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- Comment on Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed 5 days ago:
EpicMegaGames was legit back in the 90’s, regardless of what a slimy, backwards, CEO Tim is today.
- Comment on Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative with Docker (imgcompress 5 days ago:
This may just be a usecase thing, but what is the advantage of this over imagemagick? I can already
magick photo1.jpg -resize 50% photo1.pngand when the process ends it’s not constantly using resources in a webserver. - Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I also bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago, but I’ve migrated to Jellyfin because Plex is no longer a trustworthy project.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When you turn it on it boots to a controller friendly UI that shows you all your steam games. No setup, no hunting for drivers, no bloat.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 2 weeks ago:
you’d be surprised how cheap a politician can be
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 month ago:
“Now pay us lots of money and we’ll give you more genius insights”
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
Evil has no birthplace, it has always existed in all people. Evil was there long before ‘The West’ or ‘Middle East’ were things. Religions don’t cause evil or intolerance, but some religions can be easily used to justify stoning gay people to death, or killing women for daring to be independant. If the bible didn’t command that gay people be murdered, or if Islam didn’t command that apostates be slain, it would be much harder to justify these evil acts. This isn’t a problem of religion, it’s a problem of cultures that take their religion too seriously.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 2 months ago:
You could also buy CDs and rip them
- Comment on Summoning Circle 3 months ago:
Then they’d be sandwitches
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 months ago:
They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 3 months ago:
If you have lots of jpgs you can losslessly reencode them to jpegxl and make them ~20-30% smaller (or absolutely shrink them with barely any noticable quality loss)
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 3 months ago:
Asking an llm isn’t research, he might as well have been consulting a magic 8 ball.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 months ago:
Half Life came out in 1998 (27 years ago) and this post is from 2003 (22 years ago). Half Life is retro gaming.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 4 months ago:
All I see is *******?
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
I haven’t cited any laws or said what they did was wrong, just that the government doesn’t like having its toys broken. Absolutely setting fire to a nazi train may be the morally correct thing to do, but you can still understand the nazis not being happy about it: these aren’t mutually exclusive propositions.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
I think the better question is ‘Does what they did justify them being classed as terrorists’ rather than ‘Were they entrapped by government agents’.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
Jet engines may react poorly with paint in the intakes. Those aircraft will need to be inspected and possibly repaired/maintained before they are allowed in the air again. That is sabotage.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
It’s not even really a Labour issue, support for Israel has been a long standing policy (partly because the UK was largely responsible for the creation of Israel back in the 1920s) and the motion to proscribe Palestine Action was broadly supported by every party. Regardless of the morality it was completely obvious and expected that breaking into a military base and damaging expensive aircraft was going to have consequences.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
‘Palestine Action’ definitely refers to the group, otherwise you’d just put ‘Palestine’. I don’t think they did this to protest ant-terrorism laws, they’ve been very focused on targeting the genocide in Palestine so starting a new off-topic fight wouldn’t make sense for them.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
I don’t think there’s any need for false flag conspiracy theories. Palestine Action took credit for breaking into Brize Norton. I can only assume they thought it would generate enough attention to be worth the risk.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
It certainly made proscribing them an easy sell; you won’t find many people who think it’s unreasonable of the government to take a dim view of sabotage.
Hopefully it won’t distract too much from the bigger story of almost everyone apart from the government taking a dim view of genocide.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 months ago:
It’s a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren’t their biggest fans.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 5 months ago:
If it helps, etymonline has them the other way around with ‘golly’ being a mild oath for god and ‘gollywog’ not having a definitive link.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 months ago:
Yes this is a small(ish) offline deepseek model
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 months ago:
- Comment on What a mess 5 months ago:
But they’re propping up the mattress!
- Comment on Definitions 5 months ago:
Circumnavigated
- Comment on No we can talk here 6 months ago:
Carpe Jugulum has vampires who ‘reform’ and integrate into society (but I won’t spoil anything else)
- Comment on Did you know? 6 months ago:
Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense
