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- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 1 day ago:
a 150 year sentence for killing a 150 year old tree would be nice
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 day ago:
Because they know it’s not accurate and explicitly mention it so you know where this information comes from.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
I think the Netherlands has the highest amount of L2 English speakers.
In the Netherlands, the English language can be spoken by the vast majority of the population, with estimates of English proficiency reaching 90%[1] to 97%[2] of the Dutch population.
- Comment on Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions 5 days ago:
Extremely troubling.
- Comment on Jury shown CCTV of alleged assault on police at Manchester Airport 1 week ago:
That police officer kicking the face of the guy on the ground makes me more mad than the guys fighting back against the police.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
Loot boxes are far more predatory than gambling. They are literally advertised in games that children play.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
It’s the same as fighting against “fake news” which just creates a false trust that everything on the internet is truth. Which is the opposite of what one should believe.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
Many European age verification services can verify the age without giving them any data. It works like OAuth. You get redirect to a portal where you login with your citizen ID and you’ll get redirected back to the website.
How it would work in practice is still too soon to say. Maybe they’ll also share other details such as your name or citizen id number to make sure you can only have a single account on the website. I wouldn’t want this either.
Keep in mind that all kinds of age verification like this just shifts a lot of porn into the underground and will increase identity fraud. The illegal sale of hacked verified porn accounts will also become as valuable as porn accounts on paid websites.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable.
Incorrect. Only in a capitalist hellhole like America. In the rest of the world this would never be a problem. Just release the server code under MIT and let the community fix it. Also make sure you can manually setup a masterserver in the game itself, or implement direct connect functionality.
many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
Same answer as before. Release the online part under the MIT license. Not your problem anymore at that point. You can still require an original game license for the game itself. We’re only talking about the server software here.
We welcome the opportunity to discuss our position with policy makers and those who have led the European Citizens Initiative in the coming months.
We, the people, have been discussing this for at least a decade now. Get over it and stop trying you capitalist pigs.
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 1 week ago:
Vencord is not an app by itself. It injects into Discord.
Vesktop is a client that comes with Vencord and is much easier to maintain, especially on Linux.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 2 weeks ago:
This.
They also have a form to submit AI crawlers.
CloudFlare can also easily maintain an anti AI crawler service completely by itself if it takes a fee on top of their pay per crawl functionality. However, considering CloudFlare already has all the tools and infrastructure to do this cheaply, providing a good service wouldn’t be too hard.
- Comment on There is a reality-translator built into me. It translates raw reality into the familiar time, space, things, people etc. 2 weeks ago:
Now go one step further; It isn’t a translator but a creator. It manifests the self outwards.
And another step further; The logic of the universe, is re-created in every moment, backwards into time.
Look up Solipsism.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
Lmao.
What a joke.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 weeks ago:
I have the feeling Israel is a US puppet state that is being used to take control over the Middle East. (And destroy Islam while they are at it)
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 2 weeks ago:
That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.
Yes. Separating the people is an extremely strong tool in the authoritarian handbook. It is such a strong tool that the things it accomplishes are too much to list here. There are a lot of books on the matter. I think it’s even explained in some of the CIA books.
What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?
This is not completely correct. People fighting back against their oppressors sends an extremely strong message. And it even goes both way. For example, the attack on the USA Capitol of January 6th gave these Magazis a lot of power because they saw unity in their oppression.
The good thing is that there’s always more good people than bad.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 2 weeks ago:
That’s impossible. “Make America Great Again” is a slogan that he can only abuse as long as there are problems. If he wants to stay in power it’s in his best interest to create problems. It’s what fascists dictators have been doing since forever. Even if there are no problems they will point towards something and make you think it is a problem, so they can market themselves as the solution.
- Comment on Global cocaine market hit new record highs: UNODC 2 weeks ago:
Seems like people just want to do some cocaine.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 4 weeks ago:
Cooked al dente?
- Comment on CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function 4 weeks ago:
This is awesome news but I thought this news was already from a few months ago.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 4 weeks ago:
Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?
- Comment on Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box 4 weeks ago:
Like any proud parent would do.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 4 weeks ago:
I guess the trick is to not look for stuff to host because you’ll end up with all kinds of things you weren’t doing in the first place.
- Comment on Diablo 2 on Linux 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Israel: Euphoria gives way to fear after Iranian missiles rain down on Tel Aviv 4 weeks ago:
lol
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
Great. I always wanted a premium 911 subscription. If the lines are full it just disconnects somebody and connects me instead.
19.99/month for an operator with a decent microphone.
79.99/month for 2 operators at the same time.
- Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica 4 weeks ago:
China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.
They also release the most polluted nuclear waste water into the ocean. They had one propaganda campaign where they were condemning the release of Fukushima waste water by Japan, even though there are 10 Chinese nuclear plants that each release around 3 times as much pollution.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 4 weeks ago:
Bots were a big reason why I didn’t continue playing Naraka. A battle royale that has bots is just awful. I’d rather have long queues than a BR lobby with a handful of people.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 5 weeks ago:
I’m saying blackhat hackers can make far more money off the exploit by itself. I’ve seen far worse techniques being used to sell services for hundreds of dollars and the people behind those are making thousands. An example is the slow bruteforcing of blocked words on YouTube channel as they might have blocked their name, phone number, or address.
What you’re talking about is playing both sides, and that is just not worth doing for multiple reasons. It’s very obvious when somebody is doing that. People don’t just find the same exploit at the same time in years old software.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 5 weeks ago:
In all fairness. Machine learning in chess engines is actually pretty strong.
AlphaZero was developed by the artificial intelligence and research company DeepMind, which was acquired by Google. It is a computer program that reached a virtually unthinkable level of play using only reinforcement learning and self-play in order to train its neural networks. In other words, it was only given the rules of the game and then played against itself many millions of times (44 million games in the first nine hours, according to DeepMind).
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 5 weeks ago:
Chances that such an old exploit get found at the same time by a whitehat and a blackhat are very small. It would be hard not to be suspicious.