JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 weeks ago:
That’s what happens to all alternatives at the start, only the content that isn’t suitable for the main platform migrates there. It requires a mass exodus because of something major, like what happened with reddit and twitter, to get enough regular users there.
Lemmy literally exists literally because Dessalines, a “long time Marxist-leninist” decided that “Fuck the while supremacist Reddit admins” and made a federated alternative to host r/communism because reddit is run by an “anti-tankie scum”.
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 3 weeks ago:
Denuvo is an interesting one, as it’s both very hated, but also rather effective - in the last four years, only around 25 Denuvo games out of a hundred have been cracked. So with that, pirates can’t even rely on waiting as something you want to play might get cracked next week, or it might take years or simply never get cracked - poor Tourist Bus Simulator, nobody loves you.
So it turns in to a fairly simple math problem, though one with both variables being unknown (to me at least) - how many people who would buy the game don’t because it has Denuvo, vs how many people that would pirate the game buy it instead when they can’t. - Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 weeks ago:
Illegal like sharing pirated media.
It can’t be commercialised, but if you just “happen” to find the software somewhere, you are allowed to use it. - Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I’m okay with Denuvo and other similar DRM when it’s used for the intended purpose - to prevent launch day hype piracy. The first few weeks/months are crucial for sales, and I can understand why developers do it.
But after that, especially after the game is cracked, remove the fucking DRM as it’s now useless and only makes the experience of legitimate customers worse.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
1, 2, 4. Then it’s 2028 and ESU ends.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
The paid extended security update program is going to run until 2028, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC is going to have extended support all the way until 2032.
They have stated that ESU is going to be available to consumers as well, though not for how much - but somewhere between the $61 of the commercial, and $1 (really) of the education license, with the price doubling every year.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Pidgin. Before that it was called Gaim.
It still works, as there are plugins to integrate it with almost everything. - Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
You can disable the AI stuff if you do a “web” search, it’s in the list with images, videos etc. Theres also a thing you can add to a search url to do it -
&udm=14. - Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
It is. The AI Effect just means the goalposts for what people think of as “proper” AI are constantly moving.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Because:
Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:
- Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
- Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission
- Game save and console modding services
As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.
reddit.com/…/save_game_editors_and_console_moddin…It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.
- Comment on WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources 1 month ago:
Reddit is fun is fun for Reddit. The WP is just WP, just like RIF is just RIF.
- Comment on WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources 1 month ago:
Yes, because it used to be"Reddit is Fun", which wasn’t okay. That was the point.
- Comment on WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources 1 month ago:
WP Engine for WordPress.
That seems to be the commonly accepted solution if you look at other 3rd party trademark cases - situations like “RIF is fun for Reddit” coming to mind. - Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
In Youtube, where you can get entire movies or 5-hour live streams as ads? That reality?
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
And when the pampers ad is 24 second long and the walmart ad is 55 seconds, even if they start at the same time, they won’t end at the same time, and now the next ad starts at a different time as well.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
It will always be randomized, otherwise it’s not targeted. There’s no reason to run Swedish pampers ads in the US or Walmart ads in Japan.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB 1 month ago:
And .kkrieger is 96 kilobytes and uses around 200MB of RAM iirc.
- Comment on Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can. 1 month ago:
So did I. But after the new Deus Ex games and looking at the real tech scene evolve recently, I’m feeling more and more that just maybe Togusa had the right idea staying natural.
- Comment on 28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 1 month ago:
Because they didn’t make one.
And the reason this one isn’t 28 months later is because it’s heck of a lot easier to make the 48 year old Cillian Murphy look like a convincing 54-year old than a 28 year old. - Comment on E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing 2 months ago:
Which one do you prefer?
And don’t say Pebble, that’s an e-paper, not an eink.
- Comment on Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared 2 months ago:
They are. GTX 580 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.
It’s the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power.
- Comment on Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared 2 months ago:
Agreed.
For a quick fix, you can make blue power LEDs slightly more tolerable by sticking a piece of yellow post-it note on top of them, it turns them white.
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 2 months ago:
Yes, but then it would be slightly heavier and have way too good of a battery life, reducing power bank sales.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
This got rarer later on, once they realised the could fill the discs with FMV sequences instead.
Speaking of PS1 games and disk-filling FMVs: Final Fantasy 7 on the PSX comes on 3 600MB disks but the actual game itself is duplicated on all of them and you can swap them out during gameplay and the only thing that happens is that it plays the wrong FMVs.
It all breaks down to the actual “game” only taking 133MB out of the available ~1.8GB (according to this old post about how a Nintendo DS port could easily fit on a 256MB flash cart.)
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
In this case, the question was rhetorical - the original release of BG1 takes 5 CDs, and the sixth is the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion.
They did eventually re-release it as only a 3 CD set because they could cram more data on a single CD by then - Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
Why would anyone need a 24TB HDD?
Because in the time we have gone from 4GB SD cards to 4TB cards, movies have gone from being 700MB to 70Gb, and games from coming on a few cds or dvds to requiring a mountain of them - Baldurs Gate 1 came on 5 CDs, BG3 would require around 200 of them. - Comment on How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom. 3 months ago:
“Any audio you put on your iPod that isn’t music is a podcast.”
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
Social security number specifically might be, but a unique number tied to you that is often used as identification when it really shouldn’t isn’t, it’s a shitshow that has been implemented in many countries around the world. en.wikipedia.org/…/National_identification_number
- Comment on OpenAI has a 99.9% accurate ChatGPT AI text detector, but won't release it. 3 months ago:
The detector provides an assessment of how likely it is that all or part of the document was written by ChatGPT. Given a sufficient amount of text, the method is said to be 99.9 percent effective.
That means given 100 pieces of text and asked if they are made by ChatGPT or not, it gets one of them wrong. Allegedly, that is, and with the caveat of “sufficient amount of text”, whatever that means.
