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• They should get some autists to write alternative versions of the questions.

  V1 rewrite: “You often notice or have been told that you take things too literally.”

  Nah, still too vague. How literal is too literal?

  V2: “You often notice or have been told that you take things more literally than what was probably intended.”

  on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20h ago

• I think it would be difficult to do it in good faith because the CEOs can subtlely fuck with the results on both ends. Like order other non-janitors to pick up some of the more urgent cleaning/maintenance work to make them seem less important (or maybe offer secret bonuses to people to “just clean up because they like to be helpful” or something). Also order their own subordinates to do crazy (but reversible) things while the CEO is away.

  The same thing I’d expect them to do for experiments with alternate economic systems, sabotage the shit out of it so they can say “see, this won’t work!”

  on Guillotine Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23h ago

• I do software development but at my work, our logs are so verbose (so many debug messages that should have been removed before submission but weren’t on a process that takes hours to complete, I’ve seen logs in the hundreds of megabytes for a single test) that I pretty much had to relearn how to find and read error messages. There were a few times I debugged “mystery behaviour” and once I had figured it out, suddenly noticed that there was an error message or warning about the exact thing I spent a while debugging. There was so much text that I just stopped really seeing it as text and saw it more as noise.

  on Youre In Prison Right Now Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• No, no, it’s sorting the crashes. If it had directed the planes to other runways, then there would be more crashes to clean up.

  on FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Plus probably a ton of AI slop by now.

  on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Yeah, they say don’t worry about imposter syndrome because many people feel that way. They don’t say that most people aren’t imposters out of their league, just that most people feel that way.

  on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• I wasn’t aware that that existed. Guessing it didn’t also raid each of the inserted drives, so it would have at best given 2x microsd performance, though at worst it would be as slow as your slowest one. Actually mismatches of performance from microsd to microsd could have even cause further performance issues if the raid controller assumes equal performance so that the read responses can be interleaved with some small amount of buffer space. It could mean one getting too far ahead of the other would end up requiring transactions to be re-issued. Even if they were all identical, I wouldn’t expect them to degrade at the same rate.

  Though now I am curious about how well a large number of microsd cards would perform if set up in an array that striped/mirrored across all of them rather than batches of them, with sufficient buffer space to absorb perf differences between the cards (meaning it would still be held back by the slowest cards but not to the point of thrashing, if that was an added factor in your setup).

  on lmao in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3d ago

• Care to share any details? Curious how you actually set up the access to the array (like just plug in a bunch of USB microsd readers and wrote a driver to handle the array itself?) as well as the config you used for the array, like which raid mode and most importantly, if striping, if you matched the stripe size to the microsd read block size. A mismatch would result in poor performance, though I could also see it performing poorly even if it was set up ideally, though in theory an ideal setup should have been able to get 20x the throughput for large continuous reads and writes, though random access and latency wouldn’t improve.

  It also requires the bus(es) the USBs are on to support the total saturated throughput, though I don’t expect you got anywhere close to saturating the USB link (unless maybe you did on pretty old hardware).

  on lmao in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3d ago

• Almost always money, often power, though occasionally responsibility, if they are high on the bootlicking scale but low on the ambition and greed scale.

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago

• Hexagon methodology: powering the transition from computers to comphreeters, one keyboard are a time!

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago

• If you’re on either windows or Linux, a keyboard layout or language needs to be added to your settings to switch between the two with a hotkey combination. No idea where the setting currently is in windows (it became very mobile when MS started moving settings around all the time), but in KDE, it’s under keyboard settings. There will be a language and then a layout, plus a key combination for switching between the two (IIRC in windows, the key combo might not even be on the same page).

  Though another possibility is there’s a hardware switch on the keyboard itself or maybe a custom driver if you had to install anything to use that keyboard.

  Anyways, maybe that information will help in looking into what’s actually going on (maybe your key combo is something you hit when talking about the forbidden topics) or stop it from happening (by removing the Russian language and keyboard layout if you don’t normally have reason to use them).

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago

• There’s only so much bullshit I’d put up with for that admittedly crazy acceleration (drove a friend’s once and they can go). From the privacy angle alone, I see them as basically ring doorbell cameras on wheels (though wonder if I should instead consider them like flock cameras on wheels). For safety, they can require having the presence of mind (and physical capability, which could be impossible if an accident occurred) to remove a door panel to access the mechanical door latch while the car is on fire. Build quality sucks. They are pretty much a poster child for overpromise underdeliver.

