MudMan

I accidentally sat on somebody else’s cat once when I was a teenager. The cat bolted out the door and they didn’t see him in three days.

I feel kinda bad about it to this day, but in my defense we weren’t a house cat family and that cat was practically invisible.

This doesn’t say that no leak ocurred.

It says the leak was not on Steam’s side. I think OP may have been misled a bit by this.

Crucially it also says the phone numbers were not tied to emails, which is a big difference that does make this much less of a big deal.

The gist of it:

The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.

Oh, it’s extraordinarily expensive, and what people really underestimate is how HUGE Google’s storage requirements actually are.

Thing is, it’s also a ton of money. Youtube isn’t just ad-driven video streaming, it’s also a Spotify competitor, a Twitch competitor, a video subscription service (and for some reason they still have a movie and show rental thing in there). 10% of all of Alphabet’s money is a LOT of money, and this isn’t the only business of theirs that demands insane storage requirements.

I’m sure they’ll tighten requirements eventually, and they’ve already done a ton of throttling, but they, again, own Internet video.

Let me put it this way, I think if Google decided to offer Youtube to either of us for a dollar on the condition we can’t resell it to anybody and we have to keep running it forever we’d both still take it.

Did not know Thiel was an investor, actually. If we’re judging software based on the personality of people we’ve read random crap about in the press then that’d indeed be disqualifying.

However, I’d argue maybe that’s not a great way to pretend you have any agency in an aggressively oligopolistic environment.

We may need to stop making choices based on knee-jerk personality-driven branding crap and start focusing on systemic issues. Just… you know, as a species.

Operating costs are not known with that granularity, to my knowledge, but it’s a good guess. Best anybody can tell Youtube is 10-ish percent of all of Alphabet’s ad revenue and they have a subscription model as well. Not to mention the data gathering for AI training, plus all the intangible benefits from owning all the video on the Internet, from using Youtube tech for Google Drive stored videos to… you know, owning all the video on the Internet. And all of that without investing the ungodly amount of money Netflix and the other streaming competitors do on content. People just… upload that crap.

However their internal accounting breaks down, I’m pretty sure nobody thinks Youtube is bleeding money.

And your alternative is the cryptobro farm Chromium skin?

I mean, we’re grading on a curve, I guess, but… I think I’m sticking with FF for now.

Man, branding and PR are weird.

Trading processing power for size is a thing. I guess it depends on application and implementation. Well, and on the actual size of the models required.

It’s one of those things that makes for a good headline, but then for usability it has to be part of a whole conversation about whether you want to spend the bandwidth, the processing power on compression, the processing power on real time upscaling, the processing power on different compression tools, something else or a mix of the above.

I suppose at some point it’s all “benchmarks or it didn’t happen” for these things. And when it comes to ML benchmarks are increasingly iffy anyway.

Like I said I’m torn on that front. I only ever use the Steam app for QR login and TFA. Their grand design was that you’d be monitoring it as a marketplace back when they had these protoNFT ideas of how big their hats and trading cards were going to get.

But I never cared about those and they never put enough effort on the game store side of the app for it to be a better alternative than making purchases on the PC app instead, so… Would it be worth it to use a general TOTP app instead of a QR code for first time login and transaction validation? I’d say very likely, considering I already have a couple of those for a bunch of other services.

Lossless is the big claim that nobody is fixating on because “AI” discussions only ever run one set of talking points.

I get how semantic understanding would trade performance for file size when doing compression. I don’t get how you can deterministically use it to always get the exact same complete output from a partial input. I’d love to go over the full paper. And even then the maths would probably go way, way over my head.

I cut Steam some slack because they were early to that particular party, so they got grandfathered in. Plus the QR signin is fairly useful (not that they couldn’t do it regardless, but still).

Their app is pretty ancient, can be kinda buggy and it’s not great overall, though.

I guess if the affected users are keeping their phone and TFA method you could target their phone numbers to try to intercept new codes, although that’s not doable at scale.

Having phone numbers associated to accounts out in public is pretty bad in general, though.

Neat. This was the best possible outcome of the whole mess.

Whether it’s viable or they will do interesting stuff is anybody’s guess. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been following much GB stuff since the original team left.

There’s a history of these things turning basically into semi-successful Youtube channels, and who knows if that’s good enough when you also have a website to maintain, but I do wish them the best.

True. I wish my app had better space for spoiler tags.

But also, I feel these are covered by the title of the thread. If you don’t want the best gaming moments of the last decade spoiled maybe don’t click on the “What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?” thread.

I loved Obra Dinn and yet when you said that I drew a complete blank. What I remember of Obra Dinn is figuring out the metapuzzle. And maybe the Kraken.

I think the problem with “gaming moments” is you need a kind of universally communal experience of a game. The reason the Mexico ride in Red Dead became the prototype for THAT is it was maybe the last time we were all playing the same thing at the same time and reading the same things so we could all talk about the same bit at the same time.

Flavio: “The guys from GOG are great, and they contacted me directly once to talk about Heroic, and they totally support the project and what we are doing, especially on Linux. I would say we have a really good relationship with them.”

Paweł: “Adding to what Flavio said, we currently have the affiliate deal with GOG, so any purchases made using our link support the project financially.”

Huh. I didn’t know this. This seems like a big deal. Makes me even more willing to consider Heroic’s GOG support semi-official, considering they support autopatching and cloud saves under GOG. It really feels close-to-native, especially given how sluggish Galaxy can be on Windows for large libraries.

Well, yeah. Half as much in Europe as in the US, it should be noted. But yeah, it does seem many corpos will either spread the US hit globally to mitigate the sticker shock in the US at the cost of giving some to everyone else (or just as a convenient excuse to squeeze more money out of people). It sucks.

But you would still have to report that you refer to global GDP or to global prices if that’s what you meant. Those numbers are going to be different either way. And that’s not what they are referring to anyway.

I am confused. How can you accidentally push a patch you have no license to acquire?

OK, so I get the headline for the US edition, but why is it the same in the UK/AU/CAD editions? Whose GDP, Tom’s hardware?

So elect left wingers next time, I don’t care.

I am not looking to add to my “Biden and Trump are the same” PTSD.

Listen, we have a good thing with the whole “feeling superior to the US due to not knowingly electing outright fascists”.

Do NOT fuck this up for us.