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Blackmist

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Blackmist ,

Did you wear them in the oven though?

Blackmist ,

It's decent for voice chat in games.

I'm not sure why it became the open source world's documentation platform of choice.

Blackmist ,

Great, now you just need somebody to rent a server for you.

That's where Discord won, along with being able to run in a browser for those who didn't want to fill their PC with crap comms software for one PUG run through Uldir.

Blackmist ,

Maybe, but you'll get the last laugh when they rely on it for everything and it is eventually whisked away behind an enormous monthly fee.

Blackmist ,

Same. Got no real reason to move away from it, and for all the shit people give it, you weren't there when it came out. We were drowning in spam about nob pills.

Blackmist ,

Don't blame us, Mini has been owned by BMW for decades.

Good thing we stopped them in WW2. That flag in the indicator would have been even more confusing.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, had that on my very first attempt at using it.

It used a component that didn't exist. I called it out and it went "you are correct, that was removed in <older version>. Try this instead." and created an entirely new set of bogus components and functions. This cycle continued until I gave up. It knows what code looks like, and what the excuses look like and that's about it. There's zero understanding.

It's probably great if you're doing some common homework (Javascript Fibonacci sequence or something) or menial task, but for anything that might reach the edges of its "knowledge", it has no idea where those edges may lie so just bullshits.

Blackmist ,

In fairness you should do this on Windows as well.

95% of home printing needs can be handled by a mono laser. If you need a photo, usually cheaper to print it online or at a supermarket. Only for larger prints might it be cheaper to do it at home, and you'd better be sure to use it often because most inkjets clog like a motherfucker when not in use.

Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in (www.engadget.com)

If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search...

Blackmist ,

Half the top results are usually AI generated garbage anyway, don't see how a little more is going to hurt...

Blackmist , (edited )

Especially if it's something free or subscription based. It's just a "our rules have changed, if you don't like it stop using it/paying for it"

It's get very dodgy when it's a physical thing you've bought like that Roku agreement a few weeks back, but I doubt they'll let that stop them.

Blackmist ,

I have an addon that just replaces all Youtube thumbnails with a random frame from the video.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip?pli=1

Blackmist ,

Surely it costs $193 million to pay him in stock. That stock would otherwise have been sold for that amount to other people, and he's getting it for nothing.

Blackmist ,

The same argument can be had for paying in cash. Yet I still have to pay tax.

In fact I should get money back, because the services I provide to the company outweigh the cost of my wages (otherwise they wouldn't pay me). I'm making a damn loss over here!

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

Blackmist ,

*Sees EU fining Apple*

Oh shit we can tell corporations what to do!

It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann's example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram...

Blackmist ,

Sounds like an issue with pretty much all URL shortening/redirection services on any service.

Even if the link was legit when they posted it and always went to forbes (not that forbes is much more than blogspam these days), it might not be legit when you go to click on it.

It's all just 3rd party tracking bullshit anyway. The modern internet is horseshit.

Blackmist ,

Pretty much all companies should be doing the same thing, not just public bodies.

If you build your house on a king's land, the king owns your house.

Blackmist ,

But Black Dynamite, we're on Epstein's list.

Blackmist ,

It made me want to be a better man.

Blackmist ,

I like Colm Meany, but every single picture of him looks like somebody has Photoshopped his face to be ever so slightly smaller than it should be.

Blackmist ,

If I work in my sleep I get the day off, right?

Right?

Blackmist ,

Dear left leaning voters,

There's literally no difference between the candidates so why vote at all? Just stay at home.

Yours faithfully,

Some cunts with a vested interest in making sure Trump wins and withdraws all support for Ukraine.

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times.....

Blackmist ,

Sounds fanciful.

EAC doesn't open up ports into your network as far as I'm aware.

Pretty much the only way to do RCE in games with no direct P2P connection is to send malformed data to the server, and then it sends that to the other clients, relying on things not being checked in two places. We've seen this a few times, in Dark Souls series and GTA Online.

I can't see for the life of me how EAC would cause that.

Blackmist ,

Considering it's two high profile players, I'd say the most likely is that they were tricked into downloading something, or some other software they were using had an exploit (I've had one from a browser plugin before now). There's a video elsewhere in this thread of one of them downloading Malwarebytes for something, so maybe they didn't manage to get rid of whatever it was.

