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- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 days ago:
I’m not German, but I would know better than to praise a pick from the AfD.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 days ago:
The Proton CEO thought that the party taking bribe after bribe from oil companies to Tech-bros, and which removed the FTC chairwoman that was bringing anti-trust cases against amazon and publicly criticized Google’s monopoly, would somehow install a good, pro-competitive and consumer rights advocate?
If he genuinely believed that, then he’s either wildly out of the loop in one of his company’s largest markets (which I’ll grant as possible, CEOs can be pretty out of touch with reality), or a fool.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 days ago:
This praise is, itself, ass-kissing the orange, likely in the hopes of getting in the good graces of the administration.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 days ago:
This article shows what happened: techstory.in/proton-mail-faces-backlash-over-clai…
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 days ago:
Unless something has changed, I believe Windscribe also allows port forwarding.
AirVPN does as well, but as they are based in Italy, I think they may have to comply with the new Italian VPN anti-piracy law enacted there.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 days ago:
Quite damning of Proton, but unfortunately isn’t too surprising after the CEO’s pro-trump comments.
I would say they have proven themselves untrustworthy and mostly concerned with profit-seeking, and would suggest moving to alternatives if you use their services.
Mullvad is a solid VPN (Tor is better), and Posteo, Tuta, or Disroot are good email providers (don’t use email for anything sensitive, private providers only give protection against survailence capitalism).
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 days ago:
To be fair, Windows 10 has some meaningful upgrades compared to 7.
- Windows 10 can handle radical new hardware (such as swapping a drive to a totally different PC) much more gracefully, where as Windows 7 could sometimes freak out and crash or not boot.
- Windows updates were ungodly slow to install on Windows 7, but were much quicker on Windows 10.
- Windows 10’s ability to automatically download drivers was very convenient, bringing it more in-line with the experience of Linux, which generally has drivers out of the box.
- Windows 10 was generally quite stable, even more stable than 7, in my experience.
But with all those advantages, came many downsides as well:
- Windows 10’s system settings interface is an absolute clusterfuck, making changing simple things like the refresh rate of a monitor difficult to change or find due to being buried behind so many sub-menus. The Windows 10 settings are usually a dumbed down version, with a small easy to miss hyperlink somewhere on the page to bring up the older Windows XP/7 era settings panel that actually adjusted the thing you needed.
- Windows 10 has a lot of annoying pop-ups for features that barely anyone uses or wants, but likely helps monetize the OS.
- Windows 10 incorporated ads into the start menu. Fucking ads!
- Windows 10 was a privacy nightmare compared to 7, and the privacy settings were in a constant state of flux after an update
- Windows 10’s automatic driver installer had a downside, in that it would automatically download an outdated version of your GPU driver automatically before you could beat it to the punch with a properly new one.
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- Comment on Four Thieves Vinegar Collective on CCC 5 days ago:
I think the issue is that due to capitalism, for some people, their options can be either to take the risk to create these medicines themselves, or suffer and die due to lack of access.
- Comment on Indiana Jones devs MachineGames tease another Wolfenstein game - "we have a story to tell" 1 week ago:
Their first wolfenstein was a masterpiece with a surprisingly compelling man in the high castle-esqe story, the sequel tossed all that away by embracing a really cringe story that whiplashes between deathly serious discussions that are literally interrupted by bathroom poop jokes. That could’ve even been funny, but it didn’t seem to be poking fun at itself in a self aware way, it was just poor and inconsistant writing.
The 3rd was just an objectively bad game that tossed aside all the good aspects of the first game.
I was hopeful they would turn it around with the new Indy game, but that ultimately left me with a very mediocre feeling. Story was okay, but the gameplay left a lot to be desired, with repetitive ancient ruins puzzles that felt very gamey, combined with a bunch of somewhat lame side quests and okay-ish combat, and level design that felt a bit too restrictive for the stealth to really shine.
I’m no longer hopeful that Machine Games can recapture the magic of the first wolfenstein reboot.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 1 week ago:
My first tech was a Sega Genesis and the family’s 486 DX2 computer running Windows 95.
While I had access to new genesis games by renting them, getting new games for the 486 was a rare event due to how expensive software was back then, and there were few places we would visit that sold it. That meant rotating through a lot of the same games for quite a while, which meant I would eventually get bored of them for a while until I would try them again a a month later.
The effect of that is it seemed to encourage me to find other ways away from the tech to entertain myself, like play with legos, or head outside to invent games with the neighbor’s kids.
I don’t want to assume that type of exposure to tech is ideal just because it’s what I experienced, but I wonder if an artificial software limit may be a good idea today for young kids to encourage them to find new ways to solve boredom with their imagination instead of it being done for them exclusively.
- Comment on anybody else noticing some pages hang loading for ages in Firefox mobile? 1 week ago:
Good to see I wasn’t the only one experiencing that problem.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 week ago:
Yes, but a user would need to be experienced enough to know how to uninstall the previous desktop environment components they don’t want, otherwise their application menu would have both DE’s applications (2 file managers, photo viewer’s, text editors, terminals, etc), which can feel a little cluttered.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 2 weeks ago:
There’s a pretty massive item market for this game to use real money for in-game items, where the seller will meet you in a match and drop the gear. So there’s a big financial incentive for people from third world countries to hack so they can quickly acquire valuable items to sell on that market.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 2 weeks ago:
Ah! My bad, it’d been a while since I saw that video.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 2 weeks ago:
The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks.
I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.
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- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
There’s this handy list of online games with anti-cheat that are compatible with Linux. The majority isn’t supported, but some major titles are, surprisingly.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™: The Order of Giants - Launch Trailer 3 weeks ago:
It’s mostly underwhelming, IMHO. Pick it up on sale only, if you can. And make sure you have at least 8gb of gram, or it’ll cease working after you get to Italy.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t bode well. Honestly I fear at some point in the future, if these countermeasures can’t keep up, small sites may need to close themselves off with invite-only access. Hopefully that’s quite a distant future.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 3 comments
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually a major plot point in Cyberpunk 2077. There’s thousands of rogue AI’s on the net that are constantly bombarding a giant firewall protecting the main net and everything connected to it from being taken over by the AI.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 7 comments
- How Native Homes in New Mexico Are Tapping the Sun - An Indigenous-led nonprofit bringd solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe, where about 15,000 households lack access to electricityarchive.is ↗Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 1 month ago:
Used Buicks from the 2000’s can be had for around 3 grand and are very reliable if they have the 3.8l engine. Insurance is often less then 400 a year.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 1 month ago:
Are the cars used? Early 2000’s Buicks with the 3.8l engine are incredibly cheap even with low miles (a really mint one is 5k, a good daily driver can be had for 2.5 to 3.5k).
They’re extremely reliable and relatively safe cars. Not bad on gas either, and cheap to repair.
