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- Comment on Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface 9 hours ago:
Yeah because they totally didn’t know before.
- Comment on Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface 9 hours ago:
My aunt definitely doesn’t know how to do that. So I’m safe
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 21 hours ago:
Move to smaller instances. There was a huge problem with everybody being on like four big instances and the whole point of federation is you don’t have to be like that.
Move to instances hosted on a laptop in someone’s basement in Peru with like 106 users or something. Make the fascists work for it, if you all conglomerate on one big host then they’ve got an easy target and you’ve got a massive single point of failure.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 21 hours ago:
Under fascism anything they don’t like is retrospectively illegal. I’m surprised you don’t know that.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 21 hours ago:
I would love journalists to rake discord over the coals for this and have them explain exactly how they think that this mentality is acceptable in the current political climate. Of course they won’t because journalism is dead these days.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 22 hours ago:
Well it’ll be nice if they admitted wrongdoing
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 22 hours ago:
She didn’t do lazy research. He didn’t do any research. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they’d integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 22 hours ago:
What do they have to investigate? Did one of them accidentally get an AI to write the article and then accidentally post the article, like they just fell on the keyboard and accidentally typed in a prompt? Come on.
- Comment on Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses 1 day ago:
Maybe in the US. Internally that’s not going to work for them.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
So is the paid version just because I like them and want to give them some money or they’re actual feature benefits of the paid version over the free version.
I don’t mind paying in theory but they’re trying to replace a free product so the “pro” version would have to have significant benefits.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 day ago:
I’ve seen cars with self-closing doors though. Also I’m not sure where the safety consideration would come in since we have so closing building doors right now and no one seems to get cut in half by those.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 day ago:
Why are people leaving the doors open in the first place that’s just wild. The super excited to get to work or something I don’t get it.
Wouldn’t the simplest solution be to just ban people who leave the doors open, it’s not that hard to close them.
- Comment on HP has laptop subscriptions now 2 days ago:
Didn’t everyone start off with a year in that movie?
That was the most unrealistic part, they’d absolutely make you pay upfront or you would just die instantly the moment you hit 21 or whatever the age limit was.
- Comment on Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous' 2 days ago:
He added that he is sure if he was told there was evidence a journalist or agent had blagged information, he would “have been pretty furious”.
I’m sure he would be furious. Evidence is the last thing that they want.
The only preposterous thing in this enquiry is the fact that it took so long to get to this point.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 3 days ago:
What you mean there clear and comprehensive announcement? Yeah that didn’t happen, this is on them.
They still haven’t really provided any information. They say most users won’t have to verify, how many is “most”.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 3 days ago:
Nope I don’t trust them to use a US-based service. Also I don’t think they’re even allowed to as under EU law as all data held on users must be held on EU servers, so that solution wouldn’t be a one size fits all.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 3 days ago:
Does this call even have an community relations department because they suck. Seriously what does stupid decision to just announce agey verification and then provide no additional details or context.
This
clarificationpathetic attempt at backpedalling, isn’t much better either, they’ve still provided essentially no information on exactly what the process is going to be, and exactly how it is going to work. I also do not like the fact that they’re basically just giving up on any attempts to implement this themselves, and are going with third party solutions. We all know that “third party solutions” means the lowest bidder, so this will be implemented poorly with no operational security, and absolutely will result in a data breach.I created my account at least 15 years ago so if they require age verification from me they’re idiots.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation 4 days ago:
Has he tried doing the things he promised in his manifesto? Maybe then people wouldn’t want him to resign.
- Comment on An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
You mean you don’t care.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 4 days ago:
I remember Goldeneye but I played it on GameCube so have no idea how more traditional controllers handled input.
- Comment on Veganuary 6 days ago:
Famously everything other then cheese and onion is vegan, including Smokey Bacon somehow.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 6 days ago:
I fully expect Google to give in anyway. The rule of law doesn’t count for much anymore.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 6 days ago:
Also Microsoft, Apple, Meta all for collection complying with the regime. It’ll be funny if it’s what brings MySpace back.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
The map is just wrong. How did they gather this data, it just what the map maker has decided is the case rather than objective reality.
If you come in my house and you’re wearing shoes you’re gonna get told to take them off. I don’t want dirt on my carpet.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
The level 1 agents are always useless.
I don’t know a single call centre where the level 2 agents don’t constantly complain about the utter incompetence of the level 1 agents, who appear to have never even used a mouse before.
They escalate tickets such as “the users screen is upside down”, and “callers operating system has changed to papyrus needs to be changed back”. Things that could have been fixed by both the first line service agent, and the caller, if either of them had bothered to do a 4 second Google search.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Hello my account is locked out.
*Checks the account, last login was 45 days ago
Oh I see here that your last login was quite a while ago so your account has probably been disabled due to inactivity you should have received some emails about that.
Oh, I don’t read emails you should have messaged me on teams.
*Bangs head in desk
It’s an automated system, we don’t know your account is going to get locked out. There are 5,000 people at this company, no one’s going to take the time to explicitly contact you. Read your damn emails.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Honestly you will. You probably never compared the two side by side.
It’s incredibly apparent, you think it’s smooth but then when you go over to 120 Hz and then go back the difference is very apparent.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I have an fairly high end TV and honestly I don’t know what the point is because there is virtually no content that’s available for it.
Pretty much none of the streaming services go beyond 4K and often they’re at 1080p and I have to upscale to 4K. Consoles also don’t go above that 4k and again often in fact don’t even hit that.
- Comment on send pics 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know who you’re calling an idiot back in the early 2000s I had a phone that died because it got rained on. Not even a lot of rain.
Waterproofing is necessary just generally. Even if you assume it’s never going to get dropped in a puddle it needs to be splash proof at least.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said this before but if Apple really cared about their users then the iPad Pro would essentially just be a touchscreen laptop. It has the hardware to run a full-on operating system, but they keep it locked to iOS so they can sell you apps via the lockdown ecosystem.