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The nitwits… with a little power, even less understanding or good intention

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One inch at a time, we are reclaiming and returning the web back into one with personality, instead of javascript-framework-of-the-month slop that it's become.

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From the consumer standpoint that is a clear win for consumers, having more universal devices that are not tied to only one platform is always a win. If the Project Helix will be as open as Steam Machine I don't have anything against it, although I really doubt it will be like that.

But as a Linux enthusiast I hope the Steam Machine will win this race!

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Those that appear in Epstein files targeting users under 18 in 3, 2, 1...

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This game should come with a voucher for a therapist specialised in addiction.

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Semi-related: digiphile has Planet Coaster for free right now:
https://www.digiphile.co/collections/planet-coaster-free-game-plus

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They say screen saver, but it's really just a lock screen, is it not?

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Quoting: CarollyI know about Prop 65 labeling

No doubt they had good intentions (consumer awareness can be a good thing), but since they are on almost everything, nobody pays any attention to them. So kind of useless, without some actions to actively reduce their frequency (like with PFAS).

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Quoting: EikeYou don't actually, literally think that you are talking to/writing with a hole in a backside. People get a money fine for insulting.

So what you are saying, is that you have to pay for the "privilege" of insulting (figurative) assholes.

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"driving" and "horror" go hand in hand! 😖🫣

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But can you oversalt the fries so people buy more soft drinks?

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Quoting: ZlopezI still think that things like these should be responsibility of parents and not state. I don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.

That's what this is. It empowers parents (presumably the computer admins) to set some restrictions on children accounts (or not if they don't want to) rather than submitting any actual private information to governments or corporations. The only privacy preserving alternatives are parents constantly monitoring their children or accepting children are at the mercy of the Internet.

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Oooh! Shiny!

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Quoting: ScottCarammellSurprised they'd do something so blatant, but given they're willing to use AI-generated content for their game it's not super surprising they'd also be pro-surveillance. goes hand-in-hand really

the discord integration was probably vibe-coded, I wonder if the fix was as well

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Quoting: Mountain Man

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Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

You clearly do not value freedom of speech.

I value the freedom to state your opinion.

I do not see any value in insulting people, no.

Quoting: Mountain ManAnd it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

Well, obviously, nobody wants that. Would you link a source to read it up?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-woman-given-harsher-sentence-155055252.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guYnJhdmUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJkDEsnQfKYIO7q2C2lvY9mh15uq-TDhQ3_J2MMqDh3B3RrJ7eO33jfUeowVQe7Ik2-TtBuxIBxD2KnrxUnaJfpUW9hsWa9O_MVXs8fsJeEuTbR3OfKeOtxkgNKKCBX0B_6v4MGqWyT90RdRI1Q6xoIeYMlw4DDkBsa0ggoqnSqE

To clarify, it was Germany and not the UK as I remembered, and she called her rapist a pig, not a dog. But she did receive a harsher jail sentence for it.

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Quoting: CatKillerMore than anything, it's an admission of a fundamental lack of self-confidence on Sony's part.

To be fair, based on the rest of your post it would seem to be a very justified lack of self-confidence.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNot much benefit to me. My Nvidia chipset is stuck on the 580 series. Ah well, I knew it would happen eventually...

No biggie, though. Nvidia drivers are messy on Xfce (at least on my Mint system) since the 590 series, so I had to go back to earlier versions for it to work properly on my GTX 1650.

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this SCREAMS of a vibe coded disaster. And if they are doing something so amateur as this bug, just IMAGINE what else is going on with this game that's not discovered / disclosed. Imagine how much WAS happening that got patched that will never get disclosed. Horrible devs.

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Quoting: JohnologueCan't hear the NVIDIA updates over the fans of my perfectly functional GTX 1070...

But... but ... how is nvidia supposed to survive if you don't use their new vibe coded drivers?

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Quoting: hardpenguinThat's interesting, I thought CS2 and CSGO are the same game, just rebranded.

I suppose it would be good to have CSGO available with just community servers, similar to CS Source and CS 1.6.

I believe it IS the same general code base and "project" from a technical standpoint, but some people prefer the greater number of maps and mods on the older CSGO

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Not a thing I'd ever be at risk from. Games would never be able to detect my discord and I'd certainly not give it. Just as discord would never be able to detect my game.

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Glad to have never touched either of these things. It's like I have spidey sense for malware or something.

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Rest assured
No. Never.

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Can't hear the NVIDIA updates over the fans of my perfectly functional GTX 1070...

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It's funny how all of these "happy little accidents" are all… accidents. "Woops, we logged your auth token and private discussions, my bad." as in, why the hell was the game reading these in the first place, and at what point does an auth token is logged accidentally? Someone have to write a piece of code that says `log(thisSuperDuperSecretStuffThatShouldNeverGetCloseToALoggingFunction);` for this to happen.

Even in early development phase, we wrap logging of potential informations in a way that only expose minimal information, usually the presence and length of the content.

Either their dev are worst than an entry level junior intern, or there's some high level incompetence all around.

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Too cheap and lazy for voices, why'd anyone expect cybersecurity? Maybe they "generated" that, too.

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I was not thinking about buying any console (over the years i got a NES, a Megadrive/Genesis and the first DS "tank"), but now, i'm even less willing to.

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Quoting: ZlopezI don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.

Then you do understand. It's nothing to do with children, and it's nothing to do with parents. The people that are pushing their panopticon just want to be able to claim that those who oppose it "hate children."

So it's the same as some people calling you names if you don't agree with them, just so you can look like bad person instead of just a person with different reasoning. Now I understand why it's hiding behind "protect the children".

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Something else to note, is that the game does have an AI disclosure on the Steam page:

AI-assisted tools were used to upscale and enhance some in-game textures, to help add visual detail to the original artwork. All final assets were artist-reviewed and then integrated by the development team

Despite my immense dislike of LLMs, I have to admit that this usecase does not bother me.

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This is actually quite exciting! The linked blog post is also worth the read for Mint fans.

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