Google is testing verified checkmarks in search
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    And that's when scammers/disinformation campaigns can really take advantage of this system.

    People are more likely to trust a "blue check mark", so finding every way to trick the system into either giving one, or making it look like they have one will become a high priority.

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  • Can chargers really damage your smartphone?
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    If you read the article, it's more of an "it depends" answer.

    Most phones have safety mechanisms built in to them to protect from things like overcharging or overheating during fast charging. They will also default to a low power charging state if it doesn't detect the correct signal from the charger.

    There is a very rare possibility that a charger may not be grounded correctly and that's why it's recommended to stick with big brands if you're going with a 3rd party charger.

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  • What is the hardest video game(s) in your opinion, why, and what other games are you comparing against to make this conclusion?
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    Probably "Trap Adventure 2".
    Imagine an old Mario game where Bowser has the most rediculous traps set up. You need to memorize all of the trap locations as well as have the coordination to tip-toe around them to survive.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nW9k6k1I3k

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  • Palworld developer has no idea why Nintendo’s suing over its Pokémon-like game
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    Though Nintendo’s not going after Pocketpair because lamballs look uncomfortably similar to wooloos, we do know the company is famously litigious in protecting its brand.

    So no one really knows what exactly Nintendo is accusing them of yet.

    Here's an older video by an attorney that did a deep dive on Palworld and its legality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3ATH556NU (Warning: long video).

    Edit - Update:

    A patent lawyer Was able to narrow down which patent that they could allege was infringed by looking at the combined patents between Nintendo and The Pokémon Company (since they filed a joint lawsuit). There are 28 possibilites and they are claiming that multiple patents have been infringed. https://gamerant.com/nintendo-pokemon-palworld-pocketpair-lawsuit-which-patent/

    One likely candidate is a patent that was filed (and requested that the review process be expedited) in July of 2024 that's "primarily centered on creature-catching mechanics".

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  • Keyboard apps stop working correctly in Voyager comment section.
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    hmm doesn't seem to work for me.

    Only thing that works is to manually re-select the keyboard among my keyboard selection/input method.

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  • Keyboard apps stop working correctly in Voyager comment section.
  • QuadratureSurfer QuadratureSurfer Now 100%

    This has been driving me crazy.

    I'm using a Pixel with GrapheneOS and the FUTO Keyboard.

    Slight workaround for everyone on Android: Click the keyboard selector at the bottom right of your screen and just select the already active keyboard. This will temporarily fix it until you start to type up a different comment.

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  • Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
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    When you can get ticketed for speeding while your car is on the back of a tow truck:
    https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11008328/photo-towing-van-speeding-ticket-evidence/

    Or a red light traffic ticket when your car was stolen:
    https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

    And the police/courts won't help you because it's a problem from the private company running the cameras... I think we can see where some sort of AI backed camera network is headed.

    A bandaid to fix this might be to setup an easy way for someone to dispute the charge. For every day that it takes the company to review the dispute, they would need to pay back the accused the same amount that they are charging them (with a minimum of paying them back twice the amount of the fine).

    Even then, I'd rather cameras not be used in this way at all.

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  • Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game
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    Flappy Bird wasn't the first to even implement a game like this.

    I remember playing a very similar game with a helicopter and another one with a worm long before that app released for phones.

    Flappy Bird is just the game of this type that ended up going viral in its time.

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  • Thanks to Camural for putting together this list with the links: Vehicle Balance: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-vehicle-balance/436913 Group and Party System: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-group-and-party-system Commodity Trading: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-commodity-trading Salvage Career: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-salvage-career Arena Commander: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-arena-commander Vehicle Features: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-vehicle-features Locations: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-locations New Player Experience: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-new-player-experience Inventory Management: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-inventory-management Law and Criminality System: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-law-and-criminality-system Game Economy: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-game-economy Environment Art and Audio: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-23-feedback-environment-art-and-audio-1 FPS Combat: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-fps-combat Mining and Harvesting: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-mining-and-harvesting Keybinds and Controls: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-keybinds-and-controls

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    Be careful.
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    Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter

    The oldest tweets I could find that actually started reporting this are from ~16 days ago.

    https://x.com/Piotrdotcom/status/1829126494574067992

    They reference a page here that was posted on Aug 29th.

    https://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/uwazajcie-na-takie-captcha/

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  • Star Citizen Live: Cargo & Hangars
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    ATC is probably the oldest system in the game.

