cerebralhawks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what is really happening when Dish/DirecTV (et al) and your local news have beef with each other⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Did my time in customer service. Fast food, and retail (department store). They say everyone should do at least one year. I’ve done about 3 years of it in my life.

  I wasn’t that put off by legitimate customer complaints if I felt I could help them. These days I’d say something like “this is 2026, you know corporations don’t care about you, or me… the least us little guys can do is be decent to each other,” but then they complain to customer service or whatever and I’d be shown the door… funny how savage people are to appease people who don’t care about either of us. Like, will you get a coupon for 10% off your next order if you got someone fired for trying to level with you, and took food off their table? So yeah… but nah, it was the scammers I really didn’t like. I’d rather stock and block (or face, in some stores: moving product to the front, making it look good). You don’t get scammed, Karens/Kevins leave you alone for the most part, you can help people, and you can play with kids (to an extent, like hide from them when they spot you, or wave a toy at them you think they’d like). And you really get to know the store so when people ask where something is or if you have something, you don’t really have to think about it. I also liked working photo.

  I thought retail was uniquely shit in that shit people rise to the top. That was when I was 16-20. Over half my life ago. Yeah, that’s everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Bot? Or just bored?

  I’m not OP, I’m not the one asking. And in my case the game came out like 15 years ago. So, not sure why all the help, but maybe it’ll be useful for someone else? I surely don’t need a lawyer to tell me I can or can’t mention I was in a beta test for a game years ago… certainly don’t need to pay one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you signed a legally-binding Non-Disclosure Agreement and now you wish to disclose something in it?

  You might think you can do it anonymously, but they may have a way of tracing the leak back to you. One thing Apple does and has done is put people on bogus projects that will never see light of day. Report on the Apple game system, the Apple scale, and the Apple running shoes, they can narrow that leak down to you, or you and a couple other people, and drop you (since you weren’t doing anything for them anyway). Stupid examples but you get the point.

  There’s also the canary system, a spy/counterspy method mentioned by Tom Clancy in his Jack Ryan books. I don’t know if it’s real, or if the CIA, Mossad, KGB, or any other intelligence agency actually uses it. The idea is, you tell three friends the same secret, but you change up the details each time and you keep track of who was told what version of the lie. When the lie comes back to you, you know who betrayed you because of the detail only one of them got (the canary that sang).

  (If canary is familiar, you may have also heard the term “warrant canary.” This is a case where someone, say a VPN provider, will put a line of text on their site that says “We have never been asked to provide records on our customers.” Once they get, and are forced to comply with such a request, they remove the line, and people watching it know what’s up. Same concept, actually.)

  So like the last person to reply said, it’s not a good idea. Even if you’re anonymous, you may spill something linked directly to you, and they know you leaked it and can prove it in court.

  I beta tested and signed an NDA about a video game that’s been out for over 10 years now. I still don’t talk about the beta test. I’ve played the commercially released game. I don’t like it. I’ve shared my opinion on those experiences. Only ever told my wife about the beta test. But even so, there was nothing really worth mentioning in the beta test. It was just a little more boring than the commercial version, because they added more shit to do. It’s still a turd, it just now has a couple chocolate sprinkles on it. Or, it’s still a pig, but now it has lipstick on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You may have. I have an S10e as well (I often forget it’s an “e”, since it’s just the base model). I wonder if I could flash it. I’m fine with the carrier firmware since I don’t have cell service on it. That phone only goes up to LTE anyway, not that that’s a big hindrance. Honestly if I could transfer the eSIM between my iPhone 16 Pro Max (which, yes, is five years newer and also the premium iPhone of its line) and the S10, I absolutely would, at least if I could easily go back and forth. The 16PM is absolutely the better phone overall, but I like typing on the S10 more (Gboard) and it has a few other cool features. I have like 50GB of music on its SD card. It has a headphone jack. I’ve used Nova Prime to customise the hell out of the home screen (and theme it after Animal Crossing, because I can). It’s lighter, it’s more comfortable to hold. As far as the OS goes, I don’t have a strong preference. I might like it a bit better on official Samsung firmware though.

  At least I know where to go if I want to go down that road (so, not asking). XDA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely remember the bit about the fuse. I can’t recall if you could flash the firmware or not. You might be right about that. I never owned an S4. I went to HTC after my S3. I regret that. Pretty phone, but what a clustertruck inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m standing by my original statement about the S4. I’m not going to gainsay you about the S5 — you may be right about that. But the conversations I heard were definitely around the S4. The person who replied after you said that it would trip a fuse, and that’s what I remember. They contradict me as well to a point, but the bit about Knox tripping a fuse that software could check is definitely something I remember about the S4.

