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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH, paying for every RGB combination would have been a bit funnier, as the ridiculous next step of paying for retextures.

  Letting people pay for every change is just too lazy and uninspired…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But isn’t that the wrong approach?

  If you want to choose something better, shouldn’t be ‘enshittificationability’ be the main point you want to address? That is the reason discord is doing most of the bad stuff. Proprietary software is about enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If there are NPCs, there is AI.

  You should be more specific. Ask about machine generated content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point I am making is about protecting teens from adults. So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented. Either allow no teens on your platform, or teens have to proof that they are teens first.

  Adults (and teens for that matter) are pretty good at obfuscating grooming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So an adult could just create two accounts, one to access teen spaces, where they don’t verify their age l and one for accessing adult spaces, where the age gets verified?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot self-host teamspeak… Use Mumble or Matrix instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an ad for Tuta, which server side software it, AFAIK proprietary. You cannot self-host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it shouldn’t be carbon neutral… It should used to get carbon out of the atmosphere and into a less damaging substance.

  Carbon capture does not replace getting rid of our dependency on burning fossil fuels.

  We wouldn’t get back the same amount that we are burning anyway. So this approach is worse, because dumb people think it would save us, without us changing the way we produce energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon needs to be captured were there is a lot of carbon in the air. So especially around cities with lots of car traffic, or around fossil fuel power plants…

  So… It would be better to stop car traffic and fossil fuel power plants first, before doing carbon capture…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends in the purpose. Sometimes you can hide stuff in unexpected places when there isn’t much interest for other people to find it, or if they don’t even know about it’s existence.

  Also sometimes it is good enough to just delay the discovery of something for a while, because its value after a certain time diminished completely.

  So, I would argue that sometimes security by obscurity can be useful. But I agree that it generally shouldn’t replace proper encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK, OSM is much more detailed and up to date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Testing SPECIAL with games seems boring. They should do a multi layered social deduction game instead, where everyone has different goals, lies to another and nobody really understands what is going on until the end.

  So some contestants are actors, and think they know where the show is going, but they are tricked as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So like syncthing but you have to pay for it and requires a server. Seems useless…

  If you want to sync while not all devices are online, just spend 50$ or something and get a RPI and put syncthing on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently deepwiki links started popping up in my search results, when I wanted to research some software. They offered so much genenerated ‘documentation’ that it caused so much confusion and irritation to me, I installed an extension just to block this site from my search results.

  Why do I ever need to read the ‘architecture’ or whatever from an ancient no longer maintained project. The deepwiki page didn’t mention that it isn’t maintained, but the readme.md in the repo states it clearly at the very top with big letters…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IronFox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, I couldn’t claim capitalism is perfect, but whether replacing the system or not, you need to address the greedy human culture beneath it.

  Chicken, egg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. There are no perfect systems. Every system will require constant vigilance and adaption to work. The point is that the goal of disincentivizing greedy behavior is actually clearly stated and done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t think it’s just “economic culture” as you’ve described.

  I didn’t say it is just economic culture that is the issue here…

  I really don’t think people are accurate about the feeling that “Obtaining and hoarding valuable things” is an act borne out of the laws of our current society.

  Also true, but what is? Is your point that it is human nature? I would disagree there, humans have the capacity of acting against greed and selfishness. Question is why they are so often acting greedy and selfish then?

  My answer would be two options with both apply to some degree, and there might be more:

  1. Resources are scarce and distributed non equally. So hoarding gives power over others
  2. The system incentivizes greedy behavior, by it’s structure and rules. Either by actively, by giving greedy people direct rewards, or passively by not punishing greedy behavior.

  Other ideas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Destinction without difference. Government and economic culture is part of the economic system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why these kind of post crop up so often.

  The answer to them doesn’t matter and these aren’t really math questions, because there is no context given. This is just endless discussions about different people having different assumptions on notation used there…

  In real math, where the numbers mean something, good and consistent notation is important, but not necessary, because the order of operations or what those operations are exactly would be clear through the context of these formulas. Good notation just makes it easier to spot errors, work with formulas or to avoid confusion.

  Here is what I would assume this formula could mean. Someone has 2 apples and 5 bags of apples that initially came with 8 apples each inside, but someone else ate 5 apples from each of these bags.

  With this context it is pretty clear what the answer would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SELinux protects systems from bugs in software. Not against users with full root privileges using their own hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. But most good stuff isn’t a solution for everyone. It takes real effort to escape vendor-lockin. Bigtech made sure of that.

  If something is too simple to set up or requires no set up, or comes from a for-profit company, but doesn’t cost anything, then it always suspicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. But I would say that this isn’t an issue intrinsic with passkey. Many people don’t have time/energy or the attitude to think critically about technology and are herded towards Google/X-corp/etc with offers of convenience and because they are often the only offered choice on the web sites. But from the POV of passkey they just act as a password manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use them with bitwarden and a self hosted vaultwarden. If my phone breaks, no issue. If my server breaks, I got local backups… Keys are stored encrypted in a postgres database for which I have access, if I need to restore it. No lock-in issue or risk of loosing access when one or two devices break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A better, well defined API for password managers to insert login information to the site compared to text boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I self host vaultwarden, and use bitwarden clients everywhere. Passkeys are stored there

  Passkeys to me, are a better way to insert login information. Some developers don’t think of passwords getting automatically filled in, so this autofill sometimes breaks. Passkeys might be a improved interface to integrate password managers. Also, sometimes 2FA keys from my bitwarden client gets copied into the clipboard, which sometimes overwrites the stuff I wanted to preserve in there. This does not happen with passkeys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I store the passkeys in my self hosted vaultwarden, they are a good replacement for auto inserting random passwords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can? At least I do that. I host vaultwarden myself and store the paaskeys there.

  Passkeys to me are just a better way to autofill in login data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is too big when the density of reasons to go there and explore becomes to little.

  Personally, I don’t really care for games that have huge maps just to pass through while traveling around. There needs to be a reason in the story for every place to be there.

  Every village, town or city needs to be filled with quests and stories, and the space between them as well to a lesser extend. They serve as immersive distractions. They need to be alive.

  The map is too big if it cannot be filled with enough stuff to explore and experience.

  TBH, I am not much of a sandbox game player and the JC 2 and 3 maps looked nice, but didn’t really invite me to stay and explore a single area for a while, because it the areas didn’t have much depth. I prefer a much higher density of things to do. Each village should have a couple of hours of content, exploring it and the neighboring area. And larger towns or cities even more.

  I want to minimize the ‘just cruising through’ parts of maps.

  Cyberpunk as well had too much dead space when it comes to stuff to do in many parts of the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like sassy AI, take a look at ADA from satisfactory. She is insulting the player ins some way on every upgrade.