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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. 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.

  2. Those high-powered and long distance power lines are made aluminium and steel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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”.

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  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of them will trigger from reflected IR. Which is easy to do with some metallic mylar. Those emergency blankets cut into strips should work like a charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely loathe titles/headlines that state things like this. It’s worse than clickbait, and It makes me actively avoid that source as much as I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it’s basically just former soviet states and China that visit in noticable numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Company replaces humans with AI.

  2. Consumers notice the drop in quality and stop using the product

  3. CEO makes controversial public statements about AI and his product to get into the news.

  Yeah, sure thing there buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you got the one where everyone dies, yeah you should probably replay it and at least have a short list of the specific scenes/choices that determine the “best” ending(It’s 5 or so and I think you only need to get 3 or 4 “correct”).

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  There are also some “hidden” endings to quest chains, where the best outcome is only available if you do a seemingly unrelated quest first or make certain choices early in the chain. Or quests that wouldn’t naturally line up until certain choices are made. So if you’re interested in getting all the best outcomes, a full guide is needed.

  Note that some of the "hidden chain outcomes might be bugs, so at least one isn’t always listed in all guides:

  Spoiler

  If you free the whispering hillock spirit before talking to the village leader, it prevents Anna from turning later and the game acts as if the kids are safe(although they don’t show up where they otherwise would).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Karakeep warns that it is under heavy development and is “far from stable”. Which is not something you want to hear in archiving purposes.

  Linkwardens “single html” save doesn’t seem to actually save the page proper. And I wouldn’t want to rely on a pdf to view the page.

  Not to mention that the whole post is about simplicity and accessability(not limiting yourself to a small toolset or container formats). Those are all about AI-tagging, online archiving, PDF, APIs, plugins, extensions. etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, it’s why Apple could be trademarked as the name of an electronics company. But you can’t rock up to the trademark office and register “Pear” for a company selling pear-related products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t like lemmy because they don’t understand federation. So they think the “300 users a day” on a post, means that is everyone across all instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It really doesn’t help the way search engines have implemented LLMs.

  You can go on google or duckduckgo and search for one thing, click the top link and go back to the same search. And the order of results has changed. So the second link you thought might have been correct(and was), is now 5-6 or lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common to avoid using products from other companies in PR photos(if there’s no deal). And the prominant picatinny rail is enough to tell any potential buyers that they can attach almost anything they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not.

  The average Trump voter truly thinks tarrifs = “That country pays us money”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 60% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump, the second time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The [new] owners told customers that they didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions when they bought VPNSecure, and they cannot honor the purchases.

  I’m guessing their legal team consist of a a 19 year old paralegal, or whatever c-suite decided on this did not check with their actual lawyer.

  … however, its terms of service names the company “HOLDXB Trading FZCO trading as VPN Secure, IFZA Business Park, Dubai - UAE.”

  Aha, yeah they don’t care and the service should be dead to anyone who uses VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a recent change that went into effect on March 1.

  developers.google.com/maps/…/faq

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you install a “f2p” game, get ten rounds(which takes a few minutes) and then you have to subscribe to play anymore, and the only option is $30 for a year?

  Yeah, that is deserved rating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Blood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation:

  We know the newest low end cards are a terrible upgrade(it’s probably downgrade for many), so they wont sell and we want to make up the loss on out already artificially bloated prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a limitation of the (ancient) engine the game is on, as I understand it.

  Old engine isn’t always bad. It is if you do like Todd and just slap more and more plugins and technology on top and call it a new engine, instead of fixing underlying issues or rewriting/updating old parts.

  Which is why Starfield NPCs walk onto tables and become owls when the camera zooms into conversations, etc: It is the same code that is used in Skyrim and partly Oblivion. And Todd Howard doesn’t want devs doing silly things like fixing twenty year old code, he wants new and bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No kuru is just one form of prion disease that was found in one are. And from what I remember, it has never been found in other people, as it most likely developed as a sub-type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, it’s anoychia, the picture went viral a few years ago whe someone posted it on reddit. It’s an extremely rare genetic mutation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That has been debated to death before and it obviously depends on the writer and version of the characters, but in most cases neither are fully immovable or unstoppable. If they were, Juggernaut would probably just be redirected and keep going.

  A little more practically speaking, Juggernaut wins easily:

  • The Blob is a mutant who can basically lock himself to the ground with a short distance around him and become immovable in relation to the ground while being able to absorb most impacts to effectively eliminate the force experience by him and thus the ground.

  • The Juggernaut is not a mutant, but an avatar of Cyttorak the Destroyer, the God/Demon ruler of the Crimson Cosmos dimension. He can tap into more and more of that power to the point where he can fight pretty angry Hulk on almost equal ground.

  Even if you let Blob be immovable and able to ignore all kinetic force, he still has a big weakness. As demonstrated when he tried to go after one of the intelligent versions of Hulk. He realized he couldn’t move or hurt him, so he grabbed his stomach and started pulling. It quickly hurt so much that he instinctively stopped anchoring himself to the ground. At which point he basically became an invincible bouncing ball, which is how Hulk treated him. Until he sent him flying by using a big metal girder as a bat.