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- Comment on Marine Scientists 10 hours ago:
This will sound like a joke, or out of the Red Alert series, but the US does literally train dolphins and other sea mammals to patrol Naval bases, search for naval mines, attach torpedo homing beacons to enemy ships, aid in search/rescue and equipment recovery…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
I do not know of a recorded instance of an actual man on man underwater fight… it would likely be absurdly classified by at least one, if not both sides.
Frogmen usually do things like sabotage of underwater assets like infrastructure (internet trunk lines, oil and gas pipelines) or plant or remove sonar beacons… or infiltrate into enemy territory to then later sabotage something just under the water line, or a bit inland.
The aggressor would not want to admit they wee there, and the defender would almost certainly not want to admit their security perimeter had been breached.
Most aquatic guard units would be attacking an underwater commando from the surface, using some kind of non human detection method to search for and locate underwater aggressors.
AFAIK nobody really maintains like a 24/7 underwater patrol of human divers to patrol sensitive areas. But I could be wrong.
I guess uh, email Jesse Ventura rofl, maybe he knows more?
- Comment on Marine Scientists 12 hours ago:
I know the joke is that guns are pointless in the hadal zone because cthulu lives there, but…
A gun being wet or immersed in water rarely makes it torally incapable of firing at least once.
Many modern firearms will fire a projectile at lethal (to a human) velocities while underwater, though range and accuracy will be greatly reduced.
Getting a gun wet does not make it ineoperable.
The primer and gunpowder combust and deflagrate without the need for external atmospheric oxygen, they contain their own oxidizers.
The main problem is that if the gun’s barrel is full of water, this provides significantly more resistance than a barrel full of only air.
The cartridge will fire, but the bullet’s velocity through water will be much lower, the weapon might not cycle its action properly (meaning you may have to manually do so)…
… and the overpressure will cause significant damage to the weapon, possibly leading to it explosively dissambling itself after sustained overpressure usage.
Which is actually comparable to running a bunch of overpressure, magnum + rounds through a firearm above water.
There exist firearms and specialized cartidges (flechettes or otherwise) that are designed differently to operate consistently while underwater, as well as ‘amphibious’ firearms that work decently well submerged and not submerged.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
I mean, anybody could verify it by spending a few hours each on the respective games… But yes, any empirical data would be nice.
No, thats an anecdotal experience, and all it would tell you is the players’ perception of how prevalent cheating is… not how prevalent it actually is, not how effective an anti cheat system is at blocking cheaters.
Anyway, this isn’t exactly misinformation to anybody who has played both games at any decent rank. It’s unproved but immediately discernible information.
Again, no.
You made a claim that a particular anti cheat system is better than another.
You keep saying that ‘oh anyone can just tell’.
No.
What you are describing is again, at best, player perceptions of cheating prevalence.
The logic you are using is exactly the same logic that people who believe in astrology or woo woo nonsense medical treatments use to justify their efficacy.
… You have nothing but vibes and anecdotes, which you admit are unproved and have no basis in fact, beyond ‘i think this is obvious’.
You’re just bullshitting.
It is indeed pointless to attempt to get a bullshitter to admit they are bullshitting, when they’ve already backpedalled by moving goal posts, dismissing the importance of the discussion after being called out for making a specific claim which they can’t back up.
You could just admit that ah well shit yeah, I guess I don’t have any actual valid reasoning or data to back up my claim, but nope you keep trucking on, doing everything you can to talk around that point instead of addressing it.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
So … your previous assertion that OW2’s AC is superior to VAC was in fact just based on vibes.
Anti Cheat developers typically do not like to explain how exactly they work, how effective they actually are.
Their data is proprietary, trade secrets.
There will almost certainly never be a way to actually conduct the empirical study you wish for, save for (ironically) someone hacking into the corporate servers of a bunch of different anti cheat developers to grab their own internal metrics.
But that should be obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of how Anti Cheats work, both technically and as a business.
… None of that matters to you though, you have completely vibes based anecdotes that you confidently state as fact.
Please stop doing that.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
… Buuut you can still defeat Kernel level Anti Cheats.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzIq04vd0M&t=2s&pp=2AECkAI…
Which means that you still have to end up relying on reviewing a player’s performance and actions as recorded by the game servers statistically via complex statistical algorithms or machine learning to detect impossibly abnormal activity.
… Which is what VAC has been doing, without kernel level, for over a decade.
All that is gained from pushing AC to the kernel level is you ruin the privacy and system stability of everyone using it.
You don’t actually stop cheating.
It is not possible to have a 100% full proof anti cheat system.
There will always be new, cleverer exploitation methods, just as there are with literally all other kinds of computer software, which all have new exploits that are detected and triaged basically every day.
But you do have a choice between using an anti cheat method that is insanely invasive and potentially dangerous to all your users, and one that is not.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Oh it was initially classed as insanely intrusive malware when kernel level AC was introduced about a decade ago, by anyone with a modicum of actual technical knowledge about computers.
