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- Comment on In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia 1 day ago:
[Citation Needed]
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 3 days ago:
And for that very reason, it’s also extremely illegal. If the fire exit is the only way to get out in the event of a fire, and it’s blocked by said fire…
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Can you recommend me other (non atomic) distros that play nice with both secure boot and nvidia drivers?
I wouldn’t exactly recommend it because of the learning curve, but I have the exact setup you’re looking for working on NixOS.
Lanzaboote made it pretty easy. The downside is that you need to put secure boot into user-managed mode, and some asshole anticheats might not like that even though only Microsoft-signed executables were used in the boot chain of Windows.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
For gamers who are newcomes to Linux, Ubuntu (or Debian) should be a hard pass. Linux gaming is advancing too fast for the 2-3 year gap between LTS versions to not matter, and trying to work around the stable (outdated) packages is typically what ends up breaking installs.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
For gaming, you can’t go wrong with Bazzite. It’s meant for gaming to mostly just work out of the box, so you likely won’t need to tinker with anything.
It’s that tinkering that introduces stability risks. Adding third-party package repositories and trying to install newer software on top of older LTS distros is what tends to end up breaking them.
- Comment on Smells Great 2 weeks ago:
If the steam doesn’t get you, the enzymes breaking down your proteins would surely give you horrible skin irritation.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.
if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) { upload(chat.privateKey) }
- Comment on At 1% 4 weeks ago:
DisplayPort has a +3.3V 500mA pin specifically for pushing power. In theory, great for powering an active adapter. In practice, has killed motherboards because Dell can’t design a computer for shit.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
AI:
<Reasoning>The user wants to translate the phrase “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”. No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.
“Business Idiots” is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace “idiots” with “fools,” while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be “worker fools.”
“Let’s destroy” suggests that the speaker is a member of the “business idiots” demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be “translation jobs”. The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism “LLM” is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, “AI.” The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.
</Reasoning>Sure, here you go; a translation of “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”
AI profits for worker fools with lower skill ceiling to break into translation jobs.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another updates, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 1 month ago:
To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes
In other words, explain what you’ll be doing to add censorship to your platforms.
They really could not have picked a worse demographic to try that on. Not only do online gamers despise censorship and policing, their vocal minority is known for being extremely toxic and unrelenting. The icing on the cake is that a good number of them are right-wing, too.
Have fun dealing with the shitstorm you’re about to create!
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 1 month ago:
No, it really is. Tankies live in a fantasy land, thinking the wildfire is greener on the other side of the fence.
Something can be said about unregulated, late-stage capitalism and American imperialism. The former is a malignant cancer that consumes all in its wake and demands infinite growth for itself and the ones who direct it. The latter, in service of the former, is a threat to the rest of the developed and undeveloped world.
Those are entirely reasonable criticisms, calling an apple an apple. Unchecked capitalism empowering sociopathic, self-serving oligarchs will kill us all.
Genuinely thinking of China as anything other than a competitor to America is just trading one leather boot for a different flavor of leather boot. They are both capitalist states, and they are both acting in their own self-interests of cultural and economic dominance. The only effective difference is that one calls itself a republic while the other calls itself communist.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 month ago:
People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.
It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 1 month ago:
You do realize that the original post is on lemmy.zip and not lemmygrad, right?
- Comment on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list 1 month ago:
Wow, you weren’t kidding.
- Ad: AI company.
- Our sponsors: the same AI company.
- #1: A code editor designed for AI
- Ad: Another list website.
- #2: Messaging app (no AI)
- #3: Note taking and planning software… with AI.
- #4: Screen recording software (no AI)
- #5: Visual Studio Code extension for using AI to write internal tooling.
- #6: Project management software (no AI?)
- #7: A web interface for using AI models.
- #8: A note-taking app (no AI)
- #9: AI-based workflow automation software.
- #10: Yet another AI code editor.
- #11: A bookmark manager… with AI.
- #12: A collaboration software suite (no AI)
- #13: A different note-taking app (no AI)
- #14: AI-powered social media management.
- #15: AI personal assistant.
- #16: Markdown-based wiki software (no AI)
- #17: Rich text wiki software (no AI)
- #18: A third note-taking app (no AI)
- #19: A LLM interface.
- #20: AI-powered personal finance tool.
Over half of the first 20 items focus on AI, and that’s not even considering the ads.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 month ago:
They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn’t going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I had the same experience. It’s regrettable how desensitized to violence I am these days.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
he was a master of deflection.
With words, maybe. With lead, evidently not.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 1 month ago:
Frankly insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars that can be trivially stolen like this.
The governments should be, too.
Instead, some countries are taking the approach of banning Flipper Zeros or restricting their sale instead. That’s like outlawing flathead screwdrivers because you can use them to pop improperly-installed doors off of their hinges.
It’s on the car manufacturers to fix their poor security, not on tool suppliers to not make tools.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Worst bossrun so far was probably the judge which was only like 2 screens when you think about it.
I found that run back to be infuriating at first, but it quickly stopped mattering once I realized that you don’t need to kill everything on the path over and are for the most part better off just running past the enemies.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.
There’s one trap actually is pretty strong if you know how to abuse it.
I’m not going to spoil where or how to get it, but flying beetles that home in on the enemy and repeatedly bump into it to deal damage can be pretty busted… especially when they still attack during phase change animations that stop the player from moving.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 months ago:
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Here’s a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to South Park’s S27E01 episode.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
I think we all know the answer to this.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 3 months ago:
As much as shitting on Nintendo is deserved, the Tegra X1 is only a 10 year old chip, being first announced in 2015. It was, surprisingly, only two years outdated by the time the Switch was released.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 months ago:
At least in the US, it’s full of regulatory red tape that was designed to pull up the ladder behind the current large payment processors.
Even Musk and his ample bribe money, under the most corrupt administration in decades, hasn’t managed to get full approval for his “
XTwitter Money” payment service. - Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 months ago:
Are you saying you don’t use The Google anymore? But how do you find all of your baking recipes?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 months ago:
Who’s going to win?
SELinux+Seccomp+Containers…
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.Neither! It’s whichever script kiddie that gets lucky first.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 3 months ago:
Tea was storing its users’ sensitive information on Firebase, a Google-owned backend cloud storage and computing service.
Every time. With startups, it’s always an unsecured Firebase or S3 bucket.