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orclev

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  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • like, minus all the plagarism and energy use issues.

    Pretty sure that's the primary thing everyone takes issue with. If you removed that most people wouldn't have as big of a problem with it. There is still a social issue at play in terms of the potential damage generative AI can do to the job market with no real safety nets or long term consideration for the consequences to society and the economy, but most people aren't even getting that far.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • You would think that but there have been many examples of placeholder textures getting missed and ending up in shipped games.

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down

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  • Well, I guess on the bright side we might finally see the utter waste of resources that the TSA is eliminated. Guess this is one of those "a broken clock is right twice a day" situations. Not many wins to be had under this administration, but if this happened it would be one of the only positive things.

  • Europe ready to lead ‘multinational force’ in Ukraine as part of US peace plan

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  • I was wondering how this fucked Ukraine over since comrade Trump was apparently supporting it, then I got to this part:

    But they added that significant differences remained over the future status of the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.

    So this is just the same deal Trump has been pushing all along that would see Ukraine surrender half its territory to Russia just with some extra fanfare added to it. Europe needs to ditch the US and do the same deal but with Ukraine kicking Russia out of all of its territory. Any deal that cedes territory to Russia isn't a peace deal it's a surrender.

  • Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide

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  • It definitely wouldn't. Outside of requiring an existing user to vouch for someone (which would drastically reduce the reach of the platform) or doing some kind of extensive interview over video (which would have serious privacy concerns and also massively discourage people from signing up) there aren't really a lot of options for preventing bot accounts. Even then botters could hack legitimate accounts and use them as puppets.

  • How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

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  • For anyone who hasn't read the article it wasn't a bomb and isn't enough nuclear material to make a bomb. You could maybe use it to make a dirty bomb, but there are almost certainly better options for that (E.G. scavenged radioactive sources from medical devices). It was a fairly standard radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) of the type used on many deep space probes and rarely on satellites as well as somewhat famously by the USSR in a lot of their remote installations. It's not enough material to really make anything out of, but frustratingly it is enough to be very dangerous to anyone that found it and didn't know what it was. There was a famous case some years back where some scavengers found one of the old Russian RTGs in an abandoned base and carried it off before they all became too sick from radiation poisoning and died.

  • The end of the kernel Rust experiment

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  • Concluded might have been a better term for them to use. It means effectively the same thing but implies the natural expected end rather than potentially some other reason for ending (such as Linus pitching a fit and yanking it early).

    It's good to see it's doing well enough to be considered a success despite some of the interpersonal drama around it.

  • Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it

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  • The really disgusting part is that actually works (if you're primarily selling to other corporations). Most of the most popular pieces of corporate software have the common trait that they do tons of stuff really poorly and nothing well. They get picked by the bean counters because the bean counters don't care that it's a fucking trash fire of a UI, they're just looking at the list of other software they can remove because this new software does the same job significantly worse. That or they're just mesmerized by the giant fucking bullet point list of "features".

  • The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer

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  • I'm convinced at this point they're letting the vibe coders write the OS updates. It's the only reasonable explanation for how they keep breaking core OS functionality that shouldn't even be getting updates.

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    Someone's gotta say it

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  • My power company recently contacted me with an "exciting offer" where instead of billing me based on my energy usage they'd just bill me based on what my average usage was previously. I politely declined. I think I'll keep paying based on something measurable instead of vibe based billing.

  • Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost

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  • Resolve has some quirks on Linux. In particular it doesn't support certain codecs.

  • Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency

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  • There's a certain irony in someone using a racist dog whistle complaining about fascism.

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • They should just run Linux, but if they have to do Windows then 7 is just as good as 10 now, they're both equally unsupported. Blame Microsoft for fucking up 10 and 11 so bad nobody is willing to run them. If they had at least left 10 alone people would still be using that but they're too greedy for everyone's data and they couldn't leave well enough alone. It's also not like there aren't an absolute ton of Windows 10 and 11 installs that are part of bot nets. Running a new version of Windows makes it slightly harder to get rooted, but doing stupid stuff no matter what you're running is ultimately the problem, not the version of Windows. The age of worms self propagating through service 0-days is largely over, it's almost all phishing and trojans these days. It would be one thing if we were talking Windows 98 or XP, but 7 is fairly solid out of the box.

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • Apparently some are even opting to reinstall Windows 7 rather than the trash fire that is 11. It seems like 10 was never loved, merely tolerated, and as MS continues to enshittify 10 in an attempt to force people onto 11 some are just going back to the previous good version of Windows.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy

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  • They already did, that's the problem. If they want more consumer spending they need to fix the wealth gap, but they don't want to do that. They want to keep the pump running that transfers wealth from the poor to the rich but it's starting to stall and they're panicking, hence pieces like this.

  • Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

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  • To be fair to Arch, the AUR was always advertised as a caveat emptor type thing. It never really claimed to be secure in the first place.

  • PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on

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  • Another example might be shopping carts or session storage. Anything that persists from page to page. Does the site have an option for dark mode display? Probably stored in a cookie. Option to change the display language? Yeah, also likely a cookie.

  • Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump is a 'fascist' and 'despot' after White House meeting

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  • Yeah I don't understand this situation at all. One of my family members was speculating maybe Mamdani has some kind of blackmail or leverage over Trump. Maybe some property Trump still has in NYC? Either that or this is a rare instance where Trump realizes Mamdani is going to be good for NYC and that Trump's businesses in NYC will in turn benefit from that. I don't know, the whole thing is bizarre.

  • Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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  • So the way the statement about Qualcomm supporting Linux was phrased made it seem like a blanket statement rather than referring to specifically the X1 Elite. The fact that Qualcomm's Linux support seems to vary wildly based on the specific CPU is interesting and suggests it's less about the CPU or Linux and more about the visibility and importance of the companies using that CPU. The X1 Elite got first class Windows support (although it sounds like only some specific laptops did) because certain large manufacturers were using it. Likewise the 8 Elite Gen 5 is getting first class Linux support because Valve is using it in a high visibility project.

    If there's a silver lining to this it sounds like Valve is doing the right thing by the FOSS community and is paying to have a company contribute bug fixes and improvements to the Vulkan drivers and FEX project for ARM in general and for this specific CPU. That combined with Qualcomm themselves wanting to look good and provide support should mean at least this CPU should work very well in Linux, and maybe that will also make it a little easier to support other Qualcomm CPUs as well. It's just a shame that that level of Linux support by Qualcomm doesn't extend to all their products.