Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 6 days ago:
I loved UG and UG2, but honestly HP2 takes the cake for the best game, not because of the involvement but, because no other game in the series ever did the Cops system as well as it. The newer HP game was also good too, but I felt it branched off. HP2 you could just give a map, no reason for it, and spend the entire game dodging the cops the rest of them it felt like you were actively penalized for not pulling over. I loved the added challenge of running from the cops + racing
- Comment on Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted? 6 days ago:
I was always under the understanding that an account deletion deletes information, I would have thought they could just recreate the user. But I could be mistaken
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
I would be changing banks. That’s super unreasonable
- Comment on TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update 2 weeks ago:
No they are going to argue that there should have been a fail safe in place for a rapid recovery of said incident occurring in the first place.
- Comment on TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update 2 weeks ago:
Fully agreed that crowdstrike is partly responsible, however my comment was based off of Microsoft not crowdstrike. Delta stated they were going to sue both crowdstrike and Microsoft, but they didn’t actually go through with it
- Comment on TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update 2 weeks ago:
Honestly agreed, I think it’s reasonable for a company as big as Delta to have a functioning continuity plan, the fact that it took them over 5 days to come back online is Unforgivable for a service that is detrimental to society like a transportation service.
Personally speaking I think that the 500 million lawsuit should be thrown out exclusively on that. It is Delta’s inability to properly manage their company is IT services that exclusively cause this.
I’m not down playing crowdstrike here, what they did is unforgivable as well because how they manage their software completely bypassed all channels that are meant to prevent shit like this from happening, but every other system was online within two days if that, because they had proper feel safe in place to minimize damages and regain operational status.
But ultimately, crowd strikes mess up was obviously an error on their end, where Delta not having a proper procedure in place is obviously intentional as having a Disaster Recovery where you lose most of your infrastructure has been IT management 101 for years now.
- Comment on TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update 2 weeks ago:
Dude the president it would set if Delta sued Microsoft in one would be super damaging I’m glad it’s not happening
Imagine being responsible for a software that is put on A system that you developed, with you being isolated slasher move from the situation, it would be the continent owners of websites being responsible for Stuff posted all over again
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
You joke but like, they are already pushing that pretty hard already with the youtube “private sub” system that creators can do, its essentially a twitch style sub that grants you access to videos that the creator marked as a subscription only.
I forsee in the future youtube moving to a fully monetary model with only brand issued content being “free” and everything else requiring youtube premium
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
the content creator isn’t following the proper system then. You don’t need YouTube to do a copyright/IP violation claim. Google is actually opening themselves up to significantly hot water if they are indeed refusing to allow a process for DMCA on creators that are deleted off the platform, as there are severe penalties for not reacting to a DMCA claim when you are a content provider.
If they actually owned the rights to the videos, that creators first step when learning that Youtube is not going to do anything about the violation, is to manually file it themselves, and honestly they should state that Youtube at that point is intentionally allowing it and perhaps pull google into the suit as well.
just because YouTube decides that they aren’t going to do anything, doesn’t invalidate your claim to copyright. I’m surprised that the channel hasn’t seeked legal action against anyone regarding it.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
this would essentially kill my method of viewing videos on the platform, this isn’t a boost to interaction they think it will be, it will ultimately result in me watching less videos as I won’t have the ability to decipher trash from good, so I’ll just stick with content creators that I am used to and no longer branch out like I currently do.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
Hey that’s looking damn close to what mine is
- Comment on Dropping an iPhone 16 Pro vs iPhone 15 Pro Down Crazy Spiral Staircase 100 Feet - Will It Survive? 2 weeks ago:
“haha I hit x object with a hammer y times, this is the result”
I’ve never understood these videos, phones were never built to survive these niche cases. Just a waste of material and a device.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 weeks ago:
yea this is really their biggest thing here, by the time conf emails get sent everyone will lose interest lol
- Comment on Apple to settle Apple Watch defect class action for $20 million. 2 weeks ago:
Class members who make a payment selection by the response deadline will receive $20 for each relevant device they own. If there is more than $50,000 remaining in the settlement fund after all payments have been issued, class members may receive up to $50 per covered device.
that’s not that bad tbh, I got 34$ from a Sony class action based off privacy data, didn’t have to do anything but say yes I was effected
- Comment on The Club Penguin Experience got breached. 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to give him a pass on that one since they’re probably worried that their General audience will understand the word encrypted but not understand the word hashed
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 2 weeks ago:
The only Victory I see in my medium term future is leaving the country. The US is fucked and honestly I don’t see that recovering any time soon
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 2 weeks ago:
Their ice cream and McFlurry is used to be really good for the value
I say used to because they more or less butchered the McFlurry in the past 7 years they no longer have the iconic spoons they’ve removed the packaging replacing it with a slightly smaller packaging and they’ve increased the cost by about double.
