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- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 day ago:
Same tactic used by scammers sending “bad” messages - it’s at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Didn’t they just get busted for leaking their verification data that they totally weren’t keeping?
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 1 week ago:
Easier to ignore the nicotine stains.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
Itch is exclusively indie devs, afaik, but since Steam started their Greenlight initiative, the number of games released per year has rocketed up. 2012, the year Greenlight started, only 441 games were released on steam. Two years later in 2014, almost 1500 games were released. 2017 released 5600. 2021 released 10,200. And last year had over 21k. How much of that do we think is really DRM’d, AAA published software?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
In terms of straight numbers, isn’t Steam’s large “advantage” there it’s offering of independent, mostly unregulated games from small time devs? Are those really using drm? Even if there are, I don’t really think most users are choosing Steam over GOG for access to “Asset Flip #57354”.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
unessisaryunecessaryJust a little correction.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
Just to be clear, distributing on Steam adds nothing functional to a game’s playability on the Steam Deck (afaik). A game from GOG can be played in a Deck just as well as one from Steam, albeit with slightly more effort.
That said, I know customers will flow toward the path of least resistance, so even a little more effort will push them towards a different source.
- Comment on xkcd #3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord 2 weeks ago:
Better than a screwdriver? Hmmm, I’m gonna leave the building anyhow.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Anyone as in “a single person”. They don’t mean everyone has access.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 weeks ago:
Oh, sick. I guess this is just PS5 cause it’s a Sony vid. Thanks!
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 weeks ago:
PS5 exclusive? Uggghhh.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 2 weeks ago:
Gotta channel your inner Happy Gilmore and just taaaap the gas. Tap, tap, taaaap the gas.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 2 weeks ago:
Cotton doesn’t wick anything, it absorbs it. And if you’re sweating enough that it’s a problem, remove layers until it isn’t. That’s the point of them.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 3 weeks ago:
Ah shit, I hadn’t thought of that. Hopefully this gives them a kick to upgrade their system or get something of their own.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 3 weeks ago:
I doubt Vimeo was putting up numbers that actually competed, either, but it was there as an alternative.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 weeks ago:
Terraria’s also getting it’s next major update in a week, so it’s a great time to get into it.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 3 weeks ago:
Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
Even one or two seems like it’d be catastrophic. And if nothing’s changed until they enter the workforce and start fucking shit up, I’d say that’s something like 10 years of teens becoming dependent on it and losing out on critical education and development (presuming worst case - no market crash). That’s a lot of damage.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
And students who are using it in school aren’t learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them.
This is the one that really concerns me. It feels like generations of students are just going to learn to push the slop button for any and everything they have to do. Even if these bots were everything techbros claimed they are, this would still be devastating for society.
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 3 weeks ago:
This is something I don’t see talked about enough. The real reason CEOs and corpos are so blindly committed to making this happen is because they think the end result will be a fully automated workforce that will be far cheaper and 100% under their control.
- Comment on Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And the Administration is lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover. 3 weeks ago:
Not pertinent.
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Yet.
Not ever, really.
:::spoiler Movie premise spoiler(?) The movie’s real focus is ethics in wartime journalism. They could’ve been documenting any war and the plot would remain largely the same, including radical local groups taking advantage of the chaos to inflict harm and death. The closest it comes to being vaguely relevant is the suggestion that such a conflict could happen at all in the US. No part of the movie really focuses on the why or how of the conflict - just typical war-torn country stuff. :::
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t they, though? fallout.wiki/wiki/Vault_11
- Comment on Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And the Administration is lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover. 3 weeks ago:
It’s fine. Not nearly as pertinent as OP is making it seem, though.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Dæmon core? What did I say about murdering people? 4 weeks ago:
Worse, the fool knew the risks and had a much safer alternative, but did it that way anyhow just to flex. Extra dumb since his longtime colleague had died just 6 months earlier from the very same core.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 weeks ago:
has done a lot of damage
Not enough
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 4 weeks ago:
Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her?
It’s almost like that’s my point.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 4 weeks ago:
she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.
Texts would show up on phone records.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 weeks ago:
“That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”
“Like, I’m not gonna be able to replace these losers if they don’t fix this piece of shit tech for me, will I?”
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 4 weeks ago:
After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her.
How was this not handled within 24 hours by checking the fucking phone records??