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- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 days ago:
And it changed the Internet, for good and a lot.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 days ago:
That monitor looks so sexy.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 days ago:
VR is not exclusive to Alyx as well. I could run Diablo 2 but not HL2.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 days ago:
It required a good computer which I living in a third-world country didn’t have.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 days ago:
It was the same for HL2 though. I played it like 10 years after it was released, didn’t make the game worse. With VR the first experience will probably be even better in the future.
- Comment on It was rigged? 4 days ago:
That’s not a fair comparison, age matters, most people don’t get smarter or stronger when they grow old. More fair comparison would be “you can’t fight against a child”, some children are quite strong for their age, as Mike definitely is for his age, and some eager children would surely want to fight against a professional in his prime. But there’s no point for said professional to fight them apart from a show match, and you don’t destroy children or elders in a show match even of you can.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 4 days ago:
If I didn’t visit Lemmy, I wouldn’t even know how many people dislike them
“Many” is probably an overstatement. Lemmy echochamber is probably like 1% of ultra-leftwing Americans. Even among their country left wing is a minority. And overall the US is less than 5% of the world population. So for every person hating Musk you will probably find ten thousand who adore him. Just not on Lemmy.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 days ago:
Actually, no. The 22 amendment says that a person can’t be “elected” as President while the 25 amendment says that the Vice President shall become President in case of resignation. No contradiction here. So while Trump can’t be elected anymore he can still become President for unlimited terms.
- Comment on USA President term limits 6 days ago:
Can’t someone run for President, name Trump his vice, then resign?
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 weeks ago:
And you don’t want your kids to know what you were up to.
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 weeks ago:
Those are noobs though, just git good and save the world with a small dick.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
That is wrong assumption. We know that even when something is infinite it may never reach required value. Shakespeare or anything else may be a unique event in the infinite space-time universe.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 2 weeks ago:
They are still in the mindset of “we are the only player in the field and people can’t live without us”.
No, they are in the mindset “we are a company selling cloud Linux, our legacy products are money drain”. They clearly state it in their yearly reports.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s fair. I “own” GTA5 and don’t really care for the last… 8 years? what they add. I had the full content of my purchase. Why should I be able to gain money for this?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
Luckily Valve seems to believe in freedom of decision for their users so they won’t do this. There are kernel level cheats so there are kernel level anticheats. Obviously anticheats are mostly lame in what they do so it would probably be better for them to not be kernel level. Still there are “pure malware” anticheats and Valve thinks it’s up to the user to decide if they want one, their job is to inform the user. And that’s the best approach here in my opinion.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
Well Windows wasn’t an important Microsoft product for like 15 years now. It’s been like 7 years when Microsoft is a company mostly selling cloud Linux services. Ridiculous I know, but that’s from their yearly financial reports. It seems their plan is to cash out Windows as fast as possible before dropping it.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
but I would be surprised if someone who wanted a new GPU couldn’t continue to get ahold of one in Russia, given enough funds.
From what I saw recently it’s actually cheaper there than in non-sanctioned nearby countries.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 weeks ago:
Can we could 10/0 as a big number? Or even just as a number.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 weeks ago:
0°F is a cold winter and 100°F is a hot summer
Makes sense for some specific location. But in general sense 0°F is not cold and 100°F is not hot.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think “valid” is a proper word for someone’s life. You don’t have to be validated by anyone, you don’t own anyone anything. Do what you yourself see fit for this one-time adventure.
- Comment on Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video 2 months ago:
Is Discord client code available?
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
They didn’t claim it though.
They said that all governments do some terrible things but in case of the governments that claim they are not authoritarian they pretext those things with something that will make the public not think they are doing a terrible thing.
In case of restricting Internet freedom or invading other countries it’s usually “but think of children”.
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
You didn’t answer my questions.
What moderation do you want? And how would you prevent “moderation” from becoming censorship?
Aren’t there people whose job is to prevent crimes? Why some IT person who has no idea of crime need to do their job?
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
Why should they? Should every mail(physical or not) you receive be opened and read? Should the government have access to everything you do on your phone or pc? Should the government moderate your house? You are full 1984.
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
The government don’t usually need the text from your conversations, just the metadata who the person talks to, their location, etc. Signal is a US company, they surely provide all that data. It seems Telegram didn’t.
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
Despite TG being full of government trolls.
That’s the world we live in now. If it’s popular it will be full of trolls, government, corporate, all kind. Just somewhat popular, they are here on Lemmy too.
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
Well when Russia blocked Telegram it was just because Telegram refused to send them their users data. Simple. Now France seem to be sentencing a person to live in prison because Telegram still refuses to send them their users data. But they claim it’s for the children. Same shit, different excuse.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
But the ban was only somewhat effective for like a month, then Telegram found a way to avoid it. In two years no one even felt like it was banned. So what could Russia offer to Telegram? Literally nothing.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
I don’t see any agreement possible just because Russia had literally nothing to offer to Telegram.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
I can do something about local storage, I can’t realistically do anything about E2EE.
You can enable secret chat. Like press the button. But that’s probably too difficult compared to encrypting you devices.