TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus
@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 2 weeks ago:
They never accepted the passwords because of that. One or more alphanumeric characters, I was sitting there thinking – what do you want from me, evil computer?
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 2 weeks ago:
My underdeveloped brain racted badly to to to word “alphanumeric chatacter(s)”
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 2 weeks ago:
addictions i guess…
Adults are generally on their own, and they should know that. Now I know 3 different gambling spots just here, and I could be betting on horses, football, sport, things, things that move. Drop a lot of money into the slot machine monster known as VLT, the one where there is no direct limit as to how much I can bet. It’s a damn maze but once you make it to the second layer you pass from the sport betting to the slot machine hellscape, entirey shrouded in darkness, and only lit up by these screens. These sounds are nauseating, to the core. If you, an adult, fall into that, nobody cares about you, really. Gaming addiction might be the same thing.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 2 weeks ago:
Most pointed questions you type will start a Google search1. This loads a regular search results page, and sees Firefox’s AI chatbot shift to a sidebar on the right. The AI reads the top results (including any AI overview), and produces a response based on them.
AI reads AI reading AI reading AI reading AI reading…
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t reddit already have ai?
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 weeks ago:
There was once a reddit alternative, namely voat, that started normal and became the most alt right incel qanon thing imaginable. Here’s a dataset with voat data and posts arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933v1
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
It is a fair assessment, for an early industrial society. I just think we live in the ear of informations, we have more of everything, which is not a good thining, in the end, but we do have more and more. At some point, you’d think that having easy access to information and entertainment would be great, and it is. But I might want to add more friction between me and the informstions, I might avoid further automations.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
You could have watched tv than…where does the idea that streaming invented customers, that pdocasts are the only means to listen? Radio, tv, news?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
if you’re interested i used AI to learn a library to make my link-scraping script and return me only the open access pdf from Google scholar. yeah. it is virtually useless because i need to check all the same. But boy did it make me feel smart.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
If i exclude the offline software I use, from xed to libreoffice and the likes, I own very little of the services in my hand.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
the hardest part is coming up with ideas when it’s not a job and just an interest, than finding a path to the realisation of these ideas.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
the temptation of using claude code is probably higher than it looks like for a single dev, I think. Hey, in the end one can just have this in their IDE and essentially have your own unpaid intern. It’s a fairly new situation.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
i don’t know a guy who doesn’tdo that, really…
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
I understand this, especially during the past years, as many reports (not the nofap guys on reddit, mind you) showed that porn use and abuse has been on the rise, not surprisingly. But going nofap from the state of hypergooning is also dangerous. I think they should set realistic goal and keep journaling, these apps/services are preying on the frail ones. I learnt the concept of gooning against my will.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
Really? Is touching the ding ding dong such a big deal? I’m not saying porn, a healthy guy can find this sex drive without stimulating material.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 2 weeks ago:
Well…I lost access to my email account assosiated with my Epic Games login.
my only regret is that I had celeste over that account, but it’s no biggie because it’s not exactly expensive either. i also had fez but gawd the puzzles in that game, i tried to solo it and of course i couldn’t get a lot out of it. than i found out that the final puzzle bruteforced by reverse engineering, so i’m at piece now, i’m not dumb after all.
- Comment on Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games 2 weeks ago:
A July 2025 investor’s report argued that microtransactions “make the player experience more fun.”
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
I read stuff from one of my Jr’s all the time and most of it is made with AI. I don’t understand most of it and neither does the Dev. He keeps saying how much he’s learned from AI but peer programming with him is the pits. I try to say stuff like, “Oops! Looks like we forgot the packages.” And then 10 secs of silence later, “So you can go to line 24 and type…”
So what kind of code is that? Code lyoko? Are they using more advanced code than their training should make one think?
- Comment on MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow 2 weeks ago:
how this would actually be enforced; maybe the official website and download mirrors for MidnightBSD will be out of reach for people in those regions. Of course, a tech-savvy crowd who uses MidnightBSD will know how to bypass such an embargo. It makes you wonder how effective such age verification laws are. Oh wait, some of these so-called public servants are also pushing for VPNs to be banned.
