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- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 3 days ago:
Well written comment, but I think all of it is absolutely wishful thinking. Bethesda will not replace the creation engine in any future releases for games to solve their games issues with stability and performance (and let’s be honest with ourselves, that is the only way they will be fixed), they will do the absolute bare minimum for curating any content or general bug testing (Fallout 76, need I say more), and to expect a public company with every incentive in the world to enshittify to provide a better user experience for user created content than the unofficial alternatives for the long term is hilarious.
For another example of a Microsoft owned property that has the same divide of community vs. official avenues of distributing and managing modded content, compare modded Minecraft Java Edition to Bedrock (sorry, Bugrock). I would not consider moving Bethesda’s modding scene closer to the Bugrock model to be “desireable”.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 6 days ago:
DuckDuckGo uses a basket of search indexes excluding google - so even if one of them enshittifies they can reallocate that portion to another source.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 6 days ago:
Grayjay’s kind of nice for that since it aggregates results from all platforms in a search - sometimes missing youtube videos (or stuff that got DMCA’d) can be found in peertube instead.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 6 days ago:
Snowden was in 2013, bro.
Use a client for video content like Grayjay (gets rid of the ads too).
Look at Tuta Mail or Proton Mail as viable privacy focused alternatives.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
The HEV suit might be more important ngl
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Philip A. Luty smiles
- Comment on rue 1 week ago:
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.”
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Granted I live in a state where this is unobtanium officially anyway.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
3D printed (or hybrid material/improvised from everyday object) grenade launchers have existed for a very long time - just usually called “flare launchers” for obvious reasons.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Is that the same rule for destructive devices? Genuinely curious - I know privately made firearms have different rules.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Cheers then, add this to the “arsenal”.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Using “nearby glasses” set to 20m to detect the glasses’ Bluetooth signature (plan on making that a module I can attach to the front doorframe), I can easily detect the presence of your classes. Then, you shall have two options after I speak to you. Surrender the glasses, or speak to my personal attorney. Or if I’m not at home, my drone, which will ram into your face to destroy the glasses.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
A clear violation of the social contract deserves a swift response. Those glasses come off your face, and onto the pavement.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
This already would fall under an FFL license for legal citizens anyway. As is the nature of the internet though, this open design will be preserved and available for those who seek it.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
To a degree this is inevitable, though. Pipe bombs and general IEDs have existed for much longer than this creation, and we’ve long passed the point where the average individual can easily create reliable firearms and ammunition within their own home (FOSSCAD).
This is just the logical conclusion of those who wish to design a more refined and precised IED.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Probably would be the only way lol.
“You ain’t flying over this town ever again.”
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
Potentially could be used for things like spreading flame-retardent powder for putting out a wildfire or similar with more precision. Would also remove the risk of a human life in firefighting so areas might be cleared quicker.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 week ago:
“This is it, Luigi.”
- Comment on What to self host with a GTX 1060? 1 week ago:
Honestly the easiest use for a PC would be to remove the GPU (if integrated graphics are available on the CPU), and to host things like community game servers for your friends (or maybe something like a self-host chat server for Teamspeak/similar).
A GPU of that caliber is not ideal for those kinds of workloads (although it’d work fine for media encoding).
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 1 week ago:
Not someone who has that kind of money, but people who have enough money to want it perpetually invested and growing (so they can periodically withdraw from it without impacting the base fund), throw it into an index or money market fund like those provided by the big 3 (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street).
Although you will still need a bank regardless in your life for things like checking and credit cards.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
waitaminute… this is like event 5 or so in the Fallout timeline.
Damn, did Christopher Taylor know the whole time?
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s more of a dedicated following that just isn’t viral. Keep in mind crossplay means that the steam charts aren’t an accurate barometer by themselves.
- Comment on Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat 2 weeks ago:
This right here - plenty of good android phones out there that don’t need contract financing.
Especially now that Motorola is gonna partner with GrapheneOS.
- Comment on Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat 2 weeks ago:
If Apple didn’t keep treater smaller developers like shit, maybe you would have more options for applications that respected your privacy and weren’t as monetized.
Consider moving away from the abusive platform and then your options for privacy and security will expand. Maybe look for a phone with GrapheneOS support (previously only Pixels, but Motorola models will come with support soon) for complete control and customization.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Most of the devs from the Bad Company era left EA to form Embark Studios - maybe check out their games like The Finals?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 3 weeks ago:
Reading about the ELIZA effect as well is a good way to understand how those who embrace “social norms” can be enamored by machine-generated statements without questioning them at all…
- Comment on Belt Holster for USB Power Supply 3 weeks ago:
Valid, but many backpacks don’t have those dedicated headphone holes. I was thinking of something that could clip to the shoulder straps (or I guess this existing design could be adapted for MOLLE-style rigging as well with simple measurement).
- Comment on Belt Holster for USB Power Supply 3 weeks ago:
This actually would be kind of neat as a backpack atrachment.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 3 weeks ago:
A lot more armored vests and helmets that can stop a .22LR have been widely adopted though.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 3 weeks ago:
Not really, especially if you are willing to build one yourself.