  My knowledge of the S5 has nothing to do with Knox (I was on iPhone at that point) and everything to do with the port. People give Apple shit for Lightning, and some of them are even aware that Apple was on the USB committee. They were — and when they saw the USB-B cable/connector that the USB committee designed for USB 3, they said hell no. One nice thing about USB-B (micro B, I mean) was that you could plug a USB micro-A cable into the port on one side and it would still work, albeit at USB 2 data and charging speeds. It was an ugly port, and it wasn’t symmetrical, and Apple wanted a real improvement over 30-pin, so they went to Intel and co-developed Lightning with them. So for the iPhone 5s (or base 5?) and onward, iPhones had a symmetrical charging port, which the USB committee followed with USB-C. A lot of Android guys didn’t wanna touch the Galaxy S5/Note 4 on account of the weird new port. Then you had the Galaxy S6/Note 5 that didn’t use that one Qualcomm chip because it had overheating issues, so they used Exynos across the line, and they also experimented with no removable storage (which they would do with either the S20 or S21 and then it became standard).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what is really happening when Dish/DirecTV (et al) and your local news have beef with each other⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That sucks. I mean, it’s out of her control. Of course the satellite services would redirect those calls to people they don’t think much of (no disrespect to your mom, all disrespect to the system) and have no power to change.

  To be fair, I can’t say for certain the local station doesn’t do the same. I’ve never called them — I always felt it would be a waste of their time. (I know what I said, to call them. Most people won’t. But it’s a nice ideal. And some people will.)

  It’s like that old cartoon, I’m not sure if it was Garfield or Dilbert or something else entirely. A comments/compliments box, and then a complaints box that is right over a trash can and presumably has no bottom — complaints go straight into the trash. I think a lot of companies work like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fond memories of using Odin to flash my Galaxy S3 back in the day. I thought Knox killed custom firmware on Galaxy, though — with the S4.

• YSK what is really happening when Dish/DirecTV (et al) and your local news have beef with each other
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They should label the ones made by or with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at Irish employee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, is he offering? I take mine baked. I’d rather be called a potato than to have no potatoes. Sorry if i resemble the remark…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  US TikTok, and that’s the point. Also, we know X is under opposition control. That’s no secret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Think more like… people are getting arrested for simply having/seeing CSAM but the rich people who got exposed actually doing that stuff aren’t getting touched. It’s absolutely about money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. Hard games are having a moment. But rather than some kind of autoplay, how about some kind of built in cheat system?

  I’d rather gaming be accessible to everybody. I’m fine with some games being too hard for me, just so long as I know what they are in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the topic title alone, I’d say Animal Crossing fits the bill. I mean, it’s Sims but you build up your island. You technically colonise the archipelago in the DLC, and you can put castle walls and turrets around your house.

  There are a bunch of games like that. Animal Crossing is just the one I play. It’s made for kids, but it’s secretly (?) post-apocalyptic (I was shocked to find out but apparently it’s kinda common knowledge in the fandom?), but there are others like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit also hates people who criticize child predators.

  I question calling something Nordic if it’s based in Panama and headquartered in Lithuania. I get it, it’s just branding, like how Texas Pete isn’t made in Texas (at least it’s not made in New York City, I suppose) but maybe call it something else?

  IIRC Proton is Nordic, but I don’t know if that makes their VPN better or worse. They do have a free ordering and I use it when I’m on public WiFi because I can, but otherwise can’t vouch for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not touching this game with a barge pole until I read ending spoilers.

  Death flags all over the kid and frankly, I’m not putting in the time to get steamrolled like that. If I learn she definitively does not die at the end, or can be saved, I may play it. But Crapcom makes some stupid ass control decisions, and if the game’s not comfortable to play, I can’t be arsed.

  Another thing that’s just fuckin weird about the trailers… the guy is a human, but you never see his face. He’s always in the robot suit. The little girl, however, is a robot, but you never see her do robot things. Like she doesn’t pull her arm off and put an attachment on or disconnect her head so you can carry “her” more easily through a tough spot… I’m sensing a twist here. I think the whole point of her (why this guy trying to survive is hauling someone else’s child around) is that she’s the magic system, she gives him access to powers (hacking, I guess, but hacking was the magic system of Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex, and others, so it’s fine), but he seems to be the robot between them.

  At the same time I want all those preorder bonuses because all of her DLC outfits look better than whatever that thing is she has in the trailer (makes me think of the kid from Final Fantasy 9).

