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Salv8 (sam)

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  1. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from DededeKirby in Filmora is no longer supporting user's Lifetime licenses.   
    the filmora community looks like it'll be no-mora after this.

    (oh shut up someone would make it)
     
    anyways, they technically advertised it on their website and since they have taken it away it could be a case of lying to the consumer. if anyone where to oh i don't know, complain to their country's advertising standard's bureau, filmora could get into a bit of trouble and i wouldn't be surprised if they had to honor the old licenses (begrudgingly at least)
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Dedayog in Beer   
    Moderator note: this conversation was split out from an existing topic, in which it was hideously off topic
     
    Not beer.  Beer is getting better all the time 🙂
     
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Middcore in Is The Wirecutter getting worse?   
    Everything is getting worse.
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    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from Why_Me in Elon Musk is removing blocking people from 𝕏   
    echo chambers are nothing but hell, they do nothing except reinforce horrible beliefs.
    also anyone thinking threads would be the next twitter is deluding themselves.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Middcore in Elon Musk is removing blocking people from 𝕏   
    I welcome this, it would accelerate the exodus of any well-adjusted person from the platform until only the shitlords remain. 
  6. Informative
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to HenrySalayne in The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor has been found   
    This is quite interesting, but I see two problems:
    - Lead is banned under the RoHS directive, so a lead-based superconductor might be a problem.
    - The time between creating something in a lab and solving the technical issues to deploy and use it in everyday applications can be easily two decades.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to da na in Google proposes turning browsers into DRM software for the web | Ending AD Blocking for all browsers   
    Like with any DRM, it will inevitably just become an arms race of addons and extensions trying to circumvent website DRM, and Google trying to block addons, wasting a ton of time and money that could be spent somewhere useful.
    At this rate I won't be too bothered if solar flares knock out internet access for several years.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Donut417 in Google proposes turning browsers into DRM software for the web | Ending AD Blocking for all browsers   
    No. Time to dust off the Sherman Anti Trust Laws and pull out the fucking hammer they used on the Ma Bell and break Alphabet up. Along with all the cable and phone providers. 
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to wanderingfool2 in [Rumour] Switch 2 Dev Kit controller contains scroll wheels, patents corroborate   
    By having things on a prototype, it doesn't mean it will become a thing.  Sony's boomerang comes to mind.  It could be so they could test it out and figure that it's not great or practical (but it still remains in the prototype).
     
    With that said, someone's going to be fired.  If someone asks for a private screening and the TSA officer openly talks about what was inside said contents, they must be violating some trade secrets conventions or something like privacy policy (just my guess)
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to ravenshrike in [Rumour] Switch 2 Dev Kit controller contains scroll wheels, patents corroborate   
    Oh god no. The horrific gimmicks they will come up with to try and use these.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to porina in EU Lists First 7 Potential "Gatekeepers" Under The Digital Markets Act (DMA)   
    It will be interesting to see how the dust settles on this one, not just in the EU where it is required, but how it will spill over to the rest of the world.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to leadeater in PCI-SIG prepares to replace controversial 12VHPWR with 12V-2x6 connector   
    Wow who would have thought that open circuit defaulting to device protection is the proper and safety first design.
  13. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to da na in Google sabotages Open Source Android and Custom ROMs by deprecating Open Source built in Dialer and Messaging Apps   
    >Buys open source phone OS
    >makes the PHONE part closed source

  14. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to TrigrH in Google sabotages Open Source Android and Custom ROMs by deprecating Open Source built in Dialer and Messaging Apps   
    Only google would manage to kill the "phone" component of a phone OS 😄 
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to whispous in Australia Drafts Bill to Fine Social Media Companies for spreading Misinformation   
    It's a two-edged sword, always.
     
    It hinges entirely upon an impossible factor:
     
    What is truth?
     
    There's shades of grey, at each end you can clearly identify outright lies and objective truths, but in the middle dwells opinion and assertions about people's motives. Having this part under the control of a government always leads to propaganda, having it under the control of the social media corporation always leads to no-one on either side being happy, and the government will screech at them when it doesn't go their way.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Mark Kaine in Reddit pulls a Twitter. Third Party Apps will cost some developers $20 MILLION/yr.   
    yeah, no shit you don't own reddit,  just don't use it problem solved? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to bezza... in Intel officially announces "Core Ultra" rebrand   
    this is kinda cringe
  18. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to rcmaehl in The Year of Linux Gaming continues as Apple's Game Porting Toolkit turns out to be WINE   
    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as FOSS, is in fact, FOSS/Commerical Repackaging, or as I've recently taken to calling it, FOSS plus Paid Developers.
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    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from JobinJames in Nvidia CEO Says Intel's Test Chip Results For Next-Gen Process Are Good   
    no, Jensen likes his cash to be as green as the company's logo.
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    Salv8 (sam) reacted to TetraSky in RARBG one of the most trafficked torrent sites shutdown on June 1st.   
    Sad day for pirates everywhere.
    But... Even if they took it down themselves instead being taken down legally, like a hydra, cut one head and two more sprout out from it.
  21. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from WolframaticAlpha in Nvidia CEO Says Intel's Test Chip Results For Next-Gen Process Are Good   
    no, Jensen likes his cash to be as green as the company's logo.
  22. Informative
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Uttamattamakin in Windows 365 Boot. A Paid subscription and internet to be able to use a PC at your workplace. What great idea !   
    Exactly.  I could see this as being, perhaps, a way to share hardware that is in short supply.  Like Nvidia has a product that allows sharing of  their enterprise GPU's as a virtual workstation, or virtual desktop.  Not sure how that works though.    

    You know they could just have a Samsung Dex like app that one installs on their cell phone, and the access a full fat windows desktop remotely.  I'd bet that's a thing already. 
     
    What I think they are really selling is the service of setting up and maintaining all of that.  A lot of businesses would rather just pay a subscription than have an employee on staff to handle these things.   Businesses aren't run by IT departments, they are run by people who don't understand IT.  They are run by the ones who hire and fire.
     
    Hiring people is not easy especially when small-medium companies are still looking for a perfect fit and haven't learned to be flexible around an employee.  Firing people is not easy ... because if they hired someone and gave them a real chance to do the job 1-2 years.  Get to work with someone for 1-2 years and it can be hard to make that cut.  

    So, they just pay a subscription to a megacorp and be done with it.   
  23. Funny
    Salv8 (sam) reacted to Needfuldoer in Nintendo DMCA on lockpick (get your own system keys from your switch for emulators)   
    Barbara Streisand, her mansion photographed.

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    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from HanZie82 in AMD fTPM hacked   
    if the key to the lock is stored with said lock it doesn't matter how hard people make it to get to said key, with enough time, patience and will, it will be cracked.
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    Salv8 (sam) got a reaction from AI_Must_Di3 in AMD fTPM hacked   
    if the key to the lock is stored with said lock it doesn't matter how hard people make it to get to said key, with enough time, patience and will, it will be cracked.
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