Glitterbomb

@Glitterbomb@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This Pokémon Go player has unwittingly poisoned an AI dataset by spoofing across bodies of water for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised minecraft isn’t on this list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven and Hearth. It’s apparently a fairly old MMO, and I think I picked it up after it’s mostly dead, but it’s still a bit fun. The low population left in the game honestly might be saving me from grief while still learning the game.

  It got the visuals, difficulty, and finality of Zomboid, but more of a rust style game play where you’re just a naked person with rocks and sticks building huts. I still don’t know fully what I’m doing, the goal is still just don’t die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the same boat. I’ve made some headway but they weren’t kidding, it’s hard! I’m still struggling on new maps managing my time between building defenses and ramping up industry. I definitely prefer the part after finishing waves where I can relax and perfect my build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fritz Haber moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah, the Washington monument in DC is capped with aluminum like how the egyptian pyramids used to be capped with gold, because aluminum used to be a precious metal. (Sure, its a nice lightning rod too) Now it’s so common you can find it in the trash on the side of the road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fritz Haber moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it fascinating that this exact process that was discovered in order to create weapons during war is also whats used to create the majority of the worlds industrial fertilizers. It’s singlehandedly the biggest leap in food production ever, more than GMOs or crossbreeding or anything. It’s basically the main reason we are able to support a global population in the billions. We’ve used it so much that we are dependent on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can get close enough to airdrop photos of my penis to the president of the United States. What did you think I was going to use it for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explains a lot...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fine, if no one else is going to ask, I will.

  What happens if I eat one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say Zomboid!

  Also, OP, dont be afraid to jump straight into mods. You dont have to fuss with a single file. Right from the start, inside the client, you can join modded multiplayer servers. The mods are automatically installed and applied then and there. Zero setup! I say this because a whole heap of mods are strictly quality of life and they really ease the learning curve.

  However, picking and choosing your own mods for your own server is the headache you might expect. Let some saintly admin do all that work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heres what you do - go to the bank today, get $50 in pennies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe its just the way you say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird. You have two top level comments, and two replies in this thread where you’re offended that someone might find humor in an aspect of their job. Are you ok, dude? Is DNS your girlfriend? Should we stop talking about her? Youve been in IT for 30 years - maybe its time to retire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the ocean grass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cant say enough great things about these rural electric companys rolling out their own fiber. I had an interesting opportunity a while back to do contracted field work for a bunch of small midwest/gulf state electric companies, and was absolutely blown away by the work they’re doing.

  The first one I worked, I was extremely confused by the communications on all of their poles thinking ATT came through and delivered the nicest fiber id ever seen to cows and corn until I came across the linemen casually splicing fiber on the back bumper of their bucket truck. ATT was copper only in the area, even in the small town they werent even trying - the electric company was dominating.

  The whole mood was wild really, most of these companies were co-ops that were tied into the community already, and its really the community that decided the co-op should do internet too. I never got to be an actual customer of any of these, so i never got to know what it feels like to tell ATT to kick rocks and then actually be able to do something about it. But every single customer and employee was feeling it and it wasnt hard to get them grinning about it.

  The options available to them were also something to behold. Its their poles. Communications always go under power, and normal communications companies kinda sorta just work with what they get after the electric company uses all the space they need. These guys can rearrange their electric lines to make way for communications all in the same day. ATT would probably get bogged down under 8 months of red tape if they tried to do that.

  One of these co-ops would even use space on their poles for directional wifi antennas. Some rural houses would have a half mile driveway, and the power line has long since been buried, so they just beam internet wirelessly from fiber on the main road and skip the expensive buildout to lay fiber for one person. I got to chatting with one guy that had this setup. His house was downhill from the road, so right next to his house they ended up installing the absolute tallest wooden utility pole i have ever seen, i dont even remember the footage, but all that was on it was a single 10 inch wifi dish at the very top. He still got a few hundred both ways, those directional antennas were impressive, and they just power them off their own electric grid.

  It really was a daily eye opener of how it could be if these shit ISPs didnt control everything. I strongly encourage everyone to look up to see if youre served by one! You might be surprised, they sometimes whittle in close to some larger cities, if you live in some newer neighborhoods on the outskirts…but man look at me ramble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with