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- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 8 hours ago:
Imagine having a collection of Wikipedia backups and disclosing that on a first date.
What are we reading today, babe? 2020q1, the Covid hoaxes? Yeah, that’s the shit.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 20 hours ago:
Swirl is destfuctive like almost everything in raster graphics with recompressing, but unswirling it back makes a good approximation in somehow reduced quality. If the program or a code of effect is known, e.g. they did it in Photoshop, you just drag a slider to the opposite side. Coming to think of it, it could be a nice puzzle in an adventure game or one another kind of captcha.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
One time nothing really worked I used a pikepdf python lib. Open file -> Guess pass -> Resave. I was surprised it’s that simple.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 days ago:
Jitsi is great as a Skype/Zoom replacement. It’s not a ‘room’ on a server, but voice and video chats are stable and fast.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 2 days ago:
It’s almost like they agressively promote a premium Windows subscription where this bullshit doesn’t happen, but there is none.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 5 days ago:
1.99 prices > 2.00 prices
Maybe I adapted to that with time, like .99 always felt like a scam pricing strategy, but for me everything involving number nine is worse than, say 1.20. Double nines are the worst. Flat prices with zeroes make me more confident and interested somehow.
- Comment on Distraction 1 week ago:
Like with phone call scams, being paralyzingly overwhelming is the point.
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- Comment on Gatetonium 1 week ago:
All hail the Malware Man
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 3 weeks ago:
It’s migraine-inducing edgy with such color choice, but the bar is so low they’d need to dig down to reach the C tier from B they deserve. The B in B tier is not for Bad, but for Better than average.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 4 weeks ago:
As per their download page www.roblox.com/download , no. Not to say EGS is good, it’s Roblox treasuring independency where they can.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 4 weeks ago:
🗿
I want to call him The Brightest Person of ICE and turn him into emoji.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 4 weeks ago:
Would there still be a 2x multiplier? PS3 was weird, but does it translate to future Sony systems too?
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 4 weeks ago:
Some of those on PC are under Denuvo, are different versions than console releases, not to say PS5 plays PS4 games too.
One of my main gripes with PC releases is that they almost never translate offline co-op playability, from GTA San Andreas (yeah) to recent Borderlands titles.
Besides, I do love a chance to deny temporal/permanent exclusives and half-baked ports my money, not for I’d play them, but for Sony and the likes knowing this tactic is not working anymore.
Ah, and Bloodborne. I hated Dark Souls, but the drive of that game is wild.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if PS5 emulation would be less troublesome than PS3 due to it being closer to the regular PC iirc.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 5 weeks ago:
Probably not even general purpose GPUs, although we sucked it up when RT and Tensor cores were put on a plate whenever we like it or not. These though at least provided something to the consumer unlike NPUs.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
SATA SSDs, if only there were floppy-like docks in PCs’ front panels for them. I see adding one usb-c female adapter as a part of the protective case, and adding a male one on the opposite end of the dock could’ve been the way, since modern USB ports have sufficient power and data capabilities. Adapter’s firmware could’ve signaled it’s nothing more than a big USB thumb drive, it can also be (made?) compatible with portable devices e.g. digital cameras, phones, etc to make it more useful.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 5 weeks ago:
Insider info: the worst jews, the jewiest of them, are hiding in your local AI datacenters
- Comment on Help is needed 5 weeks ago:
Merzboy
- Comment on Loid and Yor ❤️ 1 month ago:
Dangerous but woman.
- Comment on TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' 1 month ago:
It becomes harder for me not to feel bitter despise towards russian teachers, or all public school teachers in general, as a group of people.
Since the dawn of the last century, they became uniquely positioned at the start of the grooming conveyor, thus the pressure on them, and responsibility for our future, are nearly unmatched.
At least, not really matched by their level of preparedness, their funding, respect, etc. Idk about other country’s situation, but there it is a dead end job where a person is overworked, isn’t stimulated to pursue self-development (why are they even here lol) and is bullied into toying the line really close. There is a natural negative selection that filters out everyone but willing masochists.
And, like, there are many reasons for sympathy with them, and some of them I already mentioned, but I personally struggle not to punch down because a big portion of people sticking there, not filtered out, are constantly groomed to the lesser level of self-respect and become regime’s avid footsolders. The system openly pisses in their months while saying how important they are, and while living in such condiditions they form an utterly complacent mindset of reusable condoms. Out of many groups that enthusiastically voted for the tzar, fucking schoolteachers were vocal of their unilateral support for the cause of mutilating neighbors and building the Reich. And as a group of people they fell in my eyes lower than even cops, even troops, because their treachery to their own is worse for it traumatize generations that are yet to act, and however this regime dies, there would be a mass of young voters who are completely brainwashed by these people.
I feel very conflicted and uncomfortable since I do like teachers I had in years prior, and I know how bad they have it all, but my experience now is sooo negative I need to remind myself about my evergrowing bias not to put it into my judgements.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 1 month ago:
Last.fm the website had stats for curious availiable at all times, but yearly wrap is indeed something smartphone apps invented.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 1 month ago:
Khos tu(ne) chen ko.
- Comment on "Media consumption" 1 month ago:
While the last bit seems true and I would like to have games soften their needlessly rough edges, some games are easier to redo than the others, and most require making decisive stylistic choices, some making it either a worthy tribute or a shitshow. I think, there can be a low-tier study examining and classificating different approaches.
Take for example Quake 1, that was aimed at delivering QoL-oriented updates without changing anything else. Or Yakuza series having a couple of generations of remasters that did have a huge benefit of reusing world scenery, animations and movesets, models across many games. Then, Pathologic 2 that required a complete recreation. And, in contrast to that, purely visual updates, sometimes of questionable value.
From the management standpoint, remasters are more predictable and usually more streamlined than creating original content. Take Diablo II Reforged. Devs had D4 engine ready, D2 as a reference and D3 as an anti-reference since it’s presentation was rather unpopular. There were nearly no unpredictable parts and all teams in this project can start working right away. It could be easily outsourced, also one can borrow some experts from other teams short-term rather than having them full-time. This isn’t only cheaper, it also synergetic with existing projects and comfortably manageable.
But I can see deeper remastering works being unpopular not because they are more expensive than asset swaps, but because, well, to pitch that before the board of directors, you need to, first, know the value of mechanical changes yourself, and second, having board understanding it too or at least become convinced by your rhetoric. That’s so if everything is transparent, and these changes aren’t happening under the table after securing the budget first, that, I believe, is how it sometimes happens. The board usually can’t tell the difference in handling gameplay and the only thing they can discern is graphical fidelity between original and projected result, the efficiency of the workflow, the budget. While I can tell some more involved scene like fighting games have people educated about the importance of game mechanics, frame-sync etc, I’m sure that games made for more general public get greenlit by the least curious decision-makers. That select layer of governance is probably why the word ‘remaster’ sometimes gets perceived as a pejorative.
- As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at allbsky.app ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Watch Gorey Gobline rise through the ranks of Larian!
- Comment on The importance of protecting patient privacy in healthcare 2 months ago:
Itching vagina William:
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 2 months 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 months 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 months 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.
