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- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 1 day ago:
Yeah. Believe it or not but the sex pest who actively didn’t warn his contemporaries about the impact of the honey plugin and who now advertises on kiwi farms might be kind of a piece of shit who will say anything for a buck?
And now for a word from d-brand!
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 1 day ago:
Apalrd has done some great “popular computer science” videos on the various remote KVM devices that is well worth looking up. One of them specifically goes into the ridiculously sketchy methods that are used to fetch and execute unsigned code in random buckets to handle firmware updates.
But as for the mic? Honestly, if you open up a LOT of consumer devices you are going to find random microphones. Not because they are all secretly spying on you. But because they use “off the shelf” chips and boards that already have those embedded. Especially since microphones and speakers are kind of the same hardware in most cases and we ALL love a good beep.
I 100% agree the software stack shouldn’t be on there. But, as the blog post points out, there is a LOT of developmental code and packages in that image that shouldn’t be. It is likely just a case of not removing unnecessary packages from the base image.
Because… the entire point of a device like this is that you plug it in somewhere you aren’t. MAYBE JetKVM corp can hear me muttering profanity or wondering where I left that USB c splitter when I am trying to assemble it the first time. The rest of the time? It is plugged into the back of a server that I am booting up so that I can install proxmox without having to drag a monitor over. And while you can potentially get some juicy info out of that? It is not at all worth the hassle to set up fake companies and market a fake (moderately high demand in the right circles) device.
- Comment on One of PC gaming's key RAM manufacturers aren't selling to regular humans anymore, so they can peddle more kit to AI companies 3 days ago:
Welcome to federated social media?
In a centralized model, you see each major version of a story once. Under a federated model? You see all of that once per copy of a message board per instance.
- Comment on At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus... 3 days ago:
Eh.
Robots capable of melee combat are pretty much pointless. Melee is what you resort to when someone gets too close and you can’t point your gun at them because your reflexes are too slow or you are not strong enough to overpower them pushing it out of the way. Robots will always have faster reflex times, can physically attach the gun to their bodies, and are going to be stronger than a human trying to push their arm out of the way.
This is just the cultural dance aspects of martial arts. It shows that the robot has dexterity and coordination and is capable of elaborate choreography.
This kind of robot is genuinely a good invention for the purposes of elder care (something China is going to have massive problems with because of their one child policy fundamentally breaking multiple generations). For the purpose of slaughtering those pesky non-Hans?
terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-1 is a MUCH more effective design. Guns on a heavily armored weapons platform.
- Comment on Four Total War classics join GOG in their Preservation Program with more on the way 3 days ago:
… Fuck
Damn you GoG and Sega!!! ALL of those are fucking amazing and unique in their own ways. Well, I would probably be fine without Medieval 1 if I have 2. But also… 15 bucks for the whole lot.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 3 days ago:
I had a Kobra Neo for like 4 years? And it drove me bonkers. It was somehow MORE jank than the random kit I got off aliexpress like a decade ago and I constantly had to retighten/tension everything and it somehow burned through three different nozzles.
On the one hand? Enclosures and core xy solve like 90% of the problems 3d printers have by controlling environment and minimizing stress on the parts. On the other hand? You need quality parts and construction to begin with
And if you are spending that much on a printer+multiple material system (that I will always argue home users don’t need and are just buying to subsidize it for print farms)? Check out the Qidi Q2. Even cheaper and it is telling that the vast majority of complaints about the Qidis are just “the exterior case is plastic and feels cheap”. Which is a death sentence for youtubers who can’t run a tool for a thousand hours during the one week review window but is also a hallmark of ACTUAL prosumer devices. Why use expensive aluminum for a part that has no functionality?
- Comment on Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it? 4 days ago:
Yes. I bought one of those cheap sunlu filament joiners (I think CNC Kitchen did a video on it?).
Basically, when a spool is at the point where I start caring how much filament is left on it? I put it off to the side. And two or three times a year I just listen to a podcast while I fuse all those spools (with the same material). Makes for some fun multicolor prints when one color ends and the next begins and basically means I have all the “infinite filament” benefits of a multi-filament system without costing hundreds of dollars.
I don’t do much PETG but the sunlu has a setting for it (185C).
- Comment on There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam 4 days ago:
So it looks like the underlying plugin basically just checks if there is a disclosure on the steam store page.
