Steve

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  DLSS uses AI tricks to improve framerate.

  Previous versions used AI upscaling and frame generation.

  This version now uses AI filters. It changes lighting and texture effects to make the image “better”, instead of just making the image faster.
  It’s actively manipulating creative decisions about the style of a game. Which naturally upsets many developers and players alike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I like cooperative tabletop games.
  Check out your local game store. See what they recomend for cooperative games with simple rules for beginners. Pick up one or two that seem interesting to you.

  For the whole seperation thing, try going to the game store on your own. Come up with some options, then talk to mom about what seems interesting. Then go again on your own and buy whatever you agreed to try.

  That way jist getting the games could serve both helping with separation and bonding at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not good family bonding time, sitting and not talking to each other.
  It’s better than nothing, but any activity that explicitly directs you all to interact with each other is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  All of them.

  There are only a couple dozen or so quality stories.
  Everything is a ripoff or mashup of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Brain damage changes peoples brains.
  It could make them conservative, liberal, childlike, homicidal, happy, sad, robotic, face blind, mute, aphantasic. All sorts of things.
  Brain damage doesn’t = conservative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on going of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What‽
  I can’t tell if this is a stupid question. It isn’t even a coherent sentence.
  What are you asking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on you’re argument.
  How do you think his case applies to you yours.

  I don’t see any similarities other than the number 34.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ABOVE the 250k level is what they aren’t LEGALLY required to cover.

  Yes that’s just reiterating what I literally said originally.

  There aren’t different tiers of FDIC insurance. The banks aren’t choosing to paying for extra coverage. The FDIC is a federal program. Yes the banks pay into it. It’s required by law that they do. But the FDIC decides on it’s own if it will cover more than $250k. And they have, for every bank collapse, no matter the size, at least since the late 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The banks and credit unions don’t do cover the deposits. FDIC is for when the bank itself fails, when they can’t cover their customer’s deposits.

  And yes it happens all the time for regional banks and credit unions. SVB was news only because they’re an odly large and important regional bank. But they were treated by FDIC like any other. No depositor at any retail bank in the US has lost their money due to a bank failure in 20+ years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While that is what they’re legally required to insure. The reality is that even people with 10s of millions get fully covered. The FDIC has been covering 100% of retail bank accounts for a few decades.

  Most recently when the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, accounts with over $60M were fully covered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it for almost a year.
  It took me ~3 months to find and tweak settings until I stopped running into issues with sites at least once every couple weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it breaks sooo many sites.
  Waterfox, is Firefox that just works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
  If you make it the default, they will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its wasn’t. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux. Since the very beginning, the only limits on smartphones have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have been since the beginning.
  That’s literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself “I can have a full computer in my pocket!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot of social pressure to lie to kids especially.
  I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all lawyers are trial lawyers. There are lots of things you can do helping people with paperwork of various kinds. EoL planing and incorporating businesses, for 2 examples off the top of my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not seeing any question here.
  Isn’t there a rule about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive Update On The ‘Star Trek: Year One’ Series Pitch And Status Of The ‘Strange New Worlds’ Sets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this idea over a year ago.
  Let SNW transition into a new TOS. I’d like to see it. I’m happy that they’re considering it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  General rule of the internet, nothing is ever truly deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see your argument has values in many situations.
  But shame and ridicule are important social tools to shape behavior. Especially behavior of people with power and influence. Calling out dumb shit as dumb shit, is just as important as basic digital training thease people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  50/50 maybe
  Not sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Users are persuaded in chats initiated by the hackers to divulge security verification and pin codes, ​giving them access to personal accounts and group chats, they said ​in a statement.

  So we’re talking about the most basic social engineering. Nothing clever or novel. The kind of thing only your grandparents would fall for these days. Solid PSA 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That may be a question best answered by looking inward.

  I’ve never seen these white men online.
  I don’t think we run in the same circles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the real answer.
  I can’t go back to ad driven search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My completely uneducated guess would be, to make it harder for the US to get equipment into the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP figures out love languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely reasonable.
  It makes too much sense to be a shit post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw a turd on my way home from work!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You nobody sells cars with bare metal body work.
  Would be a cool look though, with just clear coat to keep it nice.