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- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it 3 weeks ago:
Orrrr they could use one of the grown up versions thay will get supported with free security fixes until 2032. Knowing MS you’d probably be able to pirate their “paid” security updates anyway. The downside is using windows ofc.
The backup utilizes OneDrive, which provides each user 5GB of cloud storage for free.
Stingy.
With more than half of the Windows user base still running Windows 10, Microsoft is clearly starting to worry that, come October, over half a billion PCs will be left unsupported and vulnerable to newly discovered security threats.
Oh yeah, they’re so worried for the common man. Makes you wanna trust them, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy that the people who built tools of terror (that are of particular significance to me) are getting fucked. I’m not happy which way/fashion they’re getting fucked. We’re on the same page here.
I’m not gonna write paragraphs about the nature of oppression and theory of state building, I don’t think that’s gonna help anyone. Simply stating my feelings about one particular oppressor. I don’t even know if they’re gonna be dethroned. But I do know the people of that country (and those of perpetrating ones) have infinitely more power over their future than my words on here. And actions support neither side.
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 3 weeks ago:
That’s not how it works.
How what works? My feelings about the situation?
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad that at least one oppressor gets to the “find out” part. I’m sad it’s not mainly the people they’ve been oppressing that are doing it.
Let’s hope that changes when it’s the others’ turn.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 weeks ago:
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it’ll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam 5 weeks ago:
Pirates keep winning
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 1 month ago:
wow you’re such an empath
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 1 month ago:
The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
I’d rather stay exactly the same tbh
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 1 month ago:
the same way they were 10-15 years ago
So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 1 month ago:
I use it because it’s free and tolerable when modded (on pc at least), and a lot of my favorite artists drop there. I get to check new releases, and if something isn’t there I’ll check other platforms. I will never pay for spotify on principle though.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
Can’t help someone who doesn’t want tho get better. We’ve seen this happen to him several times.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
Exactly, that’s how it works in my country. I think the PCs are connected to a local server that then matches the results to your id and email.
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 2 months ago:
Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can’t believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 months ago:
Reminds me of car startups (in the US) taking off one wheel, turning them into moto/autocycles, so they wouldn’t have to go through expensive car certification processes
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 2 months ago:
Sweeney is also offering a “peace proposal” from Epic: “If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.”
Pretty sure this has a 0% chance of working.