ter_maxima
@ter_maxima@jlai.lu
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day ago:
Publishers are cancer. Self publish whenever possible !
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
The same game I have played every week for 15 years : Minecraft.
- Comment on X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now ex-CEO 2 days ago:
Hope she has an ex from the south of England that she gets back together with.
Then that person will be the Sussex ex-ex of X’s ex-ceo !
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 2 days ago:
Add a whole bunch of white on white nonsense ! You can also insert letters in the middle of words with a font size of 0, although that fucks up a human copy-pasting too, so probably not recommended.
The simplest way is to make your CV an image, and include no OCR data (or nonsense OCR data) in the PDF
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 2 days ago:
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.
- Comment on AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer 3 days ago:
Universities have not been in the business if monetizing knowledge for decades, if not centuries.
Knowledge has been easy to access for a LONG time. Universities give you access to a well constructed curriculum, competent teachers, and a certificate you actually learnt the material somewhat decently.
American universities are too expensive, yes, but American anything means you pay more and you get less, so singling out universities is missing the forest for a tree (even if arguably one of the biggest of those trees)
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 3 days ago:
Real life people use Threads !? I guess that speaks more to Twitter’s decline than Threads’ success that the numbers are getting close…
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 days ago:
We really need a new version
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 days ago:
Maybe it says more about me than about game pass, but even at 5€ a month it would be significantly more money than I spend on games every year.
Not that I couldn’t afford it, but I mostly play games that are at least 5 to 10 years old, either on second-hand physical copies or heavily discounted sales/keyshops. The most recent game I’ve bought is Elden Ring, even then only recently because I found a cheap physical copy.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 5 days ago:
I don’t care what bias they do and don’t have ; if you use an LLM to select résumés, you don’t deserve to hire me. I make my résumé illegible for LLMs on purpose.
( But don’t follow my advice. I don’t actually need a job so I can pull this kinda nonsense and be selective, most people probably can’t )
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 5 days ago:
Game Pass is the same scam as Netflix was back then, and I’m not falling for it twice.
Netflix used to be too good yo be true as well. 10€ a month for literally everything ! Now they don’t even make blu-rays anymore and you spend more time looking up which service has the thing you want to watch than watching it, so people are pirating again.
I’ll stick to physical games and GOG as much as possible.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 5 days ago:
As a 1998 French Zoomer, they were never allowed in class, and only allowed at recess in high school.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 6 days ago:
But they don’t have GrapheneOS 😟
- Comment on Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked 1 week ago:
No, the fact it’s technically legal doesn’t mean you have to make it easy for them.
- Comment on Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked 1 week ago:
If they could stop blocking real users at the same time they block AI crawlers, that would be nice.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 week ago:
While this is bad for the market, it’s also entirely expected.
Xbox have been producing sub-par hardware with names no one can remember and barely any exclusives, it was only a matter of time.
To other Europeans : do you know anyone who owns an Xbox ? I’ve only ever had one single friend in middle school who had a 360. I’ve never seen any other model outside of an electronics store.
Their current gen is hamstrung by the existence of the Series S, and the utter lack of features in their controllers (no gyroscope or any motion sensors ? No advanced rumble ? No touchpad ?). No one who is serious about controller gaming buys an Xbox controller, especially because of the lack of gyro.
Their dedication to digital-only and pushing the games pass also alienates anyone who wishes to play physical games and/or offline.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
They kinda murdered the game for me when they made it so easy to switch servers during play and avoid ever fighting anyone…
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
This is why I chose to get a Corsair Virtuoso, which has a removable microphone.
- Comment on New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click. 2 weeks ago:
Idk about emoji, but other obscure unicode symbols would be very useful. You wouldn’t believe how often one needs the alchemical symbols for the 4 elements !
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
I love reading a basic text article on the modern internet…
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 2 weeks ago:
Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
I hope they will atop doing that eventually…
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
Nope. “Content unavailable” no matter what I do.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
Every video fails to play, the only solution I’ve been recommended SK far is to disable my VPN but I don’t want to for privacy reasons.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
That seems like a good solution for some people, but personally I would like to keep Google Play off my device unless I’m actually forced yo install it.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
If only NewPipe worked…
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 2 weeks ago:
The most important thing about social media is the first word : it’s social
This sounds like a technically impressive medium, but if it fails to get a healthy community (which means, not just 4chan bros) then it will die.
- Comment on Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X 2 weeks ago:
Turns out “free speech” on a platform controlled by one guy can only ever be a lie.
- Comment on Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack 2 weeks ago:
CloudFlare keeps blocking me, so I take their accomplishments with a grain of salt.
Their mitigation comes at the cost of legitimate users being blocked, despite correctly identifying the bicycles in 16 different captchas in a row…
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to disable my VPN, I’ll try again later to see if it’s fixed.