  Also thought this was PS5 exclusive for some reason. That it’s gonna run on Switch 2 gives me hope. Maybe they’ll do a Mac release at some point (the newer Macs are more powerful than the Switch 2, and cost about the same — I’d say Switch 2 is somewhere around M2 Pro or M3, and they’re up to M5 now).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay, it’s catching on, I don’t have to type it every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia forces porn sites to block under-18s from Monday⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now block under-18s from accessing porn, and take it a step further, and ban any site (including X, including that one Lemmy instance that everyone defederated) for posting porn of under-18s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. And soliciting Epstein for sex with minors. Let’s not forget about that. He was begging to get on the island and get some underage tail. It was pretty pathetic.

  He should be held liable, but he won’t be. Not by people who do the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read (on sites like Ars Technica that cover technology) about dark web sites trading CSAM being shut down. By the FBI in America, by Interpol in the EU… I don’t know what legal grounds they use to do it.

  You don’t think CSAM should be illegal? Or you genuinely don’t understand why it is, or what law it breaks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if any other (smaller) site were continually posting CSAM without moderation, it would be banned. What’s different about X? The fact that Elon Musk runs it and he’s in with a powerful dictator?

  At some point you have to admit the CSAM is not the problem, it’s the person running it, whether they have the power to stop you/fight back or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The ability to hide scores and sitter entirely by new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up votes and down votes tend to move a site toward being an echo chamber.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Votes kind of suck. I have the arrows, but I only use them if someone’s really helpful, really rude, or their post is super useful, or egregiously bad. I sort everything by date, so people dog piling on someone won’t affect their post or comment’s standing in my feed.

  Take the power back and do the same, if you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who liked Discovery and the Abramsverse, I’m wary because I supported Section 31 until I saw it. The Internet was right this time, Section 31 was hot garbage, by far the worst Trek I’ve ever seen. I don’t agree with most of the Internet about a lot of things about Star Trek, but I’m with y’all on that one.

  I will still give SFA a 2-3 episode chance, but I’m waiting for it to finish airing, and we’re watching The Expanse first (in the middle of the first season now). Got a show or two on the docket after that, then we might work it in, but I don’t have high hopes. But I’ve been asking for this series to exist for over 20 years, so I want it to succeed. (Not enough to subscribe to Paramount though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, the off-topic “release the Trump-Epstein files” memes (or tongue-in-cheek references to them)?

  I guess it’s to remind those at the top that we still haven’t forgotten.

  Like the whole post-9/11 thing, “we will never forget.” Except a bunch of similar things happened around the world, Hollywood started cashing in on 9/11, and bringing it up while worse shit was going on kinda faded, but the “pride” of remembering 9/11 stuck around for about a decade. These things have a long shelf life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if you look at any local news anywhere, poor people are being jailed for decades for merely looking at CSAM. And I’m not saying that shouldn’t be illegal. But we have proof the rich and powerful are actually doing the things in those photos and videos. It’s shocking, and it’s still shocking, that they’re getting away with it. And that people are still supporting them.

  That should bother anyone regardless of what country you’re from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Mac and I would like to see it try. Malware? It’s a Mac. (Mac malware exists, but this is probably/likely made for Windows.) Actual Windows? Not in this Christian server M2 Pro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because the Republicans are all voting for Trump. And they’re trying to split the Democrat vote so Trump wins. Nobody’s splitting the Republican vote. But Republicans are spending a small fortune to astroturf on social media to try to split the Democrat vote. I’m not saying everyone saying as you are is Republican funded — a lot of people are buying into the idea and reposting it for free.

  The problem is twofold: One, they think they’re smarter than you and they think you’re their tool. Two, you totally are. (Unless you’re one of the ones at the top pushing it, in which case it’s a similar twofold problem: One, you think you’re smarter than us and you think we’re your tools. Two, a lot of people are falling for it.) I don’t know which one you fit in and I’m not going to assume. I’m just leaving this to help others make up their minds whether or not they wanna get used by the Republicans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is absolutely possible to identify users who post a lot on a public forum with a real name (e.g. Facebook or the like) as well as Reddit. So say you have some politician who claims to have X, Y, Z values and a Reddit user who has A, B, and C values that are antonymous to X, Y, and Z. By comparing common phrases, as well as by charting when the two seemingly separate users are online, you could say with reasonable certainty that the two people are one and the same, especially if you prompt them carefully to say the kinds of things they would say about neutral topics on both accounts. It would be hard to get 100% certainty, but you’d be close enough to imply it’s them.

  AIs (LLMs) just make it faster.

  Don’t post about controversial politics if you also post under your real name. It’s not a matter of “mask yourself better.” There will always be tells.