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- Comment on Is the bards tale (1) really hard or am not good? 6 days ago:
I think i remember getting money for each party member so instead of just rerolling stats, create, pool gold, then delete. Gives you a good start and you get something for all the poor stat rolls.
- Comment on UK Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry 2 weeks ago:
Copyright law needs to change with things becoming public domain much sooner than the currently do, but… If a bunch of billionaires want to profit off someone elses work by using material to train AI, they can bloody well pay fairly for that use, or accept if the owner of that material refuses to permit/license them.
The basic premise that there is some universally accepted ‘need’ to train ai models is just not one i can see as valid.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 2 weeks ago:
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 2 weeks ago:
good example that works well on a data minimisation basis when they the need is for some indication of age appropriated trust. There are limits to it though. - to actually satisfy age-gates/verification they would also need to tie your identity to the ownership of the card, and ensure the card isn’t some kind of under 18 prepaid affair.
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 2 weeks ago:
This is ridiculous and clearly shows both nefarious intent and compete disregard for the GDPR and it’s core principle of data minimisation. There must be a simpler solution to this - most likely through attestation from a trusted third party who has already (legitimately) verified the user’s identity - like a bank. Imagine a user creating and providing a token that allows a one-time request through the open banking standards to receive an attestation on whether or not the user is over 18 - without disclosing the users actual dob or any other personal information except who and how the attestation was made. Not sure if it would even be necessary for companies to store precisely when the attestation was made if the banks themselves record the event.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 4 weeks ago:
Moto flip phone with GOS? sign me up. Should not have to choose between form factor and operating system.
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 month ago:
Limitations of gecko. They’ve covered their reasons before grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 month ago:
I wish vanadium was available independently of Graphene
- Comment on Blocking Threads 1 month ago:
seems to me that one way federation is the right answer/solution. Let fediverse users retreive threads content, but dont serve up fediverse content to help meta keep threads users locked in.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 month ago:
Bad client…
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 1 month ago:
That’s kinda sick
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
Wish I could upvote your comment more than once. Thank you for the injection of clarity.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All the proposed services/technologies would benefit the wider consumer base and the user but switching is too big an ask for many people. We need to encourage people into using “as well as” the global defaults. That will build the network effects that lower the cost of fully switching
An easier and bigger immediate impact would come from people replacing Chrome and google search with respectful alternatives, and/or replacing gmail or outlook with private services like proton or tuta.
Starve the surveillance machines a little bit. - Comment on 1 month ago:
“super stable, backward compatible system without “AI”” Sounds like Linuxlinux 😁
- Comment on Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy 2 months ago:
Not being able to run ai spyware 11 sounds like a big entry in the plus column to me 😅
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 months ago:
Well that sucks. I assumed the ram, ssds, hdds could be recycled into useful forms.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 months ago:
Can we all buy cheap hardware when the bubble bursts and the billionaires decide not to pay the electricity bills for these ridiculous datacentres?
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
Feel free to repost, I’m more of a commenter 😅
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
Sweden have been leading the way in extracting screens and digital services from schools. Worth reading this: afterbabel.com/…/sweden-went-all-in-on-screens-in…
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 2 months ago:
A fair response. Just couldn’t see anything except US references when I looked at the site.
- Comment on AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them 2 months ago:
Love the princess bride reference. Thank you for acting on behalf of those of us with less technical skills.
- Comment on AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them 2 months ago:
More technical than I can properly follow, but it reminded me of the tarpits I read about a year ago. arstechnica.com/…/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap…
Is that more usable?
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 2 months ago:
your Industrial Workers of the World only seems to exist in the USA; a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world.
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
Thanks for the kind reply.
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
I agree. New user introduction is very poor. Took me ages just to choose an instance - and that was in no small part because I’m here not only to escape the enshittified chokepoint capitalism of american big tech, but also because I’m utterly sick of the domination of US centric points of view and censorship. Even though i know communities are not instance locked, I wanted an instance that is not likely to be managed in the same way. Time will tell if I chose well or poorly