cley_faye
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- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 1 week ago:
There are plenty of tool for that. And, for that matter, “making an account” for gemini means having used gmail/youtube/anything vaguely google related in the last ten years. I’m pretty sure lazy people are already there.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
That is what I thought I said, yes.
- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 1 week ago:
fine tuning the prompt until it is perfect.
hahahahahahahahaha
- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 1 week ago:
What effort? I can open gemini and type “give me a shitpost meme about being angry for something random, you pick” and get a picture. I don’t even have to think about what it would be. The part that requires the most effort is copy/pasting it here.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
You think 1990 where a time of full consent and awareness about other sensitivities? Oh boy.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
The awareness is relatively recent. “The woman place is in the kitchen” is not an old thing.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
think about the wild and unnecessary risk they’re taking and how they’ll regret it functionally forever
hmm what? Unless I missed a very big part of this, you’re not dropping a percentage of your soul when you have sex, it usually conclude with a good shower, and if you were not cautious at all with protection, a pill.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
I’d say a larger part of the population being aware that they can reject “unsolicited requests” is a part of it.
Also, it requires meeting people to some extent. That sounds boring.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
It’s been tried a bit before, but didn’t get through. The current situation with secure boot is worrying, because we’re one manufacturer playing ball away from it to become a reality.
I’d like to say there’s strong incentive to not do that, but it seems that logic alone would not stop this kind of push. And weirdly enough, even financial risk might not be enough, as we’ve seen baffling decisions made these last few months.
The main saving graces is that there are more than two manufacturer for motherboard, and as far as I know, patent lockdown and secrecy isn’t as big on PC hardware than on mobile boards, so it might be easier to escape such lockdown. But fully locked down systems under external control is clearly where some people wants us to go.
- Comment on Can you share 1 week ago:
The best way to go is a some “a”, a few “o”, a long string of “m”, and write “oh yeah” in the last question.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
Watch the whole world go “ahaha age verification go brrrrr” in the next months/years, and we’ll talk again. I’m particularly baffled at the EU that was all “privacy friendly, consumer first” until a handful of month ago.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
I think that was the point. Not only decentralized services, but a lot of small and/or individual services too. The way age verification is done is both stupid, and expensive. Only the big names will remain.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 2 weeks ago:
If your plan is to kill me by excessive exposure to well endowed lesbian female protagonists, you can expect me to endure to the maximum of what is physically possible from the human mind, and then some.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 weeks ago:
You know, as someone who like the looks and the mechanical side of guns, I find that idea interesting. It would not be practical, I guess, bullets are probably easier to pass under the table than guns, but eh.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
They are in the same room with all the third-party support for them, ESPECIALLY from state-built applications that are increasingly being required to do administration stuff and mandatory banking apps that are required for online payment and even opening their websites these days.
That room does not exist.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
My current phone, a Pixel 7a, cost me around 350€ (let’s say it’s roughly the same in $). There is definitely cheaper options. And most of these options will give you a decent phone.
A $200 computer will bring you to basic office stuff and playing facebook games.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
EU is moving full steam ahead toward the end of “private” computers and mandatory state surveillance on your devices. They’ll be delighted with that. The funky “hey, we’re consumer friendly” times are over.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
They also managed to remove a feature from the fucking clock app. It’s not much, but seriously, it’s like a headless chicken running toward a cliff from the business end.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
“No, I don’t think it will”
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 weeks ago:
Can’t be any school shootings if there isn’t either school or children in them. Success.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 weeks ago:
The only thing to prevent school shooting seems to be more guns, AND more automated guns. Somehow.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
With many, many servers, otherwise things would go down fast on each new video release. And each server having a fuckton of bandwidth, too. That’s not free.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Also it’s fully legal for the end user to modify stuff on their own end
Although I 100% agree with you, the whole premise of this post is that laws can change. What’s legal now is not a good basis to say “it’s legal, so it can’t be illegal later on”.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Screen reader? You better make sure it only works on a site that explicitly allows them, and no reorganizing these sections, or else!
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Another way to subsidize a very small handful of extremely large businesses that are already richer than some countries, and outright kill small actors? Sign me up.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Ads that hide the content, ads that hijack your navigation, unwanted ads that consume your bandwidth which may or may not be on a paid plan, ads that will slow down your device, increase battery usage, or plain crash the site you’re trying to see, all of these are just malware. There’s no excuse for malware.
For a time, adblockers had a provision to allow non intrusive ads. The mere idea is so dead that the option doesn’t even make sense anymore.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
How? Simple. A parliament of sort writes the law, it gets accepted. Then, the thing, whatever it is, is illegal.
It have no bearing on your ability to use the thing, of course. However, people providing the thing, people that are found out of using the thing, and people that facilitate using the thing are now easier to arrest.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
Sell it to who? Most business must keep records of the stuff they use in their books. A roll of optic fiber this large would cost a substantial amount of money, so using one “off the books” would require some creativity. And I’m not sure there’s much use for individuals for that much.
Copper is interesting because there are business that buys it by weight for recycling purposes.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a matter of “getting better”. It’s a matter of having the bandwidth. You can’t serve a video to ten of thousands of people from one or two servers. And you can’t do it with P2P at that scale either. There’s nothing technical to do about that; it’s basically a physic limitation. To address that you’d have to publish your video in dozens or hundreds of servers beforehand, and the system have to handle load balancing and source lookup efficiently. Basically, work as a full CDN. And that’s expensive to do. The reason youtube can do that is not that they have wonderful, almost magical software running on their servers, it’s that they have a lot of them.
And, sure, it doesn’t apply to most people. Which is irrelevant; most people are not what are driving the masses. One large enough youtuber going peertube would give it more visibility than thousands of individual people. That’s the reason people are still using youtube; because people go where the content they want is.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
Beside a big whack behind the head, Ublock Origin Lite is supported on chrome. You lose some features, and it is slower to update, but should still mostly work. Unfortunately, the youtube/ublock fight move quite fast, so results won’t be as good on that front.