purplemonkeymad
@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 4 days ago:
They no longer require authy for time based codes, so I would update to use an authenticator app when you next get in.
- Comment on Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day 2 weeks ago:
Iirc there was a previous attempt to patch this, it would appear a slight variation was not fixed in the patch. Might be why people are saying zero day.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Something simple that people would ask why you want it. Also needs to be non-aggressive. Like non-content traffic. Why would you want something that is not the content?
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 5 weeks ago:
So is this the reason that I see massive full page ads saying that WhatsApp is secure? They are worried that introducing ai will make everyone worried it can read all the messages? Or is it that just that they now have a way to read your messages?
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 5 weeks ago:
It’s probably all still in litigation. A big defensive for legal challenges such as this is to prespone as much as possible to run out funds for the claiment.
- Comment on How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way 1 month ago:
Depends on the drive. Glass or other ceramics were used at some point, but anything that is not magnetic should work. As long as it can be made completely flat and will withstand the spin speed.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 month ago:
I’ll give them props that they are going to refund owners for the bit they can, I would have expected most stores so to go “oh well! we have been ordered to remove it, sucks to be you.”
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 1 month ago:
The printed sheets on the wall looks a bit too good as well.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 1 month ago:
Saving it for what? If they are not using it anyway it’s not going to get used later either.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 2 months ago:
Hey it’s getting better! They recently worked hard for months to add the very niche and almost never used feature of adding a shared mailbox’s folder to your favourites! I mean, with features like that you should expect the dev time to be long.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months ago:
Actually looks like an anti removal screw. The inner edges of the plus are sloped, but only in the direction to unscrew.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 2 months ago:
Thanks, and added.
Although it would have been nice if I could “upgrade” from email based 2step instead of having to disable it.
- Comment on Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell 2 months ago:
I always use info@ and then whatever domain I’m visiting. If they want to send emails to it, then they best be putting up with it themselves.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 months ago:
I don’t think that many people want to buy Windows Enterprise, which they typically want you to also buy a support contract for.
Unless you pirated it, but I don’t think telling people to “just run this pirate code” is that good of an idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Perhaps she only used an extra core, GB or so on her friends’ servers?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Was the auto complete in visual studio not a “trained” set before the llm craze kicked off? Would not surprise me if they decided to include that.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 3 months ago:
Ui team probably not connected to milage cheating team. This is the kind of thing you can’t do test cases for, so unexpected “bugs” will get out.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 3 months ago:
Coming from a technical side, I don’t think that would be difficult. It’s not like you would have to hand control of the subdomain over to them, DNS verification codes can just be given to those who’s control the domain, they are public information. But that’s just my opinion.
Thanks for the info.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 3 months ago:
I thought that was the point of the domain verification for your handle? That way you can be verified as you have the same handle as your official website or business.
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 3 months ago:
No, no ,no. You roll out a wildly overreaching implementation so everyone one is upset, that way you can release a just mostly overreaching version and everyone thinks it’s better than what you tried last time.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 months ago:
PC for the Game, Laptop for Satisfactory Modeller, tablet for wiki, and a paper notepad and pen for writing down numbers.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 months ago:
The one that I think more people misunderstand is temperature Vs heat Vs something feeling hot/cold. One is a property, one is energy, and the other is the transfer of energy.
- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 4 months ago:
Was it not part of the entertainment pack? I do remember spending so long on it and just never getting past one of the levels, turns out there was a platform that required a spring to get to.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 5 months ago:
We swapped out a gas for induction, it’s amazing to be able to put the temp down below very hot. Also very responsive to power changes, and can wipe clean.
- Comment on Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means 5 months ago:
Office is not supported on those platforms at all so won’t make a difference to your support.
- Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over 5 months ago:
Use parameters, that way data and queries are separate.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 5 months ago:
I still use the full screen tab groups feature that they removed from the core. I don’t like scrolling tabs, so I can just hit a button and click on the exact tab I want. I do probably have too many tabs open tbh.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 5 months ago:
I never had a blackberry, but gained a hatred of them. Not for anything the phone was, but at how bad at software they were. The blackberry software to allow them to read emails from the company mail server was an over bloated, buggy and slow POS. It would forever break and the solution was always to remove and re-add it which would take a day and disrupt email for everyone.
But some CEO “needed” to use a blackberry as it looked corporate.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 5 months ago:
* Something breaks *
Why do we have all these IT people? Nothing works!