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- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 1 day ago:
Cheating humans already perform closely enough to trick such a system. Many cheaters are smart enough to use an aimbot only for a split-second to nail the flick. With a tiny bit of random offset, those inputs indistinguishable from a high-skill player.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
I hate Spotify and would like to stop paying them even 1/5th of a family subscription. But I have researched alternatives and haven’t found one that meet my need to manage offline files, playlists, and the current playback session across many (and I mean many) devices.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 5 days ago:
They forgot the part about “damaging the brand”.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Stripe can also go fuck itself and die, thanks
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we’d be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 week ago:
There’s so many lobby groups and national interests pulling in various directions that it’s not really surprising to have both simultaneously.
I’m still surprised GDPR ever made it through against the cries of every corporation in earth, to be honest.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes that is absolutely the norm in such communities. It was the same for subreddits that went default.
Obviously you can’t trace every single up-/downvote and comment to a certain gender, but it’s very apparent from the content of comments and the general tone. That’s the whole issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I entirely agree. Power dynamics and questions of projected vs chosen identities add whole new dimensions to the matter. I restricted myself to this limited analogy to avoid losing those who aren’t ready for that conversation and insist on focusing on individualist perspectives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We’re all human but that doesn’t erase systemic issues. And not being effectively brigaded is all they ask for.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Imagine every public linux forum overrun by 90% Windows user,s and you might just begin to understand.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
On Lemmy?? lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“male scum” oof. Cool it with the self-victimization mate.
If you genuinely don’t understand why it’s helpful to have both kinds of spaces and not something to get mad about, I’m happy to explain. But some good-faith effort on your part is required.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Consider what the word “majority” means and how that impacts the balance of such discussions. Especially on a platform where people vote on each other’s comments.
In the Linux forum example, the occasional “as a Windows user…” comment isn’t a problem, but it does become one when it makes up 80-90% of comments / visitors. Try to understand how this shapes a community when the fewer directly affected people are annoyed by this and stop contributing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s not ironic at all. I’m guessing you have never been in a setting that would have benefitted from such a policy.
I don’t find it too difficult to comprehend why it’s useful to have spaces where minority-focused topics are discussed by everyone, alongside other spaces where the same topics are discussed primarily by the minority in question. Not if you understand what the words “minority” and “majority” mean anyway.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 1 week ago:
Exactly, it’s not necessary. It’s bad / lazy design. You don’t expose the DB storage directly, you expose a frontend that handles all the authentication and validation stuff before accessing the DB on the backend. That’s normal Client-Server-Database architecture.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 1 week ago:
It’s a little more complex than that. If you want the app on the user device to be able to dump data directly into your online database, you have to give it access in some way. Encrypting the transmission doesn’t do much if every app installation contains access credentials.
Obviously there are ways around this too, but it’s not just “use TLS”.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 1 week ago:
It’s a little more complex than that. If you want the app on the user device to be able to dump data directly into your online database, you have to give it access in some way. Encrypting the transmission doesn’t do much if every app installation contains access credentials.
Obviously there are ways around this too, but it’s not just “use TLS”.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 2 weeks ago:
Wow, you solved the problem with nothing but misogyny!
- Comment on Securely Expose your Homelab Services with Mutual TLS - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
From localhost? Did you mean from local network or am I misunderstanding your point here?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
USB-D will be round again
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
Steam itself shows the rankings, I believe.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
Yep, it loops between exploration and basebuilding / crafting.
The exploration part is what usually gets people hooked because the alien underwater setting is amazing. The other stuff is more to give you a reason to stick around for longer, and pace your exploration since need to unlock things at certain points.
- Comment on I can fix her 4 weeks ago:
Now I’m imagining being conceived between two psych ward patients and I’m like… really trying not to sound judgemental, but that’s not great odds for the baby both in terms of a stable and nurturing environment growing up, and a genetic predisposition towards mental instability later in life.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 4 weeks ago:
The standard nazi take is that it’s a great idea for Jews to remove themselves from most countries, concentrate in one place instead, and make a lot of enemies.
Zionists tend to agree with Nazis on many things, it turns out.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 4 weeks ago:
Poopysoft
- Comment on I wish I didn't have to toss and turn so much. I want to cuddle to. :-( 1 month ago:
No it’s completely normal while sleeping.
This meme makes it sound like OP can’t enjoy (awake) cuddles without changing position all the time.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
Isn’t that up to the GrapheneOS devs?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
“Hello there.” - Play Integrity API
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
“oh didn we make it not just an automatic update, but you can’t even opt out? Oops! Hee hee don’t worry, you’ll love it in no time. Which is why we’re forcing it on you. You’re welcome.”
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 month ago:
No. But public expectations are flying high with some people after the Deck’s and Controller’s respective receptions.