Buelldozer
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today
- Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube 4 days ago:
Why does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they’re going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
The folks who build tracking / id systems would maybe need an afternoon to go from your Lemmy username to your home address. They’d need five more minutes to know your underwear size, your license plate number, and where you slept last night.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
decentralized apps, fediverse
Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There’s nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there’s nothing stopping them from “harmonizing” identity verification restrictions among other countries. They’ve already done it once with Intellectual Property law.
This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn’t new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.
It’s generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
You made me do this, capitalism.
This is a problem with Government not an economic system.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 2 weeks ago:
Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
You can blame Reagan for a lot of things but not this and frankly even if it somehow was all his fault the Clinton Administration could have undone it.
The economy was already in trouble by the end of Lyndon Johnson’s final term in 1969. The Nixon Administration implemented some large changes trying to fix it but was unsuccessful. The Carter Administration also tried with very limited success. It wasn’t until the 1st Rise of Tech in the 80s during the Reagan Administration that things managed to get moving again. The Clinton Administration caught a lucky break with the 2nd Rise of Tech in the 90s so the streak got extended to right about 2001.
The amusing part is that Johnson, Nixon, and Carter bear no blame for the economic woes while Reagan and Clinton deserve no credit for the economic successes. They just happened to be the guy in the Oval when things happened.
Its a good chunk of the reason that everyone from Wall Street to the US Federal Government is trying so damn hard to make AI happen. They want a 3rd Rise of Tech, or something like it, in order to re-float the economy.
- Comment on The Prototype: One Step Closer To Fusion Power 5 weeks ago:
Helion is saying 2028 for their first 50MW plant.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 1 month ago:
For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)
I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don’t have this problem. I obviously don’t know what your setup is but I’d guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain “stuck” to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn’t happening.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 month ago:
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Streaming Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Streaming Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of that same industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
Steam and GOG will end up pushed out of the market or they will also become Streaming Platforms, just ones that cater to a different set of players.
- Comment on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections 1 month ago:
Fascists can create
We really need to get over this idea that it’s only “fascists” using AI to push their ideology. In 2025 you’d be hard pressed to find any National Government, Political Party, or Ideologically based group who is not using a metric fuckton of AI bots to distribute AIGen content in an attempt to sway elections and opinions. The IPIE report on this makes it quite plain that at least 80% of elections worldwide had problems with this in 2024.
At this point blaming this solely on “Fascists” is wilful blindness and only demonstrates that someone is living in a bubble of single-sided information.
- Comment on Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet 1 month ago:
Unfortunately it’s not a country with very safe windows.
Even the TCP sliding windows aren’t safe!
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 month ago:
This is a couple days delayed response, apologies for that I’ve been pretty busy.
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of the entertainment industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 month ago:
There’s also the fact that the majority of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built before UHPC was available!
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 month ago:
Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren’t available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.
Basically the majority of Iran’s facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 month ago:
Likely no one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of consoles is the last one.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 month ago:
A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It’s entirely possible to “radar” images and remove them.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 month ago:
The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 1 month ago:
There isn’t a single county in this country that votes 100% in either direction. So saying that “All of whom voted for this.” is objectively incorrect.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 1 month ago:
I’m in Wyoming and fiber started rolling out in multiple cities with multiple different providers in each city two years ago. They got to my house earlier this year so I now have a 2Gb/s connection.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 1 month ago:
I’m confused. The article is talking about “BEAD” which wasn’t passed until 2021. You must be talking about a different program.
- Comment on France Pushes Digital ID Check Laws For Platforms Like Reddit and Bluesky 1 month ago:
When did France start caring about porn?
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
As explained in the video you can’t run 50 amps ona dryer outlet. It’s 42 amps max.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 month ago:
The same tailscale that announced last week that they are going to start charging?
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 months ago:
Sure, it’s pretty simple really. As wages rise the business has to charge more to cover the increase in cost. As price rises demand falls.
So while the commenters statement “There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.” may be true so is “There is no such thing as a work shortage, only activities that customers don’t think are worth the cost.”
It’s a big reason there’s so few appliance repair people these days. Hard to justify paying someone $
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 months ago:
There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.
I wonder, do you realize that’s also true on the demand side?
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.
You must have been too young in 2015. Redditors watched in amazement as “the switch” flipped from Bernie to Hillary in literal hours.
The DNC later admitted to spending millions of dollars on actual shills, employed by ActBlue, to “Correct the Record” on Hillary.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
10 years at least.