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- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 12 hours ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever actually played a story mission in Just Cause 4
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 5 days ago:
So far most of the American censorship happens at Layer 7 (or Layer 8 - the meat layer), not Layer 3.
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 5 days ago:
It’s cute you think that event, which happened over a year ago now, is the only example of a hospital being blown up in Gaza.
The IDF literally bombed a cancer center last week. With patients in it. And took credit.
Like how the fuck is this even a question anymore
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
You don’t have to make your own server (unless you really want to!). Just start a community on a server you like.
The one catch is that others can start a community of the same name and/or interest on another server and that gets a little confusing because then there are two, of course.
I wish that communities could “federate” with each other from different instances but then that raises a bunch of logistics issues about how this is moderated, how is this presented to the users, etc.
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 1 week ago:
It doesn’t. All it “knows” is that it has trained on data that makes that claim in the text (ie people’s tweets) and that, statistically, that’s the answer you are looking for.
All it does is take a given set of inputs, and calculate the most statistically likely response. That’s it. It doesn’t “think”. It just spews.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Our organization turned off the ability to edit or delete any posts in a Team channel.
So outdated information, typos, stupid questions, etc remain polluting the channel for all eternity.
- Comment on damn it'd look soooooo cool 1 week ago:
Everything over there is a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle driving though lightning away from a nuclear explosion and usually some kind of slogan about “cranking your hog”
It’s honestly gold
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 1 week ago:
VIVID VOID
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
Can’t wait for the thing I bought and own to suddenly cost $5 a month
- Comment on damn it'd look soooooo cool 1 week ago:
Is this not a crosspost from /c/thepack ?
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
It’s cute you think that it’s actually deleted
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
It doesn’t even matter anymore if you have participated or not. If any of your family members have, they can correlate the DNA they have with written genealogy records and basically determine your race, ancestry, defects, etc.
So when the Nazis in power really want to purge for purity, they already have whatever list they need.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 2 weeks ago:
Imagine how much power is wasted on this unfortunate necessity.
Now imagine how much power will be wasted circumventing it.
Fucking clown world we live in
- Comment on Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month 2 weeks ago:
LOL a tampermonkey script could “fix” this in 2 seconds
- Comment on A "Sign in with fediverse" button? 2 weeks ago:
We can, passkeys are being adopted all over the web. If you specifically mean for Lemmy or fediverse services, it’s probably just a matter of adding support. It isn’t hard, per se, but it is important to get it right.
You can store passkeys in a password manager like BitWarden and they become portable. Then it doesn’t matter if you have a centralized authentication server. You just get logged in with your passkey, supplied by your password manager.
- Comment on A "Sign in with fediverse" button? 2 weeks ago:
Congrats you just invented passkeys
- Comment on A "Sign in with fediverse" button? 2 weeks ago:
Nah mate, I don’t think I want to trust some rando identity server with my login, and self hosting just makes them easy targets.
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 3 weeks ago:
And they all suck ass
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
They can’t without a constitutional amendment. They might still try to argue that the current constitution says something it doesn’t; they might just extrajudicially say “fuck you” to it.
But the only ones talking about it are assholes and - to be clear - not a majority of Americans.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
A passkey is a public/private key pair used instead of a password. You store the private key, and the website stores the public key. Data encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted by the private key, and vice-versa.
This means you can share the public key freely with the website, and even if they get hacked and the public keys are stolen, they’re useless.
When you log in, they send you a challenge encrypted with the public key, and since you hold the private key, you can decrypt it, create a response to it, re-encrypt it with the private key, and send the response to the website; which then decrypts it with the public key to verify it.
The initial spec was that each device would have its own passkey and store it in a TPM (that thing Microsoft requires your computer to have for Windows 11), which is a secure memory storage location that only the kernel can access.
However BitWarden is also able to store them and make them portable. (I think the standard was loosened to allow for this? But don’t quote me on that.) So, now you can have one passkey for the site and it works anywhere you can use BitWarden’a browser extension.
TLDR: more secure than a password, nothing to forget, stops passwords being stolen.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
Community names are unique if you account for the instance name.
This is a bit confusing as usernames follow a similar, email-address-like format.
I would enjoy there being just one community for a given topic that spans all instances, and moderators can either take actions that are instance specific or “global” (happen everywhere) but again that can get complicated fast. Who gets that global power? What if there are disagreements? Can an instance revoke a global action for just their instance? How much extra work does that create? How do instances handle backend storage for stuff like that (do you want CP deleted globally? I’d imagine so because it’s illegal to store it. Who decides to block an instance out of a community for posting offensive/illegal content; and how do you prevent all that from being abused for non-offensive content that instance mods find disagreeable?)
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not in a rush to endorse client apps adding large, experience changing features. That will radically alter the way different users interact with the service, they might need two apps to get all the features they want, etc
Sounds like a good way to make things even MORE confusing for new users.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
I did always think that a shared (somehow) login would be great; but how do you federate that? Do you? What if the original server goes down? How does moderation work?
It gets really complicated really fast.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty wild claim. It almost sounds like you don’t know what a passkey is. Explain.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
Passkeys are much better. Unlike what FAANG companies want you to believe, they do not have to be tied to a device. Use a password manager that supports them (BitWarden) and pretty much never get hacked again because of a password. Website doesn’t need to store anything that an attacker can use. No downside.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 4 weeks ago:
It’s an interesting take though because a lot of good content requires funding too, as well as hosting etc.
So how can we solve that in a reasonable way that doesn’t lead to all the bullshit?
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
We have a lot more to atone for than the orange Nazi but thanks for the vote of faith
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 4 weeks ago:
LibreOffice: “I’m right here”
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online. 4 weeks ago:
Uh…Fark I guess?
LOL he said on Lemmy
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 4 weeks ago:
The most amazing feat AI has performed so far is convincing laymen that they’re actually intelligent