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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do - and play it with them on our family creative and survival servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret ever giving my kids access to Roblox. They haven’t had any bad interactions as far as I know but the content mill of poor knock offs is just depressing. They learnt the highlights of Squid Game from “games” that went viral on the platform.

  My youngest wants to graduate to Fortnite and hyper-monetisation aside I’ve agreed they can have it on the family playstation if they drop Roblox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see the argument that visible light should be enough given we humans can drive with just two eyes and a few mirrors. However that argument probably misses the millions of years of evolution of our neural networks have gone through while hunting and tracking threats that happens to make predicting where other cars might be mostly fine.

  I have a feeling regulators aren’t going to be happy with a claim of driving better than the average human. FSD should be aiming to be at least 10x better than the best human drivers and we’re a long way off from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what they want to do. They can fork and take on the burden of maintaining the whole tree in which case good luck with that, linux is too much of a fire hose to enable a 3rd party to assemble something similar making different choices about what they merge. Otherwise they can maintain a re-based fork that tracks the Torvalds tree and then congratulations you’ve just invented a feature tree that can do contribution with extra steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think algorithms themselves are to bland but what they are tuned for. While engagement/eyeball hours for the adserver is the prime metric the quality of experience will be subservient to it. If the algorithms could better measure your mood and stimulation levels and maximise for that the effect would be less toxic. Ideally if it realised you were just mindlessly consuming it could suggest maybe you’ve done enough today and to try something else. But that I fear that is not something the owners of the various ecosystems want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.

  For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.

  For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy really needs to support post combining somehow so you can see the story once (and maybe even combine the threads in the UI?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2992: UK Coal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We still have a lot of slag heaps in the top of some of our local hills. They make for some interesting mountain bike runs but they aren’t exactly diverse in floor coverage. Some pits are now tourist attractions but I don’t know what ongoing work is done to maintain the abandoned ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do people expect? Those servers aren’t free to run and they’re is only so much VC money to burn. That said I wouldn’t pay the various subscription levels that are currently being asked for. I pay for API use which is basically pay as you go. It also makes you think “does this task really need the non-free tier to complete?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine Bans Telegram Use For State, Military Officials.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that is too cover the intelligence officers monitoring the Russian milbloggers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine it but it certainly won’t be practical to implement in our lifetimes. There are certainly some observatories that benefit from being based in space (optical and infrared) and even gravitational detectors such as laser interferometers. However aside from the wide capture area radio telescopes need large amounts of compute to separate the signal from the noise. The amount of data that needs to be processed makes space based radio observatories very hard to implement.

  Maybe the dark side of the moon will make a decent observatory one day but we haven’t set foot on the place for decades, let alone built anything so complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be hard pushed to build something like the SKA in space given it spans multiple countries and a significant arc of the earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t directly support it because in their view the Google Play process is a more secure way of verifying they supplied the binaries than is possible of f-droid. If reproducible builds were possible maybe there could be some mechanism to verify a given binary is built from a given commit of the source tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When did this change? AIUI creators got a larger cut of YouTube premium views compared to ad share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m watching Voyager with my kids. Janeway is pretty bad ass given her position as the sole federation representative in the delta sector. We are however using a watchlist and skipping the filler episodes rather than going for the completionist approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potential reasons for undershooting gravity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you sparge the grain when you were done mashing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So similar to premium bonds? Usually those are government backed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “no loose lotary” should be a red flag right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For that £9 I get 15Gb of data (including EU roaming). One of my kids gets their phone with unlimited calls/texts + 5Gb of data for £5. I doubt I’m ever going to need more than that as on a recent holiday with heavy use I didn’t even get close to exceeding the usage limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the deck modding guides make me anxious messing about with the game filesystem. But I would like a decent inventory manager. How easy is it to restore the game and saves if you cock up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed Ghost of Tsushima when it premiered on the PS5. As you say the satisfaction of pulling off the sword moves is really nice. The story isn’t bad either and some of the fight bosses certainly keep you on your toes. I brought the DLC expansion the day it came out just so I could spend some more time slashing away ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t if if it was a pay rise or just he’d done more work last year (extra voiceover work for coronations etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main pain with CRB checks is having to go through it for every thing. You can’t just apply once and get the certificate and I don’t think the organisation your applying from makes a material difference to the checks that are done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh. We definitely need a much stronger focus on public health and primary care rather than leaving problems on waiting lists until they are harder (and more expensive) to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t found any 30 day contracts that can beat a well negotiated renewal. You just need to be firm in requesting the PAC code and make them work to keep you as a customer.

  I got EU roaming included in my £9/month contract but I do need to get temporary travel packs for other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t still complaining about the fact they hired an ex-policeman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of SBCs out there but the difference really comes down to documentation and how upstreamable everything is. The Pi might not be perfect but it’s a much more reliable design to build something with than many of the other options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are both. There is a non profit foundation which funds the educational side and the main company which operates for a profit. I suspect the bulk of their revenue comes from the industrial side of things where the Pi makes a much better base than a lot of the half assed hacked together SBC’s out in the market.

  There have certainly been mis-steps asking the way but all in all I consider the Pi to be a British success story. I guess it remains to be seen how much of the valuation goes to the founders and employees and how much is invested into their next phase of growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See up-thread: networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…