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- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 1 day 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' 1 day 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 days 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 5 days 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... 5 days 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 6 days ago:
I had the same experience. It’s regrettable how desensitized to violence I am these days.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
he was a master of deflection.
With words, maybe. With lead, evidently not.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 1 week ago:
Frankly insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars that can be trivially stolen like this.
The governments should be, too.
Instead, some countries are taking the approach of banning Flipper Zeros or restricting their sale instead. That’s like outlawing flathead screwdrivers because you can use them to pop improperly-installed doors off of their hinges.
It’s on the car manufacturers to fix their poor security, not on tool suppliers to not make tools.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Worst bossrun so far was probably the judge which was only like 2 screens when you think about it.
I found that run back to be infuriating at first, but it quickly stopped mattering once I realized that you don’t need to kill everything on the path over and are for the most part better off just running past the enemies.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.
There’s one trap actually is pretty strong if you know how to abuse it.
I’m not going to spoil where or how to get it, but flying beetles that home in on the enemy and repeatedly bump into it to deal damage can be pretty busted… especially when they still attack during phase change animations that stop the player from moving.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 5 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to South Park’s S27E01 episode.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 weeks ago:
I think we all know the answer to this.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 1 month ago:
As much as shitting on Nintendo is deserved, the Tegra X1 is only a 10 year old chip, being first announced in 2015. It was, surprisingly, only two years outdated by the time the Switch was released.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 month ago:
At least in the US, it’s full of regulatory red tape that was designed to pull up the ladder behind the current large payment processors.
Even Musk and his ample bribe money, under the most corrupt administration in decades, hasn’t managed to get full approval for his “
XTwitter Money” payment service. - Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
Are you saying you don’t use The Google anymore? But how do you find all of your baking recipes?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
Who’s going to win?
SELinux+Seccomp+Containers…
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.Neither! It’s whichever script kiddie that gets lucky first.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 1 month ago:
Tea was storing its users’ sensitive information on Firebase, a Google-owned backend cloud storage and computing service.
Every time. With startups, it’s always an unsecured Firebase or S3 bucket.
- Comment on Hand cranked and twisted 1 month ago:
Of course. The surgery isn’t free, you know…
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
Protesting against christofascists in the government isn’t mutually exclusive with protesting a christofascist censorship organization. You can protest two things at once, you know.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 month ago:
If we’re adding “runs from people trying to ask them questions”, we should be more accurate about it.
runs from people trying to ask them questions, calling them plants put there by political opponents
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 month ago:
Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike.
That’s real fucking rich coming from the government that:
- Removed all references to “trans-” regardless of context.
- Retaliates against left-leaning press.
- Calls information they dislike “fake news”.
- Sends immigrants to concentration camps.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Aside from anticheat BS, Linux has come pretty far. It’s not perfect, but it’s not the frustrating mess like it used to be half a decade ago.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Switching to TempleOS made me hear the voices again.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 month ago:
2: Yes. youtu.be/DEflTJjtn5w
- Comment on the living dead 1 month ago:
Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.
That didn’t work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It’s more accurate to say that the average person doesn’t desire a power structure but merely tolerates it. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I agree with you on that.
If discoverability was better, I’m sure Android would way get more ports of good games. With the way it is right now with shovelware and Google pushing microtransaction-riddled crap over one time purchase games, though, it’s treated as a second-class platform because it’s not nearly as profitable as other platforms.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Which part of my comment was denigrating indie devs? Indie games are great. Android gaming is not.
If I’m looking for a good non-mobile game, I don’t go looking in the mobile game store. I go looking on PSN or PC, where the focus is on the kind of game that wasn’t designed as a phone-first experience.
The fact that Android has some good traditional games or ports of indie gems isn’t something inherent to Android. The overwhelming majority of thoee games were on PC or console first.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Oh, there’s no doubt about that. I’m not disagreeing that Android has some good-looking games. The problem is that games like GRID Legends Mobile are the exception, not the rule.
The Switch is crap, yes.
The Play Store is also overwhelmingly crap, though.If you exclude all of the mobile games from both stores, the Switch simply has a better catalog of games.