The app automatically installs Bing Visual Search and includes code to decrypt cookies saved in other browsers, Rivera said, and it also brings a “free” geolocation web API to the system.

The developer discovered “many” nasty tricks Microsoft integrated in Bing Wallpapers, which include trying to change the browser’s settings and set Edge as the default system browser. If the default browser isn’t Edge, the app will open the default browser after some time asking to enable the previously installed Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome extension.

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      If you’re already using a third party engine it shouldn’t be as big of a deal jumping to Linux. But if you’re doing engine development, the tools on Windows are still superior. There’s a big reason why Direct3D is still so popular despite being constrained to only Xbox and Windows. Tooling and documentation for Vulkan and OpenGL are light years behind and it’s frustrating to see how vast the differences are as someone who primarily works with Vulkan/OpenGL and haa dabbled with Direct3D as a hobby.

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            Wow. Looked at you comment history and you are not well liked. Later gator.

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              Yes, I get downvoted a lot on Lemmy, yet nobody seems to be able to say why I’m wrong on these issues. Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments. It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

              Also, I’d be wary of basing your opinion explicitly off what other people think. You need to formulate your own thoughts if you want to retain some sort of identity.

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                Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments.

                You got absolutely obliterated because you posted two links to ‘articles,’ one of which is just some guys blog, and then refused to defend anything the articles said.

                Also you don’t ‘defend’ a counter argument. You started the argument, offered a blog as ‘proof’ of an issue, when pressed on what the blog said you backed down and refused to defend it, and you just accuse everyone around of you of not having independent thought.

                It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

                YOU LITERALLY DID THIS. A guy said ‘The Godot Engine is getting better every day.’ in a post about Microsoft screwing up an app and you, yes, you started complaining about the team behind the engine! You’re like the living embodiment of irony, hahahahahaha

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        You realize it’s open source and you don’t need their blessing to use it right?

        You’re not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.

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          You realize it’s open source and you don’t need their blessing to use it right?

          Yes, everyone knows that. What they did is banned developer accounts, thus preventing you from contributing to it.

          You’re not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.

          There it is. The community of inclusion once again unable to express their thoughts without insulting people. Almost comical, but I guess there’s nothing funny about hypocrisy.

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            They banned “developer” accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don’t think there’s any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful, but it doesn’t actually matter. They aren’t obligated to let you be in their community.

            Don’t behave like a raging jackass and you won’t be called one. I’m not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It’s perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.

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              They banned “developer” accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don’t think there’s any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful

              Sure, if by not doing anything useful you mean donating money to the project, and saying that the project should focus on the project [1].

              They aren’t obligated to let you be in their community

              Beautiful statement.

              Don’t behave like a raging jackass and you won’t be called one. I’m not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It’s perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.

              The fact is the mass banning was not justified, and people were not being “raging jackass”, no matter how many times you call them that. There’s a reason Godot apologized for the incident, yet you fail to see that.

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                Donating money doesn’t give you free rein to be an asshole, and shockingly, their donations went way up when they removed the trash.

                They elected to decide that some of the people being jackasses didn’t technically violate their community guidelines and apologized, but that doesn’t mean that there was a single person who was banned who didn’t deserve it. Yes, jumping on a bandwagon of unforgivable horseshit without technically saying a banned thing still makes you a bad person, and yes, everyone they banned should have stayed banned.

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                  Donating money doesn’t give you free rein to be an asshole

                  If you think he was being an asshole in that sentence, then I guess we’re done here.

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            Glad you see it as well. It’s so fundamental to how they engage online, the hypocrisy becomes them.

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        You mean a few github accounts and a bunch of jerks on Discord, which you are bringing up on Lemmy?

        If anything this is just another repudiation of Discord as a whole. I hate how its eating the internet like mad cow disease.

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            Yes blocking major backers is bad, I agree with that. The mod behind this kind of sounds unpleasant too.

            What does being on Lemmy matter?

            Discord is like the antithesis of Lemmy, a siloed off, inefficient, unscrapable, private, proprietary and dangerously monopolistic echo chamber. I’ve seen it swallow too many of my niches, and from my experience, it turns people into jerks.

            Hence what I’m getting at is that this may not have happened without all that nonsense in the unoffiical discord.

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        If you want an anti-woke game engine, what are you doing on an operating system whose mascot is a transgender foxgirl?