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it’s not hard to find them when they’re selling fake reviews as a service

The article teaser beginning should make that clear as well

Amazon sued more than 10,000 Facebook group administrators in July 2022


The last mouse I bought is a Razer. The bottom is an awful dust collector. Never again.



I played Alba last saturday. Very good! Very cute and charming.


labeled “BREAKING,” that was posted in late January, three weeks after an earthquake had struck.

Labeled broken because it’s a broken notification [system] /s


we could see other PSU makers follow suit in switching to Cybenetics

It would certainly be great if all did. But I doubt that will be the case.

Only the best have an interest in switching.

But maybe that’s good enough for now. The PSU market has a good number of alternative manufacturers, and those that care will drive demand for this information. Maybe those targeting the enthusiast market won’t be able to get around providing it.


Its still the same extension, same source code, same logic, just less capable

the same… but not the same… ??

I think the technologies are quite different.

uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing – uBOL’s service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.

Are you claiming non-lite does the same, plus more?

You say it’s the same source code, but it’s a different source code repository. non-lite, lite.



They wrote in the article that it rose. That was part of what they wrote about.

I don’t see your point.


Doesn’t help me on Lemmy/Beehaw

It’s not very readable

If I were looking at a mastodon instance I may expect and accept. But here on Beehaw it’s pure noise. Not a good interfacing like this.


the most relevant:

To take advantage of the vulnerability, a hacker has to already possess access to a computer’s kernel, the core of its operating system.

For systems with certain faulty configurations in how a computer maker implemented AMD’s security feature known as Platform Secure Boot—which the researchers warn encompasses the large majority of the systems they tested—a malware infection installed via Sinkclose could be harder yet to detect or remediate, they say, surviving even a reinstallation of the operating system.

For users seeking to protect themselves, Nissim and Okupski say that for Windows machines—likely the vast majority of affected systems—they expect patches for Sinkclose to be integrated into updates shared by computer makers with Microsoft, who will roll them into future operating system updates.



notably

Windows is not impacted by this issue.

quoting the main, critical part:

  1. Under public domain (.com), the browser sent the request to 0.0.0.0.
  2. The dummy server is listening on 127.0.0.1 (only on the loopback interface, not on all network interfaces).
  3. The server on localhost receives the request, processes it, and sends the response.
  4. The browser blocks the response content from propagating to Javascript due to CORS.

This means public websites can access any open port on your host, without the ability to see the response.


How does it determine better results? oO

That’s the problem with most marketing. Unspecific, raising questions rather than answering them. Being vague and only positive-formulated rather than presenting information.


> researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior > The findings consistently showed products described as using artificial intelligence were less popular > “When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,”
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This. Yoku is a great game. If it piques your interest, play it!


“snubs”?

I have no problem idea what that means. Even with the context.


What they’re doing now isn’t responsible.

Would it be responsible if every response would start with “I lie x % of the time but here’s my response:”?


It’s not the same kind of stealing as stealing an apple or meal. Those remove the product, the material in its entirety.

The only devaluation washing does is in wear. And even less directly in the initial investment not being paid back upon use.

That’s concerns outside of morals of course. But stealing products isnt equateable to stealing usage.


ooh, the soundtrack from the original - nostalgia


Releasing in August

For PC in the Epic Games store, not Steam.



So how does the heavier-when-inflated bowling pin man work?

Usually from 9 to 5.


In 2011, a 75-year-old woman took all 2.9 million Armenians offline when she sliced through that cable with a spade near the Georgian village of Ksani. The woman, who was scavenging for copper at the time, was arrested but reportedly let go soon after because of her advanced age. She later told reporters: “I have no idea what the internet is.”

lol, what a great story


How do you keep a currently dead website you did not previously archive?


Why does there have to be money in it when they’re sunsetting the service?


I think it’s still a net-positive.

After that author’s post (from 2020) Microsoft acknowledged and apologized the bad way they went about it. (IIRC anyway.)

It’s certainly a shitty situation for the author, with the PM opportunity at Microsoft not working out (reason unknown/not visible to us). The author can’t invest as MS can into their project. The author could continue, but obviously, it’s less “useful” now as a product, with a “better” alternative.

Having it be a Microsoft-maintained project gave and gives it a lot more impact and significance, both functionality-wise and public-/enterprise-wise. Having an official package manager like this is a very good thing.

And the author on the post you linked says as much in their post. They’re not upset about anything else other than the communication in regards to the hiring process he was not that interested in anyway. That’s not really “stealing”. Just superseding. With an aside shitty-communication.


Can you source your claim, that Azure hypervisor uses CrowdStrike? Because a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars that that issue was unrelated to the CrowdStrike update.

[…] cited as “a backend cluster management workflow [that] deployed a configuration change causing backend access to be blocked between a subset of Azure Storage clusters and compute resources in the Central US region.”

A spokesperson for Microsoft told Ars in a statement Friday that the CrowdStrike update was not related to its July 18 Azure outage. “That issue has fully recovered,” the statement read.


Microsoft services were, in a seemingly terrible coincidence, also down overnight Thursday into Friday. […]

A spokesperson for Microsoft told Ars in a statement Friday that the CrowdStrike update was not related to its July 18 Azure outage. “That issue has fully recovered,” the statement read.

from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/major-outages-at-crowdstrike-microsoft-leave-the-world-with-bsods-and-confusion/

They were not “using it”. And there’s no “stragglers still”.


No no.

Have you tried turning it off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on again?


They could drop all the tracking though and only serve the public redirects. A much simpler product that would retain web links.


as of 2021, Valve employed just 79 people for Steam, which is one of the most influential gaming storefronts on the planet.

