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• I was going to add that the avatar was already dead, and it was your screaming the troll was talking over, because this is the 30th time you’d heard the ad

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• It’s your 30th boss run. As you fuck up your sixth dodge roll in a row, the Troll picks up your character. He roars over the screams of your avatar as he crushes it’s ribs in its massive fist.

  Then, as he raises you high over head, and opens wide to chomp down on your head, the actions stops. The Troll turns to the camera and smiles, showing off brilliant pearly whites. “Colgate is recommended by 9/10 dentists.”, the troll effuses over the screaming.

  A text box appears.

  ‘To proceed, type the number of dentists Colgate is recommended by, followed by this random number “N”.’

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I used to work for an MSP (Managed Service Provider), can confirm. Security is something I had to redirect attention to on a day-to-day basis. Even then, the company was more concerned with appearance and audit compliance than security.

  I have worked at IT companies that really did care about security, but those companies were driven by management and staff that personally cared about IT security. One of them was a certificate authority.

  Here’s a story about physical security from before that time.

  I once had equipment in a Data Center that was embedded in the 4th floor of an office building. There was a mantrap at the entrance, designed to prevent you from walking away with the main DC door open, or letting people tailgate in to it. One of the doors of the mantrap was a sliding door, disguised as a bit of the hallway.

  The sliding door was locked with a maglock on the thin end, so when it fully closed, it locked and you couldn’t slide it open without a key card, from inside or out.

  …unless you bumped in to it with your shoulder, which separated the lock and opened the door. Which, after it was figured out (about 1 month), happened all the time. People would get let in to the DC without a card that opened that specific door. (DC security control provisioned the main door was separate from building control, which managed the sliding door).

  When they tried to get out later, they’d get stuck in the mantrap, then they’d wait for someone to let them out (pre-cellphones). That person would then show them the trick. This was so common they turned off the forced-lock alarm. This lead to the mantrap being useless, and people propping the DC door open for ease of access when moving stuff in and out.

  This was put in place in 2001, and I visited the building last year in 2025, it’s still in place today.

  It’s worth noting that this DC was shared by multiple competitive reinsurers, ISPs and financial agencies. The were no cameras outside or inside, and you could poke most server reset buttons through the rack cages with the ink cartridge of a ball point pen. Not everyone was shown that trick.

  on 216,000,000 LG Smart TVs are spying on you - Gamers Nexus in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026

• In my experience, those apps don’t detect immediately, sometimes only alarming beyond 5 mins after contact. I have to assume by default to save power the scans are rate limited, like with WiFi scans.

  Those apps have to be allowed to scan when the glasses are transmitting to detect them, providing limited success.

  on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 22 Aug 2026