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  • The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

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  • To be fair, he has some things going for him: the uncanny ability to get away with false advertising and stock manipulation.

    Somehow, "{Super far-fetched thing} will be available NEXT YEAR!" manages to keep working despite the clear history of his promises being even more overhyped and overpromised than even Peter Mollineaux's.

  • Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

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  • I'm sure the official statement will read more like

    "Voters, they LOVE me. The approvals, my approval ratings, just tremendous. The BEST ratings anyone ever saw. So great they said to ME, "President Trump, we won't do this anymore". No more ratings. I FIXED ratings. Just like I fixed the ECONOMY and CRIME. Crooked Hillary could NEVER do that. Obama tried. He tried long and tried hard, I give him that. He COULDN'T do it. Only ME. Only I can fix it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION."

  • Spying Chrome Extensions: 287 Extensions spying on 37M users

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  • Using a reskinned Google Chrome protects you from malicious Chrome extensions how, exactly?

  • Spying Chrome Extensions: 287 Extensions spying on 37M users

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  • He also created JavaScript, IIRC.

    Big no thanks /j

  • Pro-Trump Town Stunned After ICE Raids Leave It “Nearly Destroyed”

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  • I can hear the responses already...

    • "Empathy ain't shit in a gunfight."
    • "Mexican food won't help with that, dumbass."
    • "Fucking commie"

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • Because they don't care about evidence or facts unless it fits into their narrative.

    You can point to posts advocating for violence or censorship coming from their ilk and they'll just attribute it back to the other side because "we wouldn't need to if they didn't do it to us first." It's just the abuser justification, "look at what you made me do".

    Or they will just outright deny reality, dismissing opposing evidence as conspiracies, exaggerated, or misunderstood. Did Elon really do a Nazi salute? "No, no. He was just sending his heart out to Americans!"

    And when there's overwhelming evidence that they can't do mental gymnastics around? They shut down the conversation. They stop talking about it. They ignore it. They bury it. Out of sight, out of mind.

    When someone is indoctrinated into that way of thinking and makes their politics a part of their personality, you are not going to beat them at their own game. Their sense of identity is tied to their beliefs and their ego will not let them accept anything that goes against those beliefs. They need to be deprogrammed.

  • Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'

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  • "Art isn't about artistic expression. Billions of people make paintings and most of them go unseen. Museums, on the other hand... They don't make paintings, they make experiences. For a nominal entry fee, consumers have access to an evolving and ever-changing catalog of content.

    This is the future we envision here at Remedy. High quality games that build upon themselves, creating an experience that grows with the player. For that reason, we're announcing that the Alan Wake series will no longer be individual games, but instead a live-service experience with episodic content."

    • also that guy probably

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • With a bootloader signed using Microsoft keys, or a bootloader that needs a MOK to be set up to install third-party keys in the Secure Boot database?

    I did the latter and it was a pretty annoying process that would scare away beginners—hence me saying a "workaround" was possible. I'm not using a common distro like Fedora or Ubuntu, though. Is setting it up less painful on those?

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

    You don't need a new computer, but Microsoft's influence in the industry made it really inconvenient to run any other operating system alongside Windows on the same PC.

    When you start, you need to change some BIOS settings to be compatible with both Windows and Linux. More annoyingly, every time you switch between them you'll have to change tbe Secure Boot option. Turn it off before booting into Linux and turn it back on before booting into Windows. There are workarounds to that, but they're not beginner friendly.

    You also can't install both Windows and Linux on the same drive. Windows likes to "repair" itself from time to time, which ends up breaking the Linux boot loader.

    If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat? Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

    ThinkPads have a good track record with Linux support.

    Hardware with niche features (like multiple screens on a laptop) will be less likely to have drivers for those features on Linux.

    Touch screens don't have a standardized way of connecting to a computer, so support will vary and you'll need to Google it to find out if some laptop model is supported. If it is, pick any distro that uses KDE Plasma or GNOME for its desktop environment and you'll be fine. If you're coming from Windows, I would recommend Plasma over GNOME.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • Literally create all the service problems by normalizing launcher DRM

    I hate DRM as much as the next person, but if Steam didn't exist and digital downloads still became a thing, there would still be launcher DRM. Thanks to corporate greed, DRM is an inevitability in the industry.

    Games distributed on DVD were packed with DRM fuckery, needing to be inside the computer to launch and using kernel-level drivers to enforce it. Before DVDs, you had games on floppy disks. Those came with physical codewheels that the player had to use to decode a password before it would start the game.

  • Tesla Autopilot goes berserk and dives into incoming traffic in Turkey

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  • It's poor journalism, yes. Especially if it's a lack of disclosure rather than an explicit refusal for disclosure, as investigation takes time.

    However, my opinion is that for a corporation, an explicit refusal to provide data could be valid data when morally judging them. They are entitled to the same legal "innocent until proven otherwise" standard as individuals, yeah. But a non-person entity doesn't need the same privacy rights that a person does. They only need whatever privacy is required to maintain confidentiality (e.g. trade secrets, business strategy, insider information, etc.).

    If they had non-incriminating and non-confidential evidence proving their innocence, surely they would prefer to release it to minimize reputational damages. So, if they choose not to, it either means that the evidence needs to be confidential, or that it actually is incriminating. Which of those it is, who knows. It's still not a good look, though.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • even their precious HL's engine was IIRC a rewrite or fork of the one for Quake

    IIRC, even the HL2 engine was just an improvement on the HL1 engine with a commercial physics engine bolted on top.

    Much like Google used to, Valve doesn't really do anything new. They take existing ideas and remove the rough edges to provide a more polished experience than what is already available.

    To their credit, that's exactly why they succeeded with most of their ventures. Gabe Newell understands consumers well enough to know that most people don't care about anything other than user experience. Or, as he put it, "piracy is a service problem".

  • Tesla Autopilot goes berserk and dives into incoming traffic in Turkey

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  • A general rule of thumb: if a corporation is not disclosing data to substantiate its claim of innocence, it's likely because the data proves the exact opposite.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • Also they’ve been separated out of CDPR recently

    Someone corrected me on this recently so I'm paying it forward.

    CD Projekt owned GOG, not CDPR. CDPR is a separate company under CD Projekt and isn't related to GOG other than both previously having the same owner.

  • Onii-Chan is watching you 😩

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  • For localization, would -kun work? It wouldn't be a correct translation, but the idea of the average citizen being conditioned into having that closeness and familiarity with Big Brother might make for an interesting take.

  • Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

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  • If people in government were more tech literate and willing to stand by their morals by whistleblowing, they would create a torrent of the encrypted evidence and set up a dead man's switch for the key.

  • VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

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  • Funny how it's only a problem when using the Snap distribution.

  • How many BS hoops do I have to jump through everyday

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  • Is it? Or is it just a way to record which employees need mandatory cybersecurity "training" that tells them to use a 28 character password with at least one number, one upper case letter, one special character, no strings of 3 or more repeated characters, no strings of 3 or more incremental letters or numbers, and no strings of more than 5 of the same character class?

  • The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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  • He has one hell of a smoker's lung.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Settlement for the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator also resulted in takedown of the Citra 3DS emulator created by the same developers.

    overkill.wtf /switch-emulator-yuzu/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

    www.theverge.com /2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement