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  1. Comment on Motorola's Smart Feed injected affiliate links into their device's Amazon app, Motorola corrects "unintended" behavior in ~tech

  2. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    They should probably just not release the other products in 2026.

    They should probably just not release the other products in 2026.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on TSA announces TSA Gold+ in ~transport

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    It's always the same AI slop CSS stylesheet

    It's always the same AI slop CSS stylesheet

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Bun has been rewritten in Rust in ~comp

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    What happens outside the zig compiler project does not matter whatsoever. I don't recall it being all that big (maybe we're thinking of different PRs.) I do remember looking at it, and — whether...

    It's pretty clear that they abandoned Zig because of the Zig project's scepticism about vibe coded slop.

    What happens outside the zig compiler project does not matter whatsoever.

    This whole saga started when they submitted a giant AI-coded PR to Zig.

    I don't recall it being all that big (maybe we're thinking of different PRs.) I do remember looking at it, and — whether AI or not — it just didn't seem to align with the core team's direction / approach to improving compiler performance.

    I think that tweet was posted in bad faith, I don't think it would have been merged to begin with.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Minecraft: Java Edition finally adds free peer-to-peer multiplayer and friends list in ~games

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    Lol who would willingly enshittify java edition?!

    Lol who would willingly enshittify java edition?!

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Minecraft: Java Edition finally adds free peer-to-peer multiplayer and friends list in ~games

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    This is actually quite nice, I assume it doesn't matter if the client is modded or not. In which case, I bet people will even somehow backport the system into older versions. This still exists?...

    This is actually quite nice, I assume it doesn't matter if the client is modded or not. In which case, I bet people will even somehow backport the system into older versions.

    use some external service like Hamachi

    This still exists? edit: Yep it does

    10 votes

  7. Comment on The boy that cried Mythos in ~comp

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    OpenAI, and more recently Anthropic have both embraced fearmongering as a large part of their marketing strategy. The ends do not justify the means.

    OpenAI, and more recently Anthropic have both embraced fearmongering as a large part of their marketing strategy.

    The ends do not justify the means.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on The Ploopy Bean - an external four-button trackpoint in ~tech

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    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    The Bean is designed so that the button surface has a great finish, a stylish texture that feels great.

    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    4 votes

  9. Comment on How computationally expensive is filtering and ignoring? in ~tildes

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    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp

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    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp

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    The em dash per sentence ratio is off the charts

    The em dash per sentence ratio is off the charts

    12 votes

  12. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    Government can't raise children, and an age verification system certainly can't.

    Government can't raise children, and an age verification system certainly can't.

    24 votes

  13. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    The day that bool switches you'll know the exact DOB. This isn't as clever as it may seem.

    The day that bool switches you'll know the exact DOB. This isn't as clever as it may seem.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    This is certainly not the least worst option. This is a pretty terrible option.

    This is certainly not the least worst option.

    This is a pretty terrible option.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online in ~tech

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    Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least. On the...

    We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online.

    Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least.

    On the other hand, turning the majority of internet activity into governmental transactions — through a nation's verification service, could have large societal implications. As for policy, it seems it's easier to give power, than to take it away.

    Checks must be conducted entirely client-side, on the user’s device. [...] The answer to the binary question of whether the user is “of age” must be fully anonymized, divorced from any identifying information, and transmitted entirely under end-to-end encryption.

    Much easier said than done, but I hope some form of zero knowledge proof is viable for this application, it's the only way I could imagine a robust privacy preserving solution to work.

    11 votes

  17. Comment on Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for seventeen years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. in ~finance

  18. Comment on German males under 45 may need military approval for long stays abroad in ~society

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    One would imagine the answer to whether a German planning to travel abroad for the next six months would show up for voluntary military service might be rather obvious. Unless it's not that...

    One would imagine the answer to whether a German planning to travel abroad for the next six months would show up for voluntary military service might be rather obvious. Unless it's not that voluntary at all.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech

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    So it's end to end encrypted but they're complaining about the jurisdictions some of the services are located in because they process the data. I don't get the tone of the article considering...

    So it's end to end encrypted but they're complaining about the jurisdictions some of the services are located in because they process the data.

    I don't get the tone of the article considering screenshots of the privacy policy state quite clearly that's exactly what's happening.

    I think it's fair to point out, if their marketing material may lead someone to believe otherwise. Though it doesn't seem like they're trying to deceive anyone tbh

    9 votes

  20. Comment on Denuvo DRM has been cirmumvented using hypervisor based bypass in ~games

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    Oh we're getting into some serious voodoo now

    Installing a community-made hypervisor (HV) with Windows running on top of it. This HV fakes responses to the checks that Denuvo makes, and runs with higher permissions (ring level -1) than the operating system itself and has full, nearly untraceable access to hardware and software.

    Oh we're getting into some serious voodoo now

    27 votes