BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 1 day ago:
Gotta be at the office.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 day ago:
A bigger problem than a technical alternative is convincing all of your friends to switch.
There are multiple other programs that fill a similar niche, but I don’t know I’ll be able to get everyone I know to change over.
I definitely will discontinue using Discord if they deploy this surveillance state bullshit, but a little bit sad over the number of gaming buddies I’ll lose contact with in the process.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 1 day ago:
The idea that they’ve already deployed this in production is absolutely insane.
- Comment on Sony develops technology to trace origin of AI-made music 2 days ago:
"You don’t get to fuck over the artists! That’s our job!"
- Sony
- Comment on xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible 5 days ago:
And that selfish son of a bitch even died before I could pirate his work.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 6 days ago:
Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I’d heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it’s no longer attractive to most advertisers.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 1 week ago:
Yep, and Colbert has no reason to pull any punches either. They already canceled his show to appease the administration. Why would Stephen hesitate to tell the world every time CBS bends the knee?
Good on him for calling out every time they act as state propaganda and not a news network.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 week ago:
The people in power are the same ones who created DOGE. It’s like Epstein - not like they’re going to investigate themselves.
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 1 week ago:
A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
What do you have against the British overseas territory of Anguilla? Ultra-specific geographical prejudice.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.
Here’s the YouTube link, or search for “But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover’s Algorithm)” on your preferred front-end: youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 2 weeks ago:
Every other genus: “We don’t want her either.”
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I agree, and that’s what I was trying to get at with the last point. I think morality systems in the sense of a binary choice with a scorecard is exactly why those systems are unsatisfying. Real choices have complex consequences and games are more immersive when they show that versus when everything boils down to a simple “good” or “bad.”
The games that do moral choices well do still give you feedback - alternate endings or lasting changes in the world - but it’s not as simple as one number or slider showing a morality spectrum.
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 2 weeks ago:
I’d put Witcher 3 and The Alters on the list. Both of them give you choices where it’s not really clear which is the “good” or “bad” one. And if you play through both, you find that neither is one-sided - everything has pros and cons, and even if you judged one option to be morally better in the moment, you still have to live with the negative as well as the positive consequences of your actions.
Maybe you could argue that those aren’t traditional morality systems, but for me, that’s why they work.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 2 weeks ago:
Their best and brightest were fired or retired.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 3 weeks ago:
One thing I’ve learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.
Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 4 weeks ago:
The images are being generated by editing photos of real children. It’s not fictional characters. This is discussed in the article and has been widely reported as this issue has been in the news.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sexualized Children’s Shows Could Jeopardize Warner Merger, Analysts Say 5 weeks ago:
With zero examples given, I also assumed this was a religious dude mad that LGBT people exist.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 5 weeks ago:
You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.
Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of “don’t put shit on my PC without asking,” but here we are.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 5 weeks ago:
Moore’s New Law: The price doubles and the stock halves
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking irradiate them and give them guns, but your idea works too.
- Comment on Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage 1 month ago:
The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 1 month ago:
This is true, but Dollar General also tends to move in after the economy is already hollowed out. You used to have vast distribution networks of local merchants and independent businesses. Now everything flows up to the Waltons and Bezos and Dollar General licks up the scraps.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 1 month ago:
U.S. law enforcement is out of control with this animorphs shit.
- Comment on xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs 1 month ago:
I bet it’s even faster if you reduce the weight by combining it with the deckhand obliterator!
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 month ago:
He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.
Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 month ago:
I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.
I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.
The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.
- Comment on Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds 1 month ago:
Platformers, metroidvanias, soulslikes, puzzlers… some games are almost brutal in how they demand patience and focus!
