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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody and their mother will have recommendations on their favorite flavor of Linux, but as somebody else about to make the switch with similar priorities as you, I’d suggest also taking a look at Bazzite. It’s built on the same distro as the SteamOS and comes in at least two flavors for what your use case is. One of its selling points is that it’s an “immutable” version of Linux, which means that it’s a lot harder to accidentally break it as a new user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Netanyahu actually would’ve been another good comparison.

  My comment wasn’t a “Russia = bad” deflection, but a comment about world leaders’ response to the invasion of Ukraine and what I expect their response to the continuing aggression of the Trump regime to be: strongly worded letters and not much else.

  Also, let’s get our facts straight on the genocide in Palestine. The US hasn’t put any boots on the ground yet, despite Trump’s promises from earlier in the year. As of the time that I’m writing this, the US is enabling the genocide but not an active participant. That could change tomorrow or may have already changed, but we don’t need to make things up about the government when there’s already so many evils to point at. They’re already war criminals, we wouldn’t want them to get off on account of making false accusations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t watched the Simpsons in over a decade so I don’t get the reference, but my point was the similarity between the world’s response to the invasion of Ukraine and the likely response to continuing US aggression.

  A lot of strongly worded letters and not much else is what I expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s it going to take to truly stop Russia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget about the Sword of Damocles that is the lack of social safety nets. Also, political ignorance is a feature, not a bug in our political system. A quarter of the American population would kill the rest because they think the regime is “hurting the right kind of people” and not anybody that they care about. This also includes the minorities who will soon learn that being “one of the good ones” just means that they go to the showers later rather than sooner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen one of these talked about before, and the mechanism seemed to be in that one that there’s a gene in our DNA that triggers us to grow new teeth (that’s how we replace our baby teeth with adult teeth), but that that gene turns off after we grow in our set of adult teeth. It’s apparently the same gene that allows sharks to grow new teeth. What the drug does is it turns that gene back on, allowing us to grow new teeth to replace lost ones.

  This might not be the same study though, as I’ve also seen one previously years ago that was about a drug that turned on a gene in our teeth to allow them to repair the enamel in them and fill in cavities by putting biodegradable gauze soaked in the drug inside a cavity and letting the tooth do the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you ask a Mechanicus player what their type is: 316 stainless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The bigger and more intrusive screens have gotten, the more sales of new cars have flagged. People are sick of them, and lawmakers are starting to catch up on regulating physical controls back into vehicles.

  The last time I bought a car one of my stipulations was a car no newer than 2016 because that was the last year that RAV4s had the small screens in the middle of the dashboard instead of mounted practically on the windshield, and the guy at the dealership that I talked to said that practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car had similar sentiments. People generally hate the big, intrusive screens, it’s just that car makers aren’t making any other options and then claim that that’s what people want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You beat me to it. I was gonna say “non-political” means “make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Freud would’ve creamed his pants were he still alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious rocks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That just means that you aren’t a fossil (yet). Give it a century or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Republicans claim that the US is a Christian nation all the time, despite half the Founding Fathers being either atheists or at least agnostic and specifically and expressly stating that the US is not beholden to any one religion.

  I am in no way defending Putin or Stalin, but just because he claims to be honoring a former leader doesn’t mean that he actually is. So long as it suits the propaganda narrative, people like him, the Republicans, and Israel will claim whatever they want about history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you should learn the meaning of words before you start using them. Somebody responding to what you say isn’t censorship. Not even close.

  Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite honestly, I don’t think the average person even knows what open source means. They just know that Mozilla, like every other company, is shoving AI into their product, and that AI has either been useless or actively harmful to their user experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I bet they’d make a killing off of Firefox themed thigh highs…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t trust that it can be truly turned off and that it won’t act maliciously in some way. That’s really the crux of the whole saga. We’re at a point where phone companies are getting survey results that say that 80% of users either don’t care about AI nor use it or find that it actively makes their user experience worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the big defining question is what will the AI features that they will implement do exactly and how will they run. If it’s something that runs in the background (even as unintrusive as the summaries on a search engine like DDG), then it’s opt out by default as it’s constantly running whether you want it to or not. If it specifically and exclusively runs when you hit the button to activate it and doesn’t run at any other time, then I’d say it’s unequivocally opt in. And regardless of what a company says that their software will do, at this point I won’t believe it until somebody has done a full teardown and discerned what exactly it does behind the scenes. I’ve seen enough nonsense like the Epic Games Store accessing your browser history and recording keyboard inputs or whatever the other absurd incident was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

