Taldan
@Taldan@lemmy.world
- Comment on National park to remove exhibit of famed photograph showing former slave’s scarred back, says report 22 hours ago:
That’s really sad :(
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
There aren’t enough monster truck owners to support his game. If he gets his wish, Gearbox is going to lose a whole lot of money
The reality is that it is a mass market game. It needs mass market adoption. Currently much of the market is locked out due to performance issues
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Fight fire with fire. Apparently it’s the only thing conservatives will pay attention to
So many of them are convinced all gun violence is coming from the left, and at this point I’m ready to just let them have their delusions. What are they going to do about it? Implement gun control? Please do
- Comment on Shape up. 6 days ago:
Now, yes. Then, no. I don’t think anyone could have unified the MAGA right enough to win the election without Trump. If Trump hadn’t ran, I could have seen a conservative winning a normal election. Not a last minute Trump replacement though
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 1 week ago:
many actually play in the background while she does something else, but apparently they’re necessary
Tangent, but I really wish shows could be tagged as second screen. I’m sick of atarting simething and realizing 20 minutes in that it’s designed and written to be passively listened to rather than actual entertainment
It’s insulting to be treated like a moron by a show because they assume you won’t be paying attention while watching
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 1 week ago:
Netflix’s restrictions are not based on IP address. That would be an incredibly unreliable way of determining a location
They’re looking at the network you’re connected to. Exactly what they’re looking for is not public
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 week ago:
It has also said it has a no tolerance policy and will cut off government clients who use the spyware to target members of civil society, such as journalists
Citizen Labs confirmed joirnalists have been targeted
Nice of The Guardian to repeat their obvious lie without immediately calling it out. This is just NSO Group 2.0. They’re moving all the engineers over because even the US was willing to sanction NSO Group after everything they did
- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
I have a masters in cybersecurity, and I see some people abbreviating is as CS sometimes, and it always bothers me. CS = Computer Science
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 4 weeks ago:
That’s not a particularly realistic explanation
The USD index has weakened by 10% as a whole, but not relative to the JPY. It has held roughly steady against the yen for the past couple years, before which the yen had weakened significantly. USD to JPY is extremely high right now, compared to where it has been over the past 15 years
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 4 weeks ago:
So many companies are going to get burnt by it
I know people replacing basic tools with AI versions that are basically just running the simply tool and pretty printing the output
They’re only foing it because it’s basically free to run it through AI. That
whoisbut with aI is going to be so expensive when these companies enshittif-AI - Comment on Which way? 4 weeks ago:
I would highly recommend having it done professionally. It is a permanent change, and you don’t want to have it grow back incorrectly like this commenter
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 5 weeks ago:
The article explicitly pointed out this extended security patching does not cover support
It’s easy to agree with Microsoft when you don’t bother reading the article and just make up a reason to support their decision
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 5 weeks ago:
A key, exactly like they did it for decades? Same way they verified you paid forbthat copy of Windows?
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 5 weeks ago:
Because the local and state governments in those deserts keep promising them unlimited water for nearly free
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
I’m finding AI effectively automates entry level jobs and interns. The long term implications is very few will be able to enter the field. What do we do when all the experienced engineers retire? How will we shift our economy to work for everyone under this model?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 month ago:
Plenty of people got fucked over for America’s interstate system. You just don’t care about them because they’re poor minorities
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 month ago:
yes devs are either super green or even mostly AI
Solely blaming the devs tells me you have no experience with Firebase security
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 month ago:
That’s exactly what hacking is.
'90s hacking movies may have given you a different idea of what cybersecurity looks like, but this is what the real world is like
Also, Google deserves a scolding here. Firebase’s default configuration is absolutely atrocious. One of the few critical vulnerabilities I’ve seen where the system is working as intended. Dubbed the hospital gown vuknerability because they leave the backend wide open by default
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 month ago:
How very socialist of him
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 month ago:
R’amen
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 month ago:
Are you seriously slut shaming a 14-year-old who was groomed by a 27-year-old? Using a sexist misconception no less?
That’s fucked up
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
Mildly pedantic, but uBlock blocks the connection before it enters your network
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
They already make money hand-over-fist on Azure. Cloud computing is already quite expensive
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 1 month ago:
Considering he was driving while on bail, I doubt he’ll stop driving either way
- Comment on Gallium 1 month ago:
It’s a startup. He doesn’t get a golden parachute
- Comment on Gallium 1 month ago:
Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time
No it wasn’t. She’s the CPO, Chief People Officer. Basically head of HR. Where did you get the idea she was a secretary?
- Comment on Gallium 1 month ago:
That’s the CEO and CPO, not her friends. She was recently promoted, possibly related to things like this
She’s making tens of thousands more per year to be complicit. I’ve seen people do much worse for much less money
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 2 months ago:
For basic fact checking like this, it’s basically useless. You’d have to go look it up to verify anyway, so it’s just an extra step. There’s use cases for it, but this isn’t it
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
It worked for Wal-Mart
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 2 months ago:
$1 million to save all those lives is way too much. That’s almost 0.00025% of an Elon Musk
America, as a country, would sooner sacrifice a million children than tax a billionaire to support safety nets like flood warning systems