Right after a new feature is also perfect time for it to get axed

Love it or hate it, Google Messages is here to stay

Oh you sweet summer child…

I’m really happy to hear that, I still have and occasionally use my steam controller, I quite liked it.

Completed stray with it and a steamlink.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1gg5106/comment/luna2l5/

Initial version will be free, and DRM free, distributed by us and completely open. This will be so we can get feedback from modders and establish some confidence. When the project becomes more structured we will look at future options.

Consider me excited!

The studio shutdown definitely did get announced, but no formal cancellation AFAIK. Selling a cancelled game is just wrong

Too soon, I’m still sad.

I suspect KSP2 has probably killed all the goodwill earnt by KSP, I certainly won’t buy anything else until I know its a finished game.

Its not for you, its for spammers…

I want a modern Flatout 2, such a fun game.

https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gran-turismo-sophy/technology/

Chess/Go? AlphaZero would fit that description. Also think they were tackling StarCraft as well?

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar_(software)

Text is a bad medium for conveying emotion.

To me, :/ has always been a fairly neutral expression, like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or 😐, I would have used :( to convey upset, but its certainly reasonable that others would read it differently.

I kinda hoped my other comments would have made it clearer, but again, text is a bad medium :( oh well

Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it’ll likely happen, it’ll likely be silly/funny to watch.

I beleive in you!

I’m not mad, its a joke. There is nothing to be mad at.

Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.

I’m still looking forward to the first:

“Hi guys, today I’m going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game”

:D

I can’t wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/

Same setup, and its largely fine, but about 5-10% of the time bitwarden/keyboard will fail to show the password auto complete buttons, and I’ll have to copy paste manually, or restart Firefox. Really annoying, albeit rare.

That’s just what CMG claimed to have.

But to be useful for an advertising network, it kinda needs to be installable on everything. And if it failed to suppress the mic LED on a single device, it would be very easily noticed?

Family Link. You can whitelist apps, get screen time stats, and if your kid needs an app, when they try install it it will ask your approval.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.kids.familylink

Bit of a pain getting the accounts setup, but otherwise works very well for preventing my grandma filling her tablet with junk.

Any idiot and chatgpt could knock up an overt always listening app in an afternoon. I have no doubt shady apps already can do this. Its not hard or expensive. (Backend storage and audio processing costs are a different kettle of fish, and I think those make this fairly prohibitive as well, but that’s a funding problem, not a technical problem.)

But as soon as they make the claim that it doesn’t trigger the microphone LED on iOS and Android, across all devices, then that’s a “technically hard” problem. That’s multiple zero days across multiple devices. Its just not feasable for an ad tech firm. They would never be able to recoup that investment.

I’m happy to be proven wrong, but so far all the researchers in the world have found nothing.

So I’m attributing near 0% chance that anyone outside of nation states have the later tech (device agnostic covert audio recording).

The capabilities TLAs have costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, and once caught, are worthless. TLAs are extremely careful with their toys to avoid them being caught.

This Adtech company is claiming to have something at that level, which they are deploying everywhere. If it existed, it would have been found the day after they announced it, the security researcher industry would be all over it. They are very intelligent people who do understand those devices inside and out, if it existed they would find it. Remember, these are the same researchers who frequently out actual TLA tools.

You can’t prove a negative, so it definitely is a probability thing, but I put the probability at basically 0 that they have what they claim.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/no-a-marketing-firm-isnt-tapping-your-device-to-hear-private-conversations/

The capability they were claiming to have would make a three letter agency very excited. If they truely had the ability to listen to your microphone, transparently without notifying the user, they could sell that tech to every regime that wants to snoop on people, for millions of dollars.
Instead they claim to be using it for Ad-tech, where if it existed, would make it trivial to discover and flag as malware.

Apple and Google would also be very keen to find and squash whatever loophole let’s them record without showing the notification.

Its just an extraordinary claim, which if true would have been exposed/validated by security researchers long ago.

