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- Comment on iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android' 2 weeks ago:
I subscribe to TWiT cause I grew up on The Screen Savers and Call for Help and regardless of what people think of him I still like Leo Laporte, the guy is my childhood. Anywho I listen to all their podcasts and I’ll sometimes listen to their weekly Mac one and it is absolutely insane the cult like behavior with these mac fans on this show. Oh they’ll complain about the monitors and everything else but will still continue to defend it all by the end. There is one woman on the show that just rants and raves constantly about the dumb decisions Apple makes but openly admits that she’ll continue to buy their products.
At least on the Windows podcast the one dude will go ham on Microsoft weekly and I feel is pretty much just on the podcast to make fun of them. Then you have the Linux podcast where those guys just make fun of everything and it’s honestly entertaining. Plus they have one guy who is in his 80s on there who is an absolute gem.
- Comment on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods to ensure there's human behind 2 weeks ago:
or “Our advertisers are complaining that their ads are being served more towards bots than actual humans, we need to verify that real people are consuming the ads”
- Comment on [Video] Group of men harrass Aljazeera reporter covering burnt down ambulances calling him a "monkey", "dog" and "terrorist". 2 weeks ago:
yup. I play a lot of EVE Online that has a massive russian playerbase. you’ll get called a dog constantly, they’ll say they hope your mother is raped by dogs, and some really silly weak insults.
me and my corp mates will always reply back with “Sorry I don’t speak Ukrainian” (that REALLY sets them off) or “Don’t you have to go help your Babushka hang a rug on a wall?” or “rugs are meant for floors” that also angers them alot.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
it had quite a few gems. The WipEout games were some of the best in the series, the God of War games were very good. Battlefield II on it was great. Final Fantasy Tactics and Crisis Core. Jeanne D’Arc was one of the best tactics game ever. Ys Seven, Megaman Powered Up, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Ape Escape, the Killzone game on it was very good, LocoRocco 1 and 2, Final Fantasy Dissida, Monster Hunter, Daxter, Special Agent Clank, and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.
- Comment on RetroDECK Is More Than Emulation: An Interview with the Devs (my article!) 3 weeks ago:
basically RetroDeck is a one and done type of deal. one package (flatpak) that has everything pre-configured and good to go as opposed to say RetroArch where you have to pick your cores (emulators) and what have you. on say a SteamDeck something like RetroDeck is naturally going to be easier to use and set up but when it comes to a Linux desktop it’s all really a non-factor. Like for example most distro repos have either a complete library of the cores for Retroarch or you can pick and choose which ones you want. like on Arch for example the package “libretro” will give you everything or on Nix/NixOS you can pick and choose which ones to install with Retroarch.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 3 weeks ago:
imho in a weird way cassettes were better/more fun. Like wanting to record a song you like so you’d sit in front of the tape deck for hours on end listening to the radio waiting for that ONE song to come on so you could record it. It would take you hours, maybe even days, to make that mixtape of songs you didn’t own.
Also when I was a kid I had one of those fisher price tape decks that had the microphone attached to it. I wanted to make a mix tape of all my favourite songs from my NES games or games that I would rent (like the Battletoads theme song, or the music from the Batman videogame) so I would pop the game in then hold the microphone up to the TV speaker and record the songs.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 weeks ago:
yup in the early to mid 10’s every company, startup, etc offshored to India and the drivel that came back was about on par with today’s AI/LLMs. just complete garbage that either needed heavy refactoring or just start over from scratch with competent devs. So seeing all this with AI today I can only think “I’ve seen this episode before”
- Comment on It's a classic 3 weeks ago:
I’m so sorry.
It was March or April of 2008 and I worked in the porn industry as a web developer and moderator for user submitted content sites. One site in particular that I managed was gaytube which at the time was owned by Twisty’s/Pink Visual/Carsed Marketing. As a moderator for gaytube it was my responsibility to approve or deny all user submitted content to the site. and there was a lot of it. daily. Affiliate content got approved regardless but users had to be vetted. enter a guy from Eastern Europe named Alexi or Alex.
He’d submit stuff constantly of shoving things up his ass. like whatever it was. food, random objects, whatever. One day in March or April of 2008 he submitted this clip. all of it. in it’s entirety. I watched it. I was one of if not the first person OTHER than Alexi to watch this thing. so. much. blood.
Naturally I had to deny it. But even after denying a clip I still had access to the upload. Now since I was in the industry I had access to all the industry forums and other user sites that people in the industry would use like the message board “gofuckyourself” (seriously, that’s what it was called). I was on speaking terms with the guy that ran efukt and I would always share with him weird shit via gofuckyourself that would get submitted to one of the many sites I worked on like the victorian era E.T. porn or the duct tape ninja turtles porn for example. So I decided to send him this clip. he uploaded it. the rest is history.
- Comment on For the Empress 3 weeks ago:
Roboute: “you’re telling me there’s an Elf lady that slays demons and she’s about my age? really? ok…ok…lets keep this on the DL and whatever you do DO NOT tell Lionel I’ve been dodging that dudes texts for decades now and I don’t need him finding out about this”
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 4 weeks ago:
Planet.
“Sir how did your wife pass?”
“Planet.”
“pardon?”
“Mars got her.”
“Mars?”
