PhobosAnomaly

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Taking the #1 (or whatever number) ranked word would make for a good alternative to AskOuija or something.

I wondered why "die" was so common, until I realised we have a lot of Deutsch compadres too!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think Tay will be taught in AI ethics-type courses for generations to come.

I wonder whether it'll be in the context of "hey look what happened when AI had no guardrails", or whether it will be "fuck we should have seen this coming".

As horrendous as the content it was spouting was, it was highly amusing to see the project nosedive so spectacularly quickly.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

quality burn

Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago

I suspect the answer lies in paragraph 4, where I'm making the assumption that the scammers make contact directly with the buyers, and invite a payment to be made to the scammers rather than the brokers.

I suppose in a strictly legal sense, the brokers are off the hook then as they've no idea the scammers have asked the buyers to send a payment.

It's scummy as fuck all round.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Man I miss Eudora back in the day. I used the mail client in SeaMonkey before I just started using my phone to check mail.

The 90s and 2000s were a simpler time.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

Game Pass is cool and all, but the rebrands and weird omissions make it a bit of a shambles.

I still have an Xbox One, but I've got a chonky internet connection (at least for my area) and Cloud Gaming is a fantastic bit of kit. I was tempted to buy a cheap one-month Game Pass code and play this Black Ops 6 campaign and another game or two... but this isn't on the Cloud Gaming service.

It's shit like this that makes the high seas a far more attractive option. I know not every game is Cloud Gaming enabled, but one would expect that certainly all the Game Pass titles would be included.

Oh well, I just won't play it I suppose, I'm sure I'll find something else to do with those five or six hours!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Well that's just fuckin awesome, thank you my friend.

That'll be a giggle on the weekend 👍

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Awesome, so it's usable without an account now?

Honestly, I never checked after I stored it.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I bought a second generation of Rift (no idea what model it was, but it was the second retail one, not including the CV1 or whatever dev build it was) - and it was fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

The moment they forced the use of a Facebook account, it stopped getting used. The visor, controllers, and sensors have been sat in a cupboard for a year or two.

I really should see if it has been jailbroken, or if there's a way to utilise the Rift features without any Meta bollocks.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Patience is the key - I hate Denuvo, you (probably) hate Denuvo, and most devs hate Denuvo... once the magic first week or two are done, the new trend seems to be devs patching out Denuvo once their release sales have peaked so fingers crossed this will continue.

A cheaper, patched, DRM-less game a few months behind release. Winner.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not the problematic metric though. It's the 70-80% (link) install base of the Windows OS on desktop computers that Edge is installed with that's the basis of the anti-competitive allegation.

The fact that it still only takes 5% of the browser usage is more of a happy accident.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 13 points 2 months ago

This is how you get shot for the silliest of reasons.

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