Ya, sadly there is still a lot of useful content in the technical subreddits. So I find myself ending up there via search engines on a fairly regular basis. But, I specifically use the Redirector plugin for Firefox to auto-magically force the use of old Reddit. If I hit the site on my work computer, I’m quickly reminded about why I quit the site.
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sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcementEnglish18·9 days agoICE was formed in 2002, following the attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center. Like basically everything the US did in the wake of that attack (e.g. Patriot Act) this has been an absolute disaster and should be rolled back.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Gives European Union Users More Control: Uninstall Edge, Store, and Say Goodbye to Bing PromptsEnglish3·10 days agoI work for a fairly large company, and we’re hearing about “AI” constantly. CoPilot is available and its use encouraged. Also, in the cybersecurity space, AI is fucking everywhere. Vendors won’t shut up about their “AI Enabled” products. And the new hotness is “Agentic AI”, which is basically automation, but we’re going to let AI hallucinations fire off the automated process which could bring production systems down.
Good times are surely coming. /s
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•How will we deal with all the broken images?English5·10 days agoIt looks like archive.org is capturing some of lemm.ee. So, it’s possible that most of the images are there and could be referenced.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Apple@lemmy.world•I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a MacEnglish91·12 days agoAn Operating System is a tool. Would you be annoyed because you had to use a hex key on a bolt with a hex socket, when what you really like using is a robertson drive? If the work you are doing is dependent on a particular OS choice, then use that OS and get over yourself.
That said, if this is for work and you want to avoid the crapware in Windows 11, talk with your IT team. By default, Recall is removed on commercially managed devices. I’m not 100% sure, and can’t be arsed to look it up at the moment, but this likely refers to devices managed via Intune. Assuming your IT team isn’t stuck in the 90’s, they are probably doing this already. Telemetry can also be mostly disabled via Group Policy, and many IT organizations will already be doing this. Or, as you have arrived at, use a Mac and disable the telemetry.
On the other side of that coin, if you expect privacy on a work owned device, I have bad news for you. More and more organizations are using Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) products on all endpoint devices. Yes, this includes Mac and Linux devices. So, your organization is watching you browse porn on your work device. If you are doing something and you don’t want someone watching over your shoulder, don’t use a work device. Keep your work device for work and your personal device for everything else.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•New fuel cell could enable electric aviationEnglish1·12 days agoBut, we’ll know where the aircraft is. It’s a built in, instant location flare. No more aircraft disappearing and not being found.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•A two-player Elden Ring Nightreign PC Mod is already availableEnglish14·13 days agoIt’s rather amazing that this one guy keeps churning out fixes for FromSoft’s complete inability to understand multiplayer.
That said, I do plan to try the vanilla setup first (finishing up Shadow of the Erdtree before we change over). I just worry about my wife and I dropping into a session and having some rando who either wants to faff about; or, we run into the type of toxic behavior which seems to inundate online games. We had pretty good luck with Vermintide 2, back in the day. But, with way too many years of playing WoW, we’ve also run into a lot of assholes. And we just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGsEnglish16·13 days agoWell, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of EggsEnglish132·15 days agoImagine the flight envelope as a graph. Going further to the right means going faster. Going further up means going higher. The goal of test flights is to push against the upper-right hand corner of that envelope. Unfortunately, that’s also where your postage gets stamped.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%English01·16 days agoUm yay, I guess. I’m always for more options. And maybe there is a market out there for the “game from the cloud” idea. Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink. In no world do I want to pay for a subscription to play games on a device where I can just play that game locally.
Same. I had gotten the paid version because the dev deserved something for such a great app. RIF died and I did a hard cutover to Lemmy. Deleted my Reddit account and probably caused some confusion for the cordcutters subreddit. I had a post which was part of the sidebar for about a decade.