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Cake day: July 25th, 2024
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Hey nerdEnglish
    1232·
    4 days ago

    I’m so glad “c*m” was crudely censored here. I don’t know if my delicate heart could have withstood this image about one of the most infamously inappropriate Internet figures of all time having dubiously consensual intercourse with and ejaculating into their senile, elderly mother otherwise.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Someone made a mod to bypass the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök, and it worksEnglish
    1742·
    4 days ago

    New bypass just dropped: not buying a single-player game that makes you create and log into a third-party service exclusively because that service wants money in the form of your data/wants to enforce DRM.

    Edit: the ‘Steam tho’ comments below are true and Steam’s DRM does suck (I use GOG when I can), but they miss the point I’m making, which is that if you’re buying a game through Steam, you already have the account set up to comply with the DRM. That’s just inherent to the steps of purchasing the game on Steam. Whereas for something like a Sony account here, you don’t necessarily have that, and unlike Steam for instance that at least has the value proposition of cloud saves, you’re getting fuck-all in return here. Additionally, this account is used for likely only one or two games, just introducing a needless logistical hurdle for account management. Think of how many dozens of essentially burner accounts you would have if every game publisher put this bullshit in.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ukraine Bans Telegram Use For State, Military Officials.English
    192·
    8 days ago

    It’s not, unless they’re some sort of cryptography expert with a peer-reviewed white paper pending publication. The Signal protocol (GPLv3) is extremely robust and has almost no capacity for metadata generation, and both the app and server-side code are under the AGPLv3 (technically if they were compromised they could use different, unaudited server-side code, but refer back to “basically no metadata”). Signal has essentially no capacity to be compromised; they can’t even bait and switch users with a pre-compiled app whose source code isn’t the publicly available one and actually has a backdoor because their builds are reproducible and it would be caught immediately.

    Maybe they take issue with the crypto bullshit, which is valid but doesn’t compromise messaging security. Maybe they don’t like that they took away SMS, which I completely agree with, but also actually makes it marginally more secure. Either way, I seriously doubt if they had any mathematical insight into Signal being “compromised” that they would be here hanging around on Lemmy right now.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developersEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Developers put in charge of BDSP. Before Pokémon, their work was all extremely minor support for much bigger studios. So for example, if you’re a big AAA studio and you want to save on precious development time, you might contract out a dozen studios to do busywork, and one of those studios might be ILCA. For example, two people from ILCA are credited in Yakuza 0, but this is as “Casting Cooperation”. Their most major game they’d actually worked on themselves before this was Pokémon Home.

    So essentially, you’re taking a small company where 95% of their existing work is as a supporting role to do relatively easy work for other major studios, and the other 5% is Pokémon Home, and you’re telling them “Okay, now remake Diamond and Pearl.”

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for adsEnglish
    681·
    9 days ago

    Yeah, uBlock Origin not working would take me from liking YouTube a fair bit to making it unusable.

    • I use Proton but keep legacy Gmail accounts around to ensure I still have access to accounts I may have forgotten about or people I knew a long time ago sending a stray email. The only other usage is logging into YouTube.
    • I use a Captcha solver extension.
    • I use uBlock Origin to block all their ads.
    • I don’t use their DNS.
    • I use DDG over their search engine and Firefox over their browser.
    • I don’t use Google Drive or their office suite (I think the latter is abysmal to use tbf).
    • I use DeepL over Translate.
    • I use NewPipe for YouTube on mobile and have a subscription to Nebula.
    • I no longer use Google Maps, opting for OSM instead.
    • I still use Android and unfortunately can’t unlock the bootloader but have degoogled as far as I know how, including never even registering a Google account with it (F-Droid + Aurora Store).

    YouTube is far and away the biggest means by which I interact with Google, and that falls off a cliff if I’m forced to interact with a mess of their ridiculously shitty ads every time I have to use it. uBO has likely saved hundreds of hours of watching ads over my lifetime (and probably thousands of dollars from not being subconsciously influenced by ads), and I’m not paying a subscription fee to such an unethical company to get rid of the ads. This would bring me from YouTube as a timewaster to YouTube only as strictly necessary. Even though I don’t support them directly through ads, I do support them by supporting creators I like monetarily, by sharing links and maintaining the network effect, and by giving them plenty of metadata by interacting with their service. If they do this, they ensure that I continue to monetarily support competitors like Nebula and permanently lose a grip they’ve had on me since I was a kid.