Not disputing the three letter agencies, but there is zero evidence that that ad company ever had the tech or ability. They were/are just full of shit.

This was pretty clear when observing the output of tldrbot. It would just randomly select paragraphs, ignoring surrounding context, and call it a summary.

You could be right, in any case, it was a 30s iso3200 exposure in a dim room, it should have blown out, but instead it was very dim and noisy.

Could be a camera module limitation? Fwiw, on my s10+, I can set it to 30s, but I don’t think its a true long exposure anyway. Seems more like a series of short exposures stacked together, with all the noise that goes with it.

Have you tried lowering the resolution to see if you can expose longer?

Maybe try the state->custom setting thing? For some reason I cant find the autorotate setting on my phone :/

There are apps for screen rotation: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crape.rotationcontrol

Perhaps that will do what you want?

I had a quick look, and cant find a way to detect the auto rotate state.

What is your end goal out of curiosity? Do you juat want to have a visual notification of autorotate so you can turn it off? Because an alternative would be to automatically turn it on and off.

I use this:

https://taskernet.com/shares/?user=AS35m8n8aLszGBR%2Bqb%2FvaUMEVX6DHjPZv%2Ba%2F8L3D6HkyQQ%2FGVLhuUeN3Uhf03S5c%2FtdJpZye&id=Profile%3AAutoRotate

When in YouTube, Netflix, etc, it enables autorotate, and when you switch out it disables it again.

Its likely to be a slow rollout thing. I havent either for what its worth.

I did have a couple of videos fail to play, but they worked on refresh so I assume that was unrelated.

This is bad journalism. Crypto is full to the brim with rug pulls, reporting on this before a real physical device has been made is just advertising the rug.

Luigis Mansion 3 has a pretty overt acknowledgement of the Virtual Boys existance. The entire in game menu is in one.

I loved TotK, but how does a a reskin of BotW (I know its supposably a new engine, but still) win best technology?

Its going away, that was part of the settlement. Of course, once its on the internet, can it ever truely go away?

Sure, its probably the right thing for Yuzu, but whether its right for the emulation community as a whole? I guess we will see, at least there is no legal precident being set.

Yeah, i archived it as soon as the news Nintendo were coming after them dropped.

Im not a lawyer, but is this really good news? Isnt this just setting a precedent that Nintendo can shake down any emulator developer for ~2.4m any time they feel like it? So small developers are basically screwed?

I cant reply to him, but the privacy policy thing may just be that thr policy isnt clearly linked in the app. I had that issue with my app.

Yeah, i could be wrong about the level of awareness, i am a datapoint of one.

The performance part is interesting, but almost irrelevant imo. If the results had been that abusing your teammates improves their performance, it would still be wrong to do it.

I worry the people causing this problem are more likely to take the “abuse == tilt” information and use it to justify their behaviour :(.

Yeah, AI to knock out the egregious stuff (n-bombs etc) is prefectly reasonable. But there is still a lot of harassment that can happen the really needs a human to interpret. Its a balance.

The privacy i am thinking of is the legal side of things. Google/FB/Apple are huge companies with the resources to work through the different legal requirements for every state and country. Google/FB/Apple can afford to just settle if anything goes wrong. A game studio cannot always do the same. As soon as you store a recording of a users voice, even temporarily, it opens up a lot of legal risks. Developers/publishers should still do it imo, but i dont think its something that can just be turned on without careful consideration.

I appreciate what your saying, and you’re right that it is a passive course of action (unless one were to campaign/lobby for developers to implement moderation). But my point was that imo, everyone that cares about the problem is already aware of it, and more awareness doesn’t solve the problem either.

This has been a problem for decades, and pre-dates microphones and games. Any platform that allows users to send messages will be used to send abuse. The tried and true solution has always been moderation. Riot Games seemed to be making headway with their chat moderation tools, but i havent kept up with how that went.

At a certain point, awareness becomes preaching to the choir. The assholes who are causing the problem won’t change their behavior unless they are forced to.