  And that’s not even touching who benefits from Tesla doing well.

  on How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Guessing this is deliberate to enable warrantless use of the resource by people who wouldn’t have been authorized to use it in the first place.

  on Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• There is another way: don’t own a Tesla.

  on How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• The trick is to first create a RAM disk. Then put the swap file on there and it’s about as fast as RAM. Then, with the new memory you have created, make another RAM disk. Yep, then make more swap space on there.

  I have solved both the memory and SSD availability issues with this infinite RAM and disk space trick.

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Because then they can advertise their other games to you along with other things, at least going by the blizzard/Activision launcher.

  Can also do environment checks or setup and some troubleshooting/debug/repair from them.

  on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Which is when your penis has an Eating Disorder (for blood).

  on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Yeah, IMO they should either be priced cheaply because anyone who buys is essentially testing the game. Then it’s an ok gamble IMO, cheap game that might never get better and could be full of bugs.

  Or they should be priced higher to attract people who specifically want to support the idea and avoid review boms from people who expect a full game even though it says “early access”. But this model then puts a requirement for communication and transparency with those who did support it, as well as a commitment to release what they did produce as open source if they end up abandoning the project.

  Though I think there should be some buyer beware involved. Read reviews before you buy, especially negative ones, and look for trends (to avoid being overly influenced by one reviewer’s bias). It’s impossible to predict which will continue being developed and which will fail (and out of those that fail, which ones intended it from the start and which ones were trying to make a great game in good faith but it just didn’t work out), so buy early access games for what they currently are rather than what you hope they’ll be. Even if they do get finished, that final product might not be what you’re hoping for.

  Other than banning the account after it happens, I can’t really see any way to punish the bad faith actors without catching people with low resources just trying to make a game despite the system being stacked against them.

  on Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons" in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• I’m not sure whether I’d say your first paragraph overestimates or underestimates people but I disagree with that premise. The fact that there exists people who willingly take their own life is a counter example, and I’d say that it would be a slow suicide (as in the work they do isn’t going to immediately cause them harm) makes it even easier, even if they see the eventual harm as inevitable.

  Personally, I think the idea of AGI is dangled to build credibility for future attacks to be blamed on a rogue AI system. After which, the ones who really control the AI will come in and “fight” it and be treated like heroes, with repeats happening coincidentally when people start getting tired of shit again and need to be reminded about how the rulers saved them.

  Edit: forgot to close my bracket.

  on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• Maybe, but they’ll patch that as soon as they notice people doing it, forcing you to slightly modify the method because they aren’t very good at their jobs, plus every now and then an update will just revert your changes for no apparent reason.

  on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026

• Hollow Knight (both orig and SS) and Gravity Circuit, though Gravity Circuit did end up working the 2nd time while both HK games failed to launch without error message. I see each of those games on gog.

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• That’s if you even consider AI generated frames to be “good graphics”.

  I love beautiful graphics. I’m not picky about them and don’t insist on photorealism only (Valhala is a beautiful game and uses this strange mix of high and low fidelity graphics), but I do love me some good photorealistic rendering.

  I’m not interested in this “AI tries to predict the pixels between actual rendered ones”. It’s just a push towards average, like everything else big data, when it works well. And maybe this one does work well but I still dgaf because I don’t want slop frames.

  And I suspect that’s a reason you don’t see true frame to frame comparisons between AI upscaling and that same frame fully rendered at the higher resolution. It’s difficult for random reviewers to get the exact same frame rendered like that so I mostly see frames taken from the same viewpoint, but you can’t do apples to apples comparisons because the scene is dynamic and things other than the camera have changed. But nvidia could generate the same frame both ways for a direct comparison but only seem to want to show comparisons like DLSS off (at low res) vs DLSS on (at high res) or different DLSS versions against each other, which I think is telling.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• What’s with the “so I can play movies I own” bit? I replaced blu-rays with movies because I tried to play a DVD in the ps5 and had to switch over to the PS3 because it just wouldn’t play on the PS5. And when I tried to search about it, the results were all fucking useless talking about region locks and shit when all of the items involved were purchased in the same region.

  Anyways, the question I’m asking is if you can point me to more information about how the PS5 handles (or doesn’t) movies, the rest of this comment devolved into a rant.

  Part of the reasoning when I bought mine was that I wasn’t sure how much longer I could rely on my PS3 to be my bluray player, so this is extra fucking annoying. I do have an external writer that I use with my PC though haven’t tried playing anything through that or hooking it up to my PS5, is that a valid workaround or does it have to be a sony external drive, or even a PS5 specific one?

