atomicbocks
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- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 23 hours ago:
Yes and no.
What you are actually smelling are mercaptans, specifically methyl mercaptan (aka methanethiol), hydrogen sulfide, and a few other organic compounds.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 day ago:
The World Wide Web, the Internet is the physical network and servers upon which many software stacks run including the Web.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 days ago:
When it didn’t go away when I was temporarily taken off my adhd meds as a teen. Before that they thought it was just because of the meds. That was apparently also the earliest indication that I would have adult adhd. If you have an adhd doc talk to them about it, it’s pretty common to have both.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 days ago:
I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome… light has no effect on me. Checkmate scientists!
- Comment on Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works. 3 days ago:
I thought those were mostly at the state level.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Bunch is made hams for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.
They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 1 week ago:
This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.
Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.
- Comment on Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU 2 weeks ago:
They have already done that twice with Windows RT and Windows 10 S/S Mode.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
The CD-I was at least like footnoteworthy.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird, there is a long history of these kinds of games getting a console release going all the way back to SimCity for Super Nintendo. IIRC it could optionally use the Mario Paint mouse.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 weeks ago:
They have always been this way:
Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 4 weeks ago:
I would rather see another two years before I call this totally an over argument. Most people are keeping phones for a few years now.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 4 weeks ago:
iPhones do this as well, I assume both will also do it without the alarm as mine has simply learned what time I take it off the charger normally.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 4 weeks ago:
I think you are forgetting the other reason Valve cornered the market;
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue… The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
Gabe Newell, CEO Valve - Speaking at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s (WTIA) Tech NW Conference.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 weeks ago:
We aren’t post pandemic. They just want you to think we are.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 weeks ago:
It wasn’t people from America who made Native Americans move and brought slaves over…
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
I meant that the article was talking about non audio cameras. What you are saying specifically depends on if you are in a single party state or not.
What I said was it isn’t enforced but if somebody wanted to pursue you legally they could.
People in this thread would clearly be surprised about the things that are in the legal books. In the town I grew up in it was illegal to drive a car on a paved road. But that law was written at a time when horses were still more common than cars. Likewise the license plate law in my state was written long before cameras had the resolution to do that from a porch without a large zoom lens and was specifically written to prevent people putting security cameras on mailboxes and other places close to the street. This has created a legal gray area for ring cameras which is pretty much what the article and I in my original post was saying; It’s illegal but not enforced though if somebody wanted to pursue it they could.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 5 weeks ago:
Fair point. Though I would then argue it’s the World Wide Web that was being pushed by AOL in the same way that it’s LLMs that are being pushed today.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
That only applies if you aren’t recording audio as well.
The article is just a general overview of specifically Ring cameras and not specific to any one state or other recording devices. In my state for instance it is also illegal to be able to see license plates from personally owned security cameras, though we have Flock cameras here so yeah…
Why do so many people on Lemmy just really need a “gotcha”?
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
I am a compliance expert. I too am confident in my assessment of the legal situation.
I am officially tagging you as a troll and moving on with my life. You seriously need to learn to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
Right because a quick google search makes you a legal expert…
For real chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
Yes you can. You still need to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
It applies to both.
Yes.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
A lot of it depends on if your state is single party or not.
Also you need to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
Where I live for instance. Like I said it isn’t enforced.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 5 weeks ago:
Just to be clear in most places it’s not legal to have a video camera pointed at the street (or your neighbors’ houses). Not that this has been enforced at all. But if somebody wanted to pursue you legally for that they could.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 5 weeks ago:
The Internet was 30 years old by the time AOL was sending CDs (even floppies) to people.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 5 weeks ago:
You can name names, it’s Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 month ago:
2 of them were Galaxy Notes and others were flagships as well. Quit being a douche.