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 2 weeks ago:
So far they haven’t shown any form above declined. In fact the actually just decided to separate from being an official Samsung repair partner, because Samsung was trying to dictate how much they were charging for the repair costs and were actively hinderings efforts to regarding repairing Samsung products, so they decide that Samsung wasn’t aligned with their programs values and decided to drop the program. This doesn’t mean that they dropped how to repair Samsung devices, it just means that they no longer offer second party access to Parts it’s now third party and Samsung themselves aren’t providing the repair manuals anymore (not that they really did in the first place)
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 3 weeks ago:
Right, didn’t even bother to do the bare minimum of finding out if that’s intentionally how they wanted the video or not, then even acknowledges that fact at the end of the article.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
Yea I think that’s a good compromise, I want creators to go on Bsky so its all in one place… (and I can escape the Political and ad succumbed hell that is X), RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
As a counterexample to this comment, if any of my creators switched over to an RSS feed I probably would stop getting updates from them because that’s more hassle than when I can just go to one service and see everything in one place
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
The problem with this at least in my circle of content creators is that they’re all millennials or older(no offense to millennials I’m one myself) but because of that, they either have a I’m not putting more effort into make an additional social media platform or they take their handle on blue sky but then actively participate in the mainstream Services more, neglecting BSky. I’ve only ever really seen artists use that platform so the other forms of content creation hasn’t followed
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
that and the whole “ui sucks” part of it.
I used to bSky quite a bit more than my mastodon account, it made more sense to operate and had better documentation/help
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
Just because I didn’t see a response on this one, you might have read it already in other comments but the packaging bug is a cop out. They are still intending to migrate over to the proprietary SDK, and it will eventually become a requirement for the platform. The only difference was that at the state of the project it wasn’t supposed to be a requirement in order to compile, but they do still very intently have a restrictive license on the SDK and you aren’t allowed to use the sdk outside of the project. meaning that it has to be present for the program to work and that you’re not allowed to use it in other programs.
Why they call it a packaging bug I’m not sure because the end result is the same the package is required for the program to work and that package that is required is not GPL
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
I daily try Firefox as my daily browser, maybe it’s an issue with the windows branch? I’ve never had this issue myself. On the rare occasion that that it doesn’t properly detect password field I can just right click and shows as a menu option that I can fill password fill TOTP or email, I’ve never had it just not work at all. Excluding mobile, but that’s strictly an issue with how Android does Auto filling because they can’t have the service that fights to do both and since Firefox has its own autofill service it’s a coin flip of whether or not it uses keypass or Firefox built in password manager
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat, it hasn’t been 6 years for me but like they’re pricing alone has done a pretty damn good job at making me not want to go there outside of if I’m on vacation, you for a little while were able to use their deals program to get pretty decent deals, but now even the deals suck. Likes her example currently they’re offering a buy one get one hamburger, or 40% off a cheeseburger. Not even close to an incentive to go due to their burgers starting at 2$ a burger.
At their pricing it’s better for me to order the two for 26 at Applebee’s which gets me to actual burgers of okay quality with bacon, two things of fries and an appitizer.
You wait roughly around the same time for an order of that size and you pay less plus you’re good for the next two or three meals.
Since 2019 the cost of my typical order at McDonald’s has gone from about $12, to almost 19$ its insane
- Comment on PlayStation Stars will no longer give credit for money spent on subscriptons 3 weeks ago:
mine as well, mine was off so long I needed to manually update it via flash drive to connect to the internet for some reason, I just haven’t felt the need to use it
- Comment on Postiz (v1.6.6) - open-source social media scheduling tool 3 weeks ago:
yea a that was my first thought, no bsky, no lemmy, no mastodon, like are they paying attention to the trends?
- Comment on Hey we got your pics pay up! ASAP! 1 month ago:
Photobucket did the same thing I almost lost all of my photos that I had on it from my early teenage years because I almost missed the email(I was two days from the DDay)
Basically they decided that they no longer wanted their free tier and any photos that were stored on the platform as a free tear had a certain amount of time before they would be deleted. The platform heavily tried to convince people who are on the free tier that the only way of getting their photos would be to pay for their premium tier for a month and then cancel but I was able to figure out a way to just download it it was hidden heavily in the settings behind multiple paywall triggers.
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
I’m not really sure why they say that, looking at it the UI looks pretty sleek