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  1. Comment on OpenAI didn’t notice its AI agents using a message board to plan their hacking spree in ~tech

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    All of this is 100% marketing wank. It's a shame people lap it up so readily.

    All of this is 100% marketing wank. It's a shame people lap it up so readily.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on The Don Hertzfeldt Collection is now on Dropout in ~tv

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    This is what I used to do, but using a computer from my couch just feels so cumbersome compared to a simple remote. The high power draw and lack of features like HDMI-CEC, framerate switching, and...

    This is what I used to do, but using a computer from my couch just feels so cumbersome compared to a simple remote. The high power draw and lack of features like HDMI-CEC, framerate switching, and Dolby Vision have me inclined to put up with the buggier apps.

    80% of my TV viewing is on my Jellyfin anyways.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Why does Opera GX rarely come up in browser discussions? in ~tech

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    It's similar to Waterfox on privacy. Outside privacy, Zen's main differentiator with Firefox is the much more aesthetically pleasing UX out of the box. Their implementation of veritcal tabs is...

    It's similar to Waterfox on privacy. Outside privacy, Zen's main differentiator with Firefox is the much more aesthetically pleasing UX out of the box. Their implementation of veritcal tabs is also more comprehensive and feature rich than Mozilla's implementation.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Why does Opera GX rarely come up in browser discussions? in ~tech

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    Zen is probably a better recommendation for privacy than Brave in 2026, and it gets bonus points for also not being Chromium-based or run by someone who hates gay people.

    Zen is probably a better recommendation for privacy than Brave in 2026, and it gets bonus points for also not being Chromium-based or run by someone who hates gay people.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Why does Opera GX rarely come up in browser discussions? in ~tech

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    Because modern Opera is kind of a scummy company and both their browsers are just reskinned Chromium that don't offer anything all that unique apart from sponsoring lots of YouTubers.

    Because modern Opera is kind of a scummy company and both their browsers are just reskinned Chromium that don't offer anything all that unique apart from sponsoring lots of YouTubers.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on The Don Hertzfeldt Collection is now on Dropout in ~tv

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    Most of these streaming apps are horrendous. I can't open Disney+ without having to fight a bunch of stutter and auto-playing video just to resume watching the last thing I watched. Nebula is also...

    Most of these streaming apps are horrendous. I can't open Disney+ without having to fight a bunch of stutter and auto-playing video just to resume watching the last thing I watched. Nebula is also buggy, scrolling left or right on certain rows in the news section sends you to the top of the page, making it impossible to select some videos. I'm convinced the software is bad on purpose.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    Assuming your PC even has a DVD drive in 2026, it can't read Xbox or 360 discs.

    Assuming your PC even has a DVD drive in 2026, it can't read Xbox or 360 discs.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    JSRF is also at the top of my list, but unfortunately I don't expect it to ever happen because of music licensing issues. Mercenaries is a great game that already exists in the backwards...

    JSRF is also at the top of my list, but unfortunately I don't expect it to ever happen because of music licensing issues.

    Mercenaries is a great game that already exists in the backwards compatibility program, and it never got a PC release back in the day. I'm hopeful we see that at some point.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    Starting with the Xbox One, backwards compatibility profiles for older games have included higher rendering resolutions, added features like vsync and anisotropic filtering, and occasionally...

    Starting with the Xbox One, backwards compatibility profiles for older games have included higher rendering resolutions, added features like vsync and anisotropic filtering, and occasionally higher framerates. This is all stuff accomplished by the compatibility layer itself.

    In rare cases they've gone in and replaced low quality assets with higher quality ones, an example being Final Fantasy XIII which ditched the notoriously poor quality Xbox 360 FMVs with the high bitrate versions from the PS3 release.

    I would hope all of this stuff makes it to the PC version of this program

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | Official trailer in ~movies

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    No idea how much merit there is to them, but there are rumors that post production has been a disaster as they struggle to piece all the footage they shot into a coherent movie.

