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h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphonesEnglish3·2 months agoYou could easily process the audio and filter in on the device and just send the transcribed parts that match your filters for further processing. No need to send a constant audio stream. Eventually it would show up in the battery usage but things like the google song recognition also heavily use the mic and process audio and it doesn’t show up as heavy as you would expect.
I feel the same about this. For me, It kills the best aspect of games, the playful learning. You just can’t go into any competitive game today without reading meta or you get crushed. But this is my free time. I want to spend it like that and just be creative and find my own solution to problems and still stand a realistic chance without having to have a second job studying the games meta. It’s the try and error discovery that made games fun for me and the feeling when you found your unique way to do things and others couldn’t counter it easily. But today it’s just about mastering a technique somebody else showed you.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Google backed Israel’s military. Now its workers are in revoltEnglish5·9 months agoIs it the wording or the position ? Because I could imagine feeling equally enraged by this.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claimEnglish51·9 months agoThis is about EdgeHTML not IE
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claimEnglish10·9 months agoOn “features” they would like to see. Most of the time features that make it difficult to block tracking and keep their advertising business going. The web is all about communication standards between different programs and this includes the joint adoption of new standards and respect for the existing standards.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now ObsoleteEnglish3·9 months agoUh yes the cracked version of Ida pro getting used to crack the next version of Ida pro.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now ObsoleteEnglish2·9 months agodeleted by creator
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.English1·9 months agoI talked about the
substantial enough to need an installer
line. Like what makes a game substantial enough to need an installer ? Steam and every other game launcher with install capabilities is more or less just a fancy installer. There is no more effort needed for a publisher to generate a new installer binary than it is to generate a new steam patch. Even if gog installers are offline it’s more or less an archive with a binary stub to unpack it and the install script. This one is on the publisher and not on gog. And for the version difference, do you have an example where the gog and steam versions differ ?
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.English1·9 months agoI don’t get that installer thing ? Steam downloads the game executable as well as all of the required libraries and assets into the steamapps directory and runs install scripts. It also runs potentially needed dependency installers like c++ visual studio redistributables or directx installers. The same thing does the gog installer. And the games I own on gog have always had version parity with the steam versions. I thought this would be the standard if a publisher publishes on both stores.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.English2·9 months agoSo what’s the problem about using third party clients like heroic game launcher ? Or did I understand the first line of your post wrong ?
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Tor says it’s "still safe" amid reports of police deanonymizing users3·10 months agoYes exactly and some providers also accept crypto.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Eu to make Apple open up operating system to rival tech (link added forgot to include it this morning)English3·10 months agoLet’s make them open up their hardware instead with all the software or documentation needed to run it and have them compete with aftermarket operating systems.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Tor says it’s "still safe" amid reports of police deanonymizing users28·10 months agoAs I read, they used timing analysis which should be preventable by using an anonymous VPN to connect to tor and streaming something over the VPN connection at the same time. Some of them support multi-hop, like mullvad, which will further complicate the timing analysis because of the aggregated traffic.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)English751·10 months agoWhat i love about musk is that he is the best bad example. Maybe someday he’ll start a war with some country and then people will start to understand that no single person or group should hold this much power. Because there are also a handful of other people and groups with the same resources who choose to hide in the background.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Hamas blames Israeli airstrikes for death of six hostages in Gaza41·10 months agoAt least you’re consistent with your opinions.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Hamas blames Israeli airstrikes for death of six hostages in Gaza51·10 months agoSo if putin wins ukraine belongs to him ?
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲)English1·11 months agoTbh, I’ve never worked in such an environment. I know somebody who told me similar things and I would love to hear more about this to form my own opinion on this. But it’s just not that deep. When I say corporate, I mean it’s full of GUIDs and only machine-readable names, commands and configs. It’s also most of the time not designed with the flexibility in mind and covers only the most commonly (used by the company supporting it) use cases. It just doesn’t have the free spirit which most of the open source tools, which are designed with humans in mind, have. If you need to supply a parameter to get output from a command that is often run manually while you could also have one to deactivate output for script usage. This seems like the wrong way to go.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲)English82·11 months agoBut this is some Docker shit. For myself Docker always feels a little corporate. It’s just not very conventional with these multiline commands just to run a command inside a container. Especially the obligatory “-it” to fucking see anything. It’s not really straight forward. But if you get used to it and you can make a lot of aliases to use it more easily.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makersEnglish11·1 year agoThey don’t like it because it’s mostly implemented in microsofts favor. It’s shipped with microsoft keys by default and needs to be disabled to boot a lot of linux distros. If there was a more unbiased way to load a new os like a default key setup routine at first boot or a preinstalled key for major linux distros they wouldn’t be so hostile towards secure boot. The technology isn’t bad and it’s the only way to not have somebody temper with your system at rest without TPM.
As I know we have no other information source about hamas using civilian infrastructure like hospitals as military bases than the IDF. That’s because no external journalists are allowed in gaza by the IDF. And in the beginning exactly this IDF also claimed they don’t target hospitals and it was a hamas rocket that hit the biggest hospital of gaza. Now there is not a single hospital left. So maybe we shouldn’t believe this kind of information. Also there are other methods than bombing the whole area if the enemy is really using civilian infrastructure as military bases. So it’s still on the attacker if civilians die. Especially if the attacker has massive military capacities and options for other methods like in the case of the IDF.