spamfajitas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’ll function like Twitch where you can get tons of people banned all at once by getting them to say they’re under 13.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always thispersondoesnotexist.com if you need a lifelike photo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve referred to this as the death of the expert, apparently there’s also a book similarly titled that covers the same concept.

  I highly recommend anyone interested to look up Operation Mindfuck, how it worked and where some of the Discordians that took part ended up going later in their lives. I would also argue removing sources of authority like news organizations, or at least ruining their legitimacy, is a part of pushing the population towards chapel perilous.

  As for the concerns about funding a news coop, I wonder if the relative success of Dropout tv would be a good model? The only other successful organization in an unsuccessful format I can think of is The Onion, but they had a major investor save them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I no longer deal with spam calls all day long because they get routed to Google Assistant/Gemini first and the AI agent filters the call for me. It has been pretty great like 99% of the time, I fully expect Google to kill it somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to go back every now and then and play through some of the more creative WADs people made over time. It blows my mind there’s even a working copy of Chex Quest with added content out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Redacted or recanted? One of these is definitely preferable to the other in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s crazy is how inconsistent the problems seem to be. I’ve got a 4080 Super and a decent processor, and I’m getting 120-140fps with most settings as high as they can go with frame gen on at 1440p. Only crashed once in about 40 hours of gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually if you’re learning Arabic for religious reasons, it’s going to be Modern Standard Arabic or MSA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds kinda similar to how Wikipedia was approached by instructors. I remember an English teacher proudly proclaiming she had participated in a “Kill Wikipedia” seminar at a convention. Just a few years later, they’re instructing students on how to properly use Wikipedia as a starting point and not a primary source.