Unfortunately, a whole lot of corpo shills ran propaganda explaining how actually its fine, don’t worry, its actually the best way to stop cheaters!
Then the vast, vast majority of idiot gamers believed that, or threw their hands up and went oh well its the new norm, trying to fight it is futile and actually if you are against this that means you are some kind of paranoid privacy freak who hates other people having fun.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
I would love to see any kind of documentation that can somehow prove OW2’s AC is better than VAC, something that isn’t based on vibes or immediacy bias.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Or, even better, when you let a whole bunch of devs have acces to the kernel…
… sometimes they just accidentally fuck up and push a bad update, unintentionally.
This is how CrowdStrike managed to Y2K an absurd number of enterprise computers fairly recently.
Its also why its … you know, generally bad practice to have your kernel just open to fucking whoever instead of having it be locked down and rigorously tested.
Funnily enough, MSFT now appears to be shifting toward offering much less direct access to its kernel to 3rd party software devs.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
VAC is not kernel level, because surprise you don’t actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.
VAC games would just get the standard AC message banner, not the scary yellow kernel level warning banner.
- Comment on Well, Athens wasn't built in a day. 2 weeks ago:
These tortured metaphors take a Sisyphean Effort to parse… it’s like trying to figure out which parts of a Ship of Hercules are the original.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
However, it’s only being forced for kernel-level anti-cheat. If it’s only client-side or server-side, it’s optional, but Valve say “we generally think that any game that makes use of anti-cheat technology would benefit from letting players know”.
I will always love Valve for their ability to use corpospeak against corpos.
- Comment on House of Flesh 2 weeks ago:
Would a bonsai tree inside of a house built of wood basically be the same situation?
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 weeks ago:
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don’t mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
- Comment on Tech company with offices in Ireland takes down website information on firm's work with IDF. 2 weeks ago:
IBM:
Providing hardware and software assistance to genocides of all kind since 1938!
- Comment on Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands 3 weeks ago:
Scrotum.
Not penis.
Think Randy and all the South Park idiots bouncing around on their balls.
- Comment on Everything on credit 3 weeks ago:
Quite a lot, actually.
creditkarma.com/…/americans-have-a-net-worth-prob…
More than half of Americans don’t know how to calculate their net worth (51%)
Nearly one-third of Americans have a net worth of $0 or less (31%)
And thats over a year old, its getting worse.
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Force 3 weeks ago:
Ok now someone has to make a skyrim mod where the rats have a 2% chance of doing the fus ro dah attack at you, but it uses the sound clip from the 80’s Dune movie of Paul using the amplifier.
- Comment on Diatomic 3 weeks ago:
I think this is how Terrence Howard actually thinks physics works.
- Comment on Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it 3 weeks ago:
Apparently we are trying to put mediums and psychics out of work.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 3 weeks ago:
So, AI allowing us to speak with animals, people being able to communicate telepathically, people able to live entirely in their own VR worlds?
At best, those are pipedreams, at worst they are bullshit sales pitches that will either never happen for products that can’t possibly work safely or as imagined.
You can’t talk to animals if they don’t even have their own languages.
Telepathy? As in mind to mind direct interface? Sure, talk to the people with exoskeletons or bionic eyes that can no longer be hardware or software maintained. Or you know all the Neurolink monkies and pigs that went insane and died of infection or bashing their heads into walls until they killed themselves.
… Or you could just text things to people or call them.
Live entirely in a VR world? Sure, there’s two ways to almost do that:
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Be extraordinarily wealthy such that you can afford butlers and a home that you never need to leave.
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Oh you’re poor? Well you can remote operate an android and be a robot butler or industrial worker.
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From my point of view, there has been technological progress, but very little of it is aimed at meaningfully improving the average person’s life, introducing some game changing systemic, society spanning thing that makes some very important, very costly thing, far far less expensive… in about a decade or so.
We got to the point where basically any office job can be done remotely… and nope, can’t switch to a remote work paradigm because then commercial real estate market collapses and middle managers don’t need to exist anymore.
We’ve had EVs for a while now… turns out their only marginally better for the environment, and more expensive. The real needed change is a switch to whoah remote working, combined with redesigning cities to have more extensive mass transit.
I don’t know if you’ve played Stellaris, but in that game you have 3 simultaneous tech trees: Societal, Engineering, and Theoretical Physics.
In the last two decades we’ve made progress in the latter, and basically none in the former.
Well, we have the science to back up things like better social safety nets, UBI, better work life balance, reliable and affordable healthcare… but we don’t implement it.
Technology can drive politics, and politics can drive technology.
Our politics are capitalist. Tech is basically only implemented toward increasing profit. And almost always only in the short term. And almost always as cost saving measures, instead of actually improving a product.
Innovation feels like its being forced on us… because it is. Top Down. Adapt or Die.
We could live in a social order that treats employees as investments, trains them, pays for that training.
Instead, we are costs. We are disposable. Its up to us to keep learning on our own time and dime, even though literally no one has any idea what specific skills will be needed next.