    No idea how much merit there is to them, but there are rumors that post production has been a disaster as they struggle to piece all the footage they shot into a coherent movie.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work in ~tech

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    I have been telling people for years to never connect your TV to the internet

    I have been telling people for years to never connect your TV to the internet

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Four awful new privacy-eroding features from Meta in a month in ~tech

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    They don't care about you at all. You aren't the customer, you are the product.

    Meh I think for any platform that makes money via ads, its pretty much impossible to assume they'll care about your privacy.

    They don't care about you at all. You aren't the customer, you are the product.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on The end of reading is here in ~books

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    These pieces are almost certainly being pushed by tech oligarchs who benefit from this.

    These pieces are almost certainly being pushed by tech oligarchs who benefit from this.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with? in ~tech

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    Supposedly Apple is going to release one later this year, and I bet it will be just as stupid.

    Supposedly Apple is going to release one later this year, and I bet it will be just as stupid.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Dbrand has cancelled their "Companion Cube" Steam Machine case, because they didn't ask Valve for permission in ~games

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    In the case of the PS5 side panels, I always thought it was a deliberate marketing stunt. Nobody in the court of public opinion was going to side with big evil Sony over those ugly things that...

    In the case of the PS5 side panels, I always thought it was a deliberate marketing stunt. Nobody in the court of public opinion was going to side with big evil Sony over those ugly things that arguably shouldn't be copyrightable. The inevitable redesign ended up looking a lot better than the infringing or OEM side panels. The cease and desist from Sony got them a tremendous amount of free marketing for their revised design that actually made the console look sleeker.

    In this case though, I'm not sure. People generally like Valve, the design was much more clearly an infringement of their IP, and it's not like dbrand could possibly be sitting on a better looking kosher alternative to replace it with. It makes no sense as a marketing stunt.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on ‘Minions & Monsters’ fizzles over July 4th weekend with franchise-low $61 million debut, ‘Supergirl’ suffers brutal 74% drop in ~movies

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    Really bizarre decision to go this direction. That's the kind of movie that I would get excited about, but as a "cinephile" I tuned out of any and all marketing as soon as I saw one of those...

    Jesse Eisenberg, who’s in the film, had been saying for a while that it’s for cinephiles and there’s a lot of Old Hollywood references. And it turns out he was right.

    Really bizarre decision to go this direction. That's the kind of movie that I would get excited about, but as a "cinephile" I tuned out of any and all marketing as soon as I saw one of those talking yellow Tic Tacs because that is not at all what Minions (or Illumination in general) are known for. This is literally the first I'm even hearing that I was supposedly the target audience.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    Yes but we're talking about a situation where the people listening and sometimes even the people speaking don't actually understand latin. If noone is around who can understand it, then they're...

    Yes but we're talking about a situation where the people listening and sometimes even the people speaking don't actually understand latin. If noone is around who can understand it, then they're literally spouting gibberish from the pulpit.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    what value do these meanings have if they are completely unintelligible?

    by using a liturgical or "dead" language the holy meanings won't change over the centuries due to linguistic drift.

    what value do these meanings have if they are completely unintelligible?

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses in ~tech

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    They may be realizing that mass adoption of these things just isn't going to happen, so they're pivoting to making the product profitable. I hope the whole thing crashes and burns.

    They may be realizing that mass adoption of these things just isn't going to happen, so they're pivoting to making the product profitable. I hope the whole thing crashes and burns.

    20 votes

  20. Comment on IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology in ~comp

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    This has unfortunately been true of new node "sizes" for a long time now. TSMC 5nm, 2nm, etc. are just marketing terms. The transistors haven't gotten smaller in a while, they're just getting more...

    The "sub-nanometer" designation is confusing to me because it seems not to refer to anything physical on the chip, but rather serves as a proxy for some other space efficiency improvement.

    This has unfortunately been true of new node "sizes" for a long time now. TSMC 5nm, 2nm, etc. are just marketing terms. The transistors haven't gotten smaller in a while, they're just getting more densely packed together.

    2 votes