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Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes
  • This is designed to work with all games so it's more similar to how many emulators implement quick save than how it works in most games. I suspect or rather hope that it's as fast (instantaneous) as it is in emulators.

    It also appears that it's supposed to rewind like you can do in some racing games.

    It's more complicated than a simple quick save button found in mostly older games. It's a neat feature but I would obviously prefer that they didn't get the patent so Xbox also could implement something similar.

  • Total burn on West Africa!
  • It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.

    (Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn't allow the river to go anywhere else. It's a joke.)

  • Cloudflare to EU: Anti-Piracy Measures Shouldn't Harm Privacy and Security
  • Except the absolutely valid (I don't not necessarily agree but it's fair) criticism about mitm and other similar stuff, cloudflare actually does a lot of good stuff.

    In general they stand their ground against companies who try to force them to do stuff like this.

    They are also seemingly involved in developing and finding ways to make the internet a more secure place, like with encrypted client hello. And encrypted DNS.

  • Someone recorded me without permission and uploaded it to YouTube
  • Yes of course but recording a private conversation has been legal before and I couldn't find any good indications that it has changed under the GDPR.

    The law essentially says that it's illegal to record or listen to private conversations which you aren't a part of using technical instruments.

    So it's legal to press your ear against a wall but it's illegal to use any tech to listen/record to anything.

  • Aussie gov't agencies to bring AU$49m of IT services back in house
  • Sounds great.

    Governments should perhaps even have a separate organisation with expert IT consultants that are specialists on various systems commonly used in government organisations.

    Lets say that the Tax department has a normal internal IT department that does most of the work but they can bring in comparably cheap help from the government IT consultant organisation for very specific needs.

    The government is absolutely big enough that it could be worth it.

  • Sovcit thinks tangling with the water company is a good idea. Water company disagrees.
  • I'm very sceptical our lawn wouldn't pretty much die if we didn't rake at least a little.

    We have a single maple (probably a norway maple) tree and the leaves are very plentiful and quite big so they cover pretty much the entire (small) lawn and in some places to absolute perfection and in multiple layers.

  • Someone recorded me without permission and uploaded it to YouTube
  • Yeah it varies. In my country you only need to participate in the conversation to be allowed to record it.

    You can also film or photograph anyone you feel like in public as long as they aren't in a place where privacy is expected like a bathroom or something like that. In general you can record and upload all day long.

    The law is much stricter on surveillance cameras.

  • Five years later, ultrasonic fingerprint sensors are finally coming to more Android phones
  • I can't recall false positives being a huge issue for me, but it's very late at night so my memory might be foggy.

    I honestly don't use it a lot because I have a gesture which enables me to swipe down on the home screen to bring down the notifications and I'm just so used to doing that. Personally I have to adjust my grip to use the back tap feature, so it's slightly inconvenient.

    Having the flashlight on the feature is something that I would like but unfortunately it's just somewhat embarrassing to walk around with the flashlight turned on and false positives are a problem here.

    With the notification shade false positives don't really matter.

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