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  • I mean, its possible.

    But then again, people have now known the beauty of steam. If this does happen as you say it could, it does open up the possibility for someone to make a Steam_v2.

    I have faith that there are enough people who are passionate about Linux that it’s possible for Windows to lose some of its dominance in the future. Maybe the enshittification of steam is needed to make that a possibility.





  • If you’ve ever managed or monitored a corporate firewall, you’re honestly doing yourself a disservice by not using an adblocker these days. The amount of malicious advertising that corporate firewalls block these days from employees on the internet is astounding.

    Legitimate as traffic accounts are constantly hijacked by threat actors as its such an easy way to spread malware and compromise machines.


  • I’m also not a fan of MS spyware.

    But in defence of the MS authenticator, the 2FA prompts it sends are very convenient, how they pop up and ask for the number displayed on screen, its definitely more secure than just the one time code.

    Plus it also shows what phone the user is using when they install and configure the authenticator app, this is also very useful if you suddenly see the user accessing their mail or one drive from another mobile device.





  • Deleting an app from any device regardless of OS should generally remove all related files, except in cases where the app asks you if you’d like to keep certain files, such as personal data or saved game files. However that’s not to say that they always remove related files, things such as updates can leave files in particular temporary directories, some of these are not always removed as part of the update process and so they are not something which would be recognised during the removal of the application either.

    These kind of temporary files and folders being left behind are why there has always been reasons behind creating apps to “boost” you device performance by removing some of these left over junk files but are also the reason that sometimes its better to just totally reset the device, clear everything out and start again.

    I know there was a time I would pretty much do this on a yearly basis for my own computer to try and keep it at a close to peak performance level.






  • You wanna talk Chinese spyware, why are they not outright banning Temu? That’s a much better documented case of actually being spyware.

    In terms of Tiktok being spyware, they are tracking users in much the same ways that every other big social media company is. Should other nations be worried about Facebook sharing that data with the US govt to produce psyops campaigns against foreign nations?

    I’m against any country blocking access to things in the name of “national security” and providing little to no evidence on it. Its been done too many times to trojan horse in other malicious activities that governments want to do.



  • Okay that’s a great counter argument and I can’t say that a model that’s being trained on every pilot mission ever flown wouldn’t be an excellent advantage.

    But so far we’ve seen companies try the exact same thing with cars. And no one has come up with something which is close to being allowed to be fully autonomous without it killing people or causing traffic incidents.

    So how can we ever expect something such as an LLM to understand the nuances of war? We already struggle at attributing blame with current technology, this just sounds like another great excuse for blowing up people in a foreign country and no one has to take any responsibility for it.