Geth
@Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning 5 days ago:
You’d be surprised 🙄
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
That’s why IRC isn’t and never will be a replacement for Discord. Most people don’t care to accept comprimises and friction and people developing the alternatives can not impose compromises on their users and expect general market adoption.
I really wish there was some real alternative that actually worked like lemmy communities for example where you wouldn’t need to self host but be able to use a server someone else made available to be able to create a community there. And search engine indexing, that would be a must imo.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
No voice/video calling, no screen sharing, no persistent chat history.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 2 weeks ago:
Ah, my bad. Didn’t realize this is Ubisoft Montreal specifically.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure France is one of those places where it is indeed.
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 2 weeks ago:
Right, fair, it’s just not on any android app manager, you have to deal with it manually which is not great.
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 2 weeks ago:
It’s not on play store. You have to side load it.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the same case for Facebook, Instagram, x-twitter?
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks ago:
Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.
Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.
I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
I have a nagging feeling the general public does not hate Microsoft as much as computer nerds do and so probably overall their image is muddled to not that bad overall.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t actually catch the info that they managed to bribe officials to stand down so this is a pretty satisfying answer to my question. Thanks!
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
Crazy. Thanks, I couldn’t find similar cases when I looked. Considering all the other coups the US has done, this is just a time honored tradition for them.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
You see, I thought you can’t just go in a foreign country and kidnap the leader…
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
Technically you are right, but we already know the us is in love with Israel so them having nukes would have no effect on the hypothetical situation of clearing out the trash in that particular country.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
Does pakistan have a particularly problematic leader? Or why are we taking about them?
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
North korea didn’t have them for the longest time. None of the middle east countries have them to this day. I wonder if Rusia would even retaliate like that, I suspect not.
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- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
What control are you losing by going with esim? They already had you by the balls with the physical sim. Now its just more convenient and esim is also globally defined/accepted.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
Usb-c has already proven itself to be reliable, it was designed to be reversible, it is easy to insert and remove with good tactile feedback and is compact while having lots of versatility. All traits I would love to see in an universal power plug.
To me USB-A was what schuko is today. It works and is mostly fine but I’m sure we could do better if we put our minds to it. The problem with todays plugs and sockets is they all work just about, enough that no one with any authority is going to bother with the topic. Any improvement needs to be by an unrealistically huge margin to be worth the investment required.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s best technically but worst for the end user. I am an end user and I would hate to be stuck with that monster of a uniderectional plug. I don’t care that it washes my dishes for me if it doesn’t fit in my bag and kills me in the night when I step on it.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
We can’t agree which one is best. When Tom Scott proclaimed his home plug to be the best I scoffed. I thought my own home plug is better. But in reality I think they all suck in their own way, every single one of them.
I think a new more research driven approach like the USB-C design would be better, something that protects your fingers, is easier to locate when behind furniture or in the dark, works in more than a single position, is not going to stab you if you leave it on the floor, does not get stuck in the socket, I think it might even be possible to add a fuse without making it larger than a typical phone charger, but to be honest, the smaller the better. One can only dream.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
I framed that a bit weird, what I meant is that as far as steam and the stats are concerned I disappeared off the face of the earth for the last 4 months, when in fact another old game has consumed me.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
Looks like this year I played exactly 0 new games. But what steam doesn’t know is that in September I started Cyberpunk on GOG and haven’t dropped it since. Has to be my game of the year now.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 months ago:
Can’t really remember the last time it wasn’t a horrible time to build a PC.
- Comment on Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month 2 months ago:
Was it really easier to post this question instead of reading the article?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
Proton locks automatic email forwarding behind a subscription, so if you ever want to move away from them but not immediately lose any emails that go to that inbox, your only choice is to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I still remember the time of the great Miele shilling by the vacuum repair guy. Every thread about vacuums had the same conversation about how only this single company is the best company of all. It worked, my brother bought one of those vacuums.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 3 months ago:
So immch is dead before it even matured enough to be reliable? Sad.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 4 months ago:
Forced upscaling and blurry TAA is compensating for the fact that they can’t push graphics much further on the hardware we have. The current hardware progression has stagnated, combined with the fact that we are seeing more diminishing returns in graphics as they improve, requiring more power to deliver less of a noticeable difference.
But it doesn’t mean these games won’t look great when you disable the fakeness and run it with brute force GPU power 10 years from now.
I honestly think the current graphics we can achive are fine and where the true improvements should come from are better animation and actually good art direction.
