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- Comment on Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s 5 days ago:
Love this game. One of the few retro games that is still fun to play today.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 week ago:
The real crime here is the corruption of our political system by wealthy corporations. They know the truth but deploy vast resources to spread doubt and uncertainty. Go read Merchants of Doubt about how the same scientists who spread doubt about the links of cancer to smoking have been deployed in the global warming debate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
This is fraud and corruption and is a crime. No need to invent a new system of justice.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
That makes sense. It is interesting to read the original blog post from Wikimedia:
diff.wikimedia.org/…/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia…
and what they say you can do if you want to help:
“Active volunteers can further help meet this moment by working with Wikimedia Foundation teams to test out new experiences and tools on Wikipedia. As the internet changes rapidly, this is a moment to consider what parts of Wikipedia should change (and what parts should not), while staying true to the promise of human-centered, free knowledge for the world.
A specific area where volunteers can help is with our new readers teams. We welcome you to review the current experiments we are running and help us answer key questions about what will most help readers. Please join the readers teams on their talk page and sign up for their newsletter to share your thoughts and learn more about their work. We’ll also be reaching out to communities soon with both live and on-wiki ways to talk about these trends, and what they mean for the Wikimedia projects.”
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Every time someone visits Wikipedia they make exactly $0. In fact, it costs them money. Are people still contributing and/or donating? These seem like more important questions to me.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
There is definitely a bubble. But also what Nvidia is doing is smart. They have boatloads of cash. They are investing that cash in the companies that are using their products to create money making services. If one of them can create a killer app or viable service this will create demand for their products and they will have an ownership stake in it. Is this guaranteed or even likely? Probably not. We have reached the point where we were in 1996 where the chairman of the fed came out and said we are in a period of “irrational exuberance.” That bubble took four more years to pop. This one may end quicker, but it is impossible to tell when it will end or what will come out of it from where we sit today.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
Paw paws grow naturally in the area I live and are a delicious fruit. Due to cultivation and transport issues you will never find them in stores.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 weeks ago:
This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 5 weeks ago:
Plot twist: this is an ad campaign
- Comment on It's true 1 month ago:
Every morning when I discover some new pain, I feel like Khan exacting revenge, “From hell’s heart I stab at thee”
- Comment on same as it ever was 1 month ago:
- Comment on Frick 1 month ago:
Oh great, so the giant spiders will have oxygen tanks?
- Comment on Amazon Warns 220 Million Customers Of Prime Account Attacks 3 months ago:
Pieter Arntz, a malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, has issued a timely July 16 reminder that “scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam.”
- Comment on Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures? 3 months ago:
So you can bring json into a spreadsheet as ling as you are cool with some if your cells containing multi-valued entries. The question is how do you want those multi valued fields to o be handled? How are they displayed? How would sorting and filtering on these fields work?
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 4 months ago:
Humans sweat. It is one of our superpowers and enables endurance hunting. Anthropologists theorize that early humans would have had to have developed water carrying technologies for this to be viable. They study primitive hunter gathers who still practice endurance hunting and they use water skins during the hunt.
- Comment on The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boys 5 months ago:
Rock horns. Shorthand for “that rocks” a more manly way to say I love that.
- Comment on The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boys 5 months ago:
Thats great! I feel comfortable using the heart emoji with my wife and kids, but for co-workers it can be a little creepy depending in the circumstance. I started using the blue heart, but that just cause confusion. I found the horns conveyed the thought better without being creepy.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
And a grandkid or two would be nice…
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 5 months ago:
So you’re saying the ad driven internet will die? And we will be left with what? Wikipedia and Lemmy? I for one welcome our AI overlords!
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 5 months ago:
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 5 months ago:
Sounds like screentime.
- Comment on If your dog realizes that your leather jacket is the skin of another animal then it probably thinks you're a psycho. 5 months ago:
The weird thing about clothes is that we don’t think they are weird.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 months ago:
If you could somehow inoculate them against smallpox you might have a fighting chance.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 months ago:
Of course I want to think I would do better. Maybe I would manage to integrate with the local indigenous people, but the reality is I would likely die. Either way my knowledge of science and “advanced” civilization will benefit me not at all.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 months ago:
You would die. There are many, many examples of explorers from “advanced” civilizations getting shipwrecked or stranded in an area where primitive hunter-gatherers live. Unless they are saved by the hunter gatherers, they are doomed, despite their knowledge of science and technology. Joseph Henrich talks extensively about these examples in his book, “The Secret of Our Success”
Check out this video to get an idea -> m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoQh6BoH3c
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 5 months ago:
Especially if you are Tat.
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 6 months ago:
You can tunnel over SSL with stunnel. TCP latency can be brutal though.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 6 months ago:
“You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 7 months ago:
Go tead the FIDO threat model if you want to understand how it protects against specific attacks. It is pretty secure.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 7 months ago:
It is hard to do well which is why I worry. Google probably has the best overall account security, you could fo worse than modeling after them.
The short answer to your question is Passkeys. But you need a whole system of account recovery around them.
