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New comment by anoraca in "Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies"

anoraca — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:19:54 +0000

It's probably safer if people stick to primary sources with good reputations anyway, right?

New comment by anoraca in "Valve Steam Deck"

anoraca — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:13:31 +0000

You don't think that Valve was waiting until the supply chain was ready before making this announcement?

New comment by anoraca in "Update: SaveVideo is Back"

anoraca — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:39:26 +0000

Or: publicity stunt

New comment by anoraca in "Alcohol-free beer is fizzing"

anoraca — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:02:25 +0000

My observation of this substance was that it was similar to a low grade opiate and seemed to be quite habit forming among several people I knew that tried it.

New comment by anoraca in "Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says"

anoraca — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:48:36 +0000

Couldn't someone DDoS the major mining pools?

New comment by anoraca in "Nintendo announces Switch OLED Model"

anoraca — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:37:30 +0000

I'm not sure that Nintendo cares too much about AAA shooter games.

I pretty much only play Nintendo titles or small indie games and I have never experienced any framerate issues.

New comment by anoraca in "Star Citizen Progress Tracker v1.0"

anoraca — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:35:01 +0000

Squadron 42 was supposed to be a stand alone game that was part of it, still not ready https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/28/22203055/star-citizen-squ...

New comment by anoraca in "Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home"

anoraca — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:47:25 +0000

It's constantly funded with taxes... why would you want a bunch of money sitting around losing value to inflation?

New comment by anoraca in "Benzene detected in many sunscreen products"

anoraca — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:51:14 +0000

Why do you feel qualified to offer medical advice like this? Are you a medical doctor?

New comment by anoraca in "Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware"

anoraca — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:33:42 +0000

Why would you rely on a company that is banned? https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/09/us-finalizes-r...

New comment by anoraca in "Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware"

anoraca — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:31:24 +0000

About the development of, distribution of, and continued stability of access to natural resources... which benefits everyone.

New comment by anoraca in "Gandi.net Major Outage"

anoraca — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:49:04 +0000

As long as you never have a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822

New comment by anoraca in "TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022"

anoraca — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:31:00 +0000

Lots of people still need to learn that the primary objective is for the colony to be successful and even if you personally get a high score you lose the game if the colony fails. Also, Wumpus hunting is underrated.

New comment by anoraca in "Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments"

anoraca — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:22:37 +0000

"We're supposed to be free to spend our money without the indignity of having to explain things to some bank or government."

Why do you think that?

New comment by anoraca in "Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency"

anoraca — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:08:38 +0000

Discord is basically modern IRC. Twitch.tv chat is IRC based.

New comment by anoraca in "Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes"

anoraca — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:02:59 +0000

Retirement funds and endowments? ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN are all part of publicly owned companies are they not?

New comment by anoraca in "Clubhouse clones are coming"

anoraca — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:05:57 +0000

I think that it's closed so that you are forced to receive an invitation to join, and to send an invitation you have to give the app access to your phone's contacts (at least on iOS when I looked at it, quickly uninstalled). There were a number of dark patterns utilized to try and get elevated permissions and access to contacts.

New comment by anoraca in "Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China"

anoraca — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:35:34 +0000

That's a straw man. They're saying that hundreds of millions of Chinese people (and others around the world) have risen out of poverty because of globalism. You're only giving credit for the negative impacts of globalism, and in kind of a duplicitous manner.

New comment by anoraca in "Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior"

anoraca — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:52:09 +0000

Who funded the study?

New comment by anoraca in "EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants"

anoraca — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:29:49 +0000

Based on the frequency with which Windows 10 decides to reset my default browser to Edge "because reasons" I disagree.