whotookkarl
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- Comment on Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them 15 hours ago:
Disaffected, alienated, hostile come to mind
wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)
It’s cult tactics cynical manipulators in those unmoderated spaces use to indoctrinate young adults and kids to exploit and groom. They target kids who don’t have defenses to their tactics yet, either their education didn’t yet include how to critically evaluate evidence & propositions or they just weren’t mentally ready for that responsibility before engaging with predators. They want to seem edgy and offer truths on topics the kids’ parents or teachers may not be willing to engage with to draw them in to appear like they have some knowledge or power to offer other than just hate and anger.
- Comment on Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them 16 hours ago:
That can sometimes be an outcome of a moral choice after accepting nihilism (what are ethics beyond our without objective meanings?), but there’s nothing necessarily relating desires for chaos and destruction to subjectivism and nihilism. Some nihilists are all about order and building so the reason they gave is bogus. They just feel the word has negative connotations so they used it without understanding what it means. It would be like saying they are jaywalkers who just want to watch the world burn. Some of them may be jaywalkers, but it’s not the motivation for them being there or necessary for them being there in those spaces.
- Comment on How can i casual gamer enter a game online competition? 1 day ago:
lichess.org FOSS run by a nonprofit with tons of players and game modes if anyone is looking to get into it
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 day ago:
Curious when the last time business insider quoted a labor leader without a CEO or capitalist shill quoted inn the same article.
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 day ago:
I enjoy more arcade style racing games so over the last few years the ones I enjoyed the most were burnout paradise and the remake, trackmania, and fortza horizon 4 and 5
- Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar? 1 day ago:
I played some tourneys through CAL in counterstrike a long time ago and there was some tough competition on the amateur side. The pros were on another level from most amateur teams but a few of the amateur teams could still give them some competition.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 days ago:
Google already changed logged out YouTube to a single row of recommendations and a button to login on roku and Android shield when it used to look like the logged in version just a couple weeks ago. Probably the kick I needed to get off, mostly just using it for a couple smaller call-in/debate streamers I can switch to a podcast or other version.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 2 days ago:
Pillars of eternity 1 and 2, octopath traveler, Chrono trigger, streets of rage, sonic 1-3, and doom eternal were all pretty amazing
- Comment on Why autonomous systems should mirror the structure of biological intelligence 3 days ago:
I’m getting an access denied error trying to view it through a VPN, tried multiple different country exits
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 5 days ago:
Unregulated capitalism is fascism
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 6 days ago:
Unrelated this stuff can be used to shatter concrete or cinder blocks by drilling a few holes and dumping it inside followed by some water. Just in case anyone was curious.
- Comment on Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer 6 days ago:
Same, played the first into late game and
Tap for spoiler
Secret classes/bosses
Second I played most of the characters to their third quest maybe about halfway though the game and the day/night addition was fun but the narrative style and level gating in the second could use more work imo.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 6 days ago:
Not a hot dog
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 1 week ago:
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
Don’t let yourself become a caricature of yourself, step outside your self expectations and find ways to face your fears.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 1 week ago:
The last human to paint the last painting, to poop the last human poop. Maybe we’ll be replaced by one or more progeny species, maybe it’ll be the end of the line for the great apes all together.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 week ago:
I played terminal velocity, kind of like the ‘we have descent at home’
Also around that time there was a game Magic Carpet EA published that had a similar feel
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 week ago:
Doom WADs, elder scrolls mods, Unity, mega man maker
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Stilsuits: get it for the unbearable heat as we turn the Earth into a desert, now with wifi blocking!
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 week ago:
Yeah they’re not going for productivity, they’re an AI company. They just want the appearance of it to juice up their valuation or to stroke an executive’s ego.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 week ago:
That’s ok, they can promise more because there’s a special privileged ‘preferred’ stock that the bigger investors and executives get that’s prioritized for sales and dividends before anyone else’s.
- Comment on bad board games 2 weeks ago:
Looks like someone wrote a pretty recent dissertation on the subject
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=e…
The Downside of Wealth: Toward a Psychopathology of Money Accumulation, Noah Laracy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017
For a summary of a summary wealthy people have better health and quality of life, which shouldn’t surprise anyone due to the food, housing, access to healthcare, etc security money buys currently, and when controlling for age (comparing like aged individuals instead of only looking at wealth) paranoia increases with wealth.
Full text www.proquest.com/openview/…/1?pq-origsite=gschola…
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to check out some classics look up project 1999 for EverQuest or the classic world of warcraft servers
Modern I don’t think there’s much I can recommend, even the subscription based games have stores attached now
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 2 weeks ago:
I like to keep all my eggs in one basket, that way you can really keep an eye on them.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
I’m still feeling that part out since it’s only been about a week, a full charge can last me multiple days and the battery in my pixel 5 was pretty run down. Fully charged 25.5hr ago & pretty heavy use yesterday and I’m at 63%, the 5 would have been twice dead by now.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and it comes with very few by default as well
No restart needed, pull down twice and the switcher is on the bottom right. Usually takes just a couple seconds to switch.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
So far it’s been good for about a week. Highlights have been the easy install, secure by default but lets me override when I want (block app network access on install is awesome), and getting access to the other app repos than Google’s I haven’t seen since I installed dirty unicorns years ago. I setup multiple users so I can keep me primary like a root which was also simple to do.
Only complaints I have are when I get messages on another user than primary I can see the messages in the app but not the message content in the notification, its just a genetic alert message like new messages received. Nice to have but not going to make me switch back.
Also I did install the Google app store to get a couple paid apps and calendar/contacts I need to move out of Google. It does sandbox by default which is really cool and i think should be required for phone manufacturers. I just disabled services/store/calendar access to the network after I let it download everything.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost like the organization itself is designed to make things worse if it means short term profits, useful and appreciated apps sacrificed at the altar of line goes up
My Nexus 5 recently broke and the only reason I went with a pixel 9a was too install grapheneOS on it as soon as I got it. The process has become way easier than it used to be. After setting up/skipping all the first run screens I plugged it into another Android device and used the grapheneOS site to run the install, took like 15 min.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Some people will leave, the rest will ride it out as Reddit continues to transform itself into Facebook
