moopet
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- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
So they keep enough for the pre-builds, and if there’s no stock over, mark them as “sold out” on the shop. That’s how everyone else does it.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 week ago:
29 months is “as much as possible”? My phone is from 2016 and it works fine!
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 1 week ago:
Time to create a new anti-bossware product, and call it Worker. Maybe it could be peer-to-peer to help propagate newly identified Bossware signatures. Some kind of worker’s collective as it were.
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
You’re right on all counts
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
YYYY-mm-dd
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 1 week ago:
Vernor Vinge has entered the chat
- Comment on This would be terrible for my ad revenue 1 week ago:
God ** Racket
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077: A Beautiful Night City but oh what it could have been. 2 weeks ago:
The MC backstory is just the same as picking a class from any other RPG, you just get to play out a different-looking tutorial level. I had hopes there would be different missions instead of different passing comments, but nope.
The combat is pretty shitty. It’s like Metro, where half the time it’s just spray and pray with whatever gun still has ammo. There are chances to use things tactically, but they’re outweighed by the way you can just shoot and heal continuously so there doesn’t feel like there’s any point. Stealth is weird. It just doesn’t seem as good as, oh, maybe the original Deus Ex.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 2 weeks ago:
Read that title and thought, “that’s not a very big community”
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 5 weeks ago:
How did you write that umop apisdn?
- Comment on Fictional 5 weeks ago:
No no, ALL MATHS is done in base 10.
- Comment on Fictional 5 weeks ago:
All maths is done in base 10.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
The evolutionarily stable state is a small percentage more ads than people will tolerate. That’s just maths.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Getting called out by my name in the literature club, or being told about how I could have used my superpower better in that other game. Two get-up-and-take-a-walk moments for me.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
I thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn’t realise that was added to chrome after the fact.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Viconia is the best party member in BG2, especially if you also recruit… a paladin. I may be biased and my phone SMS notification back when those were a thing was, “trust is for the foolish…”
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
I did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 2 months ago:
It’s not very good, but it does have some really good moments, and some really good ideas mixed in with the less-good stuff. It’s worth watching. Just put your fingers in your ears and la-la-la through all the Klingon retconning and inappropriate pathos. There are moments where the emotional storyline are good, but they cry wolf too often.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
Google know who they’re streaming videos to. They know this from the back-end. They absolutely do not require a script running in the browser to phone home about it in order to count “views”. All the telemetry they need they can get from existing traffic; the additional telemetry supplied by scripts is mostly just for Bad Reasons and it’s morally fine to block it.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
That’s weird and sounds like some kind of software problem. I can’t see how that would happen otherwise. I have a Voyage and don’t have wifi configured on it at all, just add books with calibre and it’s been fine for a decade.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
How exactly does one suck a fuck?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.
Sounds like they explicitly don’t want to federate. Unless it’s a parody site, I guess.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 2 months ago:
it’s not like being exposed to other people’s content would change them in any way
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 2 months ago:
Episodes 7 and 15 would’ve taken place on the holodeck.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
I worked this out. If you teleport up and slightly forwards each time and can do it more than 10 times per second, you can hover and move forward at nearly an inch per second.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
Even if we decide that the teleport might not get you through doors, if you could spam it faster than (works out maths…) 10 times per second, they you could hover, or really slowly fly (about 0.8 inches per second horizontally)
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 months ago:
Next step would be requiring UK ISPs to block traffic to the VPNs. They’ve already made it so you can’t go to some sites based on DNS lookups, so there’s precedent. Making it by IP address from a continuously-updated list would make it exceedingly difficult for regular users to access a public VPN, and while making one yourself from a VPS is straightforward, it can get expensive very quickly if you want to watch videos or download lots of stuff through it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
I gave up on Stray. It’s good, except for the stupid action parts which are completely different to the other 90% of the gameplay and frustratingly difficult. I got through the first few, but one level just stumped me. Must have tried a hundred times, but I’m just not that kind of player and it ruined it - I can’t progress past that point in the game, and all the internet has to say is “git gud”.