overview for mtchristo

Are UI layouts of video games subject to IP protection? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know that Microsoft has patented the ribbon toolbar it uses on windows and its office suite. So it isn't a first if a game company tried to do the same.

Lemmy visit time: What percentage are you on Subscribed / Local / All? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

30% / 3% / 67 %

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds in c/[email protected]

You are being tortured. Your captor is forcing you to listen to someone else eat. What are they eating? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Peanuts

It must be a silent R in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I stand with chat-gpt on this. Whoever created these double letters is the idiot here.

Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is either an extortion from your domain registrar or sometimes opportunistic domain squatters taking over your domain for a year or two. Check for how long it was registered a put a reminder to get it back

Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh shit. Now that I have checked, it was turned on by default on mine too.

What's wrong with you mozilla ?? Firefox was supposed to be the alternative

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It is easier to compromise a device than to try and compromise encrypted communications.

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app in c/[email protected]

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

OEM have no incentive to ship Linux in their laptops. Plus they get discounts from Microsoft for using windows. So that's not gonna happen

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Microsoft is so confident in its desktop marketshare that they allow themselves to push the overton window on what users will tolerate.

The only competitor they can lose users to is Apple. And even then not everyone can afford an Apple computer, especially in the rest of the world

What's the reason for the empty comments, lately? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Are you using the eternity app ?

Cause I have noticed deleted comments showing up as blank. While on the web version the show up as "deleted by Creator"