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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say this hypothesis is interesting and if we wait some time we could develop ways to test it, but then I don’t know in which dimension of time we’d need to wait for that. What if we wait orthogonally to what we need, and never discover the necessary tests???

  I’m half-joking. I see this new framework as a good development; even if I’m personally sceptic towards it, it might be surprisingly true or lead us towards the right direction, dunno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your data, your rules: Firefox’s privacy-first AI features you can trust | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla, please. Focus on developing a quality browser. Not on chasing random new gimmicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or even a dword.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  177013?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, I remember seeing this in Beehaw. Basically: the user was negligent, but this does not excuse Microsoft in one bit. (Or byte. eh.)

  One thing that the 3-2-1 rule of thumb doesn’t handle, and is important here: the reliability of each copy also matters. Specially when it’s a small amount of copies. And when you’re dealing with someone else’s computer (“the cloud”), the reliability is shit; doubly so if it’s the computer of some megacorpo, since you’re more expendable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your most memorable anime binge session?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I don’t recall, in 2023 I decided to watch Hikaru no Go again. All 76 episodes (incl. the special). And I did it over the span of three days.

  I also remember doing something similar with FMA:B some years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you been eating enough rocks? Geologists recommend one per day, you know~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In another situation, I’d say “nice to see services integrating the Fediverse”. But given this is Meta I’d say it should fuck a cactus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are AI 'world models,' and why do they matter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly babble from OpenAI to justify continuous development, while misleading people through the usage of malicious metaphors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they replaced the sun-dried raisins with honey, otherwise the honey taste would be a bit too strong, too obvious. Instead my guess is that they used it as an additive in the final product, if the resulting passum was too dry. So it’s a bit of a post-production additive.

  I’m saying this because

  1. As the text mentions, there’s a shortcut for making passum - to boil the must instead*. If the issue was space, time, or labour they’d likely do it instead of relying on yet another parallel culture.
  2. Grape sugar content might vary quite a bit from one harvest to another. And yet it you’re doing large scale production you want some consistency.

  *you can do this at home with some grape juice. Even the unfermented version is delicious, it becomes syrupy. It goes great on vanilla ice cream by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RimWorld - Odyssey will bring spaceship building, exploration and a lot more content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, basically: Save our Ship, vanilla version? Awesome.

  I’m actually excited with this DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He vomited an assumption on how people would react, and acted on it. The outcome of his actions proved the assumption wrong. At this stage, a sane / rational person would step back and say “…perhaps I should inform myself”. But no, this bloody muppet had to vomit yet another assumption - why their reaction was negative. *rolls eyes*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TechCrunch: Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “We will not tolerate profit-seeking entities like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions of dollars without any return for redditors or respect for their privacy,” said Ben Lee, Reddit’s chief legal officer, in a statement to TechCrunch.

  “WAAAH! HOW DO YOU DARE? WE CALLED DIBS ON THAT!”

  …cut off the crap. You give no fucks about returning shit to those muppets or respecting their privacy. You care about money.

  I’d tell you to go back to Reddit but you’re Reddit so… fuck off back to yourself.

  I want to see those big corpos DDoS-ing the internet going the way of the dodo. And Reddit too. A plague in both houses. Let you fight until mutual destruction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I mentioned in beehaw, I’m completely opposed to that; privacy should be seen as an inalienable right, not a commodity.

  But hey, the current gov is an alliance between neolibs and centrists, so… if they can put a price tag on your dignity, they will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it’s either unavailable for people using it in Portuguese, or I disabled it too and I don’t remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the customer doesn’t want the feature:

  • [user] “I don’t want it.”
  • [corporate] “Trust Us, We know what you want better than you do. You want it.”
  • [user] “Stop it. I don’t want it. Consent you wanker, do you understand it?”
  • [corporate] "Since you aren’t using the feature, We assume you’re an ignorant unaware of it, so let Use smear it a bit more on your face until you swallow it. "
  • [user] “Sod off. And stop putting this bloody shit on my face.”
  • [corporate] “We understand that simple concepts like obedience might be a bit too complex for something like you, but We are fairly tolerant and helpful, so We shall remind you of the feature again. And again. And again.”

  If the customer does want the feature:

  • [user] “Okay, I want it. This is cool.”
  • [user, later] “What happened with the feature? It was amazing, why did they kill it?”
  • [corporate, lying] “We’ve replaced it with something better, bigger, flashier. Trust us. It’s better.”
  • [user] “It’s completely different. Now it sucks.”

