I mean if just the community is toxic I just wouldn’t participate - if it’s some negative trait is that. I can use a tool and not contribute to that toxicity.

But for moral issues like supporting a project that I’m turn supports fascism, homophobia, etc. I will protest by simply not bring a user. I don’t make this part of my identity, I probably should though - I don’t check these things, I only find out.

It’s a bummer too because I was planning on getting a framework laptop. Wound up just getting another Lenovo business laptop secondhand lol.

If you have… Time, the forum post has a lot of the context and drama: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

Regent pisses me off lol. All the others I got solid strategies with but regent is still a PITA

He did violate their IP, just not with the mod itself but the advertising / his posts - at least in my uneducated opinion.

Take these examples:

https://archive.is/xKCtk https://archive.is/bfg53

He’s using their IP to advertise his commercial product - a paid mod that supports their game. This use of IP generally isn’t considered fair use. It’s not the fact that it supports the game that’s a violation, it was the advertising that was more my point.

And then as DMCAs generally go, companies overreact (like Patreon) and overreach. I don’t think CD Project Red could reasonably have done anything if all this was was a footnote that his mod supports CP2077 and the advertising was happening via content creators plugging it - or otherwise off Patreon. But because he happens to use their IP to advertise directly, this was the outcome.

I’m not a lawyer though, there is probably more at play here.

If he had a generic mod that happened to support Cyberpunk 2077 / that other game that got him DMCA’d, I’d agree. But he’s using that IP, name, etc. to market his product and sell it - the publisher is well within their right to not want to be associated with that.

A DMCA (copyright) troll has a much different connotation than what these two publishers are doing.

The drama here isn’t solely over the use of AI. In fact, your last comment any brainlessly using AI is closer to the cause of this drama. The project lead is pushing untested code straight to main, and the fact it was AI generated was an addendum/insult to injury.

I’m going to wait on the outcome of these lawsuits and the discovery process before I lean one way or the other.

Pretty much. A more apt description would probably be “statistical model output sequence about uncertainty over own humanity, instead of correcting it’s context researchers left this is there, leading the statistical model to bias toward more existential horror in it’s own output”.

It has Platinum in ProtonDB for now. Definitely appears to be playable on Linux.

The gameplay looks fine. It looks like a Doom game. But I won’t buy a game with DRM, so I won’t be buying it until that gets removed (at earliest).

Whoops! Didn’t notice that typo. I wouldn’t even dream of subjecting my steam deck to the same 900 mods as my PC.

I modded Cyberpunk 2078 and jumped straight to the NNM app, no issues. Running quite a few mods.

That kind of looks like the art a glance feature. Perhaps you have a timer setup on a Google Home device? Or had.

Somehow not surprised I’m at just over 21K spent. That being said, that was from half a decade ago when I uh… Wasn’t as mature. Probably only 1K since then and strictly on games, not micro transactions.

Roguelikes and roguelites tend to be my favorite. Ones where each run is new and you can toy with different builds and usually get pretty OP toward the end (or get cut down early because luck wasn’t in your favor or you made a mistake).

Yeah I was surprised. I’m hoping it was a manufacturing defect and assuming they replace it it doesn’t happen again. If they don’t replace it though I have to stick to my convictions.

As an avid dbrand fan, their grip case for the Pixel 9 Pro was disappointing. The plastic around the USB port is super brittle and broke after less than a week. Now the bottom is deformed and I’m waiting on a reply to my support ticket before I find an alternate case and kiss my skin goodbye

There are some great mobile games out there. A few of my favorites include Dawncaster and Slice & Dice. Personally when I’m looking for a new game I use https://www.darkpattern.games/ to check if they are exploitive.

I haven’t checked in a while, so they may have walked back on this, but supposedly we finally get coop in the next one.

Pretty much the same here. Switched to AMD after Heartbleed/Spectre. Was torn between AMD or giving Intel another shot in my next build, up until a few weeks ago when this news broke. It’s going to take alot for me to consider Intel again.

Safety Net was replaced with the “Play Integrity API”. The current workaround I’m using is “Play Integrity Fix” by chiteroman and playcurl by daboynb. I believe this is still limited to Android 14 but could be wrong. The xda thread for it could shed some light.

In the settings under options -> gameplay you can turn off “5% generated heroes” which prevents that behavior you mentioned.

Seconded. The Android version runs extremely well and feels purpose built for mobile (looking at you, Slay the Spire).

Time to plan that week for PTO.

My old project I got to architect the frontend ran lean at around 300KB - part of our target audience had older phones so it was designed with that in mind.

At my new job 22MB is child’s play. To be fair they might do it better with the next version.

I have a Pixel 7 Pro, in the U S. (and some other countries) call recording is disabled by default and sometimes it’s possible to get your phone to think it’s from a region where it isn’t, and then enable it, but I haven’t really looked into it recently. It’s also really fucked because my state in the U S. allows call recording, so I really feel Google is being lazy by restricting it countrywide.

I use skvalex’s Call Recorder. Been using it around half a decade.

I root my phone so I can record my calls. That’s about it. I do other things with root but they aren’t the reason.

Why do I want to record my calls? Because my memory is shit and it’s nice to just be and to go back to a recording lol

BG3 for me. It’s been a while since a game has captured me so much.

Once you hit Android 14 you’ll have to.

Safety net is on the outs, now the go-to is “Play integrity fix”.

Good. I’d rather wait longer for a polished game as opposed to the current paradigm.

One of the first things I did when I took over an old php project was convert to bcrypt and add logic to automatically upgrade the hash on their next login (and in case you’re wondering, we also removed the old insurance hashes and the upgrade logic after a while, forcing remaining users to do a password reset).

To be fair, a lot of the game breaking launch bugs that hurt the game for me were with PVP (specifically, the instanced wars). I do know there were others but those PVP bugs are what I’ll always remember. The lag, the broken healing, the hatchet exploit, and a few others.

Netflix you just can’t get from Google Play, but people report having no problem installing from Aurora (basically a Google Play store frontend).

I’m not sure how it works on Graphene as I personally just rooted my phone but didn’t take the plunge to Graphene, but there is a list of compatible banking apps here: https://privsec.dev/banking

For anyone doing similar: battle tested software is still fallible, and exploits could emerge at any point (same goes for VPNs). Be sure to set server_tokens to off, this prevents NGINX from revealing it’s version to the world, which will help protect you in case an exploit is discovered down the line.

It’s a deterrent. Which is a pretty apt comparison for robots.txt and user agent blocking.

Just because some people might break into my house doesn’t mean I’ll stop locking my doors.