purplemonkeymad
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- Comment on Back 4 Blood gets Denuvo Anti-tamper removed and an anti-cheat fix for Steam Deck 7 hours ago:
Strangely player numbers are up. Usually when you see it drop to 3 figures it won’t go back.
- Comment on These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower 2 days ago:
It’s insanely hard compared to the first (only 12 people finished that one.) I think it’s nice that the streamers cheer eachother on, normal races can make it competitive but everyone knows that they can fail that same jump just as easily.
I was not expecting it to last quite this long tho.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 2 days ago:
Sure, but that term does not violate the first amendment since the government didn’t stop you from saying it, so would hold up. You might be able to get it thrown out due to something else, you would need a lawyer for that.
That contract will have penalties for violations, and those are what you would be subject to if in violation.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 2 days ago:
You are aware that first amendment protects speech from government actions/bodies only. It’s not something you can use against a private business (there are other laws for discrimination.)
- Comment on Microsoft Edge experiment blocks access to settings if Windows 11 is not activated 1 week ago:
Oh the fun of recovering windows xp to new hardware!
“Sorry you have had the install for too long so it must be activated.”
Ok but I need to install new drivers for the network card, can I do that so I can activate.
“No fix, only activate.”
Was fine until they turned both internet and phone activation off.
- Comment on Reverse proxy 1 week ago:
It depends where you want the complexity.
Since ssh is a layer4 tunnel if you don’t run a proxy on your home box, you’ll need a new network connection for each service, if you are fine with that, I would set it up only on the VPS. This means if the tunnel goes down, you should at least get 502 error rather than a timeout or connection refused.
Alternatively you could forward 80, 443 to a proxy service on the home server. That would require two ports for the ssh.
You can drop it to a single ssh connection by having a proxy on both and just have the VPS proxy Http and https to the same port on the home server.
- Comment on If we took material like rock from space and got it back to Earth enough times, would Earth grow as a planet? 2 weeks ago:
Energy don’t have weight but, it does have an effect on the curvature of space the same way matter does. In fact one of the proposed methods to create artificial blackholes is to put enough photons into the same place. It’s easier than getting matter together as photons don’t interact with eachother.
However the point is correct that light energy will only impart an insignificant amount to the earth’s pull.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
If I paid for starfield I would have felt annoyed about it. Played it on game pass so probably spent half price or less on the subscription time. It was fine, but not full price fine.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”
I turn this off anyway, as in Windows 10 it always kept pushing 3rd party apps. Is this ad any different to the Windows 10 “Suggested App” that was in the start menu for it?
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 4 weeks ago:
For years people have known it can’t be upgraded. You know that going in.
Not sure that is true, lots of people see the marketing for a MacBook and think that any of them will be enough. Or see the price difference and think they are getting a good deal, or don’t understand why that is. I’ve had to tell people, sorry I know you spent a lot of money on this, but it does not have the storage for what you are wanting to do. Yes, the only way is to buy another one.
Otherwise yea, everyone tries to gaslight customers into thinking they didn’t get ripped off.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 2 months ago:
Aka people who just plugged it in and left it as long as it works. These are not the kind of people who would have done anything if informed that they had an issue. On one hand I don’t like the idea of governments fixing private property, but they were never going to be fixed by the owner.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 2 months ago:
My reason for not using them is that they tend to be overly aggressive in what they remove. I only need a few reg tweaks and denying permissions on a few files. These often go whole hog and remove whole components, almost all apps etc. I actually use one drive, I don’t want its files also removed.
- Comment on Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows 2 months ago:
Ok, so yea just a “better” version of runas. I can see it being a bit easier when you just need to do the one thing as admin, but overall just opening an admin windows is still going to be the best way.
I don’t really think the security issues makes it worth enabling.
- Comment on It's not DNS 2 months ago:
For real, I’ve had problems where I specifically checked if it was DNS, concluded it was not, but it still turned out to be DNS.
- Comment on Joining a QNAP to a AD Domain. 2 months ago:
Last time I did this domain accounts needed to include their domain/upn to logon, so there won’t be any account confusion. However if they were accessing the nas from a domain joined machine, it would use Kerberos anyway so shouldn’t be getting prompted to logon. Obviously that is only for SMB shares, other connection types didn’t use Kerberos.
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 3 months ago:
Sounds like they are better off that way. Anyone who thinks that is important is probably not worth it.
- Comment on Why docker 3 months ago:
For real, at the minimum use a virtual machine.
- Comment on git commit -m "hotfix" 5 months ago:
I’m sure that commit will be fixed in sort order and not remain that way until it becomes a “we don’t know why, but just do this bit.”
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
I’m surprised it wasn’t showing ads before. The fire tablets are discounted if they show ads on the lock screen.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Tbh listen to all of supergiant’s soundtracks. They always hit it out of the park.
- Comment on abandonware empires 5 months ago:
Look for usb floppy emulators, you can have the floppy images in a usb flash drive. No moving parts or need to find expensive floppies.
- Comment on "Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn 6 months ago:
Do not track is the default position. However websites really want to track you. They choose to gate their website behind that popup.
Remember you can follow gdpr without these popups on your website.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 6 months ago:
There is literally prior art from him in this regard. He just decided to call it a payment processor so he did not have to do all that bit about it being other people’s money.
- Comment on They tried 8 months ago:
I think you report to your nation’s Data Protection Centre, each member has their own that takes the reports. If I was still in the EU I would have put more time into finding out how reports work.
- Comment on They tried 8 months ago:
IIRC the EU also ruled that burying the rejection options under additional links counts as a violation. Hence why Google now has a Reject button next to the accept button. Most sites still do that.
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 8 months ago:
Considering how many startrek memes I see on lemmy, I’m surprised this was the original meme.