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whoami, 8 months ago

“F2P game developers are the biggest fucking idiots” - Unity CEO, c. 2022: theverge.com/…/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-apology…

whoami, 10 months ago

Posts like these make me feel like I could live with the loss of the pattern recognition part of my brain.

whoami, 10 months ago

I disabled my DNS block-list for 5 minutes to test something, and my Samsung TV used its newfound freedom to immediately go and automatically install the TikTok app from its app store. It no longer gets the privilege of an internet connection.

whoami, 10 months ago

This was in Europe - 2019 model as well. Must have been around 2021 or so, when TikTok was just taking off.

whoami, 10 months ago

Can they still claim their security deposit back or does this fall under cover for emotional damages?

whoami, 10 months ago

Your credit card details (and renal failure)

whoami, 10 months ago

Isn’t it amazing how detached people can be from the real-world effects of their thoughts and beliefs, so long as they don’t get to personally experience their impact?

whoami, 10 months ago

Is the view that this wouldn’t have happened under private healthcare predicated on something in particular? It’s not like private healthcare is somehow fundamentally immune to malpractice.

whoami, 10 months ago

I’ll note that it’s extremely hard to vet for that sort of behaviour in doctors and preempt the cases you’ve described from happening - they could have just as easily happened under private healthcare.

whoami, 10 months ago

Don’t worry, Sony has a patent that will ultimately take care of this problem: www.creativebloq.com/sony-tv-patent

whoami, 10 months ago

Saw your edit, just a reminder for people to be careful with cheap Android TV boxes off Amazon/AliExpress etc. Lots of them are malware-ladden: techcrunch.com/…/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on…

whoami, 10 months ago

Unfortunately there’s so many OEM variants of these things that it borderlines on impossible to tell for certain which ones are and which ones aren’t, short of taking the firmware apart. Given the proximity in the naming convention, I suspect it might be.

Much as I dislike Google, the Chromecast with Google TV (4K) variant is probably the closest in price and is reputable.

whoami, 10 months ago

Or removed OtherOS because people were poking around the hypervisor (omitting the fact that the whole Linux-on-Playstation thing was an elaborate way to dodge tax as the console could be classified as a “personal computer”). Or suing Geohot for exposing that the ECDSA signing scheme that they based pretty much all of the PS3’s security on was basically broken. The list is fairly long, really

whoami, 10 months ago

Evergreen George Carlin quote: “Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”

whoami, 10 months ago

Yeah his take on that matter was spectacularly off base, even for comedy purposes