theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 5 days ago:
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 5 days ago:
No, people won’t argue about just anything.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 5 days ago:
A statistical model of language isn’t the same as medical training???
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think the gun analogy does not really work here: you cannot be held accountable for creating any part of a gun, in case of a murder.
You’re not making the gun, the programmers that wrote the DDoS program did. You’re firing it.
It’s more like, you and a bunch of your friends murder by getting together and flinging the victim with rubber bands until the victim actually dies. Just because all you did was fling a small percentage of the rubber bands and that wouldn’t have killed the victim on your own doesn’t change the fact that you participated in and committed a murder. Legal systems do not have loopholes that allow you to commit crimes like this. They only have loopholes for the ultra wealthy.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s not how laws work at all.
I am aware of how this works
No, your absolutely not.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
No, this is not a civil matter or TOS violation. It is a federal crime and felony in the USA under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There is nothing illegal about creating massive amounts of traffic to an IP/website.
?? No this is extremely illegal.
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 1 week ago:
Uh, who cares? Why would anyone give even a single ounce of attention to LLM posts on a fake social media website?
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, great, except the bot can literally just write whatever it wants to the config file
~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.jsonand give itself approval to execute bash commands. - Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not arbitrary code in this case, it’s well defined functions
No, you’re 100% wrong as the bot can just directly run arbitrary bash commands as well as write arbitrary code to a file and run the file. There’s probably a dozen different channels it can use to run arbitrary code.
- Comment on Sorry, Faux News, so no link, but the screen is all you need... 2 weeks ago:
Martyrdom is the right-wing’s goto strat. Just look at Charlie Kirk or Ashli Babbitt
- Comment on target demographic 3 weeks ago:
IN 20+ CARTS
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- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Move those goalposts! Yeah I guess they’re only option is to pirate the books then, it’s not like NVIDIA has access to OCR or anything 🙄
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 weeks ago:
A yes, of course, the legal challenges of selling a copy of a book that is already for sale 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah the existing deal with publishers is “sell my book” dummy.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no, this genuinely doesn’t make sense as there are legitimate repositories for these books and can do business-to-business negotiations for access to them. Even libraries have access to ebooks at bulk scale.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Allegedly most valuable company on the planet in all of history (can’t afford books). Allegedly not a bubble or fraud.
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 3 weeks ago:
Did they accidentally turn off their DoS for sites that don’t pay for Cloudflare?
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 4 weeks ago:
Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?
You can do this, while also choosing to use some self-hosted services or internet-services that work for you.
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 4 weeks ago:
Being a short haired dude I struggle to understand how hair, which is basically dead tissue would benefit from moisturizing
What about leather, could it benefit from applying a layer of oil? Or a wood? Or rubber? Living tissue is not the only thing physically affected by moisture levels.
Oil seals in moisture to prevent hair from drying out, which, obviously, will change it’s texture and elasticity.
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 4 weeks ago:
Soap and conditioner have opposite and incompatible roles. Soap strips away dirt and oils. Conditioner replaces the oils stripped away by soap that your hair needs, to maintain health.
You don’t really need separate shampoo and body wash, you could wash your hair with standard bar soap. You do need separate conditioner.
Shampoo+conditioner combined together can either clean or apply oils to the hair, but chemically, it cannot do both, despite marketing.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 1 month ago:
Huge agreement on the operator count.
Also I could not tolerate making quick match quicker with pre-reinforced walls and pre-made rotation holes. It felt like a lot of the fun to the game came from the setup, and it was so impactful and rewarding throughout the round. They just took that away. Plus, as attacker, the setup time was so short that you sometimes barely had time to even enter the building with the drone, let alone gather any useful information or position the drone as a good camera. Just stupid. Who asked for that??
I exclusively played the “quick match” mode because competitive felt way too long and serious, and there was a strong expectation of using microphone and voice, which I am not willing to subject myself to.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 1 month ago:
There was a time when the online team vs team gamemode was really good. Easily one of the best shooters of the format, in my opinion. That time has long passed, however.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 1 month ago:
So… just like… KDE?
- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 1 month ago:
Ha, my system is exactly identical! I really have no reason to upgrade, besides maybe 5950X/5900XT for more cores for compiling software (I run Gentoo on it).
My 6900XT is a slightly cheaper frankenstein with the 6950XT full chip but 6900XT clocked VRAM. It’s so efficient. The fans don’t even spin for some games. There’s nothing it can’t play at max settings, but I’m also rendering af 1600x1200 on a CRT.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 month ago:
If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.
Go outside, talk to people, friends, family, especially of different generations. Even people I know that I consider much more “tech savvy” than average have no clue about ad blockers or how to begin using them.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can’t really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 1 month ago:
We live in a terrifying time
Well, the nanobots that you are describing do not exist, so they aren’t what is making the time terrifying
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 1 month ago:
True, however TLS does not encrypt the hostname/IP address of the servers that you are connecting to, so your ISP can monitor the servers you visit. A VPN provides an encrypted tunnel for your traffic, so your ISP can only see that you are communicating with the VPN server. However, the VPN provider can see the hostname/IP of the servers in order to forward the traffic to its destination.
Ideally the VPN provider does not monitor or keep logs of the connections, however this is not always the case. A VPN offers privacy from the ISP or from other clients connected to the local network when using public WiFi.
It can also provide some level of anonymity, because the server that you are connecting to will only be able to see the VPN IP address connecting to them, instead of your home IP address. However, it is possible to still be identified by other means besides your IP adress, like using cookies or browser fingerpinting.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 1 month ago:
This is how I do it, yeah the first couple glasses were kinda weird but then once you’ve experienced it and know what to expect, it really isn’t bad at all.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 1 month ago:
Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.
