KssioAug

u/KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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He is basically saying that they knew what scammers (not pirates, literal scammers) were doing to their consumers, and they not just allowed it, but incentivized them to scam people by selling them legit boxes. Or, in other words, they straight up made a partnership with scammers, becoming scammers themselves, in order to profit from the whole scheme. That's actually fucked up! And the article title is a hell of a reality bending.

I can't say I understand the expectations of the head of these gaming studios nowadays. I mean, I know they are toxic as hell, but even then... The game has just released to justify layoffs. If anything, they should've vetted the project from the very beginning (at least I don't see the point of a new remaster of Halo CE, specially after a suppose rebranding).

I dare say that games are preserved more through digital means then by physical media though. You have plenty of sites keeping different versions of a number of games, old or new, without any form of DRM (or bypassed) on PC (through "piracy", as ironic as it may sound).

Physical media nowadays are mostly a form of DRM anyway - a disc that will only work on a certain system, and that usually requires you to go online to activate it anyway, which means that they won't work after a couple of decades (or even much earlier). The biggest advantage of it, imo, is the freedom of selling/buying or trading used copies.

on The Evolution of Streaming · c/piracy · 6 pts · 13d

Torrents, Alternative Streaming Sites, IPTV, Debrid... the options are plenty enough. In other words: Fuck streaming subscriptions.

I know others already answered you, but I just wanted to explain further. That's the main advantage of Lemmy: being federated. It means that each instance, even though they communicate with each other, is independent (they have their own rules, their own userbase, and are hosted in their own servers), which means that, even if one decides to ban people for using Tor, others wouldn't follow through. Dbzer0 wouldn't punish you for it though.

Ever since they announced the 'new' Reddit, it was pretty obvious the old Reddit would be killed eventually. It's taking even longer than I actually believed.

Now, the funny thing about it, is the typical hypocrisy surrounding these American companies. First it didn't just allowed, it fully embraced the scraping and AI bots, and now they call it 'bad behavior' and want to prohibit it just so they can be the sole people to use it there (or to charge other companies to allow them to do that).

And maybe I'm being naive, but it feels to me that Reddit is slowly digging it's own grave. I don't believe that there's actually that many people using it nowdays, when pretty much all discussions there are either a) toxic people, full of themselves, fighting over stupid brands and predatory companies; b) stupid memes; c) bots faking they're not bots, or ads faking they're not ads; and d) information that has already been scraped or that was written by AI bots, or that just doesn't hold any real value anymore.

Reddit used, a long time ago, to be a place where actual useful information was posted and good wikis or megathreads were created, curating these information (even though you actually had to some digging to get there sometimes). Nowadays it's an echo chamber of the most useless shit internet has to offer, and all the good data has been moved or copied to somewhere else. But that's what happens when you start to treat the same users that built the whole value of the platform as collateral trash.

For Christ’s sake, dude....

By your post history, there have been at least 15 days since you started trying to figure out how to crack ChatGPT. Haven't you, in 15 days, learned anything about LLMs at all? Why would you even want the 'best' of ChatGPT if your lack of understanding is so basic that learning from a base model (available for free in many different places) would be more than enough for your current capabilities?

Sorry... I'm usually not this type of person, but stop asking stupid questions and do some fucking reading!

on End of an era? · c/games · 1 pts · 48d

For now, yes. But these companies change their strategies all the fucking time. As soon as they see their "only on Playstation" strategy is not giving them the expected return, I am sure they're gonna backflip, again.

Microsoft and Sony (and pretty much any other big corporation in the game business) are not reliable in the slightest - the only difference between them right now is the amount of power they have.

I find it both amusing and shocking that we still have 'fanboys' up to this day, when these companies themselves can't even maintain a solid long term strategy. All they care about is making maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else, so their 'promises' hold no weight at all.

on que paso anker games? · c/piracy · 3 pts · 52d

Most certainly a false positive. Throw the file in VirusTotal and see what it shows. But cracked games, from Anker or anywhere, clqre constantly flagged with false positives from antivirus software.

Never heard of Tombwater and Hunt the Night before, and both look excellent! Specially Tombwater (it gave me some Dark Tower vibes, loved it). Just wishlisted both and am considering buying them.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/privacy · 11 pts · 56d

I only use Win11 as a remote game server to play games with Moonlight/Sunshine without worrying about compatibility issues. To work and daily usage, it's Linux all the way.

Just a matter of time until I transition 100% to Linux though. In the meantime I run WinUtil every once in a while to make sure to disable most of that shit.

Yeah... I don't know how the general public is using AI, but it's definitely a very useful tool. I understand it comes with a lot of issues regarding privacy, content rights, and predatory mega corporation practices, but the tool itself is useful. And we don't even need to rely on Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic nowadays to use it. Open-weight models that run locally on open source agents are already pretty capable for a lot of daily tasks. I think a lot of people fail to understand is that it can be used responsible as a tool to help on tasks and automation instead of being a tool to be trusted blindly. I sure will not try to convince anyone to use it, specially if they don't want to, but playing pretend that it's a useless technology does not help either.

on The Permission Machine · c/fediverse · 6 pts · 57d

Maybe I have misunderstood what the point of the article is but... What a giant load of horse shit.

If anything it just proves that the CENTRALIZED social network is the problem. X/Twitter amplifies what Musk wants and since it's so big and influential (also because of Musk's financial situation) it contaminates the perception of reality in all other mainstream social media.

I fail to see how this is an example that decentralized social networks such as the ones from Fediverse could make things worse.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/privacy · 4 pts · 57d

Social network algorithms doesn't care if you like or not the content itself, what matters the most to them is how long your screen stays parked on a post.

Maybe you're watching something you think it's terrible, and then you enter comments to see how people are reacting. It might be making you furious, but that makes it, mathematically, a successful post that grabbed your attention and therefore the algorithm will throw more of that shit at you, because it wants your attention.

It is evil because it ignores human nature and it doesn't measure how you feel about it. It rewards highly controversial topics because it knows these posts grab people's attention one way or another.