sznio

sznio , 9 months ago to worldnews in Court Rules in Pornhub’s Favor: Age-Verification Law Violates First Amendment

Just an another HTTP header, flagging if user is an adult. Set it to False if OS reports that the account used has parental controls enabled.

This is just meant to keep children out, not protect state secrets.

sznio , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby?

I wouldn’t call it a hobby, just some entertainment to pass the time/hang out with friends.

It was Counter-Strike 1.6. I didn’t leave the house the summer I discovered it as a kid.

sznio , 10 months ago to moviesandtv in The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me.

“It’s capitalism” is an unsatisfying explanation because one the one hand it’s sort of trivially true, but on the other, good movies have been made under capitalism.

But you went to watch a blockbuster. These are made to make money above all else. You just aren’t the target demographic.

sznio , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in single binary executable and dlls

Additionally, I can’t really understand why are dynamically linked libraries so popular and how on earth anyone who ever had a “.dll / .so not found” error thinks this is a good idea.

1. You can load a DLL once and all programs can share it, saving memory. It also makes programs start faster since the DLL might be already loaded, so there’s less to load from disk. That mattered more back in the 90s
2. You can update one file and have the patch apply to all programs

sznio , 10 months ago to technology in Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead

Again, who tf uses messenger?

The entire nation of Poland

sznio , 10 months ago to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 13th

This new “Flashpoint” gamemode in Overwatch is pretty fun not gonna lie.

sznio , 10 months ago to gaming in Xbox's biggest crisis right now isn't games. It's hardware. (Opinion - Jez Corden)

Also, at least in the X360 times some games wouldn’t have dedicated servers, instead hosting matches on the console of one of the players.

And you would be paying. To host the server on your own machine.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget

Poland.

He could’ve easily got it solved but he didn’t have money and the public defender just told him confessing was the best option.

It might be a legend, it’s just a thing that supposedly happened to someone in a community I participate in.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget

I heard of a guy who went to prison because he bought something from Allegro (Polish Amazon) over TOR. Someone used the same exit node for hacking, so they pinned it on him.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

There’s Firefox on iOS, but it’s practically a wrapper around Safari. You get your bookmark synchronization, but everything under the hood runs on WebKit.

sznio , 11 months ago to gaming in PlayStation 5 sales surpass 40m worldwide

PS4 also sold 40M units by it’s third year.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in Running Microsoft Teams in Parallels on Apple Silicon

It at least performs better in browser than as a desktop app, for me at least.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in iPhone Photo Rejected from Photo Contest for Suspected AI Use

I wish I could disable the AI enhancements on my phone.

I want my selfies to actually look like me.

sznio , 11 months ago to technology in Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News

Tech bubble is over.

Let’s hope the old web returns.

sznio , 1 year ago to technology in On this day in 2007 the iPhone was released.

The smartphone was a disaster. We shouldn't be connected to the Internet constantly.

Written from my smartphone.