Xatolos
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- D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last weekwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 9 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 37 comments
- Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.com ↗Submitted 15 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 1 day ago:
Chromium is being used in 70% of browsers
To me, I don’t think that should be an issue in anything. That’s up to browser makers. They are able to use whatever they want, and they will use whatever is easiest/best for their usage. They are also free to use WebKit (Safari’s engine), Gecko (Mozilla), or roll their own. This just sounds like you want to punish someone because they made something everyone preferred just because everyone preferred it.
It’s different when you are “forced” to use it (use ours or we won’t let you on our devices, like iOS, or use ours and we will lower/cut our fees for other things you want/need, like many different companies). But when the public is truly free to use what they want and they all want the same thing, then it shouldn’t be used as a reason to punish them.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
Tetris.
- Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okaywww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 days ago:
Except you have needed to have an iPhone to use an Apple TV, and to get around it required a workaround that wasn’t disclosed. It’s happened before, it can happen again.
Apple also telemetries the hell out of your data. The best they offer against this is to prevent them from using it for “targeted” marketing, but that doesn’t really mean much as Apple clearly states:
We provide some non-personal data to our advertisers and strategic partners that work with Apple to provide our products and services, help Apple market to customers, and sell ads on Apple’s behalf to display on the App Store and Apple News and Stocks.
Seriously, this myth of “Apple = Privacy/no ads” needs to go away.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 weeks ago:
Practice and dedication.
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t the first time ARM has gone to court over licensing. In fact, the last time was against Qualcomm and its fees dealing with its Nuvia.
- Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement'www.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 14 comments
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- San Francisco will spend $212 million to bid 5.25-inch floppy disks goodbye — Muni Metro light rail upgrade represents a $700 million investmentwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 4 weeks ago:
It really did.
FYI, ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machines.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
First reason is the knowledge and understanding to paint like this has come and gone. We have paintings from Egypt from 100 BC that is very realistic. They are known as the Fayyum portraits.
Also, paint isn’t the most long lasting of materials, so less painted anything still survives. While many don’t know about it, but Greek and Roman statues were painted.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
Again, they have a court approved document. As per the lawsuit filing:
Recognizing the value of Wiwynn’s custom-tailored solutions, on September 24, 2014, X Corp. entered into a Master Purchase Agreement with Wiwynn. For nearly eight years, X Corp. sourced and Wiwynn provided unique, custom-designed IT infrastructure products including rack solutions for X Corp.’s data centers, based on forecasts provided by X Corp. The components used to build the products are largely unique to the products, resulting in long lead times for ordering such component parts from suppliers. To ensure that products could be manufactured on the strict timeline X Corp. required, X Corp. specifically gave written approval for Wiwynn to purchase the necessary components to manufacture the custom products being made for X Corp., and expressly assumed liability for the procurement costs.
And a master purchase agreement is a legally binding contract.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
They have one, the contract signed in 2014. As is mentioned in the quote I shared.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
When you read the article, it also points to another article that goes further into this case.
…in 2014 it contracted with Twitter to provide “unique, custom-designed IT infrastructure products including rack solutions.”…
Seems it was already approved in 2014 for such a long-term relationship in writing. It seems that Elon just didn’t want to pay for it even though Twitter was contractual bound to pay.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter and then an HDMI cable would do that, but more things to add.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
It’s hooked to a Mac, so most likely on Thunderbolt which would allow it internet access with the video feed. So it’s possible they didn’t have a choice. (This isn’t limited to Mac though)
- Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure productswww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 55 comments
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Yeah, but they were just a bunch of Monkees
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
I think music staring going downhill when music was no longer an audio only thing. Once bands were expected to make videos, posters, and “act” on stage, suddenly a lot of musicians had problems getting into the business. They want to make music, not become pseudo-actors.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
What’s happened is GTA Online suddenly switched to using BattlEye for it’s anti-cheating. And this broke Steam Deck compatibility suddenly. Now, this is bad enough but reports state that BattlEye will work with the Steam Deck, and all Rockstar needs to do is just send a message to BattlEye and it’ll just work. But Rockstar doesn’t seem to be interested in sending that email.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GBwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 77 comments
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
I don’t feel it is. They aren’t saying that their physical requirements should be free (computers, engineers, programmers, electricity, etc…) which is what is being used for the analogy (cheese, ingredients, etc…).
It would be better to claim “I run a sandwich shop and couldn’t afford to run it if I had to pay for every recipe, idea, and technique I use in the business.”
Now, it’s not as simple as this, and I’m not claiming it is. But this example isn’t anywhere near correct. It’s like the old claim that pirating something is the same as stealing it. The usage on one thing doesn’t equal the loss of something physical.
It’s one of those reasons why laws about this are difficult. Too strict and no one would be able to do “fan”-anything and many other issues (“if it uses AI” takes out many digital tools, etc…), too loose and you don’t really have laws at all.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 2 months ago:
school-issued machines
Stopped reading right there. Whenever you are issued a device, you should immediately assume it’s being monitored by the owner of the device. This goes for school/job/etc. The owner of the device will always be monitoring it for reasons of making sure you are using the device for intended purpose to making sure you aren’t using it for illegal purposes.
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- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Doubt the top down GTA game would ever be made again. Last one was GTA Chinatown Wars and it sold terribly. Started on DS, and was ported to PSP, and now on iOS and Android.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 42 comments
