atomicbocks
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- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 3 days ago:
Yeah, unfortunately lots of states are dumping their “carrier of last resort” regulations, and companies in those that haven’t are doing everything they can to kill them.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 4 days ago:
The number of times I have received an un-proofread two sentence email is too damn high.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 5 days ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams 6 days ago:
How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 6 days ago:
Newegg is still a thing, you just need to check the “Sold by Newegg” filter.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 weeks ago:
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 weeks ago:
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 weeks ago:
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 weeks ago:
The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.'" 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
The CD-I was at least like footnoteworthy.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.