So… it isn’t useless. But the vast majority of things people are buying on itch aren’t on Steam and would still be the wild west. And I am always wary of any of these plugins because you never know where it will go. Could EASILY become “This is woke so it must be AI so let’s prevent people from buying it”. And… there is also always the concern over what data you are giving the extension access to and how much you trust the extension writers.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 days ago:
And legit creditors just need your SSN, address, and maybe an old address. They run a credit check (hence why you freeze that shit) and then you are driving away in your 4k a month pickup truck.
And less legit creditors… don’t ask too many questions other than where you live and where your loved ones love.
But hey. Feel free to throw a hissy fit rather than think through why that plastic card actually doesn’t matter anywhere near as much as you thought it did. I mean, it would be nicer if you could actually sit and think and learn. But this is the 2020s. Ain’t nobody doing introspection.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 days ago:
Huh?
If you go to a bar with an ID you cut out of printer paper, they are going to throw your ass out Jazzy Jeff style.
As for stuff like addresses? Again, that is basically EVERYWHERE because just about EVERY org has a data breach at least once a year. You might as well be saying people need your long form birth certificate to know what your name is.
Like… I’mma be blunt with you. A lot of the “your photo ID is the most important secure thing ever” nonsense comes from republican chuds trying to disenfranchise voters who live in cities. It is the idea that your photo ID is some magical artifact that protects you when the reality is that it is basically just a way to tie your name to your face. All the pertinent information is everywhere else.
And in terms of the actual avenues for fraud? That ID doesn’t mean shit.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 days ago:
Your “government photo ID” really isn’t all that useful unless people are skilled enough to make fakes (which is a whole different mess). What matters is your SSN, your credit card number, your address, etc.
And those are basically everywhere.
As for the DMV thing: You sweet summer child.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 days ago:
And there are so many of those these days that a new one genuinely doesn’t matter.
If you haven’t been offered a free year of identity theft insurance recently? Some company/org is plugging their ears.
SSNs are a fundamentally broken system (look it up). Photo IDs? I will guarantee you that if you go to ANY city there is someone at the DMV who will look up whatever you want for fifty bucks. The ONLY reason credit card fraud is less massive than it is (and it is MASSIVE) is because the CC companies put in the effort to monitor that and lock it down.
EVERYONE should have their credit records locked unless they are actively applying for something.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 days ago:
Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn’t matter.
“Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm… okay?”
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 5 days ago:
And it is not at all uncommon.
There is a reason that, back in the day, there were a LOT of ways to compress game installs so that you could burn it to a CD-R and so forth. And this was incredibly prevalent on consoles up until the current generation when SSDs became default… except that a lot of games were still being developed for previous gen and older hardware PCs.
When Blizzard made a big deal about how WoW now requires an SSD? It was for stuff like this.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 5 days ago:
From reading the article (gasp!):
It looks like a large chunk of it was that they were optimizing their release for spinning disk hard drives (HDDs). With HDDs and optical media, there is a substantial impact on performance when you are fetching data that is physically close to the last data you looked at. So a common technique was to actually duplicate commonly used data.
As an example: You fight Tyranids on sandy and snowy planets. The assets for each of those planets are in different parts of the disc/install. But you’ll need those same bugs in each planet so… you also install the Tyranid assets alongside each planet’s assets for fast fetching.
This is ALSO why disk defragmentation used to be so important.
But if you are assuming that everyone has an SSD (or better), those access times are nowhere near as crippling and it is a lot easier to just install the assets once.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
That is a distinction without difference. It doesn’t matter what mechanism is used to collect those metrics. The fact is they are there
And, at a glance: Forgejo definitely has stars and watches and fork tracking as well
Which is all fundamentally the supply and demand aspects of consumerism. It is the idea that people can identify what there is a high demand for and work to provide a supply. Which is not at all a bad thing and extends far beyond capitalism.
But it goes back to the previous poster’s comments about how they don’t like that netflix analyzes everything they do and greenlights projects based on that. That extends FAR beyond netflix and well into even open source projects.
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- Comment on CD Projekt plan to release The Witcher 4, 5, & 6 within six years of one another, and oh, are those pigs flying? 6 days ago:
Witcher 1 was 2007, 2 2011, and 3 was 2015. 9 years and some MASSIVE engine changes in between. TW1 was essentially a Neverwinter Nights mod. 2 and especially 3 made MASSIVE changes and, as of CP2077, they are an Unreal Engine house. CP2077 being 2020.
I think it is very optimistic. I also think it is feasible if they are stabilizing on an engine and have an arc planned out. I would… expect closer to 8 or 9 years but it is plausible.
And yeah… I could easily see it as 6 years of just trying to fix the bugs in 4.
