I’m more cynical, I think it’s just for clout and marketing. IA is widely known and used, so an attack is guaranteed to be noticed and generate news articles. They’re also known for having large robust infrastructure, but they aren’t large enough that an attack is impossible, so a successful attack is impressive yet still feasible. If someone can pull it off, it would make great marketing for their black market DDOS service and also grant huge bragging rights in certain communities.
Most companies don’t die by making their product unbelievably great with an impossibly incredible, yet entirely unsustainable, value proposition for its customers. In fact, they’re doing the opposite by decreasing product quality as much as possible and fucking over the consumers and customer at every turn. MoviePass’s downfall much more closely mirrors an overfunded startup rather than enshitification.
I wish more companies died like MoviePass. It was an amazing two years.
R6S has been a pay-to-win mess after the first few “seasons”. What’s the difference between a subscription service and regular releases of “optional” $30 dlc that gives you new characters, and thus an edge over the competition?
R6S players will cope by saying characters are balanced and, if you’re good, you can win with just the basic free characters. The fact is, more characters lets you adapt to, and more effectively counter, more maps, play styles, opposing characters, metas, etc…
Yes, you can unlock the characters for free, but there are dozens of them and each one takes a ridiculous number of hours to unlock, during which you’re playing at a disadvantage. It’s pretty much impossible for anyone other than dedicated school-aged kids to unlock all of the characters for free.
All of this, and the game still costs money to buy!!! Complete scam.
So I was shopping with my wife today and I said “oh let’s see if my membership helps out.” So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I’m paying for in this membership if the items “original price” is higher for me than it is for...
The interesting question is what happens if Valve is still around after all of us are long gone and there are millions of 150+ year old accounts, many under active use?
I’ve been using a single-burner induction cooktop as my primary cooktop for over a year now, and it’s awesome. I very rarely need more than one burner, and have never needed more than two. Paying $50 for a cooktop vs $5000 for a range is a pretty easy choice.
I also have a large toaster oven and generally avoid any dishes that would require a full-size oven. That toaster oven was not cheap, though, unlike the induction cooktop.
The gentle breeze that a microwave venthood blows 6 inches above your head isn’t exactly premium-grade ventilation. It’s not even ventilation at all, really. The gas is just moved like a foot up before it fills the room.
That’s more of a Counter Strike clone. The “abilities” are more akin to CS utilities like smokes and flashes than they are to Overwatch characters. The rest of the game is pretty much a direct copy of CS.
The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton’ boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don’t even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word “Linux” featured anywhere on proton’s pages about Drive....
The measure signed by DeSantis would also launch a study of small nuclear reactor technology, expand the use of vehicles powered by hydrogen and enhance electric grid security, according to the governor’s office.
Got some whiplash at the end there after reading some of the most dumbass policies that’ve ever been written.
The world we live in. I'm sure we will see someone bragging on the dark web (lemmy.zip)
HBO’s MoviePass doc is a snapshot of how C-suites kill companies (www.theverge.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates 50th birthday with bikini pics — gets brutal backlash (www.rawstory.com)
Rainbow Six Siege fans roundly boo the announcement of a new monthly subscription service (www.pcgamer.com)
Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)
So I was shopping with my wife today and I said “oh let’s see if my membership helps out.” So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I’m paying for in this membership if the items “original price” is higher for me than it is for...
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
Service that exchanges your head with a celebrities head, powered by blockchain freedom points. (www.hindustantimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/12444579...
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 to victim of Police torture. (www.ocregister.com)
This story is horrific.
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New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually (arstechnica.com)
me_irl (lemmy.world)
How To Make Chickpeas Taste Good (www.youtube.com)
Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter (www.eurogamer.net)
Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/12406642...
Proton Annual Survey: Gentle reminder to kindly ask for a Linux Client for Drive, now. (www.youtube.com)
The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton’ boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don’t even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word “Linux” featured anywhere on proton’s pages about Drive....
Sheppardian Gymnastics (files.catbox.moe)
DeSantis signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser priority and bans offshore wind turbines (abcnews.go.com)
Young people buying large knives on Telegram and TikTok, police say (www.theguardian.com)
Commander says authorities scrambling to keep up with supply trends as knife crimes rise...