CursedUrn

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by CursedUrn 4y ago
I always use the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" options when I visit YouTube. You really have to babysit the algorithm to get value from the recommendations beyond time wasting.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Some of them read unit positions/type/health to auto-aim at the best target.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
There is a big difference between Facebook having cameras inside your house and someone like Valve. We know that Valve makes money primarily from software sales, whereas Facebook's core business is collecting user data for targeted adv
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
It is however unlikely that any competing headset will be laser focused on low weight/size like this one.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Wow, that's an astonishing improvement in weight compared to other VR headsets. Here's Meta's line-up for comparison: https://i.imgur.com/JoTt10p.png
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
There is a roadmap on the website
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
This is very impressive! I tried it with a big Unreal project and it handled it without blinking. Much faster than any other editor I've seen. It doesn't look like it supports memory breakpoints? I end up tied to Visual Studio bec
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Meta definitely isn't focused on fidelity and graphics. Their mobile VR push degraded VR graphics significantly.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Yahoo mail offers a similar thing. It's a lot of effort to generate and track unique addresses whenever you sign up for something though.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Do those plants really cure those things listed in the article?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Size and weight has been going up over time: https://i.imgur.com/2fOAFqI.png There's no evidence we will reach the mythical lightweight glasses any time soon. I believe that is needed for VR to be accepted on a scale
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Can someone make an adblocker for the sky?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
What license is AV1 available under? Is it really "open" like they say?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
What makes you think something as unique and hard-fought as the First Amendment will be applied to the Internet when all trends point in the other direction, both on and offline?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Software wastes any gains we get from hardware. See Jonathan Blow's talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeAMiBKi_EM
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
This github page seems a bit casual/flippant, there's no explanation of what the extension does or anything to build trust/confidence in the author. Hopefully it gets more developed as it sounds like a good idea.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
No, a Meta account is the equivalent of a Facebook account, not the equivalent of an Oculus account. Oculus was a VR company, not an advertising/data tracking company and their account system reflected that.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
That would require some regulation, since commercial web design deliberately obfuscates the underlying structure.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
How do you get any work done with a big heavy uncomfortable weight on your head?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
This is revisionist history. Facebook didn't contribute to the early days of modern VR, they just came in and bought it once someone else had done the hard work. The first VR headset that let you get up and move around with motion cont
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Petty voyeurism will happen (we've seen enough stories about this with Amazon Alexa) but I agree that's nowhere near the main problem with this kind of technology.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
I presume you're not aware of Facebook's research into eye tracking for VR. It goes a lot further than just identity. I believe their main interest is gauging emotional response for better targeted advertising.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
You would be more convincing with reasoned arguments instead of this "guilt by association" tribalism. You do everyone here a disservice by resorting to ad hominem.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Are you sure your phone microphone isn't always on? At the very least your voice assistant is listening all the time to detect the trigger word (does this send the voice to the cloud for AI assisted detection?). Also if you search for
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Ubisoft seems like an outlier on Steam. The way many of their games just launch UPlay, which then does its own downloading and ownership check is very strange and awkward.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
People don't hate GoT because it's trendy, they hate it because it went from something of high quality to something of low quality as the seasons progressed.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
It's been 7+ years since Microsoft bought Minecraft, I'm honestly surprised it took this long for them to do this customer hostile stuff. We had a good 5 years before they started ruining it.
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
This seems like a very one-sided description. You didn't mention the motivation for doing this? What's the benefit?
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Microsoft aren't exactly known for privacy, given how much data they collect continuously from Windows users (e.g. details on every application you launch, hard-drive wide program sweeps, etc). Also with Github specifically they used e
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by CursedUrn 4y ago
Could speed test sites do something about this? Like obfuscate the traffic somehow to get more genuine results?

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