  Bonus PS5 shittiness: I bought a 3rd party guitar controller because I wasn’t sure if my inability to play as well as I used to was me, the system (on my ps3), or the controller I was using. Seems to have been all of the above, aa my skills aren’t at their peak anymore but I’ve been able to do much better after getting that new controller (and fixing it up because it sucked out of the box, eg the strummer would stick because the piece of plastic was too thick for the housing… So many fucking garbage products these days). Anyways, when I was at the “system” part of the equation, I decided to buy rock band 4 for the PS4 and just take my PS3 out of the equation entirely. And yeah, it runs great, but for some reason the PS5 (and only the PS5, PS3 and PC are fine with this) will lose the connection not between the dongle and the guitar, but between the dongle and PS5. The lights show the dongle sees it but it won’t work as a controller again until I unplug and replug the dongle. Wtf. Can’t tell if it’s a bug, Sony not playing nice with a 3rd party peripheral, or the shitty controller not quite following USB spec though in a way that the older implementations can handle but the PS5 can’t.

  Also it will pair with my bone conducting headphones but refuses to treat them as an audio device. And I’m considering opening up the controllers I have to take the mics out because I don’t trust them (and wouldn’t want an open omnidirectional mic anyways even if I was playing multiplayer team games, which would suck because everyone else is using an open omnidirectional mic).

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Tbh, after the power went out and I tried playing games on my steam deck only to find they wouldn’t launch because… not even sure if it was DRM or because it’s set up to need to download shit from the internet. And last week I brought my steam deck to play while my daughter had a thing going on and same shit, even though I remembered to put it in offline mode before leaving. And on a flight, I had installed a game specifically to play, but it needed to download more content or some shit and wouldn’t run.

  While I could probably avoid the annoyance with some sort of script or automation that just runs each of my installed games every so often on it so the DRM shit is refreshed, I am seeing that Steam is already in the bad place for digital rights. I intend to at least start a habit of checking gog for games before getting them from Steam and might start looking in to how to keep permanent access to my top games that I’ve bought and paid for, regardless of what Valve decides.

  Also this renews my desire to skip any game with deneuvo, as that also requires an internet connection to validate.

  It’s just a repeat of one of my earlier pirating vs using a legit copy experiences. Took weeks to get into some software at work that the company paid good money for. Then, when I wanted to use it for a personal project, I had the pirated copy running the same day the download finished. DRM fucks legit customers more than pirates.

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• I remember years ago there was a firmware source leak (or maybe the binary was analyzed or something) for gigabyte’s led controller firmware/drivers that basically just exposed the firmware programming bus to user land because that’s how they did lighting updates and the kernel mode driver just passed whatever the user mode driver gave it, which could include firmware updates to other hardware IDs.

  It was at this point that I stopped running a lot of those hardware control utilities (and I suspect that might also be why I barely saw any issues with the Radeon 5700 XT that was a bit infamous for “its” issues that I think might have just been incompatibilities with 3rd party “helper” utilities or shit written by companies that had gotten to the “just ship it” stage of development).

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I wanted to be in the video game industry when I was younger and followed through with it by learning programming and pretty much everything I could with computers.

  But then while I was in university, the story about EA’s working culture broke. How they’d say hours were normal but they might need extra hours during “crunch time”, which sounded reasonable until you learned that they just set deadlines such that it was always crunch time. The partners of EA workers did a class action suit against the company and won it IIRC.

  That was enough for me to adjust my trajectory. I realized the suddenly obvious bit: people usually go into the video game industry because they have a passion for video games, which sets them up for exploitation like any other job that many people want to get in to.

  I might still make a video game but I never intend to be a peon in the video game industry.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Assuming they changed anything about their ideals and didn’t just think “hey does having this here reduce suspicion as intended or raise it when it begs the question of how a tech company could even be evil when they aren’t named ‘Microsoft’?”

  on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• VR’s ability to control the atmosphere more could make for some next level horror games, too. Like something where there’s a reason the player can’t run, like they are wheelchair bound or sailing through a lake of lava.

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Star Fox was before that (released 1993). And Pilotwings was even earlier than that (1990). Mario 64 was released in 1996. There was also a Gameboy game, X, released in 1992.

  Pilotwings might bring up some argument about whether it was really 3D because it was done purely using 2D graphics tricks, which the SNES was very good at. But it was different from the FF VI/III map view because they did have an internal 3D model that was a part of the render, while FF just stuck a sprite in the middle of the screen that looked like it added height to the flat map it was “standing on”. In Pilotwings you could climb and dive.

