“Looks a little dated” is just a pessimistic way to say “they haven’t fucked with the ui for no reason”.
I use it exactly because it still looks like it did 20 years ago.
JohnEdwa
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
111·2 days agoThey allow devs to sell on other platforms and provide them steam keys for free, bypassing that commission.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
7·5 days agoI’m sorry you look so old. I do too, I basically never get carded, and really never did. My friend that’s actually a year older than me still gets carded every single time, and he’s 36.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
3·6 days agoAt the core it’s just a website, if you are able to get online to require an age check, you’ll be able to access the system to generate the tickets - aka, electronically signed certificates.
the app works on any device – phone, tablet, computer, you name it. -https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817
[EDIT] Oh, and the phone app should AFAIK, work offline, kinda in the same way a 2FA code app does.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
42·6 days agoAnd I tried to simplify how the system works for you, as you apparently don’t know anything about it all. Reading an article that doesn’t explain it is hardly going to help. Here’s the actual full statement the article is badly referencing.
And here’s the diagram straight from the EU design documentation.
Steps 1-2 are “You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government.”
Steps 3-4 is “They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18””
Steps 5-8 is “and you give that to the website.”Note especially step 3 - “The link between the user and provider is cut”. After that point, the provider can only tell the website that the ticket it valid, it cannot tell who it belongs to. So the website doesn’t know who you are, and the provider doesn’t know what website you are accessing. All they have is “Is adult: True.”

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
101·6 days agoYou show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government. Who gave that ID to you in the first place.
They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18”, and you give that to the website.
And be grateful that we didn’t start calling it “apping”, even though the term “program” is effectively extinct these days.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Pillars of Eternity's turn-based mode is finally out in full, and Obsidian have also kindly turned off the invisible treadmills
3·13 days agoOooh, this sounds fantastic. I’ve tried the game twice and while I loved the characters and the setting, RTwP combat just really isn’t enjoyable for me.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzto
Technology@beehaw.org•Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support
6·13 days agoI would really want to know what kind of a use-case results in using a 386 or 486 computer in 2026 in such a manner that not being able to install the latest kernel updates would in any way be an actual issue.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AIEnglish
36·13 days agoBut if you aren’t running the newest Call of Warfare: Modern Creed 7 at 4k 144fps with a computer that costs almost as much as a used car, you can’t call yourself a real gamer!
LACK was an amazing option back when they were $5 a pop though. I built my Ender 3 cabinet for like $30 total by getting four lack tables, an Ikea picture frame for the door, and EPA floor mats for walls. Four, because the filament used for printing the leg extensions would have cost more than the tables put together so I just cut them from a sacrificial table.
It’s no beauty queen, but has worked fine for years now.
Today, the tables alone would be $65.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’English
9·17 days agoA lot more on X (320k followers and 110k views on the latest episode). And those are the livestream platforms, I’d imagine a lot of people use something like Apple Podcasts or Spotify to listen to them afterwards.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM modelEnglish
4·19 days agoThe 5V5A supply is optional, the Pi 5 alone works perfectly fine using a standard 5V3A USB-PD supply, it just limits the maximum combined USB port current to 600mA.
But technically they are still in USB-PD spec: it’s apparently okay for a charger to support 5V5A, and a device to “prefer” to use that if it’s available. It can’t be required, but as said, the Pi 5 works with 5V3A, so it isn’t.It’s still dumb, and they should have just used 9V3A instead and paid the dollar for the stepdown circuitry like everyone else.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we knowEnglish
169·20 days agoWith how massive of a computer science field artificial intelligence is and how much of it already is or is getting added to every piece of software that exists, a label like that would be equally useless as the California prop 65 cancer warnings.
Do you use a mobile keyboard that supports swipe typing and has autocorrect? Remember to mark everything you write as being AI assisted.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Telling an AI model that it's an expert makes it worse
1·23 days agoReminds me of how I got taught to google shit like 20 years ago before social media and SEO: don’t ask “how can I do x”, write “doing x”, as that would find you a website explaining doing the thing and not some BBS post of a person asking about it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD ShortageEnglish
84·24 days agoAFAIK, Sony doesn’t actually have memory chip manufacturing capabilities, they buy their NAND and DDR chips from companies like Samsung and SK Hynix, and simply package them in different formats or use them in their devices.
The semiconductor fabs of Sony mostly specialize in camera sensors and stuff like that.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzto
Privacy@lemmy.world•13 year olds could be compelled to use unregulated age verificationEnglish
11·27 days agoWhich is why it should never, ever be done that way. Have some trustworthy body that already has that info - a bank, the government, whatever - verify your age to them once, and have the websites ask those for a simple yes/no verification if you are an adult or not.
Because they don’t actually need to know who you are, they just need to verify if you are over 18 or not.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionsEnglish
141·29 days agoWould be pretty shitty to make sure every time you are editing Wikipedia to disable any AI based grammar/spellcheckers (e.g Grammarly), and not being allowed to use translation tools.
Because those are the two exceptions.



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