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- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 4 hours ago:
Perfect response. This gets the message across, “governments of the world, the Internet doesn’t need you, you need the Internet”.
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 4 hours ago:
Oh man, Noctua fans fit perfectly with this ironic high performance/vintage garbage dynamic! Good call.
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 8 hours ago:
Well that is hilarious. The fake 5.25 floppy drive bay covers are an especially nice touch.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 8 hours ago:
I mean you can use it as currency, and I do sometimes. I have bought plenty of steam games with Bitcoin. I’ve also bought a bunch of stuff on Newegg, and other places online.
It has exactly as much protection from scans and fraud as cash does, that’s essentially what it is.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 8 hours ago:
They do accept Bitcoin, so that’s something.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 8 hours ago:
In theory, crypto could be good for this, but crypto is used (and designed) more as an investment than a transaction tool.
I would argue that while crypto is as investment now, it was initially designed and intended to be used for transactions.
Out of curiosity though, why do you think this situation would be any different if it were government controlled? Especially considering that you sometimes have administrations like Trump’s, which would do anything no matter how corrupt.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 9 hours ago:
They make money hand over first for doing practically nothing… They’re perfectly happy with their current situation and the most important thing to them right now is not rocking the boat.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 18 hours ago:
Not even… They have the power because you gave it to them. States can take it away, but that’s worse, you don’t want that.
But it doesn’t really matter, it’s all connected. The payment processors control how money can be used and the state controls how they’re allowed to let you use it. And you let it all happen by voluntarily using a credit card.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 day ago:
I mean, no it’s not.
Kessler syndrome is about a chain reaction that destroys everything in orbit and keeps us from accessing space for years.
Ruining your view is not “nearly as bad”. That makes you sound like one of those folks on Martha’s Vineyard, opposing offshore wind turbines that local communities desperately need, because they’ll “ruin the view”.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 day ago:
I’m not sure that works, like on a purely game theory level. If gamers start to apply pressure, threaten to stop buying games, the stores need to make a choice:
A. Risk facing the wrath of the games, sales are likely to drop. Possibly by a lot, perhaps 15-20%. That could keep up for months before stabilizing.
B. Risk facing the wrath of the payment processors, credit card sales will stop immediately, only alternative payment types get through. Sales drop by 80% and that will continue indefinitely.
While both of those options are bad, one of them is totally fatal to their business.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 day ago:
This will never go away. Payment processors make life easy for most consumers, people like them. And as long as we have them, they hold all the power around how money can be used. And they will always be limited by governments and local laws.
If you don’t like the situation, use cash. If that’s too inconvenient Bitcoin is essentially your only other option.
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 2 days ago:
There are ways to be sure of authenticity, ways that can’t be faked.
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 2 days ago:
Oh come on, you’re gonna do that in two years anyway.
- Comment on Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning 5 days ago:
I’d argue we need to advance spaceflight technology at as fast a pace as possible. Yes it does add CO2 to the atmosphere, but we’ve also gained some great advances through our exploration of space.
We’re doing a lot of things wrong on this planet, a whole fucking lot. But rocketry is one of the few things we’re starting to do right and the bottom line is this, the situation on earth is not great, and it could get worse. Ultimately, the situation on earth will get a lot worse when a huge, life ending, continent obliterating asteroid hits the planet (and not if it hits earth, but when it hits earth). We should absolutely continue living on earth and striving to make it a good place to live, but we also, desperately need to get a foothold off of earth. When the next global calamity occurs (and it will), I would prefer if it didn’t end all known intelligent life in the galaxy.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 6 days ago:
My understanding is that quantum competing has been taken into account for some moment cryptography. And that memory-hard cryptography basically defeats quantum competing solutions. There are a few methods, but one of them is just very long keys, it’s trivial to make a cryptographic key longer.
So sure, you could defeat some of that with a machine operating with 1024k entangled qbits, (which is… oh man… not an easy task), in which case, wow, congratulations. But what if I increase my key length to 100k? It might take an extra 3 seconds to check the key and log in, but it’ll take an extra 25 years for quantum computing to catch up.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 6 days ago:
True, but honestly look at that lock, you can open that with a paperclip.
I still like it.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 6 days ago:
My mom had a nice little notebook for passwords. But when she passed, we couldn’t find it anywhere… We went through the whole apartment, everything.
Not having her passwords made a lot of things harder, closing her accounts, abusing her laptop, phone, etc. So while you shouldn’t advertise it, do tell a few people where to find it if they need to.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 6 days ago:
No, be did, here’s where the confusion is.
Serinus is asking if the site in question needs to be compromised. In other words, can the attacker compromise a random site to fool your password manager into entering credentials for Gmail.com, or does the attacker have to compromise Gmail.com to do that?
Because those two attacks are very different levels of complexity.
And frankly, if someone compromises the site you’re actually trying to visit, there’s simply no defense against that at all.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 1 week ago:
I was really excited about this until I remembered that I actually already own Civ VI…
I just forgot.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 1 week ago:
I do agree with that completely and I’d like to add to it with an additional point.
When things break it sucks, but this does present you with an opportunity. If it’s already not working, there’s no harm in taking it apart and taking a look around. Maybe you’ll see something obviously at fault, maybe you won’t. But there’s literally no harm in trying to fix it, especially if otherwise you were planning to toss it out.
And I really can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen a device stop working, and apon closer inspection the entire problem was something very simple, like an old wire broke at the solder point so now the power switch doesn’t work. When I was a kid and didn’t know how to solder, I would fix issues like that with some aluminum foil, and often it worked. Just start with a screwdriver, open things up, take a look around. You owe it to yourself and to the planet to just give it a shot.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 1 week ago:
They went and built the torment nexus…
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 1 week ago:
That’s not how that works though…
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 1 week ago:
That’s actually pretty cool.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 week ago:
Just don’t grind it up into a powder and snort it and you should be fine.
Come to think of it, I would actually suggest the same for glass and plastic.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 week ago:
Do you mean what ubiquitous fixing will be next?
Or do you mean how can we get by without plastic?
If it’s the second one, the answer is easy, fucking aluminum. We’ve had the answer forever and it still works great. Glass too, good for many applications.
Now the actual problem isn’t beverage containers though, it’s clothing and tires. Most clothing is plastic these days and tiny plastic fibers break up into micro plastics and take to the air or end up in the sea. Car tires are basically just plastic these days, not rubber (which is arguably better for the environment than leveling rainforest for rubber tree plantations, sigh…), the tires rub off on the road like a pencil eraser on sandpaper. This also ends up in the air and sea.
So anyway replacing plastic beverage containers is a great step, a no brainer. But it also doesn’t address the real problem at all. I hope that tires and clothes can start to be made with biodegradable green plastics, but if that doesn’t turn out to be feasible, we’ll be in some serious trouble. And once we have some real, feasible, affordable replacements, then we need to actually outlaw the use of plastic tires, in every country on the planet… I can’t even imagine how to make that happen. How did we do it with lead? Has every country outlawed lead in gas?
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 weeks ago:
I did say that, because this isn’t a pie chart situation, it’s a Venn diagram situation.
For instance AI at is 99% theft and 60% garbage. It’s both.
Stolen and bad aren’t opposites, why would this be a dichotomy?
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band?
Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.
And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that is l there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).
All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 weeks ago:
AI artworks 1/3rd shite and 2/3rds theft.
To be fair, that could be said of most art.
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 3 weeks ago:
So… Ted voted against his own bill?
