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- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 20 hours ago:
“Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”
What can be done about this?
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 20 hours ago:
“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it — but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” admits Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s head of product, in the PC Gamer interview. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”
They’re just going to try to market it a little differently
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 1 day ago:
And either way, eventually someone from the city would probably show up to ask why you’re using 40 tons of water every day. Image
lol
- Comment on YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand. 2 days ago:
clapping with both hands works too
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Things like subscriptions don’t seem like they should take up too much space, so it seems like a flaw that there isn’t more redundancy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I think most of that is just because it’s really tricky to get right though and there’s a lot of medical complications, not because it’s impossible for philosophical reasons.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 3 days ago:
For the money ones, I think it works because there are many people who just really want to feel some hope financially
- Comment on 3 days ago:
If Mastodon is federated, why isn’t this recoverable somehow? I thought federation involved making copies of content on other servers, does that just not happen often enough for it to work as a backup?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
So are you saying it’s literally impossible even with future technology to put a medically preserved brain in a new body and have that be a person that can do stuff and you could talk to, or just that it wouldn’t be the same person or consciousness somehow?
The former seems pretty out there as an idea. There are people whose brains are cut off from the rest of their nervous system and are still alive. The other connection the brain has to the body is the bloodstream, but blood transfusions are a thing and doesn’t kill you.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 3 days ago:
I overall like AI, but it’s not great for making this type of argument because it doesn’t offer anyone anything they can really use to update their beliefs about what’s true. Any of the factual claims there could be hallucinated, and most are only tangentially relevant to the question of how strong the parallels between the attitude towards computers 50 years ago are to attitudes towards AI now. If someone wants to seriously consider the question, it isn’t useful.
A better way to do it is to use it like a search engine to find relevant citeable information and then make your own case for its relevance. Or maybe in this case just some personal anecdotes would work pretty well, you’re claiming personal experience as your main source here and I kind of wanted to hear more about it.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
Why would you flush before you stand up
- Comment on Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds 1 week ago:
I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 1 week ago:
Well it was owned by a private equity company, maybe they were running some kind of scheme to make it look like the company was worth more than it was on paper which had something to do with why it was so overleveraged.
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 1 week ago:
USS said that its high debt, which funded several expansions and acquisitions over the years, became unsustainable in recent years due to high inflation and a downturn in residential housing construction in the U.S.
Many of the company’s biggest customers are construction sites, and lower construction activity cut into the company’s revenues while interest payments, fuel and labor became increasingly expensive, according to the company’s court filings.
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 1 week ago:
The proposed restructuring will flush away Platinum’s current equity ownership in USS entirely.
- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 1 week ago:
So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don’t display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 week ago:
exactly
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 1 week ago:
Many are worried that the archives liberated by Anna’s will be used to train generative models
I hope so, unlike text and image gen, there are not really good publicly available music models, only proprietary services now owned by large music industry rightsholders due to lawsuits afaik. Like the article mentions, unethical corporations such as Spotify itself are already on it regardless.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 week ago:
If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
Fair, I’m not sure what the solution would be though, even if you explicitly want to optimize for getting as many people as possible using decentralized social media regardless of their politics or cultural preference.
- Comment on Spidertron model from factorio game 1 week ago:
I see the rockets in its missile battery have red tips, so better be careful with it
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
It’s a shame that Nostr’s brand is tainted by its community in a lot of people’s eyes, there’s a lot to like about it as a protocol and as a free software project that is independent from that stuff.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 2 weeks ago:
Oh right. So I guess that means the majority of stuff uploaded to Spotify never really gets listened to.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 2 weeks ago:
with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
I’m not sure exactly how “listens” maps on to total songs, but it sounds like they got almost all of them
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see how there’s really much room for improvement in terms of convenience. Buying things online is already very simple, typing in the thing you want to buy and sorting through some options. If you want to do it efficiently, it takes up very little time, although some people enjoy the process and choose to spend lots of time on it.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to make accounts on lots of sites and search all of them every time I buy something, so I think of it like a convenience fee if the way an ebay package is wrapped implies the seller arbitraged it from elsewhere.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how much has changed since I was doing it, but the main trick was to get the tasks associated with academic studies that were typically higher paid, by using a sniping bot to grab it before others could. So that way you get paid around minimum wage instead of a small fraction of that. Though tbh the situation is probably worse now since there have been all those funding cuts to academia.
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 weeks ago:
I found this: lawfaremedia.org/…/has-tiktok-implemented-project…
USDS will house TikTok teams that access U.S. user data, access TikTok’s software code and back-end systems, or moderate content on the platform. By design, it will replicate several of the core functions of TikTok’s global business. For instance, it will have a separate human resources team that will be responsible for hiring and managing U.S. personnel. Additional teams housed in USDS will include engineering, user and product operations, privacy operations, trust and safety, legal, threat detection and response, and security risk and compliance.
Oracle Cloud will host the TikTok platform in the United States, including the algorithm and the content moderation functions. It will be responsible for monitoring data flowing into USDS and out of USDS to ensure that no data illicitly transits the USDS boundary. All U.S. data traffic will be routed through Oracle Cloud.
This was from 2023 but has something changed since then to mean it won’t be hosted or run from the US? Is there a reason to think these claims are false or misleading?
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m ootl, is it confirmed somewhere that will be the case?
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 weeks ago:
