hamsterkill

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[–] hamsterkill 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OpenOffice has been more or less dead for a decade. LibreOffice was its successor.

[–] hamsterkill 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's the Democratic commissioner that expressed the concerns in the headline.

[–] hamsterkill 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The problem isn't that AI is maliciously spamming the mailing list, it's that AI is able to find and report real or potential security vulnerabilities at rates that no human organization can process fast enough. Open source browsers and Linux have been slammed lately with vulnerabilities found by Mythos.

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 9 months ago

Industry growth. Turns out it's a lot easier to "think of the children" when the industry is small and niche than it is when it's making investors billions of dollars a year. Turns out capitalism makes problems harder to solve once the problem itself makes money (see also: tax preparation)

That's also why the moral panic people switched from trying to censor games through government to trying to do it via finance (e.g. Collective Shout lobbying banks, credit cards, and payment processors).

Though if your question is about why the contrast between moral panic over game content and the lack of moral panic over actual victimization — I think that's always been the case, unfortunately. People seem more fearful of their children losing their morals than they are of people with no morals harming their children.

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Methane is just the primary compound in natural gas.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Some, as prepping the carbon and hydrogen will take energy. But it wouldn't be hard to be way better than the emissions associated with dairy farming for butter. Cost could still be higher, though depending on how much material is needed for the process.

[–] hamsterkill 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can't seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The founder is a well-known Christian "pro-life feminist" from Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's easy enough to fork the code as it existed under GPL3. Violentmonkey did that when they forked from Tampermonkey.

This dev also doesn't sound like he wants to put much effort into enforcing his license in the first place.

[–] hamsterkill 12 points 10 months ago

High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com's support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you're an enterprise.

I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.

[–] hamsterkill 8 points 10 months ago

Very little gaming still requires Windows since the development of Proton. The main compatibility problems that remain seem to involve kernel-invasive anti-cheat systems.

 

Rant incoming:

This was spurred by having just read https://www.androidpolice.com/google-tv-streamer-questions-answered/ , particularly this bit:

When I asked directly, a Google representative told me they couldn't confirm which chipset powers the Google TV Streamer — essentially, Google declined to answer.

I've been noticing an increasing trend by device makers to not disclose the SoC their devices run on. I've been seeing it with e-readers, network routers, media streamers, etc.

It's incredibly frustrating to have devices actively exclude important information from their spec sheet and even dodge direct questions from tech news reporters. Reporters shouldn't have to theorize about what chip is in a released device. It's nuts.

If you're wondering why this infomation is important, it can be for several reasons. SoC vendor can have significant impact on the real world performance and security of a device. It also carries major implications for how open a device is as SoC vendors can have dramatically different open source support and firmware practices.

I've had to resort to inspecting the circuit board photos of FCC filings way too much lately to identify the processors being used in devices. And that's not a great workaroud in the first place as those photos are generally kept confidential by the FCC until months after the device releases (case in point the Google Streamer).

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