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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated.

  This is terrifying. Does the BBC not have anyone on the team that understands why this does not, and will never work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, good catch. The others are all slightly different too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use a throwaway email. The point of the account is to sync your watch history and (most importantly), your plugins/configs, which are what do the piracy stuff for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wireguard, or even just jellyfin with a password

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's the best point to jump into modern Resident Evil?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry about the story. They’re all pretty much disconnected, and it’s better to think of them as standalone stories with a shared (but ultimately inconsequential) universe.

  If you haven’t played the RE 2 remake, start there. It’s IMO the best resident evil game of all time. I have a ton of nostalgia for OG RE1, but this remake is spectacular.

  I beat both 7 and 8 but forgot the story, so there ya go. IIRC, 8 is a sequel to 7, with the same main character, so it might be smart to play 7 first. Both are great, but it’ll take a bit to get settled in with the first person view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe dead capacitors? If you don’t have a multimeter and soldering iron, this is a good excuse to get/learn those things!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just remembered that I’m the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

  Guess it’s time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s the guy in the bottom left?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic, but is there a name for that grin/facial expression? It’s like technically a grin, yet devoid of any real emotion. Feels like it’s trying to not commit too much into an emotion, maybe even for calculated social engineering reasons. I see it in the Godot logo as well.

  In my head, I’ve taken to calling it “the autistic stare” due to the confused/vague communication of an emotion, but idk if that’s offensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both. I’m strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it’s the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

  In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

  Tbh, they’re very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don’t really have that many arguments ready to go. I’m sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they’re guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don’t.

  That’s why it’s not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it’s not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed' as Coup-Plotting Ex-Pres Bolsonaro Arrested⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  De Moraes said Bolsonaro’s tampering with his monitor fed his suspicions that he would attempt to flee the country in “the confusion that would be caused by a demonstration organized by his son," according to The Associated Press.

  Looks like it’s time for another arrest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no “simple fundamental flaw” in AI that people don’t know about. It bothers me when people who have never thought about x in their life think about x once, make an obvious observation, and then go off acting like nobody else is smart enough to have made that observation. It’s narcissism. It’s annoying.

  Please prove me wrong though. I would love to see this grift come crashing down all because you saw something that nobody else saw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently (a few months ago) built a new high-end server for my homelab, and bought 512GB of DDR4 ECC RAM for around $510. I just looked it up, and those exact same modules are around $2.5k to $3.5k for the same amount. That’s more than I paid for the entire machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔥🔥🔥⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter. It’s a rumor that one US president sucked off another US president, except there’s a sliver of credibility in it. It’s one of the least likely things imaginable, yet here it is showing up in a context where you can’t just completely dismiss it as an obvious shitty joke. This is probably going to become one of the most iconic and significant memes in American history, even if it turns out to be false. Our great grandkids will be joking about it in their locker rooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔥🔥🔥⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the emails also show that they knew how to get politicians to owe them favors. Pretending like Bubba is someone so Trump owes him one is well within the behavior we’ve seen discussed in the files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn those headphones you have are from the pre-enshitiffication era. Cherish them!

  The headphones work without the app fortunately, but you need it to control EQ settings, isolation settings, and install firmware updates. They’re kinda like the shitty software that PC gaming peripherals ship to control LED colors or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using “Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones” manufactured in 2024, according to the app. I can’t find any model number, but I just looked up the order in my email and it turns out I’ve actually only had it for a little over a year, and the price was a ridiculous $380. Luckily, I only ended up paying around $200 because I had reward points with the vendor, but I would definitely not recommend these to anyone at $400. At $200? Maybe, but I wouldn’t buy it again at that lower price.

  My ears fit in the cups, but they still get tired sometimes after wearing them the entire day. Idk what to tell you, I guess my ears are too big and brush up against the inside of the cups? It’s not a real issue for me, and doesn’t happen often, which is why I didn’t even mention comfort as being a problem.

  Do you really not experience any of the software issues I mentioned? The Bose app even says I’m on the latest firmware version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually have been using those Bose QC over the ear ones for a few years now (and I already had to replace the pads once), and they’re not great. IIRC I paid like $300, and they’re definitely not worth that much. I’m not that picky about sound quality, but the UX is terrible. Powering it on is a crap shoot. Sometimes you press the button, and 5 seconds later it plays a sound to indicate it turned on. Sometimes it takes 10 seconds, sometimes more. Sometimes it doesn’t even turn on, and you just sit there doing nothing waiting to see if it decided to turn on this time, or if you have to hold the button for ~30 seconds to get it unstuck. Sometimes that sound that plays when powering on even gets interrupted by the bluetooth connection notice. Sometimes, it gets stuck in a loop switching between sound isolation modes, just endlessly saying “Aware. Immersion. Quiet.” until you intervene.

