trashboat
@trashboat@midwest.social
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Apple
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 1 week ago:
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Second this, Syncthing rocks. Only ever have rare, minor problems in day-to-day use
- Comment on Unite! 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been wondering lately how effective a service would be that takes your credentials for a service, such as YouTube, and starts engaging with content at random so that the data the service has on you is all junk
Don’t know how meaningful something like this would even be, but if all these companies are gonna try so hard to collect data on me then I’d rather fill that data with useless junk
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 month ago:
This makes me think we’re looking at the other side of the uncanny valley
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 month ago:
During my first time playing it (not long ago), it was pretty obvious where new content was layered on top of old, mainly because none of it really works together all that well. It feels like there’s a lot of stuff to do, but none of it is all that cohesive
Also the building system is like pulling teeth (on console anyway). I can never get anything placed where I wanted it if my build was at all complex, particularly stairs as I can recall
- Comment on 4011 1 month ago:
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
I can also rapidly publish bunk ass updates to my app to the App Store so that I can make a funny chart that impresses my shareholders
Like let me just add some random line breaks to my source and rebuild the app bundle. Look at that growth!
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 2 months ago:
MK Wii is where it’s at, especially modded
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
HEY
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 2 months ago:
I always called it the big zappy monster, telling people in jest that merely touching the box would summon it
- Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission 3 months ago:
opens new tab the verdict “misunderstands services that are critical to the security, performance, and reliability of Android devices.”
Ummmm maybe I’m misunderstanding but how on earth is opening a new tab critical to security and performance?
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 3 months ago:
It’s strange to think about how complicit the public has become with this. You mean to tell me that 185 separate connections to other companies are required for me to… read an article?
- Comment on Sign me up 3 months ago:
Remember terrorist fist jab?
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 4 months ago:
I’m not very well read on this so I could very well be off-base, but couldn’t you leverage the heat as a means to desalinate saltwater instead of using freshwater and letting it evaporate?
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
The thing that’s mostly wrong with AI summaries is that people don’t click through to the page the summary summarizes. So those sites don’t get ad revenue.
Don’t ad blockers have a similar effect?
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 4 months ago:
Not long ago I tried to log in for the first time in a year or two, and I was stopped by a big long TOS agreement that promptly made me switch to another game
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 4 months ago:
Those damn corners weren’t round enough yet, thanks Apple designers👍
- Comment on LEGO VOYAGERS | Reveal Trailer 4 months ago:
Gotcha, when I read Lego fan made game I was half expecting something like Brickadia
- Comment on LEGO VOYAGERS | Reveal Trailer 4 months ago:
OOTL, which one?
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 4 months ago:
Gif compression definitely makes it look more believable, I remember falling for this the first time I saw it
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 4 months ago:
Also doors and gates
They may also have concluded that the public finds a humanoid robot more acceptable than those cube 4-wheeled robots that never took off that people like to tip and kick over and stuff
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 4 months ago:
Lomp
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 4 months ago:
Might be a silly question, but is YouTube TV considered a part of YouTube here?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #15 5 months ago:
Just finished playing Outer Wilds for the first time- definitely one of the most incredible games I’ve ever played
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 5 months ago:
Ohhh yeah still haven’t played that one, I’ve heard so many good things about it though
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 5 months ago:
I’ve only played Nintendo games on-and-off but the last truly special innovation I can remember to the Mario formula was the Super Mario Galaxy games. I can’t recall anything else like it that they’ve done recently