There’s value in stability, but some things have long been stagnant and could be improved. It took a long time for the client and website to get some significant changes.

I don’t know if I would prefer more changes. I certainly would like and want some. But that could inevitably lead to undesirable changes too.

When I applied for a job there over a decade ago [to improve some stuff myself] I didn’t receive an answer. bee laugh emoji


They’re also very open and transparent. Work, guidelines, workflows, etc.

It’s a shining example of an alternative kind of company, and it’s insightful and a great resource of information.


For Windows, what made you decide on Chocolatey rather than winget/Windows Package Manager?


It’s crazy that you can read the individual attackers names (in the linked referenced other page), visit their social media profiles, see their happy family pictures, while they’re out there shelling other people and families.

And then you see even stuff like

- mother, on June 28, 2022, a day after the terrorist attack in Kremenchuk, reposted a post about “The Deadliest Plane - TU-22m3.” Missiles from such a plane hit the Amstor shopping mall;

Insane.


Holy mother of misinterpretation and misrepresentation. Did you not read their comment, did you not understand their comment, or did you choose to ignore and misrepresent it?


because the pedestrian had been jaywalking

can’t have something unexpected non-standard in city traffic after all, that’s not allowed!


Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing. The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.

damn



Putin, Trump, and Musk. They’re doing the same thing. Lying without restraint, freely, at every opportunity.

"The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

Maybe we can translate that claim to what may have happened?

“The European Commission asked X to conform to regulation protecting its citizens or face fines.”


How about adding a check mark to the money icon? I think that fits better.

Name 💵✅ or Name 💵✔️

As if to say “has money”, or “spent money”.


dan ce

Hello. This is the EU grammar police. Please fix your typo. Thank you for your cooperation.



I stumbled upon their videos and watched three. It's absurd and often hilarious how bad most of the games are. Jauwn shows us through the games and their gameplay, but also checks further into the mechanisms trying to bait people and the publishers and developers at times linking them to previous scams. * [About *Banana*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitVHsg0rWA) - the Steam game that reached fourth-most-played-game apparently, and still has 90% positive on 14k ratings * [Exploring three crypto games on the Epic Games store](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lRCR3-yqPE) - I laughed multiple times at how bad and absurd it was * [Exploring some crypto games games on Steam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABsT6ulLjuk) (which is the timestamped post link) * They have [more such videos on their channel](https://www.youtube.com/@jauwn/videos)
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Wahl-O-Mat Matches Your Position Against Political Parties Positions (EU Elections)
Today, we had European elections in Germany. We have the [Wahl-O-Mat](https://www.wahl-o-mat.de/europawahl2024/app/main_app.html), a state-funded service, where you can **answer 38 questions, and then match your positions against a selection of or all political parties that could be elected**. It then shows you how much overlap (a percentage) you have with the various parties and their answers to those questions. I find this to be a very important and useful tool for citizen information.\ Campaign adverts are shallow and colorful PR. Broad slogans.\ Individuals are not necessarily what the broader party policies are and how they vote. Personal sympathy can even be misleading in that a sympathetic person may not hold the values and positions you do.\ Voting for a party, I think their program and stances should be the primary decision factor. (Alongside assessment of whether you can trust them of course.)\ It obviously and drastically shows you misconceptions about parties and your alignment, and shows you parties relevant to you that you may not have known about before. **Do other countries have something/things like that too?** A tool to match personal stance against political parties' stances? [In a concrete and up-to-date way.]
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I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing. > In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing. > When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth > In a WIRED interview from 2021, Steven Levy said Raghavan “isn’t CEO of Google— he just runs the place,” and described his addition to the company as “a move from research to management.”
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From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
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Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell
Developing interactivity is effort and an investment. Most developers put up a simple loading screen, maybe some text like rotating tips, and a loading indicator. [Until 2015 a patent on interactive loading screens](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-patent-finally-expires) may have made developers and publishers cautious and decide against developing interactivity. High Hell, released in 2017, features fast gameplay, short levels, and interactive loading screens. (Linked Clip) *([High Hell Steam page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/673000/High_Hell/))* What's the best kind of loading screen? Do you have examples of good or bad interactive loading screens?
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In **Sky: Children of the Light** you can let yourself get taken by the hand, and the other player guides/plays for you and you barely need to do anything anymore. Felt a bit absurd and funny, but interesting nonetheless. Certainly unique. It was also very good to eat some snacks and watch yourself progress while doing so. ![bee happy emoji](https://beehaw.org/emoji/blobbee_happy.png "emoji bee_happy") Sky is an interesting and visually beautiful/well-crafted game. It has many things going for it. But also things I found frustrating and annoying. I was also confused quite a bit, about quite a few things about what is happening and interacting in what way. If only there weren't so many cutscenes blocking me from actually playing the game and feeling embedded in the world and atmosphere. I hate those disrupting cutscenes. Forced camera focus was also annoying at times. Overall, I find Sky quite interesting, and can certainly recommend taking a look at and even into it. [Sky: Children of the Light is available on Steam for free, in Early Access.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2325290/Sky_Children_of_the_Light/) It has also been available on iOS since 2019, Android since 2020, Switch since 2021, PS4 since 2022. --- Walking back and forth between sofa + controller + TV and my PC + keyboard to chat with people was a hassle though 🤡 *(I was streaming PC to TV so it was the same thing. Chatting is entirely optional.)* *(Sorry for the shitty ~~screenshot~~ photo of hand-holding.)* --- Have you played Sky? What did you think of the implementation of social systems and interactions with other players?
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