As it stands these laws are unenforcable, and plenty of businesses would be impacted. First, think of the meaning of ’ internet connected device, with an operating system '; such vague definition. Is a modern fridge, sensor or monitoring system supposed to verify the age of any user that comes in touch with these? Impractical. Second, any commercial activity has computers running everything. These computers are not registered for any single user, but for the activity as a whole. The emplyees may insert a code when they operate the computer (emplyee - Id within the business) but that’s it. Office complexes would be decimated by this stupid setup. And there comes the VPN ban. Again, plenty of businesses rely on vpn and private networks. Once again, this is quite possibly unenforceable without ruining the backbone of the infrastructure we collectively use. People writing laws like thes are quite possibly unable to understand how it runs. The lack of technical knowledge is staggering.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
The introduced it first in saudi arabia in 2019, after women were given the right to drive, turns out they found it good so they used this setting in the US (2025) and elsewhere (2025 - 2026). The feature is a priority queue for women
When requesting a trip, women will receive a new option called ‘Women Drivers.’ If the wait time is longer than they want, though, they’ll still have the option to receive other rides with faster pickup times.
In other words, if you’re a guy and the area is poorly covered, you get your uber driver all the same.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
Don’t read the reddit comments, thank me later.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 2 weeks ago:
There used to be botched localisation attempts. Hardcore gamers of the past obsessed over the orginal language of the niche Jrpg they couldn’t find.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
anectodally, I accidentally vibe coded a web app while i mistakenly loaded my dictionary file (a .txt) in the wrong page. Surprisingly the website works, but I doesn’t permanently save any new addition to the flashcard set. I think I can restructure this thing to accept a .txt file as an input and make it actually useful, but If I didn’t know input / output on basic things like this i’d be unable to fix it. Well. Now imagine the number of users who are trying to make these web apps. Also it is 2026 and knowing java is still important apparently, so yeah also keep java in mind. And python.
I wanted to make my own flashcard thing with python. I was thinking at In / Out. I wasn’t thinking at automation. Some people are already getting used to that, tho, Idk if it is a problem. I wouldn’t use AI without a proper introduction to coding. Oh btw I know anki is better I was just thinkering with ideas.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
The problem of genAI software is that it comes from non technical users. Ideally, knowing the logic of a program is necessary to even imagine one. They always show these nicey nicey flow-charts with logic and decision based pathways. A non technical user will spit out a software that they wouldn’t know how to fix, don’t you think? And if fixing the software is more time consuming than writing it, the balance shifts towards manual work
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
They’re far too aware that this is a bubble, so I think they must know that they have a relatively short time window to make themselves necessary.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
anti consumer practices that would not fly in the .com era I was curious about the whole ordeal again, and even than corporations tried, and obtained, many things that we deem as good in comparison with the thing we have now, but 1999 -2001 laid the groudwork for the next social media revoltion (2005 - 2007) that brought us here. But the outlook on technology was more positive, overall, and we weren’t digital addicts wandering around the streets. But there are analogies here and there. I don’t think the AI bubble is a subprime like event.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
AI is just another dot com bubble event. We still have websites, don’t you think? Most AI services are providing little to no value for the average person, but some are. I am willing to bet that these are going to be the survivors. As in every new technology driven revolution, I’d say. And with higher complexity comes higher automation rates. The current technology has more complexity, data and information than ever, hence automation is still there. But who am i to tell.
- Comment on My glasses 2 weeks ago:
I love me some medical joke that I am one of the few to understand
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 weeks ago:
The grand sonnerie / westminster / grandfathe clock (2 or 3 barrels - mainsprings) with relative train wheels. The snail like feature in the middle is what tells the chime how to tell the time - with the mallets. two or three mallets. Setting the time anticlockwise undoes the sync between the time on the dial and the chime. Even worse in perpetual calendars like these, where the time must be synced with the 100-years worth of calculations done by the complications, a problem that happens even while letting it idle for too long, because you’d have to manually set date, year, decade, moonphase, and everything else. But i’m too poor to own one of them. Image
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 weeks ago:
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
