The NFC readers can read the non-NFC chip without it being physically inserted? I’ve never seen that before

Garbage they’re largely responsible for producing in the first place

I think Lemmy is turning into a sketch from A Prairie Home Companion

I understand what community I’m in, but I feel like this relates to something I’ve thought about since using a rental electric vehicle. There are a lot of people who can write programs for computers. There are far fewer people who can create electronic devices reliably work in an outdoor, exposed environment. I started suspecting one reason so many charging stations want to use an app to collect payments online is because it’s easy to connect to Square or Cybersource or whatever. Making a card reader that supports magstripe, chip, or NFC and can survive being exposed to sun, rain, snow, ice, and extreme temperatures is a lot harder. Gas pumps have done this for decades, although I’m sure the roofs help, but even they had to turn to companies like Verifone when cards started using chips, and those companies didn’t make things easy (they’re why gas pumps play commercials now).

You mean like !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world ?

I didn’t have to look it up to see what game it was, but I didn’t remember the price. I bought Portal for $19.95 almost 19 years ago. Played it on a Windows PC that was not focused on gaming. I guess I’ve also played it on every computer I’ve had since then, including my new-to-me refurb Steam Deck a couple days ago.

Why wouldn’t they just release an app? Why run an LLM each and every time another person wants to install it on their TV? What if the LLMs are updated to make this stop working? I’m sure Google isn’t thrilled by this and I could see them making this not work, or making it look like it works but keep all the telemetry active.

TL;DR: This is largely a review/summary of The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia by Richard Cooke

Did you watch this? The middle was a completely different animation style, much more modern looking

A security certificate authority from India had several of their keys deciphered because the numbers used to generate them were way too short. In fact one of them was simply the number 4. Because of this basically the entire internet has been put at risk because it’s trivially easy to forge keys from this trusted authority.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

Wait, the middle of that one was different

When the AI bubble bursts, or the various electronics suppliers and their suppliers get more factories/capacity online in 2028

It seemed to be standard in France when we’ve taken my wife’s parents back to visit their hometown

I really haven’t used it much myself, but as the other commenter mentioned, since anyone can upload I’m not surprised there’s a large amount of mediocre content. So far I’ve felt like that’s a platform where you need to go in knowing what you’re looking for. But, if Steam were ever to disappear or become irrelevant, they’d certainly be in a position to pick up some of the market.

Because that’s what it looks like

Probably GoG, itch.io, or just direct sales. A lot of companies aren’t set up for physical distribution, aren’t big enough to get their product into the retail channels, and/or would have a hard time selling internationally. Steam didn’t invent digital game sales, they just made it a little easier. I think the first game I bought online was around 2000 or 2001. It was DX-Ball 2 from Longbow Digital Arts (RIP Seumas McNally), along with a screensaver I loved that they’ve open sourced and I wish I could get it running on macOS and Linux. I was still in high school and didn’t have a credit card, so I paid using a postal money order. If developers were selling directly in the ’90s they can make it work again.

What is that? Some sort of knock-off Méhari?

I saw a mediocre movie about Walt Disney once (not authorized by the Disney company or I think even the family). It was fairly low budget and one of their selling points was having the star of Napoleon Dynamite in a minor role. Anyway, at one point in the movie a character answers a call on one of those really old crank phones where the user lifts the earpiece but the microphone stays on the wall. The caller is asking for someone else, so the character puts her hand over the phone to shout for the intended recipient in the busy building, except the actress put her hand over the earpiece in her hand instead of the microphone on the wall. I’m sure she’d never used that type of phone before, but I chalked it up to the inexperience of the production team that no one caught that goof.

Does she have some public-facing social account we should credit when we steal it?