“yes, The Planet. slings bow over his back and gathers arrows Mars.”
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
18982172 here.
Fun fact. ICQ was the the go to messaging platform for the porn industry and was actively being used in the industry right up to the point it was bought by a russian company.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 5 weeks ago:
if you talk to it long enough it will tell you to do stupid shit.
Every time an LLM responds it reads the entire conversation over. from original prompt to last entry, just constantly reading the entire log over and over everytime you add something new. So after awhile, a long while, it’ll “break down”. Hallucinations will be come common, context will get jumbled up, it’ll sort of degrade over time because it has to re-read everything over and over so it will naturally fuck up.
It’s like if you were reading a book and every time you read a new sentence you had to go back and start the book over. every time. after awhile you’d likely lose context, start messing stuff up in the story, etc. this is what happens to LLMs.
So for cases like this or others where you read stories about AI telling people to do weird or stupid shit chances are the person using the LLM has been talking to it for A LONG TIME at that point. It was even worse on the previous versions of GPT where if you hit a limit on the free tier it would just drop you down to the previous model thus the further likely hood of hallucinations.
- Comment on EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton 5 weeks ago:
OR “The Microsoft ROG handheld isn’t doing as well as we hoped and we REALLY need to get back on the steamdeck”
- Comment on The evil is...resident 5 weeks ago:
all because one woman wanted to bring her daughter back to life.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 month ago:
uh-huh yeah ha ha woo uh huh am I dreaming or is this real, sleep all day, gotta get that feel ha ha yeah oh uh the city is spinning, but ya see ha ha I ain’t dipping. gotta get the reception, ha ha yeah woo it’s an inception!
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 month ago:
it does but with Twitch it’s a constant battle. you can go for days or weeks on end and it’ll work great then boom a few days to a week and it won’t work anymore until the maintainers figure out yet another way to circumvent twitch ads.
It just got to a point for me where I just stopped using twitch. I mean the site overall and the content/streamers have just gotten a lot worse in the past few years and there’s really nothing on there anymore worth watching.
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem | Review Thread 1 month ago:
I thought the exact same thing when I watched the OSW Review of RE8 the other day. I thought it was still like a few months to a year away….then again it always seems like that with RE. I mean hell feels like 8 didn’t come out all that long ago.
Welp looks like I can FINALLY put down Mewgenics for something else this weekend.
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 1 month ago:
you mean the social network whose CEO told users to simply stop posting on their platform when she refused to ban a publicly known racist and transphob from the platform? that social network? The social network whose users decided segregating themselves was the best way to use said platform? that one?
Bluesky is a joke and its userbase are the punchline.
- Comment on OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030 1 month ago:
yup, buy old rigs/laptops “for parts”. This is what I’ve been doing.
Also go to thrift stores and look for old DVRs. you can take the HDs out of those and they’re usually in the 1tb range.
Mainly i’ve been buying old laptops purely for the ram and ssds.
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 1 month ago:
where? I’ve lived in Dryden Ontario, Toronto, Kitchener, etc and I’ve NEVER met or known a single person that said they loved curling and watched it.
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 1 month ago:
Don’t go to bars in Canada on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in winter in then cause….god damn it’s all they’ll show. OH and if you’re lucky, Friday Nights too.
in my 40+ years being Canadian i’ve YET to meet another fellow canuck that enjoys or watches curling. never. and yet they’ll show the absolute shit out of it on TV here. I don’t get it. We even have god damn curling clubs everywhere and I STILL have yet to meet anyone that loves it and plays it.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 1 month ago:
Kid in high school already wants in on the right wing grift. annnnnnnd he’s done it. the other Nazi’s will hold him in high regard like that fat dough pissy boy rottonhouse. He’ll be getting calls from Erika asking him what he thinks of her new leather pants cause we know she likes em young.
good jorb.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 1 month ago:
Brody King.
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 1 month ago:
I loved the original Black & White way back in the day but I never really clicked with his other games, even Fable.
I just remember the mini documentary that Tech TV had on him that they would repeat over and over. and even way back then he was getting called out on his over promising for his games. like the original Fable was a fraction of what he promised it would be.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
welp there ya go! problem solved.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 month ago:
sure they’re leaving but…where? what’s a viable alternative?
I mean if I had it my way everyone would just go back to IRC, I still use IRC. it’s great, nothings changed, it’s perfect. combine that with like mumble or teamspeak and you’re good to go.
I checked out Stoat lastnight and it’s very slow. took well over an hour to get a verification email (I assume because many others were signing up) and the current server offerings are minimal. Also a good majority of the themes listed simply don’t work. it’s growing and I’d say it’s the best alternative right now but it’s not there yet and I worry it or the various instances of it could hold up if there was a massive Discord exodus.
Matrix is a no and xmpp ain’t much better.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 month ago:
potentially. it’s going to become more of the norm as more nations enforce stuff like this to “protect the kids” coughget your id and know what you’re doing onlinecough
Also keep in mind Discord is just about to launch their IPO in March so the timing lines up.
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 1 month ago:
they do. desperately. it’s been stated for awhile now.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
doubt it. better off just setting up channels in libera chat on IRC and doin voice via teamspeak/mumble like we used to do it back in the day.
shit, someone needs to bring back ICQ.
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 1 month ago:
yeah I don’t bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it’s just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news