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- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 days ago:
That worked. But using the freedomtobuy.games links kept giving me “something went wrong”. So ^ this link is the way to do it.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 days ago:
I’m for this because I want those games. But let’s talk strategy. Didn’t GoG just set the market value of those games to zero? Weren’t they already hurt by the censorship? Wouldn’t it be better to just give them a fair market to sell on?
- Comment on Be nice 6 days ago:
It said price, not cost. Now no one will solve climate change because the price is beneath cost.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
Yes. But some countries includes the United States, and US states, and others. There is an established relation between the US government and payment processors to shut down activity the government doesn’t like but either can’t or hasn’t make illegal.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
Cash. Buy things in person. Use bitcoin. Use AMEX. Save money.
So many options besides using Visa or Mastercard.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
Remember when Paypal said they would straight up steal your money if they found social media posts they don’t like. Even if it’s on a platform they have nothing to do with?
This proof that the world needs more crypto.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
I’ll tell you why. Government uses soft threats to encourage private business to censor things. I know some of you guys don’t like this side of this parallel story, but do you remember when the FBI was marking posts for twitter to take down as “misinformation” that then was shown to not be misinformation, but rather just inconvenient for the current presidency in charge.
The legal code in the US is so large and companies engage in so much activity that it is impossible to run a 100% legal business. Companies instead run by an “ask forgiveness later” model. It’s the only one that can actually work in the US. But to be able to run that model you need the good graces of the government. So when it says jump companies do it.
There was a time when you could be banned off of twitter for saying factual things the FBI didn’t like. And it’s not like the FBI didn’t know better. We didn’t need independent verification of the Hunter Biden emails because we had confirmed cryptographic signatures on all of the emails. Journalists get a pass because they are technologically illiterate, but the FBI and Twitter sure didn’t.
What’s crazy about this is that the supreme court ruled against this use of third parties. But the practice wasn’t new when it hit social media because it’s been a long practice with payment processors. So my question when that ruling came out was “what about the existing similar practice in payment processors.” Apparently the government and processors are still in cahoots in violation of that ruling. That relationship was actually started in an effort to crack down on bestiality porn, which is never the less legal in the US.
So the question is do you like to government directing third parties to censor?
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
Don’t you know you need self value from being a slave. Chase paper like a good gerbil like everyone else. Our slave morality tells us you are not a good person like us unless you do.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
You store your credit card in your computer? If browser credit card management isn’t secure enough to avoid that attack you shouldn’t be using it.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
They are so short sighted to. Ad blocker help advertizers. It allows sites to fill up sites with ads to the point of being unusable while not losing 100% of traffic. That keeps these site relevant enough that old people who don’t have ad blockers end up there too when they follow links or google ranks a site high because it has traffic.
If they got rid of all ad block somehow they would have to decrease the ads because I wouldn’t use the web. Or online communities would be way more conscious of the ad level of the things they link to.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. When he recycles those jets next weekend he’ll separate the plastics from the metals.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
So you can get updates while you are at work.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 weeks ago:
In the future there will be media queries for how old the reader is.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 weeks ago:
The dependency hell of JS is caused by React. It’s an ironic turn because node gained popularity in part because it was one of the first to have a coupled package manager with everyone in contribution, full of a billion packages that follow the unix philosophy of “everything should do one thing, do it will.” Dependency hell would disappear if people stopped popularizing competing swiss army knives, and then trying to mash these swiss army knives together just to improve portfolio.
We’ve gotten to the point where you aren’t considered a real professional unless you start even the smallest projects with maximum technical debt.
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 1 month ago:
Hey, don’t knock cyberpunk till you try it.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Intuition is about the only thing it has. It’s a statistical system. The problem is it doesn’t have logic. We assume because its computer based that it must be more logic oriented but it’s the opposite. That’s the problem. We can’t get it to do logic very well because it basically feels out the next token by something like instinct. In particular it doesn’t mask or disconsider irrelevant information very well if it two segments are near each other in embedding space, which doesn’t guarantee relevance. So then the model is just weighing all of this info, relevant or irrelevant to a weighted feeling for the next token.
This is the core problem. People can handle fuzzy topics and discrete topics. But we really struggle to create any system that can do both like we can. Either we create programming logic that is purely discrete or we create statistics that are fuzzy.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Even defining reason is hard and becomes a matter of philosophy more than science. For example, apply the same claims to people. Now I’ve given you something to think about. Or should I say the Markov chain in your head is buzzing.
- Submitted 1 month ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
This is like closing a nature reserve due to insufficient landscapers.
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- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 3 months ago:
When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
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- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 4 months ago:
Jokes on them. I’m going to use AI to estimate the value of content, and now I’ll get the kind of content I want, though fake, that they will have to generate.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 8 months ago:
He’s not conservative.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 10 months ago:
This is why pirating is justified. If you want your shows to last forever, torrent them, and keep them seeded.
