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Comment Nothing new here (Score 1) 145

When companies first started outsourcing their support in the mid 1990s(because the ability to re-route calls via voice over IP), the quality of support dropped. As this went international, most people found the quality dropped even more as you now had the issue of "agents" having an accent that many could not understand.

When the quality of customer service was already very low for many companies, AI doesn't change the quality very much. The era of representatives who actually know and understand the products is long gone now, so AI again, isn't that terrible in comparison, just different. The problem is really for those in places like India and Indonesia where people with little skill have been working call center jobs, and now, they will be forced to work for scam companies that focus on trying to steal money from old people.

Comment GOG is for poaching more than launching (Score 1) 48

And like I said I don't see anyone talking about GOG.

How much of that is related to GOG's reputation for being selective about what games and genres they accept? I get the impression that GOG is a bit more "curated" than some other PC game stores. The curators don't really want visual novels (a style of menu-driven adventure game). And apart from new releases by CD Projekt (which owned GOG before the end of 2025), I suspect that GOG seeks to poach "catalog" games that have already been successful on the competing store Steam as opposed to having a game at day one.

Sources include GOG forums (thread; thread)

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1, Interesting) 182

There are some basic issues at play here, such as there needing to be reasonable suspicion that any sort of crime has been committed before any sort of search or seizure of property. Since ICE is not known for getting a warrant, just going over the border does not mean there is a REASONABLE suspicion that anything wrong has been done. Since the government does not have a right to just take personal property then, they have no realistic case to charge someone for destruction of ANYTHING the person actually owns themselves.

Now, ICE is really subjecting itself to lawsuits for violations of the US Constitution, and with any luck, as of Jan 21st of 2027, the Trump administration will lose its control as Republicans will lose control of the House and hopefully Senate.

Comment Emulators on GitHub (Score 1) 45

GitHub has deleted projects because it didn't like them too or considered them too much of a hot potato. Try safely hosting an emulator on there for an older games console or something similar.

My own NES emulator is on Codeberg, but there are well over a dozen emulators on GitHub. Start here:

- LIJI32/SameBoy (Game Boy)
- TASEmulators/fceux (NES)
- mgba-emu/mgba (Game Boy, Game Boy Advance)
- nesdev-org/MesenCE (NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, PC Engine, Master System/Game Gear, WonderSwan)
- jsgroth/jgenesis (Mega Drive/Mega CD, Super NES, Master System/Game Gear)
- dolphin-emu/dolphin (GameCube, Wii)
- stenzek/duckstation (PlayStation)
- ares-emulator/ares (numerous)
- Dwedit/PocketNES (PocketNES on Game Boy Advance)
- FluBBaOfWard/NitroSwan (WonderSwan on Nintendo DS)
- FluBBaOfWard/NGPDS (Neo Geo Pocket on Nintendo DS)
- FluBBaOfWard/NitroGrafx (PC Engine on Nintendo DS)

Which emulator of a 20+-year-old console did you see deleted from GitHub, unless it included ROMs or system software copied without permission?

port forwarding your residential cable Internet service to a Pi

The problem is that a lot of home ISPs don't let their customers port forward because there just aren't enough IPv4 addresses to go around, and I'd bet a lot of your audience are behind ISPs that don't provide IPv6 (such as Frontier fiber). When an ISP is using carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to put an entire neighborhood behind a single IPv4 address, how would the ISP's router know to which customer to direct a TCP SYN packet received at that address? I guess each Forgejo instance operator could pay per month for some sort of proxy service using a reverse SSH tunnel.

Comment Re:"proud maga" (Score 1) 229

You are just another xenophobic idiot who can't handle anyone who is different than you are. The people who identify as this or that aren't being broken into this or that "identity", they do it themselves when they feel they are being discriminated against. The anti-woke people(you probably fall into that category) still feels that there is no racism in the USA, and that complaints about systematic racism are just people looking for a handout while their rights are being attacked.

If you are blind to there being racism in many towns, or in police forces, then that is why there are protests when people are killed by racist police officers who are then protected by the overall police force and politicians. You probably support ICE killing US citizens without anything happening to those ICE agents who are GUILTY of murder.

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