Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 20 hours ago:
Raping kids has unfortunately been a thing since long before the internet. You could legally bang a 13 year old right up to the 1800s and in some places you still can.
As recently as the 1980s people would openly advocate for it to be legal, and remove the age of consent altogether. They’d get it in magazines from countries where it was still legal.
I suspect it’s far less prevalent now than it’s ever been. It’s now pretty much universally seen as unacceptable, which is a good start.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 day ago:
Guessing there’s a lot of DLSS going into those resolution and framerate specs…
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 2 days ago:
Given the “we spared no expense” attitude to the rest of the data these things are trained on, I fear that may be wishful thinking…
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 2 days ago:
Who doesn’t love the smell of raw onions on a first date?
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
Should be but search for “kwh per hour” and there’s plenty of people who seem confused by it all.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 5 days ago:
Let me guess.
A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can’t read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.
This from the genius bar whose hard drive “overheated” when they ran a query on 60,000 records.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 5 days ago:
I assume most Russian GitHub users use a VPN to avoid it. He has chosen not to in order to make a point.
The real worry is what happens when the US declares sanctions on random allies in their stupid “trade war”…
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 6 days ago:
One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can’t access it.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
Yeah, that way nobody will understand it
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
This is one of the things that make me think the current “fediverse” isn’t going to be its final form. It’s a good stepping stone, but users and communities being locked to a single instance will become a bugbear sooner rather than later.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
Oracle.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
After that they come round and tattoo it onto your forehead.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
Yes, but in that typically bonkers American way you also have to keep it secret (so nobody can steal your identity), while at the same time revealing it to every Tom, Dick and Harry every time you have to prove your identity.
- Comment on Best game ever? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure there can ever even be a “best game ever”, but in any case mine is Grand Theft Auto 3.
Picture the scene. You’ve got your shiny PlayStation 2. You’ve got a bunch of games, but honestly, a lot of it could have been done on the PS1 with worse graphics.
And this bad boy drops, and never stops surprising you with all the absolute chaos you can cause. Not much of a story to go on, but the sheer scale of it was amazing. A whole city of driving, slightly wonky shooting and even flying (a bit). It was a game that just felt like the hardware was designed specifically for that.
We were no longer just playing games. We were living in the future. And we’ve never gone back.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
The headsets have (if you can stomach Meta). Thanks to the combines efforts of Nvidia, scalpers, crypto-bros and AI-nerds, the hardware cost has been sailing into the distance and shows no sign of stopping.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
It took me a long time to get used to VR locomotion.
I still really can’t handle smooth turning at all, but using VRChat a lot (where the teleport movement is terrible) made me get used to the left stick movement at least which is really all you need.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
While I really enjoyed Alyx, it’s very much a game built around it’s own limitations. It’s more of a survival horror game in a way, because of the limits on ammo and deliberately mechanical reloading. There’s no melee at all, so once you’re out of bullets you’re done for.
For all the roughness of Half Life 2 VR Mod, I find myself enjoying it more because it has fewer limitations imposed by the move to VR. It doesn’t always work (and the vehicle sections in particular really push it), but as a mod of a 20 year old game, it’s really good.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
That’s why I buy them in packs of 50.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think a user shouldn’t just “exist” on a single instance and the same goes for communities.
And at the same time, an instance owner does need to be able to block things from being federated with themselves. You really do not want any CSAM on hardware you own.
It’s tricky to cover everything, and I’m not even going to pretend I’ve got the answers to it.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
No, you see where he grew up it was a common expression that meant you drive it yourself!
It couldn’t possibly be expected to mean what any sane person would think.
The fuckin’ Pedo Guy.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
It is a problem, but I think it downplays the reason those platforms got popular.
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No admin required. No updating of software to make sure you’re not going to get compromised by a vuln.
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No account management. You don’t have to make a new account, and manage another password for every community you use. Also, no worrying about 1 when somebody like me can’t be arsed to update that forum software. I don’t want an account for everything.
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It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.
If you’re running a big community you shouldn’t be building it somebody else’s garden, but you do need to manage the garden yourself and it’s not super trivial and maybe your little Final Fantasy XIV group can make do with a corner of Discord and abandon it when it goes real shitty. If you’ve got 50,000 people, it gets a little trickier.
The Fediverse goes a little way to fixing things, but it’s all a trade off. Not having corporations involved is a damn good start though.
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- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Unfortunately one will not lead to the other.
It will lead to the plot of Elysium.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Why do people use this when Jellyfin exists?
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 2 weeks ago:
Too late now, pal. You’ve all poisoned the well and now you have to drink it too.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
That’s four goddamn numbers in a row!
- Comment on North Sea tanker: Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision, as 32 people brought ashore 3 weeks ago:
Ship carrying sodium cyanide hits a ship carrying jet fuel for the US navy…
This is sounding less and less like an accident by the minute.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
It’s based on paperwork, not blood.
You can just turn up, release your spawn and claim it belongs there. We’re not frogs in a pond.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
Well, only their free speech.
Your blasphemous thoughts should be banned, obviously.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a single player game.