Other option is an exploit on the server. Maybe there's some way of sending malformed data to a player you're not currently in a game with to exploit an RCE. It's not completely impossible, but I figure we'd see it a lot more if that was the case.

I'd put money on option 1 though.

Blackmist ,

They look like two Russian brothers who have bought a third tier football club purely as some sort of elaborate tax evasion ruse.

Blackmist ,

But they're at least standing nice and far apart to make sure no parts of them accidentally touch and turn gay.

Blackmist ,

If your fridge uses 1.4KW you need a new fridge.

Blackmist ,

I'll tell you what's new, pal. The McRib Megaburger, at McDonalds. It's nutritious and delicious at just $7.99 or $9.99 with fries and a drink of your choice as long as you don't want a milkshake or anything with actual sugar in it.

Blackmist ,

Honestly the motor should be cutting off well before that speed.

Blackmist ,

"It is literally impossible for us not to harvest your data and sell it, so you can't come in".

Blackmist ,

Yes but TikTok only let the evil Chinese spy on you, while the others only allow good old Uncle Sam to spy on you.

Ah who am I kidding, they'll all hand your data over to any old cunt.

Blackmist ,

I did quite like the London Rental Opportunity of the Week column. Somebody should archive that at least.

Blackmist ,

Diablo 3 (pre-expansion) was built around trading though and it was fucking awful.

Farming Act 1 hoping for something you could sell to somebody else so you could buy that mythical Resist All gear in order to survive Act 2 made me quit in disgust. Drops were completely random, could be for any class and 90% of what dropped was no good for anyone.

Blackmist ,

You don't know what "rule" means? Ah, you're a fucking meat circus mate.

Blackmist ,

Yes, because normal people always throw PCs away when they stop getting security updates.

Blackmist ,

So at least 3 more years, plus however long it takes for website makers to use features exclusive to the very latest versions.

The only stuff that I know no longer works and is in common use is TLS. That's the only reason some of our customers updated from XP.

Blackmist ,

Two things can be awful at once, shockingly enough.

Blackmist ,

Routers put paid to a lot of that. Early modems were like sticking your dick directly into the internet. I remember when Blaster came out and suddenly we all had to learn what a firewall was.

Hard to believe we just sat there with every port open to the net like that.

Blackmist ,

If you said to someone "can you keep a secret" and they said "I value your privacy, I'll only share your secret with 807 others", I doubt you'd be telling them many secrets.

Might as well just get your secret printed on a billboard and hang it up in town.

Blackmist ,

Eh, my missus insisted we use Signal, but it's just flat out not as reliable. It misses messages very occasionally and it's always at the worst possible time.

Like I get that it's a tiny bit more private than Whatsapp, but I'm not running a terror cell or a paedo ring over here. I just want to know if she wants anything from the shop.

Blackmist ,

I agree about customer support, but in the end it's going to come down to number of cases like this, how much they cost, versus the cost of a room of paid employees answering them.

It's going to take actual laws forbidding it to make them stop.

Blackmist ,

The good old Arr Stack is worth looking into.

Radarr (movies), Sonarr (TV), Prowlarr (for finding things), Bazarr (if you're in the subtitles gang, but most newer rips already contain it), VPN (to keep out nosey lawyers).

Only the VPN costs money, and it may be optional depending on where you are.

Blackmist ,

I know the nVidia Shield doesn't have it, and I'm not replacing that any time soon.

Blackmist ,

Over h264 sure, but h265? Hardly worth it for me.

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

Blackmist ,

Did it? Or did it make them look elsewhere?

The amount of school uniform, braces, pigtails and step-sister porn on Pornhub makes me think they want the nonces to watch.

Blackmist ,

I kind of want to trigger it to see what searches it reacts to, but at the same time I don't want my IP address on a watchlist.

Blackmist ,

The images aren't federated afaik. They live on your home instance. If somebody else views them, they're loaded directly from there.

However there's no link between the images and your account. You can't delete them yourself because Lemmy doesn't store the "delete token". They're effectively orphaned.

Blackmist ,

Just assume anything you post here will be scraped by Facebook, Google, Amazon, the CIA and the CCP, regardless of what the Lemmy devs and admins let you do with your data.

It's a public forum. Once you post something there's no guarantee it will ever be gone.

Blackmist ,

I did check a few embedded images, and they still seemed to be served from the original. So I dunno. Maybe they're copied and still served from the original, which would be an odd thing to do.

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