  Then proceed as in the first part.

  ---

  Seriously, the way GAFAM handles AI is just like the first part for plenty people. And it’ll be like the second part, once their marketing teams find another trend to chase. Fuck this shit. I’m glad my email my email is not from Google, but if Yahoo pulls off the same shite I don’t care if my address is 25yo, I’m migrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two of the World’s Worst Termites Hooked Up in Florida—and Now We’re Screwed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the hybrid population is fertile, it has at least as much survival fitness as the “best” of the parents. But probably more because it can couple advantageous traits from both for that environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Play as a virus inside Winnie the Pooh in Winnie's Hole - demo out now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played through the demo. It’s fun; you need to strategise a bit and think about the synergy of the power-ups you get, otherwise you will get yourself killed. (That sloth was specially hard.)

  It reminds me a bit The Binding of Isaac, both in the overall “mood” and randomness of the power-ups you have to choose from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, cut off the crap Clegg.

  Under the current IP and copyright laws across the world, your argument has as much merit as “let robbers steal; asking others permission before snatching their stuff would ‘kill’ the black market”.

  And, if the idiotic laws are to be revoked, they should be revoked for everyone. This would allow you to train your bloody models on those artists - but it would also allow everyone to grab things from your “industry” and you should not be able to do anything against them.

  Pick a choice. One of those two. Enough of this bloody Bob Dylan defence* - either everyone is a thief, or everyone is a king; your industry is not such special snowflake, and you are not a higher caste above the rest of us dammit.

  * Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s hope you’re right, and Matrix improves by a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but soon it’ll be better than Discord. Sadly not because Matrix would’ve improved, but because Discord went downhill really hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is entering its second decade as a company and is seeking to go public.

  I’m going to laugh my arse off at the muppets who migrated from Reddit to Discord, yet another centralised platform enshittifying itself.

  Told ya. I told you all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should’ve made them craftable since the beginning. But hey, it isn’t like Minecraft follows any sort of design or logic, more like the developers say “ooohhh shiny” and add new features on a whim.

  And this is likely associated with the happy Ghast mob. I’m not directly opposed to the idea of a flying mob that lets you stand on, to build stuff, but… come on, stop wrecking the theme of older mobs dammit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skill loss itself is fine, the problem is to make it based on RL time. It’s a game, not a job; you shouldn’t need to clock in/out regularly to enjoy it. (Tamagochi had the same issue. Except it was character loss.)

  I didn’t play Escape from Tarkov but two good examples come to my mind:

  • RimWorld - colonists have ~10 trainable skills. They lose skills over time, faster at higher levels. This encourages specialisation, so when shit hits the fan the game cripples you even harder. (Fuck you, Randy.)
  • Nethack - your character gradually forgets spells over time; to avoid it you need to either re-read consumable spellbooks, or use the spell often (thus using precious mana). It’s all about resource management, hoard spells and you’ll get yourself killed in no time, but if you prioritise useful spells you have a better chance of survival.

  In both cases the player is always losing something, even with correct gameplay. But neither demands you to treat it as a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking dumb idea. It isn’t like the player themself won’t forget this stuff already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A shame the project was discontinued, the visuals were fucking cool. (Yup, it was a real distro.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Myself mentioned a bit below that the choice of a distribution isn’t that meaningful in the long run. But I still think that some distros should be recommended - otherwise the newbie simply says “Hannah Montana Linux, Justin Bieber Linux, Ubuntu Satanic Edition… bleeergh I can’t choose, I give up”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking on that: a lot of people act as if promoting Linux means simply “to get others to install it”. And they ignore that the newbie will need help the first days, weeks, even months. Then the newbie gets burned out and switches back to Windows.

  That probably explains why some people manage to retain even tech illiterate people using Linux, while others struggle to convince even tech literate ones to switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that the site should be recommending a few newbie distros, instead of telling the newbie to search it. for them.to look it up. Specially because the choice of a distribution isn’t that meaningful. out", instead of telling them to search it.

  That said I agree Mint would be a good choice. Not sure on Xfce; I’d probably recommend Cinnamon instead, as it looks a bit more modern (even if myself would rather use MATE or Xfce than Cinnamon).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Download a new OS // Download the operating system you want to install. Search for Linux distributions for beginners to get some suggestions.

  I feel like it’s better to actually list/suggest a few beginner distros than to tell people to look it up.