DreamlandLividity
@DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 days ago:
Sure. But there is only so much effort countering this baseless fear mongering deserves, and this study may already more than that.
The fear mongering doesn’t end. Violent movies cause violent behavior. Not hey don’t. Violent movies cause violent behavior. No they don’t, actually research show gamers are less aggressive. Now it’s sexualized games that cause issues. And every time, they don’t even really care about the research anyway.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 days ago:
I don’t know anything about other STEM fields or other countries, but where I live, most sw engineering courses don’t have above 5%.
But yeah, dismiss reality with the “dog whistles”! “All the dog whistles!” And then act surprised when no one outside your echo chamber takes you seriously.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
If you have a way to make women study software engineering and other game dev related fields, please do share. I would love that.
But you can’t fix lack of women and generally diverse people skilled in game dev during hiring. We have seen the results of trying multiple times.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
keep something like this alive and happy
An AI, even AGI does not have a concept of happiness as we understand it. The closest thing to happiness it would have is its fitness function. Fitness function is a piece of code that tells the AI what it’s goal is. E.g. for chess AI, it may be winning games. For corporate AI, it may be to make the stock price go up. The danger is not that it will stop following it’s fitness function for some reason, that is more or less impossible. The danger of AI is it follows it too well. E.g. holding people at gun point to buy shares and therefore increase share price.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 weeks ago:
How can the company sending the takedown request be legally required to take anything down?! They have nothing to take down. READ!
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 weeks ago:
Again, it’s not the companies complying with the takedowns we are complaining about. It’s the companies that automatically send takedowns, with no regard for whether the takedowns are legitimate. These companies are supposed to have a duty to verify their copyright claim is valid before sending a takedown, but no one is enforcing it, so they don’t do it. That is the biggest issue here. Punish companies for sending illegitimate takedown requests.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. So? How is that relevant, if we are talking about the automated requests destroying the internet?
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 weeks ago:
I think it says automated takedown requests, not automated reactions to those requests.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 weeks ago:
It being bad does not stop corporations for using it, especially for stuff like customer service.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 weeks ago:
I use tuta. You can also add your own domain for infinite addresses (great for managing spam).
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 weeks ago:
I am not telling that to republicans. There are clearly a lot of people who use gmail for republicans to care about it and I have seen people here worried gmail would stop respecting their filter settings. So I advise them to stop using gmail.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 2 weeks ago:
Again, what is the difference between a tariff and a tax? Tariffs don’t apply to domestic companies, while taxes do. This tax technically applies to all companies, domestic or foreign, although in reality, there are no domestic companies it would affect.
So it is a tax, not a tariff by a technicality. It may even be the case that a court will strike this law down, saying they can’t pretend it is a tax when it is clearly not meant to tax only foreign tech giants.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 weeks ago:
PSA: Don’t use gmail. Sure, it is a good email and is free. And you may not care about privacy, even though you should. But the bigger danger is your e-mail being tied to your wider google and youtube account. Get banned for spamming youtube live chat, or writing inappropriate comment, or maybe for using ad-blocker in the future, and you can say goodbeye not just to your youtube account, but emails and drive data. This has already happend in the past, when youtube algorithm evaluated votening in livestream chat by sending 1 or 2 as spam and banned peoples entire google accounts.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 2 weeks ago:
Well… Taxes are not unified, trade policy is supposed to be. So this is kinda gray area as it is a tax affecting trade specifically.
- Comment on 4011 2 weeks ago:
Cities tried, shops ended up closing, causing a lot of problems for the community. The corpos won’t make it easy to pull one over on them.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Right sorry. I thought you meant developers won’t sign them. I hope Google at least will only sign identities, e.g. you really are DeathByBigSad and not look at the apps themselves, but that may be too much to hope for.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Torrent clients are not illegal in any way. So why not?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
I mostly picked top results for “porn” on duckduckgo, but I do find hqporner.com scientifically interesting ;)
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
The VM is associated with your name and payment method. It is about removing privacy so they can remove free speech and other rights. Not about porn. You don’t need a VPN to access porn in the UK Half the sites don’t verify age.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
FYI, with Mullvad VPN set to UK, sites that require age verification:
- pornhub.com
- youporn.com
- redtube.com
- porn.com
- bellesa.co
- tube8.com
- thisvid.com
- quorno.com
Sites tha do NOT require age verification:
- hqporner.com
- xhamster.com
- youjizz.com
- alohatube.com
- qqqporn.com
- xnxx.com
- xcafe.com
- helloporn.co
- go.porn
- cartoonporn.pro
And xvideos.com is a bit special since it shows you the thumbnails of porn videos but won’t let you play them.
But we need to stop VPNs! Think of the whole two children that have VPNs! What if instead of just going to the half of sites that don’t verify age, they figure out how to use a VPN?! Oh the humanity!
Yeah, UK wants to de-anonymize VPN users. It is laughable to think this is about anything else.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, Monero is a pain which is why a lot of people prefer mailing the money. That was my point.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 3 weeks ago:
Lesser of two bad guys maybe?
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 weeks ago:
Also traceable unless you bought the bitcoin anonymously or mined it. Mullvad accepts Monero, which is not traceable (and also bitcoin if you really want to).
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
I highly doubt there is a user that truly does not care for innovation. If there is a better product for the same price, who wouldn’t buy it.
More importantly, the impact is not just innovation but security, price of ownership and reliability. Apple managed to “innovate” themselves into a position where they are discouraging data rescue on Macs and iPhones. That’s the kind of thing you may not be thinking about when buying but may greatly regret not having when you need it.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
Again, why are you so over focused on stock price? As a consumer, how is the first thing you take away from lack of innovation and engineering failures that Apples stock price may suffer and not that the machine you are baying is sub-par and overpriced?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
TL;DR: Under Jobs, Apple focused on engineering products and the profitability and stock price followed. Under Cook, Apple focuses on stock price and is massively cutting R&D/Engineering costs to the point they did not release anything really new for years. E.g. Siri that is unable to catch up to modern chatbots.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
Did you watch the video or are you guessing based on the thumbnail? Because the video isn’t about apples profitability.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
I feel you may be boarding a different sinking ship: youtu.be/JUG1PlqAUJk
I have been using Linux Mint for over half a year now, and besides gaming, I had no issues with a great experience. Had very bad experience with other Linux distros.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 4 weeks ago:
Time for Mullvad VPN?
- Comment on Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time? 4 weeks ago:
I just finished refining my Jellyfin setup. I use caddy as reverse proxy and use authelia as authentication in front of Jellyfin. This way only users logged in to authelia can access my Jellyfin. And there is an SSO plugin for jellyfin to avoid double login. The tricky part was getting apps to work.