Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Good boy 1 day ago:
People post this kind of stuff in the reviews for every kinky item on Amazon, I’ve never understood the compulsion to share your fic in that medium but I guess some folks gotta write when the inspiration hits 'em…
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 days ago:
This very much depends on the subject, I suspect. For math or computer science, wikipedia is an excellent source, and the credentials of the editors maintaining those areas are formidable to say the least.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 days ago:
They may laugh now, but you’re gonna kick ass when you get isekai’d.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 days ago:
People root for underdogs, it’s not a complicated concept.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 days ago:
And Palestine seems to be kinda on Russia’s side as well so remind me again why I should support them at all?
… Please stop agreeing with me, you’re awful.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 days ago:
Not trying to be that guy I swear, have you got a source? That number seems pretty high even for Israel
- Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat 4 days ago:
This one is a doozy to break down. Tons going on politically. There’s the obvious - this is Putin projecting strength to his people by reinforcing the nuclear threat they still hold over the world, this is Russia signaling specific terms under which they would deploy their nuclear arsenal (the quiet part is that they could false-flag those conditions. Obviously Ukraine would never use a dirty bomb; they dont want to poison their own land and they gain nothing by denying russian land to Russia. But Russia could set a dirty bomb if the war starts goes badly enough for them!) - and the less obvious, like the speculation that this is an attempt to softly force Ukrainian strategy away from using weapons that could be dirty bombs (or convincingly converted to them) in order to retain as much plausible deniablity as possible in the even Russia does fake a dirty bomb and then attempts to sue for concessions or face retaliation.
(Really it’s unlikely to be the grand elaborate scheme just based on putin being a dumbass, but it can’t be discounted completely.)
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 1 week ago:
I think it’s more that it’s hard to explain why palantir’s war crimes are war crimes (to the average uninformed voter, to be clear. Information warfare, what an abstract concept), but “My Child’s Classmates Digitally Removed Her Clothes” is pretty easy to explain (and the country isn’t divided about pedophilia even being a crime…)
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 1 week ago:
It makes AI look bad and is the leading example people are using when proposing legislation to regulate AI. If they can end this most prominent one, not only do they look like they’re fighting for the users, but they help keep the gvmt from meddling with whatever henious shit they want to do with AI (by removing the best argument the pro-regulation groups have right now)
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
Non joke answer: A bunch of reasons. Many precincts are understaffed, so they need all the hands they can get. The police union is huge and makes it extremely difficult to fire even the most homer-simpsonian individuals. Many of the hugely obese cops are assigned to “light duty” meaning the most exertion they face is paperwork, manning the public information desk and or doing things like serving writs (in some cases you’re even allowed to wear the uniformneven if you’re not a bonded officer). Additionally, fitness requirements are actually fairly rare across the whole spectrum of law enforcement - It’s surprisingly rare to see them for any positions besides uniformed patrol officer, even detectives or etc. aren’t always required to pass them - and even when you do, they’re usually pathetically easy to pass.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really know how else to phrase this, but I’ll give it a shot anyways: Anti-cheat isn’t intrinsically linked to root level permissions. It’s inclusion in a section about data sources compounds that concept. That is the claim that you are now making, and which isn’t supported by the section you’ve cited.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
If that’s all it takes to dumbfound you, I am profoundly jealous. Anyways.
Those aren’t the claims fauxliving was making. They claim that there is no indication of taketwo requesting root level access and they’re strictly right, there is no language requesting that permission (or equivalents) (but I doubt that would matter to TakeTwo since they could argue it’s implicit)
They then claim that there has been no change to the game to include kernel level anticheat, which is also true.
What you presented does nothing to substantiate or refute those claims, just the claims made in the OP. Fauxliving’s comment was off base, sure, but substantially their points are correct.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
That… doesn’t actually rebut anything FauxLiving said. That they may use anti-cheat, and that they may have automatic updates, aren’t the claims in question here.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
… Are you serious? You should respect people who don’t respect you in turn because it “builds character”?
No, that guy in your story had it right. If this is representative of the culture you work in, I’d do the absolute bare minimum too. This is such blatant ‘hard work’ propaganda it’s actually kind of nauseating. Holy shit, take a step back and realize you’re helping your team get taken advantage of, and guilt-tripping them when they don’t comply with your corporate masters. You’ve progressed way beyond drinking the kool-aid, now you’re one of the guys holding the children hostage to get their parents to drink it.
Fuck’s sake, you’re the problem in that story.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 3 weeks ago:
If we’re randomly declaring things with zero basis except our wounded pride, I’m declaring you the prettiest unicorn to ever grace the boards and I shall brook no challengers to your glorious reign-bow.
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I’ll figure out how this reflects my wounded pride later. - Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s the bare minimum precaution you can implement. But at the same time, it’s the bare minimum precaution you can implement. There’s really no excuse for not doing it, and it catches a shocking number of images.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 3 weeks ago:
just Tumblr Brain things
- Comment on Definitions 3 weeks ago:
IDK maybe they’re just really bad at cutting pizza.
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 3 weeks ago:
So did anyone else in the study turn to terrorism to express themselves…?
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 3 weeks ago:
For anyone who doesn’t know who this was, it’s a photo of Ted Kaczynski - the unabomber- a terrorist who over approx. 20 years mailed and placed a series of bombs targeting universities and other technology-focused places and people, killing three and permanently injuring more than a dozen others.
Posting him here is a reference to his manifesto in which he lays out many grievances against technology and industrialization, including increased ability for governments to surveil their citizens.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. If you don’t mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you’d have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn’t overlap with the lecture material much at all.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually hreatly relaxed once people get into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen that actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that? (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
I’ll generally accept any excuse unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
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I scream, into the void. - Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
I really really should have noticed that, thank you that makes this so much better.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get. I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario, too (though I teach CS so it’s a little expected). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide, though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
- Comment on Really chess.com? 4 weeks ago:
If you look, you can see that the cream sections are also blended, its just much subtler than the green blended parts.