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MagnificentSteiner

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  • [Article] Why AI Is Hated: A cultural phenomenon based on personal opinion

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  • EU Now Requires USB-C Charging for New Laptops Up to 100 W

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  • AFAIK it was the EU that forced Apple to adopt USB-C, at least on iPhones, dunno if that applies to their laptops too.

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    What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28

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  • I've been reading Michael J Sullivan's Elan series. I'm on Esrahaddon now with just Drumindor to go after that. Read the first 10 pages of Farilane and ragequit it... a jarring departure from Sullivan's usual style and a protagonist so infuriating I quit (fortunately it's pretty much a stand-alone). The rest of his books are really good though :D

    Bought a new Kobo Clara BW a few weeks ago and put KOReader on it. Very happy with it - a nice upgrade over my 12 year old Kindle.

  • I dug a hole.

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  • You've got a bit more to go to catch up with Mel!

  • The politics of decentralization and the libertarian allure of the fediverse

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  • lmao yeah xD

  • The politics of decentralization and the libertarian allure of the fediverse

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  • Yep, first thought that popped into my head after reading it was that it had big "freedom for me but not for thee" vibes. But of course their "freedom for me but not for thee" is better for everyone than the other kinds.

  • What's old is new again.

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  • Some Garden Birds from Northern Germany

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  • Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!

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  • I pointed it out because the article is nostalgia bait for this "Project Zircon".

  • Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!

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  • And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative webpage on the official site for its Project Zircon. The largely user-built world of this Web3 game platform is still under development, but is expected to include the Konami Code somehow as it grows.

    Blockchain, NFT, "play to earn"... nope.

  • "We will do better": Blizzard are sorry World of Warcraft's prop hunt patch launched with an X-ray vision exploit and plenty of other pesky bugs

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  • We will do better

    I can't believe anyone believes this anymore. They've been doing mea culpas and promising to be better for over 20 years.

  • Curried rice, chicken, bell pepper and peas.

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  • Pop the kid on and crank the heat to high

    Hansel & Gretel flashbacks intensify

  • SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky

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  • This is what it's like for Europeans to follow American recipes!

    1 cup of any liquid... no problem, that's 240ml.

    1 cup of raisins... who fucking knows.

  • Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

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  • That was also the only factual assertion I made. I posited a guess afterwards, and drew potential conclusions afterwards.

    Yes, uncharitable guesses that were unwarranted and amounted to a strawman.

    I'll spell it out real simple for you since you seem to need that...

    it sounds like you’re not boycotting Steam’s

    I never said I was boycotting either Denuvo or Steam. You're trying to imply here that I have a contradiction in my argument but I don't. The only thing I said was they're both bad.

    so long as it can be circumvented, you don’t especially care, right?

    Trying to reinforce your own strawman with more assumptions in a transparent attempt to make me seem a hypocrite.

    For the purposes of the argument, circumvention and performance are two very distinct concerns.

    This wasn't mentioned in my comment thread at all until you brought it up and even then it's only in the context of your strawman.

    If it can be shown that Steam DRM also affects performance, what would be your opinion then?

    As I said before numerous times, I think Steam DRM is bad. Whether or not it affects performance wouldn't change my opinion. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.

    Here, educate yourself about informal fallacies.

    If you don’t want to comment, just keep your hand off the Post button

    Make me.

  • Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

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  • You said they’re both “bad”

    This is the only true thing you said. Everything else is your assumptions that you argue against as a strawman.

    The arguments I've made here stand on their own and I'm not going to jump through hoops to try to pass your manipulative and extremely transparent purity test.

  • Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

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  • It’s not. If “That game has denuvo so I won’t buy it because I hate DRM” if a stance you have, you should also not buy it because of Steam’s DRM. Otherwise you’re not true to your own word and therefore unbelievable.

    Strawman fallacy. You're arguing against something I didn't say. I did in fact say "They’re both DRM, they’re both bad.".

    As surprising as it may be for you, it's possible to be against both anti-cheat and DRM, which I am. You're the one here defending Denuvo and trying to minimise other people's opinions on it.

    I won't be replying anymore as you're clearly not here in good faith.

  • Pope says people being ‘defrauded by the rich’ in latest forceful sermon

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  • Says the guy who heads a church that has it's own country.

  • PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features

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  • Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

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  • I get that people don’t like the thought of “I’m not fully owning my game” which is reasonable, but in that case, your reason for not playing pargmata shouldn’t be denuvo, but steam itself.

    This is whataboutism. They're both DRM, they're both bad. I should point out though that it is up to the developer/publisher whether they use Steam DRM. There are games on Steam that you can play the game without Steam (Cyberpunk 2077 for example).

    As far as your comments about anti-cheats... at least those are actually trying to do something for the gameplay experience. Where people disagree with them is how it is going about it or whether different multiplayer models might negate the need for it.

    DRM though exists solely for the publishers/developers, is very debatable whether it has much real benefits for them and is always a negative for customers. IMO DRM is the far more important issue in gaming.

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    How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

    krebsonsecurity.com /2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/
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    How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

    krebsonsecurity.com /2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/
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    Why the same food costs double in UK (It's not Brexit)

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    Stop Killing Games Update

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