Taldan

@Taldan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If every school shooter in America targeted an Epstein client pedo instead, the problem would be fixed in a few years...⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is how the wealthy like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is Discord and Facebook don’t allow users under 13. Roblox does

  About the only internet consumer protections that exist in the US are for under-13

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds obnoxious they don’t support the usual MFA platforms

  And at the same time there’s Fidelity (and others) using voice authentication as the sole verification of account ownership when calling in (I think they finally fixed this a couple years ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I could live on the salary, I would prefer a manual labor job.

  Wouldn’t your anecdote then be supporting the premise?

  That means you’re doing your current job out of economic necessity. The fact you make more with your current role means free market proponents have deemed it more necessary, so have you not been economically coerced into taking a job you otherwise wouldn’t?

  I don’t think people should be coerced into work they otherwise wouldn’t do, but there is some level of truth to it. If nothing else the wealthy and powerful want us to be mostly effective workers, so they can have more wealth to siphon off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The odds of that are still ~1.1%. He got very lucky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The probability of you getting 74 (or more) wins in 122 fair coin flips is ~1.16%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you have to have the banks app to do online banking even on your desktop

  I have never heard of that. Can you give an example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smoooooth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ACID SHARK VOLCANO

  I think you answered your own question… because that sounds so damn cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smoooooth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to look up the place. Looks like the temperature gets a bit over 100F (38C) in some places. Acidity isn’t an issue for the diver, although it could be damaging to their gear. Search results suggest this picture was taken at ~160 feet, which is a reasonable dive for any technical diver

  I’ve done a similar dive profile in Yellowstone looking at hydrothermal vents. It’s a reasonable dive for any experienced and qualified diver. I’m guessing they didn’t have a technical diver, with equipment, on hand. It was likely much easier to drop a camera and bait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How many consumers have brand loyalty for harddrives? To me, they’re effectively a commodity. I’ll go with the one that has the best benchmark results for the size and price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Facts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d bet on more submarines in the universe. Trillions upon trillions of galaxies in the universe, each having billions of stars. At least a few are going to have submarines to add to the count

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the short-term, it isn’t. Long-term, I think it’s much better

  It will force AI companies to find ways to combat bad data and intentional poisoning efforts. I’d much rather anti-AI activists be the ones abusing AI than for it to be a Russian, Chinese, or American APT

  The second effect is that it would make more people aware of how often AI is wrong. Way too many people blindly accept AI results

  Also, you can always poison AI to fit your own world view. Teach it that the Epstein files should be thoroughly investigated, with perpetrators prosecuted, or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a big deal to you

  There are other people in the world that live different lives than you. Some of us use it as a primary messaging platform. It’s how I talk to most friends and family

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And he’s politically connected enough to get away with it. Discord isn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually had this happen once. Dasher got in an accident

  The app just showed his car going in circles around the point he crashed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OCR is mostly good enough. Problem here is we have 76 pages that we need to be read perfectly, with a low fidelity input

  We also have very little in the way of error correction, since it’s mostly not human readable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IEEE rebranded 802.11ax as wifi 6 because… Marketing

  Minor correction: The standard is IEEE, but it was developed by the WiFi Alliance (who make their money by certifying devices as meeting the WiFi 6 standard). It’s a pretty fair marketing strategy though. Normal users aren’t going to notice 802.11ac vs 802.11ax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The renter system is fine in my opinion

  It’s the result of the power imbalance that creates the problems. Specifically that property owners hold all the power and have structured society in such a way that housing is artificially scarce and more difficult to build than it should be, which has led to inflated prices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you know your boss is an insane moron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can I take your swearing at me and telling me to be silent

  He clearly said Sharon. Are you sharon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you know your boss is an insane moron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t even accept us beginning to get ready to leave until our clock out time, because up to that point we are supposed to be working

  Even the US outlawed that. What country do you live in where that’s normal?

