DocMcStuffin
@DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hi-Rez Studios announces February 17th shutdown for Realm Royale and Divine Knockout 3 weeks ago:
I’d be surprised if they had net positive income on Tribes 3. A lot of veteran gamers of the series saw who was really running development and decided to stay away. Once bitten, twice shy. The writing was on the wall that it was a dead game back in June.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 1 month ago:
It’s easier than that: c for ceiling, g for ground.
- Comment on i am hella indifferent to humans of any gender taking shits 1 month ago:
But they could be shitting right next to you! Menacingly!
- Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals 1 month ago:
Apple has a long history of working against right to repair and third party repair shops. This includes making it difficult for third parties to source the parts needed and changing the designs to requiring part pairing in the name of security. It got to the point where repair shops were buying broken Apple products so they could hopefully source the parts needed.
Looking through what they provided now, it’s basic stuff any third party repair shop could do if they could source the parts. It’s useful. However good electronic technicians can go beyond that and do board level repairs. But that requires schematics and diagrams. A lot of times they would have to get those through other parties who in turn got them through less than official means or violated NDAs.
Guess what Apple isn’t providing? Board level information. This is just doing the minimum the law requires them to do.
Bonus: Louis Rossmann talks about how Apple’s history of right to repair
- Comment on Bro almost lost his job 😭 2 months ago:
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
I remember when this was just a joke on Futurama. Why does life imitate art in the dumbest way possible‽
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on When PSAs go too far 2 months ago:
It’s out there. You just have to search for it.
- Comment on Taco Bell Programming 2 months ago:
And just like Taco Bell when something goes bad you get to deal with all the diarrhea.
But seriously, shouldn’t this be in !programminghumor@lemmy.world and not technology?
- Comment on xkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death 2 months ago:
Robot raptors
- Comment on Brat summer is dead RIP 3 months ago:
Someone spread the rumor that JD Vance admitted to having coitus with a couch, and the rest was memes.
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 4 months ago:
Looks like someone tried to archive an archived page. You can see
https://web.archive.org/…is listed twice in the url. I just trimmed off the first one then it works: web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https:/…/2834 - Comment on If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it? 6 months ago:
Not sure if they’re still available, but gummy bears made with Lycasin guarantee explosive results.
- Comment on Bean jean 6 months ago:
Is there something in particular you want to point out? Because I’m not seeing anything that screams monster.
- Comment on Smothsinian 6 months ago:
That depends on if you work for the government
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Needs more jpeg.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
There’s one good news. Reddit didn’t want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
At this point I wouldn’t trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.
- Comment on I hate my mind 8 months ago:
Or a shape shifting alien from a 1980’s horror film.
- Comment on First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts 8 months ago:
Tom’s Guide has shit reporting. This was the same site that repeated the bogus DDoS smart toothbrushes story. And they’re at it again more sensationalism.
From something more reputable:
The use of the victims’ faces for bank fraud is an assumption by Group-IB, also corroborated by the Thai police, based on the fact that many financial institutes added biometric checks last year for transactions above a certain amount.
It is essential to clarify that while GoldPickaxe can steal images from iOS and Android phones showing the victim’s face and trick the users into disclosing their face on video through social engineering, the malware does not hijack Face ID data or exploit any vulnerability on the two mobile OSes.
More from bleeping computer:
A new iOS and Android trojan named ‘GoldPickaxe’ employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.
Now, don’t get me wrong, you should take malware and social engineering attacks seriously. But get your information from sites that do real security journalism.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 9 months ago:
You got me curious enough to look and what a shitshow of a person working against their own self-interests. She’s a good candidate for !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world.
Aaaannnnd she’s already there, lol.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
A few months back Ruud stood up a copy: searxng.world
I’ve been using it, and it tends to be as good as or better than google’s search. There’s only been a handful of instances where I’ve explicitly used google’s.
- Comment on I would have disowned him too. 9 months ago:
Oh no, disowned isn’t nearly far enough. Dad should have responded, “My hands are named crows because they are part of a murder.”
- Comment on Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) 9 months ago:
Yeah, the first 2/3rds of the article covering Naomi Wu was worth a read, but that last 1/3rd… I get her argument, but she should have left that out to focus just on Naomi.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
Internet of Targets
- Comment on Fuck the balloon police 10 months ago:
I don’t know if they can actually stop you. Especially the first time. But they can definitely find you and fine you. A lot. Like more than tree fiddy.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
Found the article where the screenshot came from, and wow it’s even more infuriating! The VideoLAN folks tried to work with them for months, and Unity seems to have cranial rectal inversion.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
I completely forgot about that term. That may be more accurate. In fact, it describes what has Windows has become.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
Neat, TIL of another app. Unfortunately, it looks like development has been abandoned. The last update was from 13 years ago.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
I like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.
- Why is it limited to platforms? Can’t enshittification apply to other things like applications?
- Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
- The platforms dying thing isn’t what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They’re not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.
I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.