- Comment on Stalker GAMMA Review | Fent Edition™ - SsethTzeentach 6 days ago:
So is Sseth still an obnoxious edgelord with a lot of racist and transphobic memes? Or did they move on from that?
Very similar taste in games and love what they cover but I just can’t with “I am totally a good guy, I just think these memes are funny” in 2025. Ymfah is REAL borderline but they mostly backed off (or keep it in the videos I haven’t watched because I plan to play that game at some point…).
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 6 days ago:
Uhm… the brits have a long string of horribly incompetent PMs and the royal family is the same level of inbred rapers of children so…
Let’s not try to compare the two and acknowledge we both suck.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Open source/selfhost projects 100% keep track of how many people star a repo, what MRs are submitted, and even usage/install data. And many of them are specifically designed to fulfill a role that industry standard tools aren’t (or are too expensive for) and… guess where the data on that comes from?
The reality is that you cannot escape consumerism in the modern world. You can pretend you are but… you aren’t. What you CAN do is focus on supporting tools and media that you want/approve of and making your own life better as a result.
And a big chunk of that involves actually thinking through consequences.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I mean… depending on how new an item is and what “tier” the restaurant is? They are 100% watching for stuff like that and probably making a note that you got up after eating only a quarter of your burger. Because if the burger were good, you would want to finish it. Is it too sloppy? Did you feel the need to wash your hands mid bite? Did it make you nauseous?
Same with taking out your phone. Does it look like you are telling a friend what a great burger you had? Or are you feeling bloated and trying to digest a bit before you eat more?
This level of market analysis is not at all new. Streaming services just have a much easier time automating it but… give it time until startups are selling cameras to monitor the dining area and automate analytics based on who ordered what and did what.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I mean… that IS how restaurants work. If people don’t order the fish of the day then they buy fewer and fewer fishes until it is no longer a thing.
And similar happens with even buying blu-rays. If nobody bought Master and Commander in 4k then you can be sure that experiment would be over. Instead? That thing sold like toiler paper during COVID and we’ll likely see more “prestige” releases with a huge dose of FOMO.
As for up fronts versus long tails? Guess what is motivating all those revivals “nobody asked for”?
Don’t get me wrong. I vastly prefer to rip blu rays to my NAS and watch via plex. But the idea that you are somehow no longer part of the marketing cycle is just… wrong.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
It varies.
There are definitely cases where the latest update outright breaks the game and that is bad QC.
But what people generally refer to here are games with a modding scene. A vocal part of the userbase rely heavily on mods and/or custom DLLs. So when the game updates, all of those break until the modders and tool writers are able to catch up.
There are a lot of implications to this for games with (meaningful) online components. But for predominantly SP games? It is a fun time when you sit down to play a game in the evening and see it was updated and know you can’t go back to that save/game for at least a few days. And there very much SHOULD be a way to opt out or freeze a version for those.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
Valve also gutted their LGBTQIA+ content a few months back.
So… chill a bit with the glazing. They are better in a lot of ways but they are not our friends.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
What you are describing is something different… that is “close enough” to Moore’s Law for all but the most pedantic.
The (I forget the proper economics term so) base price of RAM/Storage does indeed go down as new processes and economies of scale are developed. Its why a good rule of thumb was to always just spend roughly the same on storage during an upgrade and that would result in faster technologies and larger capacity drives and so forth.
That isn’t what is happening with RAM in 2025. A much better comparison is GPUs because… it is the same problem. It is ridiculously high demand from businesses (often startups) driving this. A quick search didn’t yield an easy graph and I can’t be bothered to go dig through Gamers Nexus’s twelve videos on it, but the price of an “entry level” GPU has drastically changed in the past decade.
But just for two-ish data points?
- The GTX 980 and 970 had an MSRP (probably) of 550 and 330 USD, respectively, back in 2014
- While there is some other bullshit involved, the RTX 5080 and 5070 have MSRPs of 1000 USD and 550 USD in 2025
- Adjusting for inflation, the 980 and 970 would still only be about 753 and 451 USD in 2025 dollars
- And let’s not forget that basically no cards were sold at MSRP back in early 2025…
The last point being what is, by all accounts, going to be the new normal. Barring outside impacts like… RAM going through the roof. Vendors will sell the cards for the ACTUAL MSRP rather than the inflated demand prices. And they will still be considerably more expensive as a result.
