moopet

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Sure.

But someone offered it $100 for a six pack of Bru and it declined, and they’re taking this as a hilarious failure, because a real human would be a real scumbag and take the cash pretending it was the right amount. So it’s not capitalist-level evil yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I would imagine they’ve at least talked about trying get people to enter credit card details. I know that’s been pushed before, as early as the 2000s, for age verification on some sites. Obviously it’s terrible for privacy, data breaches and flat-out fake sites just harvesting card numbers or taking all your cash at point of verification.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I pay money to ride on the bus and still see ads there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I was at school, the kids would say, “my dad’s shed is bigger than your dad’s shed”. But that was a long time ago, and we each had a child’s view of the world. Most of us grew up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Premium lite”? What is this doublespeak?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When people have tried this they found you can’t just stay awake. Your brain ends up turning bits of itself off at a time, so while you can talk and move around you’re basically not fully conscious and will mix up words or not be able to move at the same time. They called it “microsleep”, and it’s the main reason why nobody tries to go for longer without sleep any more: beyond a certain point you’re not really awake or asleep.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You could do that with any of them. Super strong? Crushes friends when trying to hug them, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The Gulf of Obliviousness
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Languages and nationalities are not a one-to-one match anyway. What would you expect from a Canadian flag? French, or English? The USA has NO official language, so that makes even less sense.

I wish people would stop trying to replace words with cute little images.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have never met a woman named after her own mother⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My partner has the same name as her mother.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I have a Binatone one in a crate here with essentially the same selection of games on it. It was a really common thing to clone, there was one chip that played them all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, Radofin was a UK-only brand.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
1. The same is true for Bsky but people don’t complain about it there. It asks you what server you want when you sign up, etc., which is what people complain about in the Mastodon journey.
2. Most people aren’t on locked servers. By which, I mean the majority of mastodon users are on the .social instance which is the default when you sign up on the official app/site and is open to anyone.
3. Not an accessibility issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’d be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return “nope” or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it’s serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.

Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you’re using dd backwards and as root, you can’t do anything bad, and even then it’s the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you “destroy”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
most firmware releases will be to fix something with the online service anyway. If it displays stuff coming down a wire from your PC when you buy it, it probably never needs an update.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If we ban people from “earning” over a certain amount, they’ll get round it through “gifts” or exchange in-kind or something, right? Same with ads. If we ban them, then product placement with plausible deniability will be rife, paid through essentially money-laundering methods, worse than it is now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’s not talking about tracking emotions from looking at the viewer, it’s tracking the emotions in the script of the thing they’re watching, so it knows what they like.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s just the addition of “AI”. We’ve been doing the same thing for a long time. I used to work for an advertising data company over a decade ago, and they filtered all the ads for one of the big channels’ streaming services in exactly the same way just with regular algorithms rather than AI. It’s what would make ads for men’s razors appear in the middle of a soap opera at 11PM because it knew the user was a man getting home from the pub.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
For a long time now, the entry point to mastodon (joinmastodon.org) has had the default option as being “join mastodon.social”, with an option to choose a different server delegated to a secondary button. This compares to bsky, which shows you a dropdown of servers to choose from, defaulting to “bluesky social”.

It’s a tiny difference in UI; both have a default and offer an alternative. Why do people say it’s difficult on mastodon, while bluesky users are apparently not confused by the same option? Even if the option on bsky is basically a joke so far.