    Well, i guess that explains why the audio responses never seem to work correctly.

    edit:typo

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  • Dell will continue to reduce its workforce amid push to focus on AI
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    I think this title is being easily misunderstood.

    Dell is not cutting jobs by having AI compensate for those positions, they're cutting down on sales teams and creating a new team that focuses on AI products.

    From the article:

    The latest job cuts appear to be part of a broader reorganization of Dell's sales teams, including the creation of a new group focused on AI products and services – an area where Dell plans significant growth. For instance, in June, Dell, alongside Supermicro, was selected to provide hardware infrastructure for Elon Musk's xAI startup's AI supercomputer.

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  • My dead father is “writing” me notes again
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    Depends on what you're using.
    With local models you use something called a "negative prompt" to exclude anything that you don't want in the image.

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  • My dead father is “writing” me notes again
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    If you really want this to work, you would have to train/fine tune a model by feeding it a bunch of images that show that person's handwriting.

    if you're just asking ChatGPT to do this for you then you're doing it wrong.

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  • Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 3.24.2 - Zeus and MFDs
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    The Benny Vending Machine Tardis continues to make its cameo.

    Tap for specific timestamp/spoiler

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHYhi7se4F8&t=295s

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  • robertsspaceindustries.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19696500 > A few more details here, but definitely read through the known issues if you decide to hop in: > > > We are intending to leave this build up for up to 24 hours but could come down sooner if blocking issues occur.\ > This test will have each Stanton shard split into many authoritative zones. We are planning to start the test out at 1 DGS with 100 players as a baseline and increase this to add more DGS with 500 and then as high as 1000 players Edit: An easy way to download this is just to rename your "LIVE" folder to "TECH-PREVIEW".

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    A few more details here, but definitely read through the known issues if you decide to hop in: > We are intending to leave this build up for up to 24 hours but could come down sooner if blocking issues occur.\ This test will have each Stanton shard split into many authoritative zones. We are planning to start the test out at 1 DGS with 100 players as a baseline and increase this to add more DGS with 500 and then as high as 1000 players Edit: An easy way to download this is to rename your "LIVE" folder to "TECH-PREVIEW". Edit2: If they make it to 1000 players, this will be handled by 6 dedicated game servers (DGS) being meshed together into a shard. The 500 player count will be achieved with 3 DGS Global Chat will work, but will only show players in your DGS and not everyone in the shard: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/55594666

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    3.24 Mastermodes Survey - Please participate
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    But the previous flight model seemed to work fine?
    What were the issues you noticed with it?

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  • odysee.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19651989 > Link to Spectrum Thread about Feedback: > https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-vehicle-balance > > Direct link to the survey: > https://airtable.com/appuNwWnmCOAmbCgo/shrko5r7043boH6g3 > > Deep dive video by Avenger One about Master Modes/combat: > https://youtu.be/SNm8RaKHLHg

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    odysee.com

    Link to Spectrum Thread about Feedback: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/4/thread/3-24-live-feedback-vehicle-balance Direct link to the survey: https://airtable.com/appuNwWnmCOAmbCgo/shrko5r7043boH6g3 Deep dive video by Avenger One about Master Modes/combat: https://youtu.be/SNm8RaKHLHg Edit: Some awesome suggestions to fix racing (even with mastermodes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqarzvkKJ4 I really like his idea of performance components and the benefit/drawback ideas he comes up with.

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    CIG working on a new game? - Star Citizen Spectrum
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    Since "Arena Commander" also shows up on that list, this could just be a smaller mini game that ends up in the verse somehow.

    For all we know this could be one of the first arcade games implemented on one of those arcade machines in-game.

    But there's still a chance that they are working on building out a different game.

    Best to wait until we have more info...

    That or let rampant speculation run free! Sounds like a Karaoke game to me!

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  • If you could time travel, what would you change ?
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    Well, I don't think anyone is really sure just how exactly time travel can mess with stuff. I would probably take a page from some time travel movie I saw. I would want to avoid any sort of temporal paradox and avoid too many changes.

    So, I would probably remove myself from the equation as much as possible. Go to a hotel or somewhere where I can avoid accidentally running into anyone I might know. Leave all electronics behind, but take a book or something. Spend the whole day avoiding TV/News/People and just reading or work on perfecting a skill. At the end of the day I would call up a broker from the hotel room and find out which stock had the greatest percentage gain that day. Just enough information for one good trade.

