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William

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  • Edge-Lit, Thin LCD TVs Are Having Early Heat Death Issues

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  • Wow. The "designed to fail" backdrop on the video says a lot about this. They're aiming for clicks, rather than rigorous testing.

    I'm not at all surprised that TVs aren't designed to be used 24/7 by residential users. And I'm not at all surprised that running them for 10,000 hours straight causes a lot of problems for them.

    And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that overworking them in the short term like that isn't the same as using them regularly and normally for 6 years. Some of those things might still happen, but some of it is death from overheating.

  • 4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2

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  • I think they were talking about the built-in ad blocker that certain other (not firefox or chrome) browsers have, instead of UBlock.

  • Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild.

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  • Not a huge surprise, but ironic considering how hard he pushed the bot angle when he was trying to wriggle out of purchasing it.

  • Nearly All Google Pixel Phones Exposed by Unpatched Flaw in Hidden Android App

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  • Not only can it be removed, they've already said it going to happen soon.

  • Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K

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  • I have never worked there (or any other major tech company) but if I had a job there, I wouldn't give it up until I'd found another job. Perhaps the people there aren't going crazy at the job hunt and still just haven't found another job they want.

    It's really easy to think "all the layoffs are over and I made it" and "job hunting is painful, I don't want to do it today" and just coast for a long time.

    I'm sure every awful thing he does spurs another effort for job hunting, but unless the job actually makes them work harder or fires them, it probably doesn't change much for them.

    Also, they get paid a lot more than I do, and sometimes it's worth the pain to keep raking in that cash.

  • Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store

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  • Close. They want a cut from all users that use the Patreon IOS app. Since they can't quite stretch that far, they're insisting that Apple IAP functionality be built into the app and it be offered to the users. And as before, they can't tell the users that it's cheaper, or even available, elsewhere.

  • Well that's a $70 fuck up...

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  • I think this happened to me as well. I had something pop my FEP film, and I replaced it, and tried a couple prints, but really didn't like the whole resin experience, so I sold my printer.

    When the buyer got it home, he told me the screen was cracked. We weren't sure whether it happened in transit or not, and I'd given him a pretty great price on the thing with a washing machine and a ton of resin, so he decided he didn't want any money back.

    After learning more about resin printers since then, I now think it was my fault and I feel bad about it. Either way, I've definitely learned to check the major components before buying or selling something.

  • Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way

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  • It sounds ridiculous, but non-free forums have existed for a long time. expertsexchange.com ran pretty successfully for a long time.

    I don't think Reddit knows how to make that work, and I think it'll backfire fantastically for their user base, but it's not impossible.

  • How Dr Disrespect Almost Derailed New Studio’s First Video Game. Midnight Society co-founders discuss their decision to cut ties with influencer

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  • All we know is that the rumor is he was texting with someone underage and set up to meet them at a con. He's admitted portions of that in his responses online, but nothing you can really pin down.

    Amazon thought whatever he did on Twitch was bad enough to cut ties with him and pay him out.

    No legal action has been taken, and he didn't violate the contract, so Amazon had to pay him out to cut ties.

    Do I think he's awful? Yup, and I don't support him at all.

    But we know just about nothing, and we definitely don't know any more than we knew months ago. Yet people are hanging on every word from the press like it's news and not just rage-bait.

  • Garry's Mod/Skibidi Toilet DMCA Claim Has Been 'Resolved,' Creator Garry Newman Says

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  • I realize I'm getting on in years, but "Skibidi Toilet movie by Michael Bay" really, really makes me feel old.

  • How Dr Disrespect Almost Derailed New Studio’s First Video Game. Midnight Society co-founders discuss their decision to cut ties with influencer

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  • Activision-Blizzard artists express anxiety and disgust as the studio foists AI tools on existing workers

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  • I'm going to guess "no".

    I'm not great at art, but I'm a senior software developer and amateur woodworker.

    A saw that gets you a mostly straight cut when you need a really straight one doesn't help a ton. It might help you break things down faster so they're more manageable, but that probably actually means more waste and not a ton of time savings.

    Likewise, code "copilots" right now look great at first blush, but I've yet to have it produce any lengthy piece of code that was correct. I had one snippet that I thought was great at first glance, but by the time I was done I had modified every single line of code. Some were very subtly wrong in ways that would create weird bugs.

    As for art, I think AI is great at expressing a feeling, but a final piece is about details. Having it produce something that you can modify doesn't seem useful for most art workflows, and it'll trip you up on tiny details that you don't notice until later, or not at all. There have been plenty of artists tripped up by using AI for the base art and then modifying it, and the company has even published their work publicly, only to be found out by the public because of stupid AI things that slipped past. It saved them some time, but the work wasn't perfect and it cost them their job.

  • Concerned Ape (Stardew Valley): I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.

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  • Yeah. He deserves his success, and I'm happy to hear he's doing good things for his customers... But this kind of reads like a slight on all the developers who release DLC for profit. The vast majority of companies don't succeed this well on any game.

    So I'm glad he's said this, but I also don't think poorly of devs who release for-profit DLC, either.

  • Genshin Impact voice actors criticize design of new character named after African deity: 'If you're going to use real-world deities, respect them'

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  • Asian RPGs have always used names from mythology and religion to name tons of their characters. Many of them bear only token resemblance to their original depictions, and rarely have anything at all to actually do with them other than some surface attributes like "ice" theme. It's kind of hard to get up in arms about yet another one.

  • Zenless Zone Zero has earned almost $25 million in five days

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  • I don't think so. It's a pretty common style for things that are flashy but have no substance, especially video games. I don't mind it much when I can quickly skip through it and speed-read it, but when it forces you to slow down (Genshin, Star Rail) or never shows part of the sentence if you're going fast (ZZZ) then it makes the cutscenes almost intolerable.

  • Zenless Zone Zero has earned almost $25 million in five days

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  • I'm not surprised that it's lagging behind the other 2. To me, it feels like Honkai Impact 3rd with a coat of Persona 5 paint on it. Everything is flashy and tries to seem complicated, but it's dead simple so far. I imagine there's some actual strategy to the combat later, but at lower levels, it's painfully lame.

    And the writing? Wordy as ever, and so pointless. Skipping through the text quickly makes you miss like 1/3 of it, even if you read super fast. It literally just never shows on the screen, hidden behind some scrolling text area or just not even put onscreen before advancing.

    The weapons are all just balls with faces. They seem like children's toys instead of useful items, and it's hard to care about them beyond the stats.

    I'm impressed they made even that $25 mil.

    The only thing that has drawn me in so far is the daily video store thing, and I just thought to myself this morning: "Shouldn't I just find a good store game instead?"

  • Epic Games: Apple has rejected our EGS notarization submission twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install” button is too similar to Apple's "Get" button...

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  • For bonus points, you'll have to re-explain some of those things randomly to publish updates, which they now require about every 2 years or less or your game just disappears.

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  • People have been trying to make Blender have some basic CAD functionality, but it's just not there yet.

    I admit I haven't tried https://www.cadsketcher.com/ with it yet, though.

  • Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says

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  • There are things that you shouldn't do or say to minors that aren't illegal, but anyone reading them would still know it's it's unethical/wrong/immoral/whatever. They clearly thought he crossed that line, enough that they'd rather fire him and take a chance on losing the court case for damages for breaking the contract. And then they lost that court case.

    It clearly wasn't just "a chat with a minor". The rumors I've heard is that he was attempting to make plans to meet up with them at a convention. That would definitely be in the "big no no" category for a celebrity talking to a minor, even if nothing untoward was suggested in that conversation.