the cake is a lie but this tech news is it
and unlike that lie cake it's delicious
in a world where the concept of privacy is a joke and not even the soft chuckle
kind but the wheezy guffaw kind riley
mozilla is taking a stand the makers of firefox have begun rolling out dns over
https aka doh or dope a feature that
encrypts your dns lookups using https you know okay while dough isn't nearly
as secure as a full featured vpn it can hide the websites you visit from your
isp so they can't collect it and sell your data like it's nothing like you're
a dog you worked hard to create that data gosh darn it firefox's
implementation of the feature runs on cloudflare's dns service by default
which you can find out more about up here somewhere i never know which side
it's being enabled as the default in the us although some other countries can
enable dough manually remi fosala dodi
okay is this the turning point are we on the precipice of a world that values
privacy once more does firefox have more than nine percent market share the
answer all those questions are more after eleven
it's no it's no i meant add 11 game store good old games
or gog has instituted a rather radical refund policy those democratic
socialists allowing games to request a refund within 30 days of purchase even
if you've played the game compare that with steam which allows refunds within
14 days if you've played for fewer than two hours as of now gog hasn't clarified
whether their policy will include a cap on the amount of time spent in game like
steam but the company says they will be monitoring the effects of the update to
make sure no one's abusing their new privileges
i'm going to abuse this they're also asking customers to not abuse it please
it's heartwarming to see a company have some faith or naivety in humanity in
2020. i'm now taking bets on how long this policy lasts do i hear two days can
i get a week a week wow uh very confident johnny over here oh johnny
confidence not me confident that's what my friends call me and
microsoft's be talk about the xbox series x continues with the latest entry
being a quip by major nelson himself
sarge larry herb
is that how you say that we had already heard that the upcoming
console would be able to hold save states for multiple games so you can
quickly jump in and out of multiple games if you have stupid siblings but
larry says that those save states will even survive a reboot while the console
is off those save states will reportedly be held in the quantum void also because
the xbox series x has ray tracing hardware the console will apparently be
able to support audio ray tracing which sounds made up but is actually a thing
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bits or not let me know htc's lineup of vr headsets was already kind of
confusing with the vive vive pro vive pro i vive focus and vive cosmos
but now there are three modular faceplates for the cosmos the full
external tracking enabled cosmos elite the xr focused cosmos xr and the pretty
basic cosmos play got all that great moving on to buy an oculus quest
clearview the facial recognition company that thought it was totally fine to
collect billions of people's photos just had its client list swiped by hackers
god this world clearview says their servers
were never accessed but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the
company who everyone already kind of hates
and this is why i don't post i was gonna say do you post selfies
no i don't do selfies yeah or dick pics definitely not two in one picture sony
is still making phones who knew the xperia 1 mark ii and 10 mark ii have 5g
and 21x9 displays but the most interesting model is probably the xperia
pro which will have an HDMI input so it can be used as a monitor for a camera or
anything like you could connect your switch and play on a slightly larger
screen they might be the same size oh that old ming chi quo he's so smart the
apple analyst claims that cupertino will release their first ARM-powered mac
computer just next year it's been a long time coming since apple's homegrown
chips have gotten steadily more powerful and making their own desktop chips means
that they won't have to rely on people like Intel and AMD who clearly don't
have the gift of taste not enough sandblast
i look at that it's like that guy sometimes write sunglasses on and your
vape pen could soon help you quit vaping
as joule is developing an ai-powered of course device that would deliver
progressively smaller amounts of nicotine to users based on their usage
patterns until they wouldn't be vaping nicotine at all and they'd just be
vaping empty clouds if they if they can
pull it off the tech might be enough to bring jewel out of the you suck bin uh
where it currently resides that's where riley put them
i put lots of things in there you're going in there next buddy all
right enough of this silliness back on friday for more tech news
because there's no need to wean yourself off of that just yet
it's the good stuff
just grind up your tech beans put it through a filter
and inhale it the best part of waking up