Evilcoleslaw
@Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Last time I disabled an ad blocker to try it on desktop, I was getting scammy looking product ads. On my phone if I browse Shorts (revanced does stop those ads) it’s all straight-up financial/health benefits scams.
But the other night I accidentally opened the 1st party YouTube app on my TV instead of Smart Tube Next and the ads were for big brands. So there’s probably a different level of desirability based on content type and device type at play.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Depends on the content. I think for normal videos they get a little bit of a say. But I know one guy who does YT and he live streams and has to clean up every VOD because they just randomly pepper ads all throughout.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
On rare occasions YouTube will play exceptionally long videos as ads. When YouTube Red came out I got multiple entire hours long shows as ads (as a “free preview!”) I’m pretty sure Ive gotten one of the movies they put up for free viewing as an ad before.
Obviously you can skip after 5 seconds or whatever but they hope to catch someone playing stuff in the background. Probably to increase their crappy view count for those features to sell actual ads later.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Those issues are ones that it’s hard to just walk back with a mea culpa, especially when the apology comes precisely when it starts to impact your career.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
It is, it’s deadline is just a little farther out.
- Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades 2 months ago:
They were paying for its development for about a year and a half.
- Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades 2 months ago:
The Apex Legends hacking situation was unrelated to the anti-cheat despite initial reports. It didn’t stop the hack but it also wasn’t the vector for the attacks.
Genshin Impact’s anti-cheat however was an unmitigated disaster.
- Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades 2 months ago:
ZLUDA was an open source translation layer for CUDA. So basically developers could take code from projects written for Nvidia’s CUDA and use ZLUDA to run them on other hardware. Originally the dev was focused on Intel but AMD started paying him and he focused on AMD hardware. They stopped funding him earlier in the year and now it appears AMD legal has gone back on their earlier permission for him to keep distributing the code.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Has the same SoC as the new $100 Google box as well.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
It’s also built with the same SoC as Walmart’s Google TV box that sells for $50.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
This $100 box from Google runs on the same SoC as the $50 streaming box from Onn (Walmart). The only major differences are the Google box as 4GB of RAM vs 3GB, a 1Gb Ethernet port instead of 100Mb (both have WiFi 6), and the Google box has a USB Type C port for power/data and would need an OTG adapter/hub while the Onn box has a Type A and a barrel plug for power.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
It’s also twice the price of the Onn 4k Pro (Walmart house brand) that’s built on the same chip and has the same features running the stock Google TV experience.
- Comment on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled 3 months ago:
It’s just one
bananaglobal computer outage, Michael. How much could it cost – $10? - Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
And it’s not much more difficult to fix on Windows, except for the scale of the problem.
- Comment on Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC 3 months ago:
Also even if I had the space on my OneDrive (and I’ve even got 30GB thanks to some promotions from the Windows Phone days) my upload speed is dogshit slow and I don’t want to think about how long it would take me to upload the 70GB it wants to backup.
- Comment on What are the best Ublock Origin settings for Android? 4 months ago:
In addition to a lot of the default/optional lists built-in to uBO, I’ve found the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter to really help get rid of crappy paywalls, even without the accompanying userscript.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Mozilla gad the same problem with h.264 until Cisco allowed them to use openh264 and ate any associated licensing costs. Just from a cursory glance, HEVC licensing seems much more of a clusterfuck.
- Comment on FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register 4 months ago:
It’ll work without a valid provider or without a SIM at all. As long as it has battery and can pick up any network’s signal.
- Comment on Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives 4 months ago:
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
Nah it didn’t have an extra chip – but large portions of the game were written in microcode for the N64’s processor specifically. It’s part of what makes it and Rogue Squadron kind of a pain to emulate – along with using their own audio drivers (MoSYS/MusyX that were later used as the basis for the GameCube sound systems).
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 5 months ago:
In Geekbench, yes. From other reporting I’ve seen the major improvements here are from Scalable Matrix Extensions being on the M4, which Geekbench supports. Real world performance of which would be limited to certain scenarios and require application support for SME.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 6 months ago:
I don’t use it much on the desktop but when I do just the normal web interface. On Android I use Boost, because that’s what I used previous to Lemmy.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 months ago:
HTC had Blinkfeed for a while which was kind of similar to People Hub. It probably wouldn’t even be feasible these days as so many services have put their APIs behind paywalls.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 months ago:
I’ve been running Launcher 10 on Android for a long while now. Replicates the tile interface and app list/drawer. I think it has ads with an IAP to disable them and another IAP for Live Tiles support.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 months ago:
Yeah, but the 3G networks are pretty much all gone, and iirc even the 4G reboots didn’t support a ton of LTE bands.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 months ago:
They put out 3G and 4G models of the 3210 and 8110 in 2017 and 2018. But yeah it’s probably time to refresh as most of the 3G networks have been sunsetted.
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 6 months ago:
Like someone else said, Lifeline is still a thing. For mobile phone plans it isn’t quite as good as the old Lifeline + ACP combo where some were offering Unlimited minutes, text and data. Most are 500-1000 minutes, unlimited text, 4-5GB data.
You have to be on SNAP, Medicaid, or some other federal programs OR meet the income requirements. If you sign up online now they kick you over to a National Verification site to check your eligibility. It’s pretty quick and painless. Then you’ll get a free (shitty) phone, or a SIM card on some that do BYOP.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 6 months ago:
My ISP announced a $30 monthly credit if it should expire, for an indefinite amount of time (until further notice, essentially). The only condition is not letting your bill get past due at all. Kinda telling how much margin they must have had and how inflated their prices are.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
It wasn’t so much the lack of SSDs. Vista had much higher memory requirements than XP. At the time, OEMs were still regularly shipping systems with sub-1GB RAM installed. Those OEMs put pressure on Microsoft to change the Vista- Ready certification requirements to include their shitty builds that couldn’t really run Vista.
In addition, dual core machines were only just coming to market, so there were a ton of systems with single core CPUs. Plus, with the changes to several driver models and some of the verification requirements (sound, graphics, needing to provide x64 drivers to get verified) from XP to Vista many vendors decided to EOL their products instead of write new drivers. I know many sound cards were EOL that were literally still on store shelves.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 6 months ago:
I don’t know much about security stuff, but I feel like older systems falling from popularity are not the usual targets of people who write them, and encountering one using an outdated OS would probably mean nothing since exploits they want to abuse aren’t there yet.
The issues that are going to be the problem eventually are vulnerabilities that affect both new and old versions of Windows. The new versions will get the patch, but 7 won’t. And it still might be worth exploiting to hit the machines with the newer version that don’t update quickly or at all.