Silentiea
@Silentiea@lemm.ee
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
Oh, I’m with you. I don’t think anyone using Google VPN was using it because it protected their privacy on the Internet generally. At least I hope not.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
The NASA VPN, on the other hand
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
Reasonable when the alternative is literally getting mugged on the daily?
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
L stands for leap year, so that tracks.
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 7 months ago:
Quoting the linked article:
The contract the Guild secured in September set a historic precedent: It is up to the writers whether and how they use generative AI as a tool to assist and complement—not replace—them. Ultimately, if generative AI is used, the contract stipulates that writers get full credit and compensation.
So, yeah. It’s more about ensuring that a human person in the writers’ guild gets credited as a writer, even if they or someone else uses an ai as a tool in the process.
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 7 months ago:
That’s allowed, no?
Unless I’m mistaken, this was more about writers not wanting the studio to be able to say “we had an ai generated a script. We’ll pay you a day to do a brief editing pass.”
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
Just maybe don’t chew those ones.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
They have a high alcohol diet?
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 7 months ago:
Hey, man, don’t shit on my corsets and hats.
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 7 months ago:
The Vulcan science directorate has determined that time travel is impossible.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
There are plenty of examples of companies challenging the legality of regulations and winning, and other cases of apparent corruption among judges.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
Gigabit fiber is a thing, and not at all uncommon in a lot of places.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
I mean maybe they decided it was going to be easier to buy a judge than another FCC chair?
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
It’s the only way to be sure!
Game over, man! Game over!
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Laughs in Rockefeller and standard oil
Steam is a private company and being run by a decent human. Didn’t have to be both.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
And buy them their own copies of online games.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Or, like, me sharing single player games with my buddies. But you do you.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 8 months ago:
They must pay the long price, I guess.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
(can’t answer, because she was fucking electrocuted)
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
I mean it’s probably labeled, right? How hard could it be?
- Comment on "How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 8 months ago:
I mean it’s all pretty generic. Would pretty much apply to helping someone with any task, with a few exceptions.
- Comment on "How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 8 months ago:
The trick to make this stop is to be an expensive text-to-speech engine.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
The worst thing imo is when a form will say they need to verify your identity, so they ask you to give them a phone number you can receive a text at to do a 2fa.
…how, exactly, does that verify anything other than that I own access to a phone number that can receive a text?
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 8 months ago:
Discord has a search function tho?
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 8 months ago:
I was gonna be like weeeell but the population of c/technology is in fact 52k so
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
And how is… Mr? Neighborhoods?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Aw, little Julie tables! I wondered how you turned out after your sister left town. How’s the transition coming?