Kushan

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I fucking love wasting their time, I'll keep them on the phone for hours and hours talking absolute nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For that chrome book like experience, the genuinely think Chrome OS flex is probably a better option for most people (privacy concerns not withstanding).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

It's not a joke.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Genuinely forgot Obama was in his 60's, fuck I'd be glad to be that fit in my 40's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People blame Google for the death of jabber because of one blog post from a disgruntled contributor but the truth is jabber was never popular and Google chat died as well.

Jabber was a mess, most of the clients were barely compatible with Each other and it was a wild west of feature support. Some clients were well featured with the ability to send richer messages, but typically only worked with a specific server and the same clients. Jabber did a crap job at making sure clients and servers interacted properly with each other and didn't push the standards quickly enough, forcing clients to do their own thing.

Which is all Google did, they went their own way because nobody used jabber and the interoperability was causing more harm than good. It didn't work, Google talk died and many years later clients like WhatsApp took over instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One that always stood out to me was the ending of the Tom Cruise war or the world's movie.

Now to be clear, this is not a good film and I don't recommend that anyone bothers to go watch it, but a criticism I regularly saw was that the ending was bad - the aliens all just die suddenly.

That was literally the only thing that film got right from the source material. They changed literally everything else in an attempt to modernise it, it didn't work but they at least kept the ending and that's the bit people didn't like.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I think if you're comparing open world games to open world games then yeah, BOTW doesn't do anything too terribl differenty, but when you compare BOTW to other Zelda games then it's very different and that's where the criticism comes from.

Personally I feel BOTW is a very competent open world game, probably one of the better ones I've played but I still didn't gel with it because I was already strongly feeling fatigued from too many games becoming open world and not making that leap particularly well (Mass Effect Andromeda and FFXV coming to mind for me personally), what I wanted was a more traditional Zelda game and that's simply not what BOTW was.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm on the side of "automate it all and stop whining", but I do think it's important not to so readily dismiss the thoughts and opinions of those this directly affects in favour of the opinions of the security researchers pushing the change.

There are some legitimate issues with certain systems that aren't easily automated today. The issue is with those systems needing to be modernised, but there isn't a big push for that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

TL;DW the stuttering is also present on console and doesn't appear to be shader compilation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

You don't need anything so complicated.

Take two copies of the same video, diff them and only keep the parts that match.

We can also build up a database of as signatures to automatically identify them without requiring a watermark - we already have the technology to do this for detecting intro sequences for skipping.

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