All of which is to say… my current card is definitely good enough but having a hard time deciding if I do one “final” upgrade for the decade. But I am an AMD boi so those are at least “reasonable” in terms of price per performance.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
- Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree. Stuff like this is partially necessity and partially a REALLY good excuse to see what the price ceiling actually is… and then turn that into the floor moving forward. Just look at gas prices
- The “AI Bubble” is likely to be on the same level as the Dotcom Bubble and the like. It is going to be brutal and a LOT of people are going to lose their jobs… and then much of the same tech will still dominate just with more realistic expectations. And that will still need large amounts of memory
- If the “AI Bubble” really is as bad as people seem to want it to be: A LOT of the vendors who make the parts you are buying RAM to use are going to be gutted. And then RAM production will drop drastically. Which will decrease supply and…
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 1 week ago:
As with SO much about tim sweeney: he is touching on something very important for all the wrong reasons.
The reality is… probably 99% of games SHOULD have that disclosure by the current rules. So many modern tools have “AI” tools integrated into them these days. A LOT of the modern Adobe tools fundamentally are based on generative AI (think “magic wand” in Photoshop but better). Similarly… what is the difference between asking chatgpt to write you a script, asking someone who may have asked chatgpt to do it, and having an editor that feeds all your data to openai?
And… you can bet that Unreal Engine is going to be integrating more and more of those tools.
I very much do appreciate the intent and I make it a point to check on that when I am buying games on Steam. In large part because… the people (knowingly) using AI tend to not be using it responsibly. Its not a full deal breaker but it very much puts the game into that “ONE thing and they can piss off” territory.
But at the same time? A game I’ve been working on (on and off) for a few years has very heavy Dwarf Fortress inspirations and relies quite heavily on simulation to advance world state. And while the odds of me ever publishing that are pretty low… I do actually wonder how that would work with disclosures. And I very much assume a lot of the more crazy awesome devs are having the same concerns and just hoping nobody notices.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
A LOT of people complained when Thinkpad transferred from IBM to Lenovo. Like almost all things, it was progress conflated with racism.
The big “meaningful” complaint is that Lenovo used more plastics than aluminum. On the one hand, I get it: my T41 was a god damned beast that felt like it could stop a bullet (an important consideration in the US). It also apparently weighted 2.22 kg and I 100% noticed that on trips and even walking around town/campus.
And Lenovo bought the brand around the time that a LOT of people were noticing the weight of their laptops and there was a huge push for “ultrabook” form factors and the realization that it makes more sense to protect your device with a sleeve and a padded compartment rather than “military grade” construction. And… Asian factories were (and still are) much more agile and able to pivot. Whereas US factories still tend to take years (or decades…) to catch up to the rest of the world.
So we got the same xenophobic nonsense we’ve had in every other industry. These thin and light laptops with plastic shells ARE CHEAP PIECES OF SHIT THAT NOBODY CAN EVER REPAIR AND ARE ALL A SCAM SO BUY AMERICAN!!! Even though the shell has almost nothing to do with it and those still had screw based constructions. The real problem was the rapid shift towards soldering/gluing hardware in place. Some of that was to support ultrabook designs and some are just pure bullshit to prevent upgrades.
These days? Aluminum is king again because it “feels premium” but those shells are so ridiculously thin that they are arguably worse than polymer (still feels great though). I blame Apple.
But build quality wise? Lenovo straight up bought IBM’s laptop (and consumer PC?) divisions. It was the exact same factories and designers and capabilities.
All that said: Lenovo is also a REALLY Chinese company. For a personal device? I have zero qualms and literally bought a new laptop for the first time in like 9 years and it is a Thinkpad. From a professional standpoint? A competent IT department can vet devices. I… think I worked with a competent IT department once in my life. But, more importantly, if we are trying to do business with a government org or a high value company/target? They are fundamentally concerned about Supply Chain Hardening (and for good reason) and that just reeks of “We, personally, don’t care about that”. Which generally won’t outright kill a deal but it does put you on a back footing.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
Framework Corp is massively frustrating because their secret sauce tech makes absolutely no sense for individuals (seriously, run the actual numbers. It is almost always cheaper to just buy two laptops AND you have less ewaste because there is no box of spare parts) but is PERFECT for enterprise/fleet deployments.
But Framework Corp has no interest in fulfilling that role. To my knowledge, there are no bulk ordering programs and their software/OEM support is fairly mediocre.
As far as enterprise laptops go? There is a full industry around macs for obvious reasons. On the PC side? The only vendors I really “trust” are Dell and Lenovo with MAYBE HP if the middleman org is confident. And… I LOVE a Thinkpad for my personal use (the nub is love. the nub is life) but there are very serious supply chain concerns for professional purposes.