mhague
@mhague@lemmy.world
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 day ago:
That’s weird – we water our soil with nutrients like “there’s no point in voting”, “they’re all out to get us”, “politicians are shit”, “nothing changes”, “governments are bad”.
I wonder why people haven’t been motivated to fight. Whenever they express faith in our leaders, or institutions, or have any positivity, we’re quick to shut them down. But still.
(Why would people motivated to fight hang out online where everyone has a reason why trying is pointless?)
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 days ago:
I was thinking more along the lines of “install and play this free unity game while it siphons personal data off your computer and sends it back to epic servers”
They’re specifically getting something of value in return for the good or service and then claiming it’s free and that customers are not customers, merely “users.”
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 6 days ago:
I don’t get how something is allowed to be labeled “free” when the terms of usage make you barter your data.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 3 weeks ago:
Looks like tiktok engagement bait. That will never work here! Oh…
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 1 month ago:
There’s a law called HOPA that says it’s legal. You can have white only neighborhoods if you have the laws, until someone challenges them, changes them, etc. There’s a specific allowance for old people and nobody wants to take it away enough to have changed it.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 months ago:
Police could already use drones operated by humans to chase people. It’s already possible and already safer. For some reason the police don’t seem to give a shit about that. Their leaders don’t care, and their leaders’ leaders don’t care. But go ahead billionaire man with AI, change the world.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 months ago:
Walmart sold kits for beating drug tests that included a heating pad and elastic band to strap it to your thigh.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 2 months ago:
Fable
As a kid you get your village burned down but you’re rescued at the last minute by a Hero.
You’re raised in the Heroes Guild and become one yourself. You help people, kick some chickens, and learn magic.
And then you fight a god, twice.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
I pentest my grandma about once or twice a year.
- Comment on Texas lawmakers signal plans to expand DEI ban into college classrooms 3 months ago:
Growing up I watched that conservative dad rant about diversity hires from American History X. They haven’t grown at all as a culture.
- Comment on Mega-Dosing 4 months ago:
I tried googling ‘jimmy fallon vulcan’ and couldn’t find that picture, just him joking about a statue. It’s spot on though
- Comment on Oh fuck no 4 months ago:
They’re unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 4 months ago:
I like the wasps around my house, they’re Apache wasps I think. I’ve shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.
Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
My favorite part of Transformers was when my government had the script changed to include Marines being heroic. We really needed good PR after that whole Afghanistan and Iraq thing.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 months ago:
If you smoke weed you’re more likely to wear converse. It’s aesthetics. When someone says they’re anti abortion I usually see it as aesthetics. They want others to see them as being anti abortion. That’s what they get out of it.
It isn’t a literal belief. Democrats reduce abortions, much better than cons. Being anti abortion should mean voting for Democrats… IF you were still taking things literally. It’s not misinformation or lack of education, it’s misaligned priorities.
They’re just trying to be a tribe and signal allegiance. To have literal beliefs that you live by regardless of “your side” is a completely different game to what they’re playing.
- Comment on Honey 4 months ago:
How is there 4 posts but one reply? Who said something first, the “bees, not animals” thing?
- Comment on Oxbowin' 4 months ago:
The one with the blue little window.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 5 months ago:
They’re still figuring out the internet
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 5 months ago:
Terminating service over allegations of piracy. Kicking someone off the internet because an automated copyright system accused them of piracy. That’s crazy.
- Comment on Rose Finch 5 months ago:
They’re all in survival mode too. Imagine if they had their equivalent to a balanced diet, low stress, targeted exercise, and science dedicated to bringing out their all.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 5 months ago:
Next time an artist makes a big deal about being ripped off I’m going to contrast “working hard and then getting ripped off” with “underregulated industry manipulating society for profit” and view them in a that light.
“Please support a thing that degrades society, goes after defenseless small fry, and unnaturally suppresses culture… I have to feed my family.”
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Reload the video multiple times. They will show a few different ads and then give up. It even works on console YT apps which have more ads.
I guess it affects impressions? I figured they would have fixed that, but this still works so whatever.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 6 months ago:
DOOM, 1993. Finally went through and beat it. Also recently sat down and learned how to edit wads as well as picking up ACS for advanced map scripting. Still a great game.
- Comment on Who is your favorite character from The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)? 6 months ago:
Ganondorf wasn’t developed that much and was kinda just tyranny, death, and despair from what I remember, but I liked the idea of a villain that won and now it was the hero that had to destroy the current world and make something new.
Link because his storyline in oot and mm is insane.
Also, shout out to the music box guy related to the song of storms. Iconic.
- Comment on It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose 7 months ago:
If Spock takes the bait then 10. I feel like I’d learn a lot.
- Comment on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers 7 months ago:
From what I can find, by “These routers send your credentials in plaintext”, they actually meant to say, “The mobile app sends credentials in plaintext.”
If you use the web interface then your credentials are not sent in plaintext. The routers themselves also don’t send credentials in plaintext.
The people who found this out got that wrong, and a lot of people are confused because they didn’t expand on “in plaintext.” They could be a little more professional / thoughtful.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 8 months ago:
I don’t see how what conservatives say has anything to do with reality.
Biden has been “senile” and “too old” for years now, during which time we’ve had a functioning Biden administration.
The Trump admin was limp, chronically understaffed, weak, ineffectual. That’s what they’re pretending is better than Biden. Conservatives don’t even care about senility so if you hear them rag on Biden and think they’re right, you’re not understanding what they’re really saying.
- Comment on The most irreplaceable thing 8 months ago:
Memes According to Garp
- Comment on Eco-friendly beyond comprehension 8 months ago:
Why walk when you can ride?
- Comment on How do you even call that? 9 months ago:
Looks like a lava shader material preview but instead of a ball they used something food shaped.