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- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 days ago:
Wayyyyyy less than 20%.
Even removing, incredibly liberal, bot percentages from reddit Lemmy is still < 0.001% of the audience
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 days ago:
It’s a solution to a problem Lemmy will soon have in that case.
Which is bots.
Lemmy isn’t flooded with bots and astroturfing because it’s essentially too small to matter. The audience is something like < 0.001% that of reddit.
Once it grows the problem comes here as well, and we have no answers for it.
It’s a shitty situation for the internet as a whole, and the only solution is verifying humans. And corporations CANNOT be trusted with that kind of access/power
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 5 days ago:
2 years ago I talked about the core problem with federated services was the abismal scale ability.
I essentially got ridiculed.
And here we are, with incredibly predictable scaling problems.
If we refuse to acknowledge problems till they become critical, we will never grow past a blip on the corner of the internet.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 week ago:
Or peach.
Kind of dumb really, I hate censorship.
- Comment on TubeArchivist alternatives that store data in an archive friendly manner? 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s definitely an easy to read DB. But that’s still beyond the point IMHO.
If you can’t reconstruct the state of your files without 3rd party software to interpret them, then they are not in an archive format.
One should be able to browse their data using OS native tools on an offline device push comes to shove.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I mean at this point you’re just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.
However, we’re not really looking at this from a system’s view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.
- Comment on OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s more complicated than that.
Of course, data is persisted somewhere, in a transient fashion, for the purpose of computation.
And then promptly deleted or otherwise garbage collected in some manner.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 3 weeks ago:
Ever is this data dump so I can mirror it?
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 3 weeks ago:
Yep, just like electron or Tauri. A web view wrapped in a native application.
These are very common these days. Mainly because it’s just easier to develop UIs with web technologies that look the same everywhere, never without the app.
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 3 weeks ago:
You do know that a pwa can be packaged up in an app container and you won’t even be able to tell the difference?
It doesn’t actually have to operate like a pwa, and require native pwa sport.
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 3 weeks ago:
There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app, and you don’t even know about it.
PWAs only suck on when they suck, just like everything else.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 3 weeks ago:
Did I say that it did?
No?
Then why the rhetorical question for something that I never stated?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I got the feeling that these replies are written by ChatGPT?
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 3 weeks ago:
I build software and can confirm this.
This is pretty run-of-the-mill analytics and user session recording. There’s nothing surprising here.
Usually it’s not actual screen recording but rather user action diff recording (Which effectively acts like screen recording except that it only records things that changed so that the recording is much cheaper to store)
This is extremely effective for tracking down bugs, solving user support issues with software, or watching session recordings to figure out if users are using the software in unexpected ways.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much any error tracking analytic software worth it’s salt does that these days!
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
Your argument against the article that talks about copper usage is founded on incomplete knowledge of where copper is actually used?
🤦
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
Proof that it’s already too late ☝️
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 4 weeks ago:
You’re honestly not wrong. But just like Reddit and IRL people here vote emotionally instead of rationally.
Things that divide us further are just distractions from class warfare, by keeping us at each other’s throats with culture wars.
The real battle has always been class wars, and those in power maintain their positions by getting us peons to go at each other’s throats instead of theirs.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, location based as in you and the objects in the game are based on real world coordinates. The “grid” for the game is overlayed onto the real world
Same ingress lost its appeal after a while. The gameplay loop was shallow and repetitive. It was based around rather fast gameplay loops, that would resolve, and then you rinse and repeat.
I made some cool friends though, it was cool to meet people at capture points.
I’m aiming for much MUCH more depth here. Fundamentally different from ingress of similar games, aside from being location based. More industry and exploration, with a more typical loop around economy, growth, and advancement.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 5 weeks ago:
Great question, and one I’ve struggled with.
I’m a big privacy advocate, and my personal devices and home network reflect that. Which really brings me to a difficult crossroads here.
I don’t have a good answer for you right now, the best I have are the problems I’m trying to balance:
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- This is the toughest one here. Likely I’ll need a combination of data retention periods and anonymization. At the very least sensitive data is separated from the rest of the game data, and is encrypted at rest. Likely there are clever protocols and solutions already out there I just don’t know about yet that can improve protections here.
- Audit Logs: When a player performs an action that interacts with a location-based feature, where they where when that action was performed it is stored alongside the audit log of that action. This ties in closely with Anticheat, and also enables pattern matching to try and find oddities (exploits, cheating, bugs, and other problems).
- Right now these stay around forever, and can be used to simulate the global game state at any point in the past (really REALLY useful for debugging problems, especially when you don’t have a good repro). Eventually such state should make granular rollbacks possible in case of exploits or rampant cheating. (A game where you have to physically go somewhere to capture a mine means rollbacks have a crazy high cost, making them granular is pretty important)
- Analytics and Telemetry: Location data isn’t in use here right now. And I don’t see how it would be while also respecting privacy.
Selling the data: 😂😂😂 I’d rather light my servers on fire than stoop to that level.
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 5 weeks ago:
Hey that’s totally valid!
I’m an avid player of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project. Those really scratch the pure factory itch.
I’m aiming to scratch a different itch here. Persistent empire building in competition with others over finite resources is an itch that’s REALLY hard to scratch. And that’s what I’m aiming for here.
That sense that you have built something that feels more tangible than other games you’re accustomed to. There’s a real world element, you control something that someone else cannot, with that comes that empire building feeling I personally live, and want to build a game around.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 5 weeks ago:
I do! I’m actually using an NVidia Shield. Which runs android TV
I tried last year to install a recommended one but it required that I download a third-party APK. And I would have to jump through a meant hoops to be able to install it on this device when I was poking around then. If it’s not on the Play store, apparently it’s rather difficult to install?
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 5 weeks ago:
On my tv, yes :(
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 5 weeks ago:
They have a shitton of other products, services, and tech though?
Just because it’s not marketed at you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I interact with the development ecosystem that Microsoft largely controls. They’re constantly doing new stuff there.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 month ago:
Yeah, but they hold none of the actual real emotional needs complexities or nuances of real human connections.
Which means these people become further and further disillusioned from the reality of human interaction. Making them social dangers over time.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 month ago:
Found the Linux user.
Not Arc though, they would have said so
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 month ago:
Really wish we didn’t have bots posting at all
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
I use jellyfin, and jellyfin is not safe to expose to the internet.
They have a handful of vulnerability and security holes that have been open for like 5+ years now. And the old emby architecture is quite difficult to work with.