  And therein lies the rub. The question is whether or not people trust that it won’t be doing that regardless of whether or not you hit the kill switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except, right now, they absolutely are. The tools are largely as you describe - though thinking about it, I think I’d describe it more as an airbrush vs a paint brush - but that’s not the way that upper management sees it for the most part, and not how the average supporter of GenAI sees it even if they don’t recognize that that’s their view. Both of these groups see it as a way to cut costs by reducing manpower, even if the GenAI folk don’t recognize that that’s what their stance is (or refuse to accept it). It’s the same as in the programming side of the conversation: vibe coders and prompt generators being hired instead of skilled professionals who can actually use the tools where they’re truly useful. Why pay an artist or programmer to do the work when I can just ask an LLM trained on stolen work to do it for me instead.

  I read a great post probably a year ago now from somebody who works for a movie studio on why the company has banned hiring prompters. The short of it is, they hired on a number of prompters to replace some jobs that would normally be filled by artists as a test to see if they could reduce their staff while maintaining the same levels of production. What they found was that prompters could produce a massive volume of work very quickly. You ask the team for pictures of a forest scene and the artists would come back in a week with a dozen concepts each while the prompters had 50 the next day. But, if you asked them to take one of their concept pieces and do something like remove the house in it or add people in the foreground, they’d come back the next day with 50 new concept pieces but not the original. They couldn’t grasp the concept of editing and refining an image, only using GenAI to generate more with a new set of prompt parameters, and therefore were incapable of doing the work needed that an artist could do.

  A feel-good story for artists showing what AI is actually capable of and what it isn’t, except for one thing: the company still replaced artists with AI before they learned their lesson, and that’s the phase most of the world is in right now and will probably continue to be in until the bubble bursts. And as Alanah Pierce so eloquently put it when talking about the record setting year over year layoffs in the gaming industry (each year has been worse than during the 2008 financial crash): “Most of those people will never work in games again. There’s just too many people out of work and not enough jobs to go around.” These companies currently in the fuck around phase will find out eventually, but by then it won’t matter for many people. They’ll never find a job in their field in time and be forced into other work. Art is already one of the lowest paying jobs for the amount of effort and experience required. Many artists who work on commissions do so for less than minimum wage, and starting wages in the game industry for artists haven’t increased since I was looking at jobs in the field 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also add “-AI” without the quotes to the end of your search. Booleans still work with DDG at least, I don’t know if they do on Google anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying that the ChatGPT’s and Stable Diffusions of the world, which operate on maximizing profit by scraping vast oceans of data that would be impossibly expensive to manually label even if they were willing to pay to do the barest minimum of checks, are the most vulnerable to this kind of attack while the actually useful specialized LLMs like those used by doctors to check MRI scans for tumors are the least?

  Please stop, I can only get so erect!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, my first thought was about the stats for Twitch streamers where having more than something like 10 concurrent viewers consistently for a 30 day period puts you in the top 15% of streamers on the platform or whatever. I forget the exact numbers, but it’s something crazy like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk abbout this one discord⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t be worse than the Tumblr algorithm banning photos of deserts as porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some exceptions to this. Blahaj blocks downvotes, for example. You can downvote a post on Blahaj, but people (like me) with accounts on Blahaj cannot downvote nor can they see downvotes. I’m sure there are other instances doing similar things, as it sounds like Lemmy has a robust set of instance settings/options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no guarantee that it will tell you the truth. It could tell you to use Elmer’s glue to keep the cheese from falling off your pizza. The AI doesn’t “know” or “understand,” it just does as its training set informed it to. It’s just a very complex predictive text that you can give commands to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really about the porn in the first place (for advertisers it is - they hate sex unless it’s selling their product). The porn is merely an avenue to attack another minority group. In this case, LGBTQ people. Make everything about them sexual in some way, and then ban them from life for sexual deviancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.

  I’d say rather than a compromise, the “protect the children!” porn bans are an excuse to go after LGBTQ content by marking any and all content related to them as explicit and demonizing them as pedophiles going after children. They don’t care who it hurts along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, one of the defining features of the techno-cultists in Warhammer 40k is that they changed the acronym to mean “Abominable Intelligence” and not a single machine runs on anything more advanced than a calculator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re looking for something to game on, I’d also recommend checking out Bazzite. It’s built on the same version of Linux as the SteamOS and comes with stuff like Steam and Nvidia drivers pre-installed. There’s also a guide on the website for things like how to install it in a dual-boot setup.