched.transmission by radio will always be less energy efficient than transmission by wire
Sure, but is it that much of a problem? It would take years (if not decades) of constant listening to even use a dollar of electricity for wireless headphones. Even if you factor the data transmission from the phone into that.
And wired headphone are not energy neutral either. They works by pulling energy from the phone battery.I prefer the wireless headphones ease of use to headphone I have to untangle every time I want to use them. I keep my wired ones for home uses.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 weeks ago:
Removable batteries are coming back, as they become mandatory in the EU in 2027. Or you can already get one with a Fairphone (which also has SD card slot). As for the headphone jack, I’m afraid it won’t come back. Bluetooth alternative es are far better these days, and good adapters (like Apple one) are barely more than $10.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 4 weeks ago:
“Treated” means thesolids and good that may have been a problem has been removed. It is mostly water, a lot a fecal bacteries, and diverse dissolved chemical that wasn’t removed.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Especially since the Steam Deck and derivatives mostly killed that niche market.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Nowhere in the press release and he claim to be an industry first on swappable mobile GPU, and the title imply that the “industry first” is to have a swappable RTX5070M, which may be correct, especially depending on your definition of “swappable”.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Same here, but the performances are abysmal on the Deck (15-20 fps on low), and crashes on every map changes. I’m gonna wait next week to see if it goes better with the first few fixes, and then I’ll chose if I refund it or not.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 5 weeks ago:
Fair point. I do agree with the “clic to execute challenge” approach.
For the terminal browser, it has more to do with it not respecting web standard than Anubis not working on it.
As for old hardware, I do agree that a temporization could be good idea, if it wasn’t so easy to circumvent. In such case bots would just wait in the background and resume once the timer is fullified, which would vastly decrease Anubis effectiveness as they don’t uses much power to do so. There isn’t really much that can be done here.
As for the CUDA solution, that will depend on the implemented hash algorithm. Some of them (like the one used by Monero) are made to vastly more inefficient on GPU than it is on the CPU. Moreover, GPU servers are far more expensive yo run than CPU ones, so the result would be the same : crawling would be more expensive.
In any case, the best solution would be by far to make it a legal requirement to respect robot.txt, but for now the legislators prefer to look the other way.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 5 weeks ago:
To solve it or not do not change that they have to use more resources for crawling, which is the objective here. And by contrast, the website sees a lot less load compared to before the use of Anubis. In any case, I see it as a win.
But despite that, it has its detractors, like any solution that becomes popular.
But let’s be honest, what are the arguments against it?
It takes a bit longer to access for the first time? Sure, but that’s not like you have to click anything or write anything.
It executes foreign code on your machine? Literally 90% of the web does these days. Just disable JavaScript to see how many website is still functional. I’d be surprised if even a handful does.The only people having any advantages at not having Anubis are web crawler, be it ai bots, indexing bots, or script kiddies trying to find a vulnerable target.
