Today’s game is some more Halo. Today I felt a little experimental. You might notice that the aspect ratio is 9:16 rather than 16:9. I in fact did not crop it but went through the effort of setting up my monitor that way to get experimental with portrait screenshots. I’ve done Landscape for 619 Days, so mixing things up seemed like a good idea.

To start things off we did a game of Assault in Halo 3. With Halo I feel like there’s sometimes a “perfect” combo of map and game mode, like Zealot and Infection. Or Beaver Creek and CtF. Or Blood Gulch and CtF. And this feels like one of those situations. It’s a pretty basic setup. You have the “Stronghold” and you have the “invaders” who have to invade it. It makes for an amazing setup though. Especially because the Invaders have such little space before they breach the walls. So it feels like you’re always on your toes while still having the inner walls to work with.

Speaking of Beaver Creek we also did that with CtF. The way this map is done it feels like it could work with Assault too, but with the routes above and on the ground it really feels like it was made for CtF. I personally prefer the above route. Crouch out the side door and up the ramp and then across to my own base with the flag.

It was nice to get to socialize again after being out sick since like yesterday. Really Halo feels like the perfect social game on top of the PvP. Hopefully if I’m feeling better tomorrow I can really sink my teeth back into something like Final Fantasy 8

Yekaterina Chudnovsky, online biographies say, is a mother-of-four who “enjoys spending time with her family and teaching them the importance of giving back and helping others”. They add that Ukrainian-born Chudnovsky, known as Katie, finds sanctuary in walks on the beach.

In interviews, Chudnovsky has spoken warmly about her commitment to philanthropy, her dedication to support cancer research and her work as a lawyer for an unnamed global technology firm. Pornography is never mentioned.

Now, it may become unavoidable. After the death of Chudnovsky’s husband, Leonid Radvinsky, from cancer last week at the age of 43, she is now understood to have a controlling interest through a family trust in the London-based adult content site, OnlyFans.

Chudnovsky is set to have a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire before he turned 40. The family stake is valued at about $5.5bn (£4.1bn).

Chudnovsky’s views on pornography will determine the site’s future business model, and whether it continues to generate huge sums of money by taking a 20% cut from the earnings of about 4 million content creators globally, a large proportion of whom generate money for the business by undressing and performing explicit content on the platform.

OnlyFans has tried to position itself as one of Britain’s greatest tech success stories, preferring to be seen as a social media platform than as an adult business. It employs only 42 people, and yet managed to generate $7.2bn in 2024.

Research.

• Hacker News.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44896008

The Future, One Week Closer. This is goimg to matter to everybody on Earth

In 5-10 years, Amazon/Bezos has a self-quota to make 100 million robots per year. That sounds nuts. The USA alone has over 300 million people. So it would take 3 years after they reach capacity to build robots to cover all USA population.

Yeah at this point I don't think just laws, legislation, oversight committees, and even whole world focusing on this issue together would be enough by that point. So this will most likely be a big focus from now on up to those 5-10 years to get resolved. That is just counting Amazon too not other companies worldwide in other "countries" doing the same thing to get to that level of capacity

8.3 billion living people on Earth currently. When production reaches 100 million robots each year it would take 83 years to cover every human on the planet with their own robot "companion"

The only way this can be done in a good way is open source community-made robots and AI being owned by people as a public thing not privately owned. Where everything is verified and done together ethically. That gives power back to people to own themselves.

Not one person corporate owned at all/tech overlords/stock market.

Also, other news: lots of data centers are going to be sent to orbit space.

I think that's enough internet for me today.

This is just wow. I don't even what to say at this point anymore except get things done, and together seriously.

Yes lots of good can come from certain aspects but I don't feel like it will be done in a friendly way overtime

Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice — confirming what anyone with a passing familiarity with antitrust law already knew: companies deciding they don’t want their brands plastered next to extremist content aren’t engaged in an illegal conspiracy. They’re just making basic (probably pretty smart) business decisions.

When X Corp filed this case back in August of 2024, we walked through in great detail why the legal theory was fundamentally broken. Not broken in a “they pleaded it badly” kind of way, but broken in a “this theory does not describe an antitrust violation no matter how many drugs you’re taking or how convinced you are that the world owes you advertising dollars” kind of way. Judge Jane Boyle of the Northern District of Texas has now agreed, and the key section of her ruling is worth reading in full...

I've been playing Crimson Desert since it came out. It didn't start out all that great story-wise, but the rest of the game was fun so I kept going. Eventually I got enough stuff to start free roaming, and exploration has always been my favorite thing to do in games that are rich with it.

I found a train while just going around getting fast travel spots unlocked for easier mission progress later. I got to the train and hopped aboard. It seems to be a steam train, and there was no one aboard, not even a conductor. I realized I could open the window, and then went into first person, eventually snapping this screenshot. It's one of my favorites just for how the whole thing came out while on a moving train!

I spent at least an hour or two atop the train, just to see where it would lead me. I've got a few more screenshots I'd like to share as the days go by of that train ride. For something so mundane, the sights I was able to see were pretty and very interesting.

I haven't played a game that sucked my attention so wholly since Elden Ring came out! Hopefully you'll see tomorrow's screenshot! :-]

The Trump administration's newly launched White House App is under scrutiny after a software developer claimed to have found embedded code that tracks users' precise GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes and automatically syncs them to a third-party server. The claim, posted on 28 March 2026 by the X account @Thereallo1026, has drawn nearly 260,000 views and prompted questions about data collection practices in government-operated applications.

The post included what appeared to be decompiled source code from the app, revealing what the user described as OneSignal's 'full GPS pipeline compiled in.' According to the post, the code showed the app 'polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third-party server.' The White House has not publicly responded to the specific technical claims.

White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server on top of the rest.

idk how this works. Which variant is right for me and how do I make it be on my computer?

Update: I have a GeForce graphics card. Is it worth dealing with "some trouble" to have a computer without copilot?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.hogru.ch/post/3967465

Crossposted from https://europe.pub/post/10821717

What Is This App?

It's a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called "forty-five-press" according to the Expo config.

I'm curious to know what kind of hoops people have to jump through to verify their age to watch porn?

I mean, how is age verified without identity verification and/or risk of privacy breaches? Do phones or emails get notifications or alerts? Do you have to do it each and every time et al?

I supposed I'm puzzled as to why anyone would risk watching porn if an app or entity is out there 'verifying' something, and (presumably) these things can be exploited or hacked.

I'm also assuming (hoping) that there are some hackers out there who are working on a workaround or add on.

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Full Report(76 Pages PDF).

Just wanted to share it. I just discovered it. Looks cool