"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" - Veritasium by onlooker in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 months ago

Much obliged for the link. Personally, I can't stand the guy. Not only does he lean into sensationalism too much for my liking, but at least one of his videos - the one with Waymo - is just flat out advertising.

Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser by onlooker in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 months ago

The new CEO's overarching goal is to turn Mozilla into the “world’s most trusted software company,” citing public dissatisfaction with today’s privacy practices and the tech industry’s growing appetite for all kinds of data.

What the fuck does this man think the industry is feeding the data to?

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told by onlooker in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 months ago

How about parents supervise their own kids them-fuckin'-selves?

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SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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A new Virtua Fighter project has been announced (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
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Big news for VF fans. Yes, both of us.

In all seriousness, this is probably my favourite 3D fighter and I'm eager to see how it comes out!

AI bros by onlooker in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago

"It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

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Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. by onlooker in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago

I tried arguing against this, but it's no use. I tried pointing out how something can be branded illegal retroactively, like 20 years down the line, I tried the "give me your credit card info" approach, nothing took. 90% of the time the counter-argument is usually something to the effect of "big companies know everything about me anyway", which is just guessing on their part.

I'm just going to take care of my own privacy, because I'm clearly in the minority (present company excluded, of course). Almost everyone I know disregards online privacy completely, so I'm done trying to get a dialogue going with these people; it's every man for himself. The only way online privacy will become a hot topic among laymen is when something nasty happens and at that point, it will have been too late.

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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
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So, really, a win for everybody.

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[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

Fellow IT guy here (welcome!). It's like everyone else said: have some proof that your boss was informed of the situation. As someone who worked for a few years in IT: avoid verbal agreements; you won't be able to prove they happened and they'll make it your fault. As an example, I refuse to do any work that might have long-term consequences if I don't have a ticket requesting as such or at the very least a mail in my mailbox. All agreements should be documented somewhere. Email is good, hard copies (paper) are even better.

Always, always, always document your requests. Bosses will not hesitate to throw you under the bus when something THEY fucked up goes wrong. Like southsamurai said: cover your ass, then follow orders. When shit inevitably hits the fan, you'll have something to point to.

God of War Ragnarok will require a PSN account by onlooker in c/steam@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 years ago

Sony be losing their marrbles if they think PC player's won't disarrm this requirement quite arrbitrarily. The adventures of snarrling Kratos and his charrge Atreiu in Asgarrd will be played on PC with or without this farrce.

Also, I must also apologize for my grammarr. I find arrticulating parrticularly harrd.

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Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio by onlooker in c/gaming@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago

I'm frankly astounded by the sheer ineptitude on display here. I don't know what's happening at Microsoft, but whatever it is, it's insanity. How tone deaf can you be? And this is only days after the gamepad fiasco.

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List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
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For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" by onlooker in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 years ago

I know, but just let me have my old man yells at cloud moment.

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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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Akira Toriyama has passed away (en.dragon-ball-official.com)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml
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[RMA] What is this lump on my friend's CPU? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

Zoomer anon has brainrot by onlooker in c/greentext@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 years ago

Trollbait, it has to be. "no brand tie ins" is genuinely hilarious to me. I'm picturing a videogame reviewer going like: "The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we've seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10".

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off by onlooker in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 years ago

Man, I wish Bandcamp would catch a break already, I actually like (liked?) the platform. I like supporting artists I like and I like supporting platforms that sell DRM-free music. If Bandcamp goes away and no other DRM-free alternative comes up, it's back to piracy for me.

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Unity bosses sold stock days before controversial repricing announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
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Archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230914133443/https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-bosses-sold-stock-days-before-development-fees-announcement-raising-eyebrows

This shit can't be legal. Do we have any lawyers on here?

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Where did this HAARP nonsense I keep hearing about come from? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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So, I heard several people now mention HAARP as the cause for all the natural disasters that have been happening lately. And here I thought the cause was rampant pollution and global warming!

But seriously, I'm looking at the HAARP page on wikipedia and it seems to be an array for studying the ionosphere? How in the hell do you go from "we're using this to see what's happening way up there in the sky" to "this causes tornadoes"? Who even started this garbage?

i thought she'd be happy for me by onlooker in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 years ago

Wow. This pretty much constitutes verbal abuse. I'm sorry you had to hear all that. And hey, I'm happy for you!

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