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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 day ago:
He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform
Don’t forget the
blatant scams calledcrypto games! He proudly announced Epic Games Store would happily sell games centered around NFTs and crypto after Valve said they wouldn’t allow it. - Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 week ago:
What’s next?
- Trumpla, the EV manufacturer?
- Trumpmart, selling nearly-rotten food at marked-up prices.
Trump Burderthis one already exists.- Trumple Inc, consumer phone dropshipper.
- Trumpazon, a marketplace where he takes a cut on all sales.
- Trump Sauna, a PC games storefront.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 week ago:
- A version of libc that has POSIX shims.
- A filesystem with reflink support.
- A consistent UI design across old and new programs.
- Dark mode that works everywhere.
- Respect for their users’ autonomy.
Need I go on?
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 week ago:
No, no. It makes perfect sense from an investment standpoint. Their actual target audience would love to be able to pay for access to that catalog.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 week ago:
Company profiting from allowing pedos to groom children enacts steps to prevent pedos from grooming children? Like that’s going to happen.
Whatever solution they come up with, I can guarantee that it “accidentally” has a loophole in it.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 week ago:
You can disable UAC (thinking practical, not necessarily security minded - but for an auto login w/o password, what’s security?)
It’s not just the UAC prompt. Any window created by an elevated process will block synthetic input events created by lower privilege processes.
Popups: yes. But then you’d need to actively use other software besides steam. Why would you do that, if using only a controller?
- Game launchers installed as part of the Steam game.
- Driver software automatically installed by Windows.
- Windows itself, sometimes.
Also that can happen in Linux, too.
It depends on your DE and configuration. In KDE with Wayland, you can set it up to strictly enforce focus stealing prevention. The way that works is essentially by only allowing another program to steal focus if it’s the result of some user interaction.
For the logoff or shutdown: Set or create
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasksto1to auto kill hanging/not ending processes automagically. Also you can useWaitToKillAppTimeoutthere to define how long windows should wait before killing the processes (in milliseconds).The fact that these are buried in the registry… thanks, though. These will be useful. I concede this point.
And regarding bitlocker after a bios update: why would you use bitlocker on such a machine (auto login on boot which would allow access to all files anyways)?
Because it’s the default that is forced onto the user.
Anyways, set or create
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BitLocker\PreventDeviceEncryptionto1to prevent bitlocker from running after an upgrade. With Pro, you could also leverage GPOs for that.Call me cynical, but I don’t think this will work forever. Microsoft has been boiling the frog with local accounts over Windows 11’s entire lifetime, at first allowing them, then hiding them, then making the bypass command only work under specific circumstances, etc.
All it takes to destroy the UX is force-enabling BitLocker exactly once, and most of the people using the device won’t know how to undo it.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
“Neither” is also an acceptable answer.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
Please fill in the blanks:
- China’s socioeconomic model is _____.
- In the Russia—Ukraine war, Russia is _____.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 week ago:
Respectfully, I’m going to have to disagree about stock Windows working fine. There are multiple places where it necessitates having a keyboard and/or mouse connected.
- Interacting with UAC prompts and other elevated-permission windows that block synthetic input events.
- When a popup hijacks focus away from the game window.
- When Steam (or other controller to mouse software) is not open, such as during the logoff screen where you sometimes have to click “Close Anyways”.
- After a BIOS update, when the TPM refuses to unlock and you need to enter the BitLocker recovery key within the pre-boot environment.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 week ago:
am still running Windows on it, but only for one reason: no first party support from SteamOS.
For the most part, it SteamOS isn’t really necessary to get a serviceable desktop gaming experience. Pick a well-supported rolling release distro or a derivative, install Steam and Proton, and games mostly just work.
It’s not perfect, but it’s usable. The only real pain point around gaming is getting HDR working properly.
Closed-source software is a different story, however. Discord’s Wayland support is basically nonexistent and the AFK detection thinks you’re always in front of the computer, suppressing mobile notifications.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 week ago:
If other hardware vendors are going to follow, they have to be using SteamOS or something similar out of the box. Handhelds can somewhat get away with using Windows because of the touch screen, but a “console” experience that occasionally requires plugging in a keyboard and mouse to get past some controller-unfriendly menu or pop-up is just going to annoy users.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 2 weeks ago:
The other reason is that I’m kinda verbose.
Some say, “why many words when few work?”
Others express their freedom to choose exactly to what extent of verbosity and verbiage they consider necessary in order to accurately and effectively communicate their previously-unspoken thoughts either through private correspondence or statements to some subset of the general populace.
