purplemonkeymad

@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t often see people making the mistake that way around. I mostly saw people not realising that the outer wilds was a different game to the outer worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The protection of dismissing the update dialogue because it appears at start up, which is when I need to get something done. I guess I’ll just manually update it from now on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Around a year ago WhatsApp had large ads that just said “no one else can read your messages.” I don’t think most people thought that some one could, which makes me wonder why they were paying so much to say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I do find that often there is no bandcamp page, or it’s 5 years old with no new albums. In those cases my next check is qobiz as they tend to have more large artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That will never happen unless CEOs can actually explain what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The basic stats I can see are the prompt count, number of active days, and last active date. By default reports are anonymised but that can be turned off by the admin.

  Iirc paid licenses let you do data purview searches on prompts. But I can’t see that in my one as we only use the basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do ever end up in that situation again, (or someone else is,) you can download the notebook by moving it into a folder in OneDrive. Then go to the web and use the option to download the folder. That will zip up the folder, with the real one drive files inside.

  You’ll still need to find an app to import them into your new note taker though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today in “Google Broke Email”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He needs to use a mta that supports arc sealing and setup his Google workspace to accept the arc from his server. Pretty sure Google also supports connectors for email so he could even just have Google accept all emails from his ip. I suspect he is cheaping out and doesn’t want to pay Google for a business grade service.

  I don’t care what he did in the past, it is obvious he is not an up-to-date email admin. Using free consumer accounts as your primary email, is not a defendable position for anyone other than the self employed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can believe it, on my music profile there is consistently a video in the first 6 items on the home feed that is an ai generated 2 hour stream of one genre mashup. (With a fake ai woman as the thumbnail.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know for sure all the ai companies are on that torrent. Expect new music models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I’m sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won’t take too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, have they changed the shape of her face?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get carried away with the corn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So is now the future in that meme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just hoping the front doesn’t fall off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced this is the reason for the Imgur block. They were asked by the UK about how they processed the data for minors at the start of the year. They refused to provide it, and were then fined. When the age check was implemented I think they used that as an excuse to block the UK, so they “weren’t operating in it” and didn’t need to answer the questions.

  The UK gov disagrees with that and is planning more legal action iirc.

  If they had done the block without that law, people would be asking why they were not revealing how they process data of minors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used ublockorigin to block the container for shorts and news. Much better, also set up a redirector that changes shorts URLs into the normal yt format, so that you don’t pulled into that feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this tells me that EGS is going to be pushing lots of ai developed games without any disclosure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed this was due to the bandwidth of interfaces at the time. It would be to much for the hardware decoder to copy the output back for compositing. Thus the card rendered directly onto a mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! We can get (almost) a whole year of using it with Exchange Online before EWS is turned off!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw someone get an ad for the new phone as a notification on their current one. They had never had a notification from Samsung like that before. At that point I knew they would build in advertising for all their other products in to the products.

  I have never bought a Samsung device since. Some people I know live them, but it put me off so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that white deck going to be an official colour or is it them just showing of custom cases? They also sneaked in a translucent case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many services require email configuration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you have a proper clean IP, running a mail server is a hassle imo. By far having a single relay to send is fine if you get things set right, but also dealing with incoming spam is just way more work than paying to have it hosted.

  I much prefer paying for email hosting and just dealing with outgoing emails if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably unrelated, domain spoofing is common, but miss-configured mail servers will accept those emails and process auto replies. They can also abuse input forms to try and send out emails, but that typically does not have much control over content.

  If you are getting more emails than you can deal with, than can be used to try and mask other emails by burying them in a large email volume. In that case you should be looking for emails from important accounts you do own (eg banking.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will not follow legal requirements, faith school tells Ofsted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t read it: it’s sex education that a Jewish orthodox school is refusing to teach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this picture has 4 to 8 times the number of pixels I remember from the fmvs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind hated whenever i was looking at solutions to running pc game pass games on my steam deck, everyone was like: “install edge it works on Linux, that will let you stream the game.”

  Like, that was not what I was looking for. It also required you to go to a higher tier of sub.

  Both happy and sad that I already canceled it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they ever said they plan to require it for Windows Pro or above skus. It’s only home (you know the one business shouldn’t be using anyway) that they said they wanted to enforce it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for the current sale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked mad max, and if you enjoy the volition open world format you’ll like them game. For that pice though it’s probably worth it if you only play the first few hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for the current sale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think having played shapes.io to completion, it didn’t feel like the progress was any different in 2. Just more of the same, made it harder to get into for me I think. Also the new mechanics (other than layers) feel far away during the first save.