  But X and Star Fox did use actual rasterization to render their views. Star Fox had an additional chip in the cartridge that expanded the SNES’ processing power to handle 3d rendering, kinda like an early GPU (except this was just attached to a single game).

  I’d argue that both are really 3D, just that Pilotwings used a rendering technique that has since been abandoned while Star Fox used a (very simple) version of the 3D renderer pipeline that is still used today.

  Mario 64 greatly increased the polygon count, added textures, dynamic lighting, improved z-buffering, and took the camera off the rails that Star Fox forced (but Pilotwings didn’t).

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I’m getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Iirc, things are looking better today than the ST timeline had. They predicted water riots and a breakdown of society in the 2020s and 2030s, leading to a devestating nuclear exchange in the 2050s. Though while we aren’t seeing water riots, it doesn’t sound that far off.

  Buuuuut, ST also predicted that we’d have already seen Kahn take over and the eugenic wars, and that’s something that is worse than anything we’ve actually seen. I think they overestimated how much we could do after the progress seen in sequencing genomes when the original series was being made. They originally put Kahn in the 1990s/2000s.

  So one could argue that we’re currently in a better timeline than Star Trek.

  on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• Wait, what if we have the “cat brings you kills because it doesn’t respect you as a hunter and thinks you need help and I’m doing it because I love you” backwards and it’s actually a “hey, look, I know you put remains of previous kills you do while you’re out of the house in my bowl, but here’s some proof that I’m competent enough to join you if you need me, so please don’t kick me out?”

  Or maybe a “hey, I just did the killing part, can you show me how to do the make it delicious part like you do to your kills? I tried dropping it in my water but that just made my water gross (replace it at your earliest convenience or now, whichever is sooner). Or just do it for me and stick it in my bowl when it’s ready. If you do, I’ll let you gaze at my glorious belly and touch it but only for two seconds.”

  on Dog rurs in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• And the whole “try but back down if it isn’t going so well” strategy is the worst part of it all because it helps them without even if a judge would laugh them out of court over it because of the set of people that would back down or be happy with a lesser settlement, which is probably larger than the set of people that would fight it anyways, plus there’s the subset of people that would want to fight anyways but don’t have the resources to do so.

  That’s why I hate the whole system of “treat it as if it is all good until someone (who was specifically harmed by this) takes it to court”. And that’s even before getting to the part where the decision in the end rests in the hands of a single or maybe a small group of judges.

  on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I wonder if the language selection is similar to how they use bad grammar specifically to filter out people smart enough to see bad grammar as a red flag when it’s supposed to be a professional communication.

  on How to compromise your system with a job interview in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Yeah, a lot of these fingerprinting capabilities seem like things that should be behind permission requests, if not outright disabled entirely.

  Like ok, I get that if someone wanted to make a browser-based audio editing tool, it might be useful for javascript to be able to sample the output side after effects have been applied. But I don’t want every single fucking website to have that capability by default. I’m not even sure I want websites to be able to play audio at all without permission.

  By default, it should be a one way pipeline. Whatever they put into the pipeline gets displayed or played but they can’t see any of the system-specific results. I’d prefer the standard be designing pages to work with any resolution instead of letting them query the exact pixel dimensions, which varies per device and I suspect fingerprinting was the reason they were designed like that in the first place.

  on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• There should be standard TOS clauses that are approved based on their legality and enforceability that click or use based “contracts” should be limited to. Or at the very least, they should need to be legally ratified rather than only looked at closely if legally challenged.

  Like that whole “you waived our liability for real world shit by using Disney+” should have resulted in the disbarment of any lawyers that wrote, approved, and tried to argue it in court when it came up and punitive damages to Disney for even trying.

  on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Everyone? The group of people that includes those who can’t use their computer after their desktop icons get sorted?

  It still takes some skills, but those skills might just be “desoldering chips to stick them in a chip reader device” and doing that on the storage chips. Or maybe tapping a trace to read the signals that are sent over it to grab a key or something. “Not hard” doesn’t mean “you don’t need skill to do it”, it means “someone who has some skills won’t have difficulty applying them”.

  on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• Another guess just based on the terms is it could be a method that throws your json object into a black hole and returns the version of the object that is stretched out to infinity.

  Though that’s just an optical illusion, in reality the object would be ripped apart by the gravity or extreme radiation, depending on whether it was a small or large black hole.

