wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft OneDrive for Business allegedly keeps OCR'ed data in an unprotected format 2 days ago:
Didn’t they make Bitlocker a default setting?
This is obviously a bad thing, and should absolutely be protected by normal file ACLs, but if a business isn’t protecting their devices against basic theft or hard drive removal then they have bigger things to worry about than just unencrypted OCR data.
The bigger issue would be an insider attack on a shared machine. Better lock down any desktops in the executive conference room!
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 week ago:
My guy, open the article for a moment. Just like TikTok, when you open the app it simply gives a message that they cannot operate in the US.
So no, the apps are not functional unless you use a VPN to get a non-US IP address.
- Comment on AI Generated X 3 weeks ago:
Since AI content is usually clearly identified as such here, it is very easily blocked.
A social media site that you are not the admin or mod of is definitively not the appropriate place for you to attempt to enforce your opinions of what content is acceptable or not.
Downvote, block, and move on. Time is finite, and you are wasting it trying to police what other people should and shouldn’t post in a space where you have no authority.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 3 weeks ago:
It was stupidly warm a day or two after Christmas here, and a neighborhood kid got some sort of drone that follows them around. I legitimately thought someone was running an electric weedeater.
I shudder to imagine what the old plan for Amazon delivery drones would have sounded like. You know that fancy gated communities would ban them for noise pollution or something.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 4 weeks ago:
Returned to Elite Dangerous after an almost two year break. Just casually space trucking to grind out some credits while watching youtube. Once I get enough to outfit one or two new ships, I plan to finally give exploration/exobiology a try, and check out the changes to the engineering grind.
When I last played, I was kind of at the end of what I’d consider “early game”, but there are a decent amount of learning cliffs. Should probably practice some of the other low level content again before moving on.
One of my cousins asked for the game for Christmas and I picked it up on sale for him, so I’m hoping we can play some together at some point.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 4 weeks ago:
Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.
I’m sure it’s coming any day now.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 4 weeks ago:
They have been “working” on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.
For example, there’s been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with “Ep3_” in the code. It’s been around for nearly 20 years and the most that was used was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.
The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.
I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I’ve gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn’t happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they’d accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.
At the very least you also have to contend with “Valve Time”. What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn’t release for 9 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that “definitive evidence” of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.
- Comment on Microsoft is really serious about giving more products Copilot name on Windows 11 4 weeks ago:
Usage numbers for Co-Pilot don’t justify the expenditure, so they’re artificially pumping the numbers by branding more things as Co-Pilot, and integrating it with more software so there’s more people using it by nature of it defaulting to on.
A couple months back they added Co-Pilot to most existing Office 365 licenses for free for the same reason. Lot harder to tell higher ups no because of data leakage concerns when it’s free.
- Comment on Is there an extensive guide on how to protect kids on the internet? 1 month ago:
My daughter isn’t even two yet, but I’m definitely trying to plan a balance with this. It’s a huge part of how I learned, and I don’t think I would have learned nearly as much or as well otherwise.
At the same time though, I can’t help but feel like ads and the internet are far more insidious than they were when I first went online in 2000.
Malware is much more sneaky. There’s more spare resources for it to use without impacting performance. Ads have likewise had plenty of time to develop/advance/get worse.
Thankfully, ad blocking, anti-malware, and recovery tools have also advanced.
I think for the early days I’ll have her on an isolated, locked down, pre-protected device for learning the basics of using a computer (mouse, files, the type of stuff they used to teach in elementary school).
Then slowly take off the training wheels.
- Comment on You can get a free copy of both Breathedge and Dark Sector right now 2 months ago:
Dark Sector (Steam): store.steampowered.com/app/29900/Dark_Sector/
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 2 months ago:
Why are they using an axe and not any of the specifically made tools to break a window? A spring loaded window punch shouldn’t take up any appreciable amount of space or weight on a suited up fireman.
- Comment on It was rigged? 2 months ago:
Apparently the match was also delayed due to some medical issue Tyson had recently where he was seen coughing up blood during a plane flight.
And I’ve heard that his knee was in a brace pre-fight.
- Comment on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage 2 months ago:
Oh neat! I seem to remember some of the blob monster tech being found a long time ago, I think it was datamined from another Valve game or something.
Nice to see it officially aknowledged and some real footage.
- Comment on An MSX Core Has Just Been Released For The Analogue Pocket | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Outside of the original Metal Gear 1 and 2, I’m not sure what other notable games are on the MSX. That said, more cores are never a bad thing. I just wish the price for the Analogue Pocket would come down.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 2 months ago:
Is it islamophobic to point out that their holy prophet had a bride that is widely believed to have been between six and nine years old when they married, and to have been nine years old when the marriage was consumated?
I get that isn’t explicitly encouraging it, but I’ve never heard of any context that in any way justifies their prophet having sex with a nine year old (not that any possibly could).
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Watch Dogs
Fun, but sometimes the difficulty seems to be all over the place, particularly with running from pursuit. Sometimes you can lose them in a minute or two, other times the game keeps spawning in new cars in front of you with no way to dodge them without the ones behind you catching up.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
If you’re a sucker for side content, there’s a ton of short stories and novellas (even a musical) that the fans have translated: I just got Ending E | The Ark Wiki
Kept the setting alive for just a little longer, and added some context to the world and characters.
- Comment on Sonic Adventure DX gripe 2 months ago:
You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the “Better SADX” modloader is great.
In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.
For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original.
So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don’t like.
- Comment on Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise 2 months ago:
The issue seems to be that Microsoft has started to reuse KB#s for updates across different channels, meaning update KB1234 can be a Security update for Windows (Desktop) 11, and be an optional OS upgrade for Windows (Server) 2022.
That appears to be what happened here, but additionally a mistake was made and the Server patch was labelled with the details (that it’s just a security update) for the Desktop one.
Also doesn’t help that Microsoft only has one documentation page for any given update number, and the one for this one only lists the details of the desktop update.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 months ago:
Man, I want one of those living lounge chairs to ride around on.
- Comment on My little buddy (pack of 12) 2 months ago:
Yo, could you flag this NSFW? Don’t think most people would be fine if their boss saw this wonderful pod of dicklets on their screen.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations
That’s literally it. The advertising and marketing teams within Google have politically maneuvered themselves into running the show, and the software/product engineering teams that want to maximize the quality of the system they work on (search, youtube) are overridden by insipid metrics that advertising needs more user interaction with ads.
They literally have been commanding that things be made more shitty to optimize their malformed metrics. There are email chains documenting this that have become part of the public record due to various court cases.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about crowdstrike… They didn’t all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
How could I ever forget
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
When you show it they stop and stare
- Comment on STEINS;GATE REBOOT Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Money
- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 2 months ago:
Man, he still isn’t over how Thiel snubbed him with Paypal and how his original “x.com” online bank idea failed, is he?
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 months ago:
They’re just calling this new thing BMI2 as shorthand
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 months ago:
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme…