    Then I would go back to that morning, buy up a ton of that stock, live out life normally, then sell the stock at the end of the day.

    Rinse and repeat for a short time.

    I would absolutely avoid something like winning the lottery, but for those of you who would use time travel to win the lottery, you might want to follow the advice from this comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_happiest_5word_sentence_you_could_hear/chb38xf/

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  • Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games?
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    I see "TOS point and click" and can only think of "Terms of Service point and click"... what does this actually stand for?

    The other side? TOp Side? It's definitely not "Thoracic outlet syndrome"...

    edit: The Old School?

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  • Proton Wallet Review: Is Proton Losing Touch? - Privacy Guides
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    I just want to be able to set alarms with their calendar app (where it currently only sends notifications).

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  • odysee.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19579831 > I'm hoping they implement a way to assign crimestat to players that "flick" cargo at other players or ships in armistace zones.

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    I'm hoping they implement a way to assign crimestat to players that "flick" cargo at other players or ships in armistace zones.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19453608 > From Wakapedia in SC-Testing-Chat: > > > @Wakapedia-CIG: > > > > We're getting closer. QA team is checking the build. Goal is 2x800 player meshed shards. Will update here shortly as we are hoping for sometime in the next 30 minutes if QA gives the greenlight! > > https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/55501617 Update: Wakapedia-CIG: >   TECH-PREVIEW will be opening up shortly for a RMQ/Meshing Playtest! <https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190049/thread/tech-preview-playtest-meshing-playtest-round-3>

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    From Wakapedia in SC-Testing-Chat: > @Wakapedia-CIG: > > We're getting closer. QA team is checking the build. Goal is 2x800 player meshed shards. Will update here shortly as we are hoping for sometime in the next 30 minutes if QA gives the greenlight! https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/55501617 Update: Wakapedia-CIG: >   TECH-PREVIEW will be opening up shortly for a RMQ/Meshing Playtest! <https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190049/thread/tech-preview-playtest-meshing-playtest-round-3> update 2: Last second issue found, test delayed until tomorrow (morning at earliest).

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    https://x.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1831783295371165930

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19451679 > And for those that haven't heard of the Titan Suit before: > https://starcitizen.tools/Titan_exosuit

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    https://x.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1831783295371165930

    And for those that haven't heard of the Titan Suit before: https://starcitizen.tools/Titan_exosuit

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19374407 > MOTD > > 🕹️(Tuesday) Goals for the week: We are currently working on further stability hotfixes for 3.24 LIVE with plans to roll out server hotfixes throughout the week. We are also currently putting together a new build for a Tech-Preview RMQ/Meshing test later this week! > > Additional context: > > I'll give more details once we have it all locked in for the test but goal is to be all backers tech-preview > > -Waka (sc-testing-chat) > https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/55453982

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    https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/20133-CitizenCon-2954-Digital-Goodies-Pack-Now-Available

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19373990 > CitizenCon 2954 Digital Goodies Pack Now Available - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42 > > The goodie pack for last year's Citizencon was heavily Pyro themed. > > The rewards this time around are tied to Citizen Day which (to me) is feeling a lot more Squadron 42 focused. > > https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/bmGYMYp9Xy-citizen-day > > If we're lucky we might even get a potential release date, but I could easily see them specifying this as a "goal" rather than a hard release date... > > Edit: A fellow org mate pointed out that the P8-AR was originally a SQ-42 campaign exclusive rifle.

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    MOTD > 🕹️(Tuesday) Goals for the week: We are currently working on further stability hotfixes for 3.24 LIVE with plans to roll out server hotfixes throughout the week. We are also currently putting together a new build for a Tech-Preview RMQ/Meshing test later this week! Additional context: > I'll give more details once we have it all locked in for the test but goal is to be all backers tech-preview -Waka (sc-testing-chat) https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/55453982

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    https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/20133-CitizenCon-2954-Digital-Goodies-Pack-Now-Available

    The goodie pack for last year's Citizencon was heavily Pyro themed. The rewards this time around are tied to Citizen Day which (to me) is feeling a lot more Squadron 42 focused. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/bmGYMYp9Xy-citizen-day If we're lucky we might even get a potential release date, but I could easily see them specifying this as a "goal" rather than a hard release date... Edit: A fellow org mate pointed out that the P8-AR was originally a SQ-42 campaign exclusive rifle.

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