e: Oh wow I found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kApzLuMw9_A
I wish I could have seen the presentation. I love the slides.
It’s what I’ve been saying for a long time, we are at the “We can easily drill to the center of the Earth, we’re simply waiting for the drilling machine to be complete” stage.
Ok going off the script a little.
I actually just had the brain wave to start up my PC House Doctor service again.
Dollar signs appear in my eyes when I remember back to the XP RPC vulnerability and how much business I did from that. This seriously, seriously sounds reminiscent of that - except the threat is directly inside the OS now it’s baked in.
like data exfiltration or … installation
Bad actors are going to have a fucking field day.
Reminds me of a game my buddy and I made called BIP.
BIP was a crazy computer that went nuts.
Our code was about as sophisticated as this. As in, not. lol
Hard to put a stupid offhand remark re vidja games on the same level as a man that handed mobile computing to Apple and later Google, who wasn’t even trying to compete, was just strategically releasing Android as a market disruptor.
Hey now. Its ok we all make booboos. I bought a Game Gear.
C’mon… One more memory for the road…
Nope. Ballmer is and always will be the all time king R. He’s the dude that had MS pilot away from handheld devices because nobody will ever use cell phones. This was when MS was the only credible mobile OS. He oversaw Vista, he oversaw 8, both of which were complete disasters.
When I was fat as fuck I used to eat McD’s breakfast. They had the breakfast sanwiches for like $1 and one day I ordered two English muffins only. They tried to charge me like $6 explaining that the “special” price was only for the sandwich.
So fine, I ordered 2 breakfast sandwiches with no butter, no cheese, no meat. They wanted to argue “that’s not how it works” to which my reply was “oh yes it is, now here’s my $2”.
I have a lifetime boycott of all things Ubisoft for this very reason. I bought game after game after game from the late 90’s until early 2000’s. 100% of them were legal purchases and with the CD in the drive… "please insert CD " error
Then I became the lead developer for gameloft.com and saw how completely incompetent the French leadership of the company is. Absolute morons to the highest levels.
Never another penny shall be conveyed to Ubi from my holdings.
edit: You wanna know what I’m talking about? Ok. They import the director from France. He does not speak English, he does not speak Quebecois, which is very different than Parisian French. He has no knowledge of the games industry whatsoever, but is a cherished family friend. He cannot communicate with anybody in written or verbal ways. He shows up for work at 10am and takes 2 hour coffee with other “leadership” and then lunch. Then he comes back from a 2 hour lunch, and him and come C-Level turnip laugh at his Billy Bass for 30 minutes. I am not making any of this up. This man installs a friend he met into the position of Executive Producer. The man’s previous experience was managing an Esso gas station. No embellishment. So I’m the Sr dev and I’m the fucking acting director, account manager, game designer, executive producer, producer, technical producer, project manager, director of production, developer, creative director, QA lead, every god damned thing just to get some corny-ass games produced.
edit2: Laughing at a Billy Bass. A Billy. Bass. Singing. Fish. Laughing at it uproariously.
Oh hell yeah, I knew all along that the steam link, the steam controller, that was a research project
And I have confidence that the new one will resolve a lot of the build issues. Cautiously optimistic
I’m so glad the steam controller is back.
I was an early adopter, I got my first steam link and steam controller in November 2015
I went through 17 steam controllers.
Seventeen.
Because they were built like absolute fucking shit, and my ear actually got attuned to the sound of the shoulder spring breaking. Crunch.
The first one I bought was totally DOA, the replacement was DOA with a broken button membrane, the replacement for that DOA with a malfunctioning back paddle. The fourth one, and first functional one I got lasted two months before the shoulder broke. There were ones I got new out of the box and the shoulder broke within an hour.
So I’m happy as fuck that it came back, but I’m so hesitant. I choose to believe that they have corrected the shitty build problem, but I guess I’ll find out!
I feel like the people who buy these types of things are trying to fill a hole in their souls.
No I’ll just block you, I can’t stand dealing with petulant little turd bags like you.
Yeah well it is.
Just go click the link and stop bullshitting.
Can you not just click and read the web page? It seems to be all there.
Again it was just a shower thought which is the requisite for this comm.
Wrong.
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I’d like to see that comment if you could link it!
I mean just on the surface of it, this is completely preposterous.
The first thing that comes to mind is you can only cover so much area. 4000 satellites would cover the dog park near me. In the scope of an undertaking like this, it’s a trivial amount of energy they could possibly gather?
Can’t believe the number of tool boxes in this comment section say “oh gee, I can really see how this unnecessary feature improves my life because I don’t know how to breathe on my own or live”