My friend is a customer service rep who is ready to retire. Her company is talking about layoffs with 13+ weeks of severance, but when she asked (anonymously) if they were accepting volunteers, they said no. In case she’s not one of the ones told to clean out her desk, what are the ways she could get terminated while...
mods made by more than a few people are impossible to monetise with this scheme, way too many creators to pay so you would make next to nothing over just making it free and putting it in your resume
and then we have bethesdas aversion to new dialog (and localising it) in these official mods, which really kills the vibe in many of them
and they still dont seem to be interested in offering the full toolchain for the engine, including official mesh and anim import/export plus documentation for the formats
Rishi Sunak has said he will hold the Met Police chief “accountable” over a pro-Palestinian march set to take place this Saturday, on Armistice Day....
Gee, it’s almost like corporations are gouging consumers so badly that their market advantages are being lost due to greed. Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices...
It's that time of the evening guys and gals, buckle up for another adventure that's sure to leave you with an aching heart!Welcome to the Arasaka Waterfront ......
and there are many trash implementations that dont recognise something like :emoticon: as shortcut and turn it into emoji, no no you have to use emoji keyboard to type them
just weird they would not use their modern scifi universe series branding and instead use... ancient scifi universe from quarter century ago that was killed off by their most well known scifi universe series that they didnt want to work on any more
Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.
better to block their goods form the market if they refuse to allow others to compete in theirs
cant sell your goods or software in china without local business taking cuts and trade secrets? well bad luck now you cant do business in the west either until you drop that shit
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well they absolutely can use containers that have no model or cant be opened or lock them with no key, this just some standard dev stuff doing the bare min work to make it function
seems to be the favoured deflection strategy of gaming companies after the management attempts something controversial and you want to gain some sympathy instead
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to sell a portion of Starlink assets to the U.S. Department of Defense, removing himself from decision-making regarding geofencing Ukraine’s access to the satellite internet service
Presumably Unity decided they had too many customers and needed to get rid of most of them. Not only is this an insane thing to charge developers for, there are all kinds of concerns like:...
iFixit tears down a Taylor ice cream machine and finds that it overheats often, takes hours to restart, and these issues are impossible to fix because of locked down software and terrible error messages. No wonder, since Taylor makes 25% of its money charging $315 per 15 minutes for their exclusive repairs....
yeah someone is def getting rich with these expensive "repairs" by intentionally designing the hardware to require outside maintenance
likely management at mcd's has someone behind this even though this seems to cost invidual restaurants lot of downtime on products which doesnt really make lot of sense to support
It showcases crimes that were solved using email records, cell phone pings, social media, etc. It’s interesting to see just how much information law enforcement can get....
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.
games are art projects at the end of the day and there are often many non-art people (or just people without the right skills or vision) making executive decisions on direction, deadlines etc.
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
How to intentionally get terminated from a job without sacrificing unemployment benefits?
My friend is a customer service rep who is ready to retire. Her company is talking about layoffs with 13+ weeks of severance, but when she asked (anonymously) if they were accepting volunteers, they said no. In case she’s not one of the ones told to clean out her desk, what are the ways she could get terminated while...
A new Tribes game is coming next year and it's not free to play: 'We made some mistakes in how we monetized Ascend' (www.pcgamer.com)
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Bethesda is once again adding support for paid mods to Skyrim (steamcommunity.com)
Seems like Bethesda wants another go at this
Starfield is true to the game's 10 year old vision, according to Bethesda's Todd Howard (www.theloadout.com)
London Gaza rally: Rishi Sunak vows to hold Met chief 'accountable' over march (www.bbc.co.uk)
Rishi Sunak has said he will hold the Met Police chief “accountable” over a pro-Palestinian march set to take place this Saturday, on Armistice Day....
Facebook and Instagram will require political advertisers to disclose AI deepfakes (edition.cnn.com)
McDonald's prices are out of control. (cdn.masto.host)
Gee, it’s almost like corporations are gouging consumers so badly that their market advantages are being lost due to greed. Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices...
The Arasaka Waterfront We Never Got | Cyberpunk 2077 (www.youtube.com)
It's that time of the evening guys and gals, buckle up for another adventure that's sure to leave you with an aching heart!Welcome to the Arasaka Waterfront ......
Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
Marathon reportedly flopped amongst playtesters amid Bungie chaos (www.dexerto.com)
I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)
Bungie Longtime Composer Michael Salvatori Is Laid Off (www.kakuchopurei.com)
Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)
Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.
Mike Johnson's ties to Christian nationalism revealed (www.newsweek.com)
Our posts are being downvoted by c/all and losing reach within our community (discuss.tchncs.de)
What can we do to prevent this? There aren’t that many of us, and posts being hidden can really hinder our discussions.
Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out (www.engadget.com)
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
Paranoid player syndrome is real (ttrpg.network)
Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy (www.eurogamer.net)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
EA Sports has delisted its FIFA back catalogue from digital storefronts (www.videogameschronicle.com)
EA has stopped paying for the FIFA license, which is why their next game is called EA Sports FC (Football Club)...
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money (www.theverge.com)
Join the debate about whether the pronoun removal mod should be kept or not (lemm.ee)
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Terraforming Mars Publisher Calls AI "Too Powerful" Not to Use (gizmodo.com)
This Starfield puddle exploit lets you rob an entire store's inventory for free (www.eurogamer.net)
Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will | TechnoFeudalism in Games and Beyond (youtu.be)
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Elon Musk Agrees to Sell a Portion of Starlink Assets to the U.S. Department of Defense (news.yahoo.com)
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to sell a portion of Starlink assets to the U.S. Department of Defense, removing himself from decision-making regarding geofencing Ukraine’s access to the satellite internet service
Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Presumably Unity decided they had too many customers and needed to get rid of most of them. Not only is this an insane thing to charge developers for, there are all kinds of concerns like:...
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
Brazil’s President promises not to arrest Putin if he visits the country (ptv-news.com.pk)
RuneScape reaches mostly negative reviews on steam after introducing Hero pass (store.steampowered.com)
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Call of Duty will get a new AI-powered voice chat moderation system (www.gamescensor.com)
McDonald's Ice Cream Machines, Break Often, Intentionally A Pain to Diagnose, and Impossible to Fix (www.ifixit.com)
iFixit tears down a Taylor ice cream machine and finds that it overheats often, takes hours to restart, and these issues are impossible to fix because of locked down software and terrible error messages. No wonder, since Taylor makes 25% of its money charging $315 per 15 minutes for their exclusive repairs....
Anyone else find the TV series, “Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence”, to be interesting from a privacy standpoint? (libremdb.iket.me)
It showcases crimes that were solved using email records, cell phone pings, social media, etc. It’s interesting to see just how much information law enforcement can get....
Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike (www.theguardian.com)
The studio behind John Wick and The Hunger Games has reinstated the use of masks after several employees tested positive for Covid-19
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic (youtube.com)
While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time. (www.reddit.com)
Read all about it at the above link. There’s way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
Baldur's Gate III has passed the All-Time time peak players of Apex Legends and entered into the Top 10 Highest Players for a game in the History of Steam. 630,000+ concurrent players and climbing (twitter.com)
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