… I’m getting a bit rambly here, but my basic point is that we haven’t had any meaningful major breakthroughs that improve the common person’s life in a while.
Everything meaningful and new is aimed at the wealthy or ultra wealthy, as consumers, or as owners.
Everything else is ‘pay in time or money to learn or use this new system or standard or else you’re unemployable.’
If we did somehow invent a groundbreaking invention, like humanoid automatons with their own, self contained, ability to replace most human workers… the wealthy would just stop employing us, let us die.
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- Comment on This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 3 weeks ago:
Well it was pretty much just openly saying it.
Her YT channel was a mix of fairly long, sort of livestream clips of development progress and notes… and then just clips of her livestreams where she wasn’t really developing and was just responding to chats, going off about political topics, ‘white genocide’ this, ‘every democrat is a f@g communist’ that, a whole bunch of other dogwhistles or overt references to memes and slogans of various extremist right wing militia type groups…
Also, for clarity, I am not talking about OP’s link, I’m talking about some very obscure other person I found months ago.
There is a difference between being on the conservative side of a culture war and being balls deep into extremist right wing ideology.
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, just, I’m not talking about OP’s link, I’m talking about someone else.
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 3 weeks ago:
At one point I was looking for some help with implementing something akin to UE’s Metahumans but in Godot.
Somehow I stumbled across this one, single person on youtube who had a half decent implementation of what I was looking for…
… and after watching some other videos on her channel… yep, she’s an open NeoNazi.
That was enough internet for me, that day.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 3 weeks ago:
Kin.
It’s not precise, but it is accurate
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
They consistently make promises for things that will exist in the future, which then takes them years beyond their expected timeframe to achieve, or just never do them because some other past promise or promise they will make later makes an original promise either totally unworkable or wildly different.
So, so many missed deadlines, which uh, actually were just aspirational.
And… this is a game that sells you ships, gear, for hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of real world dollars.
Some crazy promise will be made and oh, turns out that means we have to rework something like half the game’s systems to support that, but also they’re adding new content constantly that is always in some limbo state between following the old system’s paradigms and attempting to follow the new system’s paradigm.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ, that was their fundamental approach?!
… Did they ever come anywhere close to a dynamic server model, with dynamically sized in game zones being handled by dynamically changing server clusters, dependant on player count in an area?
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
So, a bit of discussion about a hypothetical me has spawned from this and I’ll say some things here:
I am from the US, have mostly rented in the PNW.
I am aware that smoking is bad and can affect other people, and that idiots running grills can be very dangerous, but I’m old enough to remember when these used to be a major use case for residential balconies.
AFAIK, generally, you can still do these things if you own (or even rent) a house in a lower density area with a balcony or patio.
Hell, I’ve lived in places and with roommates who are entirely capable of nearly burning down an apartment complex by not knowing how to cook on the oven/range in their apartment, or by just smoking inside and woops that cigarette butt or spliff or joint missed the tray.
I’m not saying it should be the case that we ignore safety concerns in more dense housing, I’m more just pointing out that things which many people are used to be able to do on some kind of residential balcony are not actually doable as more and more people live in rentals.
As for clothes lines, decorations, hell in some places even public drinking of alcohol on a balcony all being technically legal to some extent but still being against a rental contract:
Surely you are aware that the landlord and property managers hold basically all the power in these situations unless you have the time and depth of pockets to legally challenge their usually illegal frivolous stipulations.
They can just fine you and threaten eviction or withhold your security deposit, and it will almost always be 5x to 10x less expensive to just accept this than to attempt to challenge it.
Hell, I have literally never received my security deposit back, anywhere I have ever rented, despite doing no actual ‘damage’ to the unit. They will always just invent some reason to withhold it.
… Anyway, my main drive here isn’t that you should just be allowed to do whatever you want on an apartment balcony, its that these balconies are functionally useless to the renter due to them being designed as an afterthought to drive up rental costs, as well as having all kinds of functionally real restrictions unless you want to get into a legal fight with your landlord.
- Comment on Something Terrible is Happening to GenX 4 weeks ago:
Another thing that’s affecting basically everyone is increasing levels of personal debt.
creditkarma.com/…/americans-have-a-net-worth-prob…
About a 1/3 of Americans have 0 to negative net worth.
Every time you see a headline article about income/wages going up, unemployment going down… remember that it is very, very difficult to find good numbers on debt levels, as they take far more effort to measure than many other metrics which are reported much more directly and more routinely.
This, and absurd housing/rent prices, are the main reasons you get the mismatch between the ‘good’ economic picture painted by the headlines people usually publish more, and the perceived reality on the ground of growing poverty and financial difficulty.
The lower class just has more and more debt that grows much faster than the minute income increases or inflation lowering. If you’re paying 20 to 30 to even 40% on credit cards or microloans or payday advances, inflation lowering from 4% to 2% or your wage increasing by 4% is basically meaningless.
