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- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t the try something similar in 2042 but on their own servers?
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 3 weeks ago:
We wouldn’t have several full games is my point
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be so sure. Modern AAA games are insanely big and resource-intensive. Just look at rdr2
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a screenshot from a vertical video, it doesn’t look much better anyway, I linked it in this thread
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a video of a guy looking at both of those statues, linked it in my other comment while I’m looking for a higher res version. Too stable for ai
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a normal bathroom, found it on some random website, doesn’t seem like a typically planned room lol
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 3 weeks ago:
On the flip side, it’s given it insane longevity and made it feel more modern. Playing singleplayer feels so annoying at times because of their arbitrary rules (which are still in online, but toned down a little) and gameplay/mission design.
At least GTAO showed everyone rockstar’s true nature, and you couldn’t turn away or say that it’s a small alternative game mode.
So shoutout to online and 5 as a whole for showing me enough to avoid all future rockstar titles lol - Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 3 weeks ago:
I meant OD
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 3 weeks ago:
There should be like a global PSA on how painful dying from paracetamol really is
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 4 weeks ago:
I mean the lack of privacy directly fucking them over. They have already proven to be unable to extrapolate actions leading to consequences beyond like 1 or 2 steps.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t HMD make a couple of those too? Obv not the same country of origin but from what I’ve seen they’re considerably cheaper
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think these people will ever realize anything, until it severely fucks with their quality of life at least
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 4 weeks ago:
Because there’s one more enrichment facility, this time owned by a shithead? Come on
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 4 weeks ago:
enriched uranium is not a nuke by itself
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 4 weeks ago:
*illegal shit would not be protected.
They can push for some law that makes certain groups or their depictions illegal. Then it’s their morals becoming a law.
If there’scorruptionlobbying, there’s a way for them to twist “illegal” into “immoral”, which is fucked. - Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
If you think about it, they’ve been doing that for a while with experimental life extending stuff, of course now they’re a bit more likely not to die with modern medicine being so good
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 1 month ago:
Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 1 month ago:
Yep, that one. I saw it on their telegram first, they make a similar system for quads too
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 1 month ago:
Ptashka Systems make a reusable one. A bit more expensive but the net cartridges themselves are less than half the price of Tenet’s launcher. Same net size too.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 month ago:
You don’t have to accept pairing, if both devices are discoverable they can see each other. It doesn’t have to be some app, you can be discoverable with 0 apps installed. That’s what I’m talking about with rudimentary tracking.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 month ago:
Exactly, did anyone here think non-fictional billionaires could ever be cool? After developing critical thinking skills that is.
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 1 month ago:
If there’s anything they learned from the three day “special operation” - it’s this. It’s way easier if they can avoid direct military action.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 month ago:
Anyone with a spectrum analyzer can see people using their earbuds, they can’t deduce any useful information from that. Several analyzers? Yea, can triangulate signals, so what. They still can’t know for sure who they belong to, since BT doesn’t transmit identifying info unless you’re pairing (aka discoverable), and even then it can be randomized.
Also I posted in in a different comment but I’ll leave this here too.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
From a quick search, bluetooth classic has 79 channels, and if there’s 2.4Ghz Wifi in use, it has 14 in damn near the same frequency range.
If you’re worried about tracking - there are far easier ways to do that than hope your BT devices are discoverable and then try and match the (possibly randomized) device IDs to you.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 month ago:
Depends on the device, there was a story recently of a Nissan infotainment system that was perma-pairing as long as you had the options screen open afaik. If your earbuds are pairing close by, as is the machine - you can probably make some rudimentary motion tracking. Gonna be inaccurate as hell though, and it relies on both devices permanently being in pairing mode.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
This part though is way easier to explain with interference. A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 month ago:
Most likely works, since evaporation helps keep your temps down
- Comment on Korea opts out of Apache helicopters, betting on drones and AI 1 month ago:
On one hand good on them for not giving the US more money, on the other hand I hope they have some low cost aircraft platforms to help with big drone waves. Drone interceptors seem to be taking off but it’s good to have layers.
- Comment on Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews 1 month ago:
There’s also a bunch of addons that do the same, if you can’t have ubo for some reason
- Comment on “When the fun stops, stop.” Addiction experts consider the rise of gambling in the U.K. a test case 1 month ago:
They have a lot of money to pay for ads and most platforms showing them have no morals. Money doesn’t smell and all that.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 month ago:
Closer to forums than IG. Anything old school deserves to not be bundled in with the rest of “social media”, so in that regard I get it. We still have handles though.
- Comment on Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals 2 months ago:
Why are you using quotations marks? On a serious note, Google’s bloat isn’t inherent to android, their stuff is added on top as apps and services.