  It’s also hard to simply wear them around your neck when your ears get tired and you just want to use them as tiny speakers. This is for two reasons. First, the placement of the physical buttons on the side of the cups means that they will accidentally get pressed when the cups collide (which will happen when you wear them around your neck). Second, they will constantly pause whenever they get close to your chin, as they’ll think you took them off your head. That part is overly sensitive, and they were too cheap/lazy to add a simple sensor to detect the rotation of the cups to know when they’re not being used over-ear.

  And finally, the battery life is not good enough to last an entire work day, so you’ll have to connect them to power… except, for some reason, connecting a usb cable to charge causes it to shutdown immediately. You can use them while charging, but you have to power them back on/reconnect them after connecting the cable, which means you have to play the annoying waiting/guessing game again with the power button!

  I have other complaints, but whatever. When they’re working, they’re fine, but I’m probably done with Bose. These little issues on such an expensive product left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t know how Sony’s over the ear headphones compare, but the in-ear ones I have are amazing simply because they work as intended 99% of the time without any of this kind of bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol this reminds me of that time the US Air Force built a giant compute cluster using PlayStation 3s. Idk if Sony sold those at a loss, but they certainly didn’t see any game purchases coming from the US Department of Defense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They make some pretty good bluetooth headphones though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • New home console (called “GabeCube”)
  • New Steam controller
  • New VR Headset (called “Steam Frame”)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW, to answer your original question: just because someone is a lawyer doesn’t mean that can’t also know how to sew. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a darning egg or two in a legal professional’s briefcase. They do have to wear fancy suits, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These types of posts worry me because I can’t tell how much of it is a joke, and how much of it is sincere. It’s starting to feel like the healthy skepticism towards Valve that existed before is now mutating into Apple fanboy shit.

  Valve is a monopolist. Maybe you happen to like them, but they’re still a monopolist. They have a monopoly on PC gaming, and you’re cheering for them to have a monopoly on smartphones? Maybe you think they’ll be “better” monopolists than Apple or Google, but they’re still fucking monopolists. Monopolization is the root cause of the enshittification epidemic, and a lot of the inequality and just obviously-broken shit in the economy. It’s no coincidence the Trump admin is so eagerly supporting consolidation, and his FTC has stopped absolutely zero mergers.

  This is the non-political version of the “leopards ate my face party” joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This fascist wave is really bringing out all the cockroaches in our society. It’s a good thing you can’t erase anything on the internet, as this type of evidence will probably be useful in the future.

  You’d better get in on a crypto grift, Kelly Shue of the Yale School of Management. I suspect you’ll have a hard time finding work within the next 1-3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … You bathe in your bathroom sink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t you use a washcloth inside a shower? Why do you think sitting in a pool of your own grime is cleaner than having a shower wash it down the drain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner tells me on the rare occasion when I smell bad, so there’s no reason to think they’re saving my feelings. I can also smell the change.

  Is that the case? Or do they only tell you once the smell becomes unbearable? Usually, when you reach the point that you can smell your own stank, it’s really bad for other people. Have you had an open conversation with them about this? It’s an awkward topic for most people. If you’re so adamantly defending your point here on the internet anonymously, I wonder if you’re more defensive about it IRL, and off-putting to people who would otherwise be honest with you.

  In any case, one of us is delusional here. You? Me? I don’t think we’ll reach a consensus on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, you’re trying to make your point sound reasonable and well thought-out, but then you write stuff like

  I don’t wash in the shower what I wash out of the shower.

  Wtf does that mean? Your hands? Your face? Your asshole?

  I’m not a doctor, but I’ve been on this earth for enough decades to have met all kinds of people with different showering habits. Those that don’t shower daily are easy to identify, either by their smell up close, or by their oily skin from a distance. Maybe you’re an anomaly, and should be studied by doctors for your superior anti-stink genes?

  My partner wouldn’t lie to me about this, which I know because sometimes they do tell me I need a shower.

  Different people have different sensitivity to smells. I’ve known two people who have no sense of smell (and one of them habitually stinks). Maybe your partner likes your stench? Maybe they just tolerate it because they love you?

  Again, I don’t care how you live your life, esp since it’s unlikely I’ll ever have to smell you. I have no ill-will towards you, and hope you live a long and happy life. But for the sake of curiosity and internet conversation, I’m not backing down from my position if all you have is a “just trust me bro”.