  Your guesses are more useful, but I can’t fathom what goes on in the mind of JavaScript devs.

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Maybe the client’s interpreter’s autocorrect will fix it at run time.

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Sounds like someone bullshitted their way through school to get a technical degree, not realizing that their bullshitting depended on the person they were bullshitting not being good or confident with technology, which gets rarer when you go into a technical career.

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Haha I have also done an interview where the person had a friend in the room feeding them answers, though this one must have assumed his mic was worse than it was and didn’t mute at all, so we could hear the mumbling of answers. To make it even funnier, though, their friend wouldn’t have gotten hired either because none of their answers were good.

  I kinda wanted to tell them they should find a smarter friend to help them cheat at interviews but instead just thanked them for their time and ended the interview.

  Though tbh, I wasn’t really impressed by any of the new grads from the schools we were looking at. Some of them made me wonder if they learned anything at all about software development during their time at school.

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Also acceptable: JavaScript? Ok shoot me.

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Yeah, I gotta say that while shit is looking pretty bad on the corporate producer side of things, this society/system has bred a ton of entitled consumers that think their desires are important to anyone that can make or do things.

  Even if you’re paying someone for something, that doesn’t mean you can dictate what they do or how they do it. Or even that they need to offer you what they willingly offer others. There’s some people where no amount of money would make dealing with them worthwhile, let alone what they are willing to pay for special treatment.

  But with FOSS, there isn’t even the incentive of money greasing the interaction. It’s just pure entitlement. No one owes you anything just because you’re interested in their project or skills.

  on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026

• Now show me Alien if it had been released in 1999 instead.

  Aborts after 5 seconds, realizing the entertainment value will be pretty much entirely laughing at the ridiculous things it got wrong which is already old

  on This has been happening to a lot of people recently in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Aug 2026

• The only one that I think stands a chance is the xbox one, and that’s assuming they combine it with gamepass. Because that was the only thing that sounded even somewhat appealing to me about the idea of remote gaming: being able to try a bunch of different games legally without needing to buy them all. Like netflix but for games (and not just mobile games like the actual netflix games).

  Having my own devices that can handle playing games, I have zero interest in paying full price for a game I own even less than most games these days (because at least with the files all being stored and run locally, it opens up other possibilities, like hacking it to still run without DRM if its DRM server goes out or modding it). That was deal breaker #1.

  Dealbreaker #2 is of course the latency. I use an ETX via VPN for my work and just typing on that thing is annoying because of the latency.

  The subscription cost is another big negative, though I guess I wouldn’t call it a dealbreaker. Though I currently have 0 video game related subscriptions (I don’t count netflix, assuming they haven’t given up on their games).

  On the pros side, the only things I can think of is that it limits cheating (though separate devices would still work) and it gives you an option to play if you don’t have a device capable of playing it, though you do still need a device, a display and sound system, and a good internet connection.

  on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• I believe it is an attempt to use an argument that they will care about. You could write a brilliant piece about how that many bots hurt culture and society but if the ones you want to convince don’t gaf about either of those, they probably won’t even read what you have to say, let alone change anything because of it.

  Or, more likely, they won’t even see anything here, at which point that comment becomes more of a “they aren’t even very good at what they want to be good at”.

  Like from my pov, the top of the corporate world doesn’t just not care about those things but is actively trying to destroy them because they think they’ll do better in a world where none of those things are as they currently are.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• What’s the dishonored game that came out after 2? I have the first one and saw two others on my wishlist just the other day.

  on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• Oh, how long until an AI ends up swatting people. There will probably even be different categories:

  1. Legit swat scenario, wrong address (or otherwise incorrect details make it turn tragic)
  2. Caller deliberately trying to swat innocent victim, AI goes along with it and adds credibility (not that humans seem to take away much credibility, so maybe this one shouldn’t really be a black mark for AIs if it does happen)
  3. AI just misinterprets a caller’s description, deploys swat team
  4. AI doesn’t trust the caller’s description, deploys swat team (anyone ever seen an agent start suspecting they were in an adversarial situation where something was injecting things into the context? I have)
  5. AI uses dispatching tool incorrectly, accidentally deploys swat team
  on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• While we’re talking about glasses technology, it seems like oil resistant coatings have finally gotten really good. My eyebrows are pretty oily and would smear on the top middle corners of my glasses all the time. But my latest pair just has a tiny bit of smudging there. I can press them against my face and wiggle my eyebrows right against them and it’s still only a bit smudged.

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