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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
  • Seriously. Didn't they make billions last year? That number should be much, much higher for Zuck & Co. to actually start giving a fuck.

  • Mozilla Thunderbird for Android Is Finally Here
  • I'm sure it's a very capable email client, but the UI just didn't mesh well with me.

  • Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people?
  • Not really sure. Somebody wire me an obscene amount of money and I'll report back. Probably.

  • Real mood booster tbh
  • When life seems hard

    and you're stuck in a rut

    there's no better help

    than a face full of butt.

  • seriously.... there aren't that many of them
  • Exactly. There's no moral dillema here. I'm keeping the switch in the "left" position and welding it in place, just in case.

  • Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative?
  • And mine. And probably everyone else's since the only banking app I can find on F-Droid is something called Varengold.

  • Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”
  • To be clear, XMPP is the name of the protocol, not the app. If an XMPP app with a Discord-like UI is what you're after, then Converse.js is probably your best bet. Here's what it looks like.

  • AI bros
  • "It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

  • Going places
  • omg, how is this scene still being taken out of context after 10+ years? In the scene mentioned, Tidus, the protagonist of the story, is feeling depressed and Yuna, the summoner who Tidus is guarding, tries to cheer him up. One of her methods is forcing(!) yourself to laugh. It looks ridiculous, it sounds ridiculous, heck, the other characters watching the scene think it's ridiculous and even Yuna herself at some point tells Tidus he should probably stop. The laugh sounds forced, because it is. And intentionally, at that.

  • Abduction
  • I wanted to add Invasion of the Booby Snatchers, but then I realized that in this context the aliens aren't the ones doing the snatching.

  • Text Processing Compass
  • What, no Microsoft Word?

  • Borderlands is failing already.
  • Nah, I didn't forget. It's just that Pitchford's list of screw-ups is so extensive that if I wanted to list of each and every one, we'd be here all day.

  • Borderlands is failing already.
  • Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he's a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.

    As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.

    2009 comes around and Pitchfork's new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter's style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn't see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game's artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

  • laughing ass off at hacks
  • omg, you're right! The "hand" on the left looks like a foot.

  • Well That's Ironic
  • Wasn't this debunked as fake ages ago?

  • Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron?

    Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

    It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

    What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

    I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

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    Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years.

    FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

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    List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative

    For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

    So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

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    I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"

    Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

    These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

    Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

    Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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    [RMA] What is this lump on my friend's CPU?

    EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

    My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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    Unity bosses sold stock days before controversial repricing announcement
    www.eurogamer.net Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

    Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it …

    Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

    Archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230914133443/https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-bosses-sold-stock-days-before-development-fees-announcement-raising-eyebrows

    This shit can't be legal. Do we have any lawyers on here?

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    Where did this HAARP nonsense I keep hearing about come from?

    So, I heard several people now mention HAARP as the cause for all the natural disasters that have been happening lately. And here I thought the cause was rampant pollution and global warming!

    But seriously, I'm looking at the HAARP page on wikipedia and it seems to be an array for studying the ionosphere? How in the hell do you go from "we're using this to see what's happening way up there in the sky" to "this causes tornadoes"? Who even started this garbage?

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    Remember the child mannequin being run over by a Tesla? Now Musk obsessives are putting their actual, living children in front of moving Tesla cars just to prove a point
    www.theguardian.com Why are Tesla fanatics putting their children in the path of moving cars?

    Some superfans are so determined to prove that Elon Musk’s ‘autonomous’ driving technology works that they are willing to put their kids in harm’s way, writes Arwa Mahdawi

    Why are Tesla fanatics putting their children in the path of moving cars?

    A continuation of this: https://lemmy.ml/post/427773/

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    Why I left PINE64

    Post was not made by me, by the way. I didn't leave (or join) PINE64, it's just the title of the article.

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    Diablo Immortal is now banned in China

    This is hilarious. Blizzard created Diablo Immortal with the express purpose of getting their foot into the Chinese market. Then some genius at Blizzard had the brilliant idea to make a post on Weibou (a social network in China) to make fun of Xi Jinping:

    Picture of post

    Welp, there goes that Tencent money. Couldn't have happened to a nicer company, too.

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    Ubisoft VP says players 'don't get' NFTs, but can't explain what there is to get

    Original article: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-vp-says-players-dont-get-nfts-but-cant-explain-what-there-is-to-get/

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    Does anyone else dislike Bluray discs?

    For me, they're more trouble than they're worth. For wanting to support your favorite artists, I'm rewarded with unskippable trailers and FBI warnings, and if you want to play Blurays on PC, well... Just take a look at this. Keydb files? BD+ decryption? What happened to just putting the stupid disc in the machine and hitting play?

    With pirated movies and shows, I just double-click on a file and away I go. Why would I ever want to go back to Blurays?

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    What's the cheapest hardware that can playback videos at 1080p?

    There are so many options out there, it's kind of dizzying.

    I'm looking for a cheap solution that I could hook up to a TV and ethernet, so it could run a flavor of Linux (or BSD) and play videos at 1080p. Bonus points if it can handle 1080p@60 FPS. Other than that, it would be used for light web browsing.

    I was looking at Raspberry Pi 4, but is there anything else you would suggest?

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    Just tried the latest elementary OS in VirtualBox and... is it supposed to be this obtuse?

    I'm just screwing around with the OS, but I have to say, I'm a bit perplexed.

    I wanted to install GIMP and LibreOffice, so I clicked on the AppCenter only to find out it couldn't find either of them. Which is bizzarre, because I can install both using apt just fine. As it turns out, the AppCenter only has 51 curated applications, completely ignoring the abundance of programs already available in the Ubuntu repositories, making the AppCenter a bit useless.

    Then there's the desktop. I'm not entirely sure why I'm not allowed to have icons on it. macOS has desktop icons. As does Windows. Hell, almost every OS with a GUI does. Apparently, there's something called Elementary Tweaks which lets you enable them, but why would anyone have to jump through hoops to enable this basic functionality?

    I guess I just don't understand who this OS is meant for.

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    How do you deal with anti-vaxxers?

    I'll be honest, this is as much a question as it is a vent.

    Specifically, how do you deal with people you meet everyday like family, coworkers, etc. who just revel in conspiracy theories?

    I have a coworker who is dead certain 5G somehow produces the coronavirus, despite easily verifiable facts in microbiology and physics showing otherwise. He's a nice guy in general with a degree in electronics, but dear lord, when he starts with this tin-foil hat bullshit it ruins my day.

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