wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on who wants coffee 1 day ago:
Yeah man! You hungry? Lets get some meat on those bones.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 4 days ago:
Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something lime that.
- Comment on Well, are you? 5 days ago:
hiss!
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 5 days ago:
Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
It’s been hours now (and a very busy day), but I swear that half of that comment (including that section) wasn’t there when I commented regarding safer seas.
But there’s no mark showing the comment has been edited either.
Scurvy must be eating me brain.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
Good news! No need to wait for unofficial servers. Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
Good news! Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!
- Comment on So long, and thanks for all the fish 🫡 1 week ago:
- Comment on Android 16 can warn you that you might be connected to a fake cell tower 1 week ago:
Wow, only over a decade since this problem was first demonstrated at defcon and the community started finding ways to detect this themselves!
Glad to have this feature natively, but come on Google.
- Comment on Car 1 week ago:
Everyone knows that if you don’t eat the cork then you aren’t getting your money’s worth.
- Comment on WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages 1 week ago:
Yes, you’re correct.
But that rollout doesn’t make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That’s what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.
As I’ve already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn’t work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.
I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress’s phones.
But again, this isn’t a technical problem where you can just point at what’s obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you’re willing to train your family members, etc.
My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I’m not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work… just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.
I’ll revisit as the elders age off.
I care about my privacy, but I’ve thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn’t important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.
Doesn’t have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.
Ultimately I’m just trying to give you reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took your statement that you didn’t understand at face value. I’m not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don’t invalidate yours.
- Comment on Sheriff’s Office may acquire Biometrica facial recognition;company offers free tech to police for 2.5M mugshots, jail records, and data on people in justice system, including unconvicted individuals 1 week ago:
How is that fucking legal?
Give us this very sensitive information, we promise we won’t misuse it, and we’ll let you fiddle our AI as a treat.
- Comment on WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages 1 week ago:
Momentum of where friends and family are.
It’s nice to be able to say “well they’re not worth talking to then”, but at some point I need to be able to reach my parents so they can babysit my daughter. Or be able to know that family will be in town and expecting me to be available. Or be able to have any way of knowing what life events are happening to my loved ones without having to wait for it to be brought up in casual conversation months later as if I should already know.
My extended family and friends do a poor job communicating on a good day. If I try to add another hurdle, I’m not the one who wins that fight.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 week ago:
Don’t forget “styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels”
- Comment on Senators Call for The FTC to Launch an Investigation into Spotify for Forcing Subscribers into Higher-Priced Subscriptions Without Their Consent. 1 week ago:
Most still are/can be. Enough that I find it hard to believe people are missing out without podcasts through these paid services.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 1 week ago:
Education would be more effective than complaining.
As a straight, isn’t all this is missing for “topping” a strap-on? As in the “top” is usually doing the penetrating?
- Comment on Oh to go back... 1 week ago:
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
What? That’s explicitly false. Grab nearly any instruction booklet for physical media, at least for any from 1990 or later. There are explicit sections laying out that you have licensed the content. 35 years ago.
In another comment on this post, someone pointed out that IBM began software licensing in the 50s. So… 75 years ago.
How far back are you going here?
For stuff like game carts/discs, VHS, and DVDs they simply had no way of enforcing the license terms, and the terms much more often included clauses for transference (lending, resale).
By law, it was almost always a license. That was the entire push behind the old attempts to criminalize backup devices and emulation (the bleem! case is good to read up on).
No arguments about how things worked out in day to day life, but a lot of shit was far more of a legal grey area that no one cared to persue. It wasn’t as much of a difference of legal rights.
- Comment on Be warned. 2 weeks ago:
🚨🚨 !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org 🚨🚨
- Comment on McPenis 2 weeks ago:
McDickin’
- Comment on Just curious 2 weeks ago:
Got that DSN (dick sucking nostril)
- Comment on After shuttering Shadow of Mordor and MultiVersus studios, Warner Bros. Games confirm rearrangement into four bits 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t it also used in the sequel, Shadow of War?
Still bullshit that something like that can be patented.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 2 weeks ago:
It also tracks what you’ve downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.
It’s not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 2 weeks ago:
The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! That’s damn good for “best effort”! A convincing lead on what company it may be.
Personally, I still don’t think it’s time for immediate red alert, but I’ll have to keep an eye on things. Hopefully we’ll see some competitors like GameBanana step up to the challenge.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 weeks ago:
Wait, was it confirmed sold? The news post on Nexus fron this morning indicated that the existing head admin and CEO (of 24 years) was just stepping back (and not even away entirely), and had already put the year+ in of identifying two successors from his existing team.
I didn’t see anything regarding a sale, and the existing admin said quite a bit about taking this seriously from a standpoint of “best for mod makers and users” to the exclusion of focusing on “best for business profits”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.
And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.
As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.
- Comment on BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money 2 weeks ago:
Why does this description sound entirely like someone trying to sell me something?
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 3 weeks ago:
What? Corded phones exist, and most schools and offices have at least one in each room. Dumb phones exist. Pagers exist.
Smart phones are not the only singular solution for easy, quick contact.
- Comment on Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The fluff text in the terminals is what really got me about the repetition. Like you couldn’t write a few more similar paragraphs and shuffle them?