I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:
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drspod@lemmy.mlto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Under pressure from pro-Israel group, Twitch bans several Arab streamers over a month-old TwitchCon panel14·9 months agoWhat an inflammatory headline.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games946·9 months agoOlder games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.
I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”
Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.
She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Fediverse@lemmy.world•So I get banned from lemmy.ml What now?English10·9 months ago*your
drspod@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish22·9 months agoDid you read the article?
drspod@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish23·9 months agoIf you think that I’m misunderstanding something and arguing from a false premise then please feel free to engage with the discussion.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish175·9 months agoI thought passkeys were supposed to be a hardware device?
This is typical embrace/extend/extinguish behavior from the large platforms that don’t want their web-SSO hegemony challenged because it would mean less data collection and less vendor lock-in.
The whole idea of passkeys provided by an online platform should have been ruled out by the specification. It completely defeats the purpose of passkeys which is that the user has everything they need to authenticate themself.
Goodhart’s law is an adage often stated as, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”
drspod@lemmy.mlto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Public-facing Valve dev shows why most Valve devs don't have much to do with the public: 'I'm just the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter' [<- then stop it or join Lemmy]6·9 months agoyou might send that email to the client too by mistake and get fired
That’s an unfair dismissal lawsuit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/smith-oxford-b2616638.html
drspod@lemmy.mlto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Scythe: The Digital Edition - Prettier than Chess, uglier than Scythe51·9 months agoSometimes it gets racist and victim-blaming.
A strange confession to put in a game review.
drspod@lemmy.mltoSecurity News@infosec.pub•New Bluetooth Vulnerability Leak, Your Passcode to Hackers During PairingEnglish8·9 months agoIf you read the article, the described attack allows a man-in-the-middle attack on two devices while they are pairing.
This means that someone could intercept and modify your bluetooth mouse or keyboard inputs, resulting in complete compromise of the device they are connected to.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time48·9 months agoPretty sure this was described exactly in Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992).
drspod@lemmy.mlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse41·10 months agoThen what you bought is not a mouse, it’s a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.
Back in the 00’s we had to fiddle with ifconfig and friggin’ /etc/network by hand. Things have gotten a lot better.
I was just thinking that I’ve never had any problems with either WiFi or Ethernet connectivity since NetworkManager became a standard part of modern distros. Before that I was having to install windows drivers with ndiswrapper and configure interfaces manually in
ifup
andifdown
scripts, and I haven’t had to do that for at least 15 years now.
drspod@lemmy.mlto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Asmongold Roasts the Weird Charracter Design in Dragon Age: The Veilguard: “This Is Just Awful”153·10 months agoI hate to be the one to break it to you, but railing against “forced diversity” is just a dog-whistle for rejecting actual diversity.
Normal people don’t actually care about it. If something is shit because it’s badly written with bad character design then we say “it’s shit because it’s badly written and has bad character design,” not “it’s bad because it has women and minorities.”
drspod@lemmy.mlto Games@lemmy.world•Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boringEnglish26·10 months agoYou clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I’m not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they’re showing banner ads on the page.
It worked using the
ismap
attribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user’s click to the link when fetching the result.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Games@lemmy.world•Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boringEnglish37·10 months agoDoes anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:
I’m all in favor of going back to the old internet, but… not this.
drspod@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent DaysEnglish16·10 months agoSorry, there’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is
At the end of its third quarter of its fiscal 2024, […] Qualcomm had $7.8 billion in cash and […] just over $23 billion in total assets. That means Qualcomm, […] is almost certainly looking at a stock-for-stock transaction. As of writing, Qualcomm’s market cap is $188 billion, just more than double that of Intel’s at $93 billion.
In fact, Chipzilla may not be worth much to Qualcomm unless it can renegotiate the x86/x86-64 cross-licensing patent agreement between Intel and AMD, which dates back to 2009. That agreement is terminated if a change in control happens at either Intel or AMD.
While a number of the patents expired in 2021, it’s our understanding that agreement is still in force and Qualcomm would be subject to change of control rules. In other words, Qualcomm wouldn’t be able to produce Intel-designed x86-64 chips unless AMD gave the green light.
Does Croc have a big enough fanbase to be able to pull off an exclusivity deal?