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- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 hour ago:
Using modified hardware might break other regulations or terms of services, but using a backup copy of a copy you own to do so, is not piracy. Which is the answer to the question in the comment.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 13 hours ago:
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. Meaning it’s not piracy.
- Comment on I hate audio animal repellers 4 days ago:
Those anti-teenager ones are only put up by absolute sociopaths, or people who should not be allowed to make executive decisions in regarding own life.
Because they never even consider that kids younger than teens also hear them, and they can often damage the hearing of babies and toddlers.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 week ago:
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
I’m guessing it’s not even hard to get it to confidently violate the rules.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 1 week ago:
Anyone who still doesn’t see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.
- Comment on Everyone has a special talent. You just have to discover yours's 1 week ago:
Then why didn’t you post a picture from that? This is from the indy500.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 1 week ago:
Yeah, he’s still just as delutional and thinks the problem is everyone else.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 week ago:
Do you have any sources on the claim that it wasn’t a cross and was changed later for pagans?
No they do not, because the early symbol was already T.
There are writings from ~200s talking about how the letter T looks like the execution cross.
- Comment on Fractured Blooms - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually set in a more anime-style world, and that the “real” looking one in the trailer is imaginery or something.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
Stuttering and changing FPS.
And it’s not exclusive to modern games, just a lot more common now if you don’t lower settings or lock the fps to keep it consistent.
- Comment on Three Maori MPs suspended over 'intimidating' haka 2 weeks ago:
In general, no. Historically and in the vast majority of cases it is done as a show of respect, to honor someone or something. It’s done for anything from dignitaries visiting to funerals. For example, Viggo Mortensen was very close with the stunt team on Lord of the Rings, and they performed one for him after he filmed his last scene.
The Ka Mate haka(which is the one they did), was popularized by the New Zealand national rugby team. And, is from what I remember a retelling of a story. Honoring someone who won by outwitting his enemies. It’s was never originally intended to be intimidating in terms of the vocalization and movement.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the actual one:
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 2 weeks ago:
No, they want people to literally cower in fear and lick their boots.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 2 weeks ago:
Long story short: They are not combatting bots on their platform. They sold training data to google and these guys aren’t paying, that’s why they’re suing.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 weeks ago:
I know, what are they making next? Lord of the Rings edition? Star Wars? Oh the humanities.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the car, but they’re usally there to protect something. Removing it could mean water and mud splashing up near the belts, potential damage to the oil pan, etc.
It appears that it was just zip tied back on…
yeah that’s not uncommon, just drive the front onto a curb and zip tie it again.
- Comment on United Nazis 2 weeks ago:
That is true, but she is an open defender of their actions. And has complained multiple times when UN tried calling them out.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’m doing it for a good cause, so that doesn’t apply to me.
-Every single genocidal murderous bastard and their supporters.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Fair warning: Last week my account was seemingly shadowbanned, and now gets “This content isn’t available” on every video.
Logging out plays videos, making a new brand account worked, etc. and no notification from youtube.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 2 weeks ago:
And that’s not even getting started on “ai girlfriends”, that are isolating vulnerable people to a terrifying degree. And since they are garbage at context, they do things like that case last year where it could seem like it was encouraging a suicidal teen.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 3 weeks ago:
No, just no.
Even if you think it’s a good idea, there’s way too much room for error. Hundreds of people in the UK have been charged with falsely accusing someone of rape. Just two years ago a woman beat herself with a hammer to accuse someone. Multiple innocent people where harassed, had their homes vandalized, there was attempted suicide, etc. And now they want to add more trauma?
It’s not an “ethical minefield”, it’s sociopathic to even consider.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s FDA chief says diabetics should take cooking classes instead of insulin 3 weeks ago:
As a pancreatic surgeon he is very well aware of that.
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he was from the New York area. Since it had been spreading from upstate New York since the 30s and 40s among people working in freezing buildings like warehouses.
- Comment on ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows 3 weeks ago:
It’s been a while since I did that sort of thing, but from what I remember: The vast majority of “night vision” cameras are active IR.
And the type of imagery these searches are looking for, would most likely be fooled by a couple of reflective strips blowing in the wind. Although I might recommend using strips of that reflective stuff on safety vests, that way you’d really “poison the pool”.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
You’re literally falling into the same fallacy as the writer: You’re assuming that there aren’t people like myself who don’t use any form of generative LLM.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
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The article is shit, the study is about copper used reducing fossil-fuel power generation. It is basing the projected use of copper on windmills and especially large batteries.
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Those high-powered and long distance power lines are made aluminium and steel.
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- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 3 weeks ago:
I’m sort of surprised people haven’t started to implement some hidden visual verification in their broadcasts. So they can prove that deepfakes aren’t real.
- Comment on 3D printers leave hidden ‘fingerprints’ that reveal part origins 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is basically just quality control geared towards mass 3d printed parts.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 3 weeks ago:
The “not interested” button, it does nothing!
When combined with “don’t recommend channel” and removing videos from your watch history, it works for content. Unless you actually partake in related content. For example: If you watch political content, you will get recommended stuff opposite to what you like, regardless of many times you click “not interested”.
Although it should be mentioned that “not interested” does literally nothing when it comes to not seeing shorts, for that you need an extension or app that let you hide them.