Don_alForno

@Don_alForno@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered Mods Have Already Been Published Online⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dad! Please! No!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tempest Rising review (PC Gamer: 85/100)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to take a look at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m devoted to winning, that means I want to win myself. If I don’t profit from the company’s success outside of being allowed to keep my job, increasing the company’s bottom line isn’t a “win” for me. That’s not a matter of perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The company” i.e. somebody else’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Achieving a healthy work-life-balance IS winning. That’s what the mindless drones don’t get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection

  You can just add those to steam or use a launcher like heroic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “loosing hair where I want it to grow and growing it where I definitely don’t want it to grow” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Biometrics are not more secure than a good password.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You also would not have access to your password manager when logging into your OS, would you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Baldur’s Gate 2. There’s no game I’ve played through more often. BG3 is a very fun successor, but Larian’s writing can’t hold a candle to classic Bioware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even the lemmy instance you’re on needs a license to your content, and it is stored there and displayed for the world to see. Why is that? Because storing and displaying your posts is the very thing you want it to do. That is the service it is providing for you, and you declare that you want it to do that by clicking “send”. They would need a license if they wanted to do anything else with your stuff, which doesn’t directly have to do with displaying your posts in the fediverse.

  The browser is supposed to take my requests and inputs, carry them to the server that I’m talking to and bring back the answer. The mail doesn’t need a license to my letters. That only changes if they want to open them and do something I originally had not intended.

  But you know who claims a license to your content? Meta. Because you’re the product there, not the costumer.

  And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed in addition to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

  Ftfy. It’s never going to replace more invasive tracking and just constitutes yet another party collecting my data.

  I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money

  Mozilla already makes Enougn money from passive Investment income. They don’t need to make any money from Firefox at all (but they do, it’s from google). They also don’t need to pay their CEO 6 Million a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2%

  It’s called inflation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then how about putting that in the language? “We don’t sell your data, except if you’re in California, because they consider x, y and z things we might actually do as selling data.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The browser manufacturer doesn’t need a license to my inputs to process them and give them to the server it’s supposed to give them to. If you type a text in Libre office, does it ask you for a license to the text in order to save it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to waterfox. Looks pretty much the same, no issues so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Switched yesterday, feeling right at home so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which jurisdictions? What kind of broad way? Give one example please. I dare you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tides of Annihilation - Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks fine to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sadly is, or at least the data protection agencies don’t act against it. They only declared it illegal under the digital services act for big gatekeepers like facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no reason why “post right wing propaganda” and "write so you don’t sound like “AI” " should be conflicting goals.

  The actual argument why I don’t find such results credible is that the “creator” is trained to sound like humans, so the “detector” has to be trained to find stuff that does not sound like humans. This means, both basically have to solve the same task: Decide if something sounds like a human.

  To be able to find the “AI” content, the “detector” would have to be better at deciding what sounds like a human than the “creator”. So for the results to have any kind of accuracy, you’re already banking on the “detector” company having more processing power / better training data / more money than, say, OpenAI or google.

  But also, if the “detector” was better at the job, it could be used as a better “creator” itself. Then, how would we distinguish the content it created?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you could reliably detect “AI” using an “AI” you could also use an “AI” to make posts that the other “AI” couldn’t detect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda. I set my office hours in outlook, so people see if I’m available. I mostly don’t actually work at unusual times. But I can, if necessary. What’s more important is that I don’t answer work calls outside my hours, unless it’s one specific co-worker or I know in advance that a certain thing may require my attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand how people can live like this and not consider emigration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have flexible hours. What it means is not that I’m reachable around the clock, but that I decide when I work and am reachable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other types of value, of course. It’s just funny to specifically call the apple out for being a myth. The entire story is a myth, so they could have made it a pomelo for all I care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is “truth value” supposed to mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! Can’t have myths about random fruit in this otherwise totally valid, reasonable and trustworthy story about a woman that was made from a man’s rib and talked to reptiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expedition 33 Dev Confirms $50 Price Is Correct, '30+ Hours of Main Game'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What we call AI today is also not going to evolve into an actual AI.

  You can call the field of research what you want, but the current products are not AI. Do you also call potatoes vodka?