Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on PIGS GONNA PIG 2 days ago:
The Github has very academic exercisy python code that created hypothetical overlays that are indistinguishable from small specks of dirt, which could result in a hypothetical sticker.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 days ago:
I hope they put out the last FF VII remake part before that, so i can finally start playing them all! I don’t care what they want to waste their money on afterwards lol
- Comment on PIGS GONNA PIG 2 days ago:
This would get you in hot water with real life cops soon. Better go for adversarial patterns:
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 5 days ago:
That’s because of the awful spaghetti code that is the basis of Space Engineers. I gave up on that game years ago, because those devs were vibe coding before it was cool, and it shows.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 5 days ago:
ProtonMail does not log things by default, but they can still be court ordered to do so by swiss authorities - if you want to run any business at all, you have to submit to a jurisdiction, you can only choose which one to run under. And even if your chosen authority is alright by itself, it can still be misled by other jurisdictions like the French did, using the terror-cudgel against climate activists.
I can also recall that in this case Proton said that had their user actually bothered to use any VPN, even Proton’s, there wouldn’t have been anything to give to authorities except for an exit node IP.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 1 week ago:
Individuals can apply for registration of a fixed camera which must be approved by the privacy agency of the state. If it is approved, you can film into public space, but normally this comes with rules like the anonymization of visible faces and car plates when you are a normal citizen.
Without doing this you are allowed to place a camera for constant monitoring at a fixed place if it films your private property only.
For normal businesses the same rules apply, although you might get a camera approved which watches the area around your entry/exit easier.
Those rules made dashcams illegal in most of the EU, but legislation has caught up in those cases in a few countries - but not all yet.
- Comment on YSK that Li Rui is one of the most important figure in Chinese history. Many Chinese people don't know about him. 1 week ago:
Well that was an roller coaster! It’s interesting that he could stay defiant and still live, even if came at a great personal loss. It look like in the end they just kept him around because they grew accustomed to his dissent.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
I would say no, since it’s too sycophantic which can lead down some dangerous paths.
In many countries there are NGOs or social services that can offer therapy cheaper, but it’s hard to say exactly without knowing where you are. I read your other replies and based on what you wrote, you have had a pretty rough youth; you don’t learn to hide stuff on the regular if your environment is accepting. If you ever get the chance for psychotherapy, take it.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 1 week ago:
Ah i didn’t know that Boll is responsible for those movies lol - his movies are trash, but sometimes fun to watch while sneering about the film.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 1 week ago:
great, sometimes a bad movie is exactly what you need lol
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
That’s more like he has been lobotomized because it was too woke, the new one gets the “christian childhood"-treatment
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 1 week ago:
She was my second crush! I recently discovered that there are Bloodrayne Movies; i did not check imdb yet how trash they are lol
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Piping mouse 1 week ago:
yeah, that’s called bondage
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 weeks ago:
I agree - it’s so busy that trying to learn from that just will lead to more confusion. The only thing this is good for is for showing the variety of organic chemistry, and it doesn’t even do a good job at it.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 weeks ago:
This does not ring a bell at all - It makes sense to look at it this way around, might have helped back then. But when i remember how old my professor was back then, and looking at how “new” the concept is, i’m pretty sure that he didn’t think too fondly of such newfangled stuff.
It didn’t help that the module had originally 5 hours per week, which was cut down to 3 hours without reducing the material to learn, resulting in a very old-timey approach to the whole module, since there wasn’t much time at all. I learnt most of it audiotaping the lessons while copying what was written on the blackboard, and actually learned it at home.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, that’s absolutely necessary to learn, to take the language metapher further it’s like learning to declination of verbs. I meant it really clicked for me when i started to get a feeling for charge distribution and how electronegativity of specific ligands changes it, especially to predict what will happen in cases where more than one reaction is possible.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 weeks ago:
at least thermodynamics follow pretty static rules, that module was only an issue for me because it was a seminar where we had to work in groups, which i suck at.
I realized that organic chenistry you have to study until you get a feeling for how charge is distributed along a molecule to identify where and how it can react with other molecules, and what intermediarys (real or imagined) are formed, which boils down to learning as many reactions as possible. it’s a bit like learning a language with fucked up grammar.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 weeks ago:
omg i’m getting flashbacks from my org chem course. The exam regulary failed about 2/3 of students, i needed 3 attempts to pass, and i studied like stupid for it (the second attempt was sooo close to a passing grade, i was really annoyed at that).
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
1) Because he’s an insane villain with a fixation
2) Hulk states in Endgame that it’s mainly gamma radiation, stating it’s like he was meant to use them. So Thanos seems to have similar resilience to gamma radiation as the Hulk.
3) Seems to be an affinity type of thing - in “Guardians of the Galaxy” the stone annihilates normal people trying to use it, but since Quill is a celestial hybrid, they can use the stone without dying.
4)They were destroyed by Thanos at the beginning of “Endgame” - it’s the reason they have to go back in time to get them, and place them back in the past afterwards, so that the timeline doesn’t get fucked up.
5)Because space aliens can be whatever color they want to be :-) - Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
well, next up is bethesda games support, and development of the app is pretty fast, so i would expect a release supporting skyrim this year. You’re right that it’s pretty barebones now, but i wanted to say that we linux users will finally have a mod manager on par with the windows side of things, which is pretty awesome!
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Nexus Mod Manager is working fine under Linux. It’s still under development, but i’ve been modding Cyberpunk 2077 to hell and back with it.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
I don’t agree that Debian is a good choice for a gamer - it sacrifices performance and features for stability, which is not ideal for gamers, who probably want to run the newest drivers and featuresets. Don’t get me wrong, I really like Debian, but as an server os, not for a gaming machine. Something based on Arch or Fedora is a lot better for the rapidly changing environment we are talking about, they can adapt much quicker than Debian.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
If you have an Nvidia GPU, i can warmly recommend Nobara (a Fedora spinoff) to you. https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 3 weeks ago:
You both were faster than me!
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the cyberpunks are more prevalent on dbzer0, along with Pirates of all sorts.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 3 weeks ago:
Go to therapy if you struggle with mental health - the sooner, the better. Change gets harder the older you get.
- Comment on Ain't no way 3 weeks ago:
Damn, that cat has a long half life
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there is one project for wayland which creates a virtual input device and hooks into the hotkey system in kde plasma, but it’s jank af and adding more than one macro bugs out.
It doesn’t seem too complicated tho, might be a good beginner project for updating my 25 year old coding skills.
