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- Comment on The importance of protecting patient privacy in healthcare 1 week ago:
Itching vagina William:
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 1 week ago:
Jerome is Big 😳
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
It’s so unfunny that the only one to contest Valve on PC monopoly is Tim Fortnite, who seemingly does the worst job everywhere yet still can still afford it. It’s almost like Gaben himself created a perfect villain for his company, so it’d never be criticized.
- Comment on AI as an insntrument of class warfare 2 weeks ago:
If a person is perceived as a threat, purposedly adjusted GenAI can suggest them to touch live wires or mix a homemade explosive while they do a casual home fixing for the first time.
My initial thought, although greatly blurred, is in that if we outsource our research and decision making to AI, the owners of AI can spoil it for us to either make us fall in line or sabotage our ways.
The normal GenAI can be gated and availiable for rich persons, but the one that is cheap or free, that is used by low to middle households, can as well be used to inspire us to follow corporate agenda or even self-terminate if we aren’t in their picture of the future.
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- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking more about selling a soul to some monkey-paw style demon, but yeah, there I feel seen.
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- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
While most users don’t even know their Windows is paid by them - as an OEM pre-install - I can see business persons being oblivious to a concept their workhorse can be just free and good. Zorin is probably targeting that market. Top managers don’t take personal responsibility to integrate some hippy socialist bullshit, they switch from one respectable enterprise solution to the other and can show checks.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
Comparatively, carnivores are riskier, as they continuously collect parasites from the animals they eat, especially if they eat them not freshly killed.
- Comment on Moisturize me 2 weeks ago:
Or a .nomedia file in a folder irrc.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
Heal-over-time systems in CoD-like shooters lack feedback and are unreliable in terms of measuring difficulty of a task and feeling like you did something special. Everything becomes boringly average.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 3 weeks ago:
EAC works on Linux, FatShark just didn’t initially choose that option, and about a year ago game became playable again. IIRC you should choose a beta workaround version in your steam client for that.
Yet, it’s fair to feel salty about that. Versus is a fine gimmick but wasn’t worth introducing EAC, like gatekeeping mods wasn’t too. It is too heavy-handed for a game with a small, tight-knit community, that would rather play a four Bardin game than install wallhack or aimbot for whatever reason.
- Comment on We have one at home 3 weeks ago:
The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 3 weeks ago:
Double barrel Bill
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 3 weeks ago:
I start to get tired of these jokes, if they are jokes at all. What’s to get from them, with them? While I don’t think it hurts his base at all, it does occupy others and stirs some of them wrong. Like that meme playing into the stereotype of gay people being grotesque and shallow movie-esque characters. Playing with that bone thrown to non-believers is not productive, even Epsteing files are irrelevant because him sucking off Clinton or diddling kids in the past does nothing to his current reign, destruction of economy, mass imprisonment. He can eat a cock, a pussy, or shoot a person on Main St., but nevertheless the damage he does right now, his cult and his friendly elites are what really matters. His supposed blowjob is a nothing-burger, but also a cutting board to break lemmy-like communities around how homophobic these, present assumptions are, and they do sound ill-biased.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 3 weeks ago:
Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.
Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.
If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.
I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 3 weeks ago:
Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I’m afraid of mass adoption if that won’t be fixed.
- Comment on 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird
He wrote wearing Emil’s head.
- Comment on Ratioed 3 weeks ago:
BOSS HOG GETS NO CRANKING TODAY, AWOOO
- Comment on My BF never bakes anything. Get up this morning and there is a sheet of these cookies on the counter. Is he trying to tell me something? 4 weeks ago:
Gingerbreed that cake, now.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny because trip-hop landed in pretty much elitist, conceptual album category for snobs and luxury products’ ads, with sampling being one of it’s core features. Useless gateekeping and/or mischaracterising the ‘art’ word as something well-defined.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 4 weeks ago:
If so, you are fucked.
- Comment on Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm? 4 weeks ago:
That’s the one ordering them.
- Comment on Robot rescues Ukrainian soldier trapped 33 days behind Russian lines, navigating minefields and mortar strikes 4 weeks ago:
Robux or bust!
- Comment on The Great Firewall: Massive data leak reveals the inner workings of China's censorship regime 5 weeks ago:
The sense of security is what makes the tongues talk and the users browse, them incriminating themselves openly. Overly violent law that puts everyone in the grey zone allows you to pick anyone you want at any time and jail them. Government/party structure of any size is pretty much unable to track everyone 24/7, so while it’s seemingly a compromise from the idealistic vision of the great firewall, it is better to control a thing that organically rise with or without your involvement. If it could’ve been inpenetrateable, we could’ve heard of alternative systems appearing, but there you see none of these, at least for average consumers. It is there, and while it’s not overingineered, it’s enough to make 50% of safe, normie people give up and other 50% marks itself, and, unless everything is e2e encrypted, writes it’s court cases for itself.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 5 weeks ago:
Rockstar patched out a bunch of radio music they had time-limited licenses for. I don’t think you would notice that, though there are mods to bring them back. Performance-wise it only had problems with integrated graphic cards under Windows in my expirience. Haven’t tried it on Linux.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 weeks ago:
I think that gamers can sacrifice a bunch of fps if it comes to that, but they should know why, and they should have an otherwise working game. If everything gets to work on a SteamDeck, that would be a huge booster in confidence. This one platform is a flagship of linux gaming not because it’s better, but because it’s a frame of reference we can use on other setups and distros.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.
Things they could do:
- Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
- Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
- Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.
Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.
Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.