A lot of games and mods use Discord almost exclusively for their discussions, but I always found Discord groups hard to follow. So much random talk among a few bits of good information.

This coincides with Google search getting worse and now including the AI slop.

What’s the best alternative to Google these days?

Many or most registrars have the option to hide your info from public view. I know that Namecheap.com offers that for free.

The ransomware threat is coming from INSIDE THE HOTEL!

And not just law either. When a team makes a game I want them to get paid, that is how they are making a living and it supports making more games.

I think it boils down to whatever data Amazon shares with Epic by linking the accounts. I’m not sure how you would find out what data is shared. But I would assume that Epic is paying Amazon something for the data. Somebody is paying and you are the merchandise.

Yeah Smarttube has quit working several times lately and they have released updates. Google is messing with things.

Honestly no idea why they didn’t just do that to begin with.

If anyone creates accounts for this BS at least use fake information. Write the fake info down in case you need it in the future. But they have no way to know it’s fake.

Still tricky if you run a public facing site, there are constant crawlers and bots and any of those could be feeding AI.

Works great docked to my TV though.

Insurance companies would love to have it.

Well that’s good but is he going to run his own massive video distribution network for free?

I’m assuming least some of the ad revenue would go to the station owner. But I bet it often turns out to be less money than they had expected.

If the mute button doesn’t work I just go to other stations next time. Some of the gas stations around here have gotten rid of the ads.

Explain.

Double insurance rates don’t qualify?

They will ask for some time, then accidentally just take them.

Oh geez. These corporations are trying to be evil every way they can.

Best case scenario the machine has some sort of standard software with facial recognition code, but no hardware in the machine. Would he interesting to know.

I love cars but it’s a discouraging time. There are fewer cars and more trucks and SUVs, the trucks and SUVs are too big, vehicles have too much tech that’s too intrusive, and most of all they are super expensive.

Boy that is just a garbage sandwich, garbage in garbage out with twice as much garbage.

Or what they look like from lifestyle and health factors.

The average salesman will act like they know but they don’t. About the only choice for a private vehicle is going to be an older vehicle. New ones are getting less private and larger and more expensive. Go with an older but we’ll cared for Honda or Toyota.

That has to violate the spirit of the law at the very least.

“You can totally trust us bro”

Yeah I could see the appeal of breaking the anti-cheat code. But the actual cheaters find the cheats, often pay for them, install what could easily be malware, and take the risk of getting banned for using them. I don’t get the appeal.

Yeah normally, but in some circumstances on Linux an excessive amount of shader caches are downloaded. I tried Linux gaming on a ~50GB partition and quickly ran out of space because of all the shaders.

It’s frustrating how much trouble people will go to to cheat in a game that’s supposed to be fun.

I have a new motherboard, RAM, and CPU to install and I think I will just take that as a good time to leave Windows behind. My Steam Deck convinced me it’s viable.

I’m pretty sure my corded vacuum has been speaking about me behind my back and turning my wife against me.

Firefox Nightly

They look decent, almost were interesting before I see they come with Meta baked in.

I’d rather be 1 of billions of Google users instead of 1 of thousands on another smaller service. But a prepaid burner phone that doesn’t require any sort of personal information would be the ultimate privacy and still get you SMS capability.

Google Voice often works.

Window sizes can vary widely and if you come from the same IP with the same exact window size (1033x832 for example) then people wanting to track you for ads etc will have a higher degree of confidence that you’re the same person. It’s part of “browser fingerprinting”, which can also include things like the extensions you have installed: https://amiunique.org/

They will still keep it, they will just hide it better.

This sort of thing makes me skeptical. It’s like someone saying “there are a lot of bad guys out there, pay me and I will help you dodge them.” But how do you know they aren’t a bad guy and you’re paying them to scam you?

Ultimately the best way for you to maintain security and privacy is to do it yourself. Second best way is for someone you trust to help you. Least good way is to trust some random website. This one seems to be hosted in Malaysia for what it’s worth.

That site says “Your browser has a unique fingerprint” even though I run Firefox, uBlock, Privacy Badger, and have privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true. My main problem may be plugins, once you have more than a few your set can be pretty unique.

That’s valid but a gamble.