  In the US if you’re required to do something for work, at work, you’re on the clock. For example, if you have a uniform you’re required to wear, you clock in then out it on

  Lots of employers break that law, which is why wage theft is by far the #1 form of theft in the US, but it is the law

  Similar thing with responding to work messages outside normal work hours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an initial proof-of-concept. It’ll be developed into more complex games eventually, that’s not really an issue for it

  The main issue is that it’s just a facade. It completely lacks the foundation required for a game. It’s a world without hard rules, which is a terrible experience for any user. The game isn’t determining cause and effect from actions. It’s just guessing at what would come next

  What’s the point of decorating an in-game house if the next time you go there, the AI forgot what was supposed to be there?

  What’s the point of completing quests if the AI forgets what you’ve completed?

  What’s the point of getting new gear if AI hallucinates what gear you have?

  There is no progress in an AI generated game because everything is made up as it goes. Google would need to fundamentally change their approach to allow for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  30% is the standard retail markup for many things

  It most certainly is not standard in retail. Most retail stores have a margin of a couple percentage points. Walmart, for example, is ~3% net margin most years

  Unless you’re trying to compare wholesale price to final consumer price. In which case I would say that’s a silly and pointless thing to compare, but even then it’s far smaller than 30% across retail and varies wildly based on the individual item being sold

  A 30% cut is only really common in the tech sector where the underlying economics make it feasible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The content of the posts are egotistical, not the bot itself. He’s describing the tone of the writing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Service has a lot of stability issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The market is going to be flooded with so much slop. It’ll be incredibly difficult for regular game developers to get any sort of budget to compete

  We as consumers need to find a way to reward quality games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of competition. No other app store is allowed to operate on Apple devices. They have a monopoly, which is the only reason they can charge as much as they do

  Sure, Apple are providing a payments platform, but why do they deserve 10x what Stripe charges?

  I don’t believe that 30% cut includes payment processing. That’s an additional fee

  Sad to think about how little creators actually get at the end of the day. Example of a $100 donation/subscription:

  • Apple takes 30%

  • Card companies take ~4%

  • Patreon takes 10%

  • Taxes take another big chunk

  After all that a the creator would have, what, $40?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The platform is enormous and highly successful solely because it is a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem

  I guarantee you if other app stores were allowed on Apple devices, they would take significant market share with a far smaller cut of revenue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have study after study showing various prominent social media platforms are bad for mental health, so that part feels pretty clear

  Destabilizing society is a harder one to show, but I’d argue Cambridge Analytica, and similar programs are what got Trump elected in 2016. Social media played a very interesting part in elections in the Philippines as well, due to the inability for most to fact check any information shared on social media (Meta/Facebook provided cell service for free only to their platforms)

  It’s undeniable that large numbers of bots are used to shape public perception of topics. Several talks at Black Hat and Defcon have investigated specific attack chains used, and how sock puppets are used to spread specific misinformation

  Given those factors, I think it’s fair to say social media is destabilizing society. It’s far too easy for relatively small groups to affect public perception. That isn’t to say propaganda didn’t exist before, just that it’s a far more powerful tool than has ever existed in history

  How do you feel about the TikTok takeover?

  Obviously negatively, and I think it’s irrational for Americans to feel positively about it. For an average citizen, a foreign country controlling a platform like that should be a good thing. China can’t do anything to me. I don’t have to fear reprisal from China for speaking out against the government. I do have to worry about reprisal from the US

  Further, China has far fewer incentives to shape the opinions and discourse of Americans. Obviously they want to push a pro-China message, but that’s a relatively small sub-sect of American politics compared to the issues the US government would like to shape public opinion on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, there is a USD index, DXY. It lost ~12% overall compared to a basket of other currencies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought crypto was really cool back in the day. I had a guy ask me about Bitconnect because he was considering buying some. I looked into it and told him it looked sketchy, and I didn’t understand how they could possibly promise those returns

  He dumped all his money into it. Only weeks before it collapsed too. Lost his house and wife. Ended up moving across the country to live with his brother

  Nice guy though