- Comment on In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia 3 weeks ago:
[Citation Needed]
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 3 weeks ago:
And for that very reason, it’s also extremely illegal. If the fire exit is the only way to get out in the event of a fire, and it’s blocked by said fire…
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
Can you recommend me other (non atomic) distros that play nice with both secure boot and nvidia drivers?
I wouldn’t exactly recommend it because of the learning curve, but I have the exact setup you’re looking for working on NixOS.
Lanzaboote made it pretty easy. The downside is that you need to put secure boot into user-managed mode, and some asshole anticheats might not like that even though only Microsoft-signed executables were used in the boot chain of Windows.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
For gamers who are newcomes to Linux, Ubuntu (or Debian) should be a hard pass. Linux gaming is advancing too fast for the 2-3 year gap between LTS versions to not matter, and trying to work around the stable (outdated) packages is typically what ends up breaking installs.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
For gaming, you can’t go wrong with Bazzite. It’s meant for gaming to mostly just work out of the box, so you likely won’t need to tinker with anything.
It’s that tinkering that introduces stability risks. Adding third-party package repositories and trying to install newer software on top of older LTS distros is what tends to end up breaking them.
- Comment on Smells Great 5 weeks ago:
If the steam doesn’t get you, the enzymes breaking down your proteins would surely give you horrible skin irritation.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.
if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) { upload(chat.privateKey) }
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
DisplayPort has a +3.3V 500mA pin specifically for pushing power. In theory, great for powering an active adapter. In practice, has killed motherboards because Dell can’t design a computer for shit.
- Comment on Punch Time 1 month ago:
AI:
<Reasoning>The user wants to translate the phrase “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”. No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.
“Business Idiots” is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace “idiots” with “fools,” while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be “worker fools.”
“Let’s destroy” suggests that the speaker is a member of the “business idiots” demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be “translation jobs”. The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism “LLM” is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, “AI.” The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.
</Reasoning>Sure, here you go; a translation of “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”
AI profits for worker fools with lower skill ceiling to break into translation jobs.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another updates, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2 months ago:
To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes
In other words, explain what you’ll be doing to add censorship to your platforms.
They really could not have picked a worse demographic to try that on. Not only do online gamers despise censorship and policing, their vocal minority is known for being extremely toxic and unrelenting. The icing on the cake is that a good number of them are right-wing, too.
Have fun dealing with the shitstorm you’re about to create!
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 months ago:
No, it really is. Tankies live in a fantasy land, thinking the wildfire is greener on the other side of the fence.
Something can be said about unregulated, late-stage capitalism and American imperialism. The former is a malignant cancer that consumes all in its wake and demands infinite growth for itself and the ones who direct it. The latter, in service of the former, is a threat to the rest of the developed and undeveloped world.
Those are entirely reasonable criticisms, calling an apple an apple. Unchecked capitalism empowering sociopathic, self-serving oligarchs will kill us all.
Genuinely thinking of China as anything other than a competitor to America is just trading one leather boot for a different flavor of leather boot. They are both capitalist states, and they are both acting in their own self-interests of cultural and economic dominance. The only effective difference is that one calls itself a republic while the other calls itself communist.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 months ago:
People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.
It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 months ago:
You do realize that the original post is on lemmy.zip and not lemmygrad, right?
- Comment on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list 2 months ago:
Wow, you weren’t kidding.
- Ad: AI company.
- Our sponsors: the same AI company.
- #1: A code editor designed for AI
- Ad: Another list website.
- #2: Messaging app (no AI)
- #3: Note taking and planning software… with AI.
- #4: Screen recording software (no AI)
- #5: Visual Studio Code extension for using AI to write internal tooling.
- #6: Project management software (no AI?)
- #7: A web interface for using AI models.
- #8: A note-taking app (no AI)
- #9: AI-based workflow automation software.
- #10: Yet another AI code editor.
- #11: A bookmark manager… with AI.
- #12: A collaboration software suite (no AI)
- #13: A different note-taking app (no AI)
- #14: AI-powered social media management.
- #15: AI personal assistant.
- #16: Markdown-based wiki software (no AI)
- #17: Rich text wiki software (no AI)
- #18: A third note-taking app (no AI)
- #19: A LLM interface.
- #20: AI-powered personal finance tool.
Over half of the first 20 items focus on AI, and that’s not even considering the ads.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 2 months ago:
They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn’t going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I had the same experience. It’s regrettable how desensitized to violence I am these days.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
he was a master of deflection.
With words, maybe. With lead, evidently not.