Hirom
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- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 1 day ago:
I seached the answer online to better understand the meme, and that’s one of the first results.
Sorry if that’s AI generated, I didn’t searched for AI generated answer and didn’t ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks nowadays.
Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 2 days ago:
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 2 weeks ago:
Putting less restriction on social workers seems like a step in the right direction.
The Welsh government isn’t the only one in Europe focusing on tweaking rules and on reorganisations, rather than putting resources where most needed.
Let’s hope there’s more to come to make housing more afforable, eg better regulation of airbnb-style rentals, making housing less attractive to speculators but more accessible to residents.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 weeks ago:
You’re talking of an attacker with physical access. This can indeed defeats secure boot, but physical access defeat most computer security. In an evil maid scenario even LUKS can be defeated. An attacker with physical access can clone the drive, install a keylogger (hardware or software) and capture the passphrase the next time the machine boots.
Secure Boot can be useful to prevent malware from inserting themselves into the boot process, preventing them from elevating privilege or gaining persistence www.xda-developers.com/secure-boot/
Secure Boot isn’t perfect but it’s widely available and is an useful extra layer of protection, on top of disk encryption (eg LUKS).
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 weeks ago:
Would Linux have the same issue if secure boot is enabled and the certificate expire?
Secure boot is a useful security measure. But users should have the ability to install and update certs. Some hardware (vendors) might not allow this.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 3 weeks ago:
BBC publishes a photo yet appears unable to describe photo with confidence, inserts “appears to” into headline.
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 3 weeks ago:
The Epstein Files?
- Comment on UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries 4 weeks ago:
It should be opt-in.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 5 weeks ago:
Aww Yiss, right there
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 1 month ago:
I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 1 month ago:
Makes you wonder how much (personal) Microslop Copilot is collecting. If they don’t allow uninstalling from cheaper versions, it might be become they need the revenue from data collection.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 month ago:
Meta poses a threat
- Comment on Switzerland no longer wants American cloud in the public sector 2 months ago:
Or rather: US lawmakers decided to extend spying powers on US provider operating oversees, thereby scaring away US companies’ international customers.
government agencies are acting unconstitutionally when they entrust sensitive citizen data to providers subject to the US CLOUD Act. The law gives US investigative services access to data, even when it is physically located in Switzerland
- 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 months ago:
You don’t need 100 voice actors. A decent voice actor can do multiples voices. But it would still be expensive.
Do you really need 100 differents voices? Even AAA games with large budget probably have less voices, focusing on the most important characters.
I guess you’re not making a typical game and voice synthesis might make sense for your game. Hopefully you can specify somewhere you’re using AI for voice only, not for storyline nor other artwork, to reassure players.
- Comment on A Submersible Uncovered Secret Structures. Then, It Vanished Under Antarctic Waters. 3 months ago:
Is this clickbait, or is the story as omnious as the headline suggest?
- Comment on mercy merci 3 months ago:
I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Clip | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 4 months ago:
Captain’s hair is nominal.
- Comment on it's true! 4 months ago:
Is there an alternative to grass that covers well, and doesn’t spread fast like an invasive plant?
I’ve read about clover but it does spread fast.
- Comment on Wine 10.16 released with fast synchronization support using NTSync 4 months ago:
NTSync is available as a kernel module. Not enabled by default un Debian nor Fedora, but it appears possible to use it without rebuilding the whole kernel.
wiki.debian.org/Wine/NtsyncHowto fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NTSYNC-Contained
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
I’m not convinced an outright ban would be helpful. Regulation focused on harm reduction, ie restricting to adult like various kind of gambling, would be less heavyhanded, hopefully better compromise.
Looping back on the earlier comments, adding extra requirements on age verification is the more controversial part. Especially since privacy-preserving solutions aren’t ready. Clearly neither of us are happy with that.
I’d be happy if regulators just categorized loot box as gambling, applying the existing declarative age verification that already apply to gambling.
The choice between state regulation and self-regulation depend on various factors, eg exactly how it’s implemented, people’s opinion on freedom to operate companies without state intervention. A meta-analysis conclude results vary a lot from self regulation, it can go well or fail. This is just an opinion and nothing definitive, but I don’t think the game editors that make money from setup efficient self-regulation. It would hurt their bottom line.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
If loot boxes were on the wane even before hard regulation was passed, then maybe the hard regulation wasn’t particularly needed.
That’s if and maybe. I would assume neither, but will keep an open mind in case evidence appear.
Let’s assume Loot Boxes are on the wane. Do we actually know they were on the wane BEFORE regulation passed (which started happening several years ago), or whether regulation caused them to wane? Do we know that self-regulation efficient for loot boxes? Self regulation results vary a lot, and is often ineffective, so I’m skeptical.
On the other hand, there is evince linking paying for loot boxes to gambling addiction, and plausibility since loot box exploit human’s tendency to look for rewards to extract money from players. There’s clearly a problem, and I wouldn’t bet on the companies that created it solving the problem.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
The link above is the primary source, they mention “OUR recent study”. The article publication date is February 2025, but they don’t give the exact date on their study.
Even if that figure already decreased since the study, or was overestimated, would it change the point of the regulation?
If less mobiles games integrated loot boxes, let’s say 50%, or even 30%, would change whether loot boxes is gambling or not? Or worth regulating?
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
Who is still doing loot boxes
A majority of Android and IOS games, and 36% of PC games according to a study.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
Good point, it’s a bit late, and may hit hard on some games that already implemented loot boxes. But it’s never too late, assuming it’s indeed a kind of gambling.
Hopefully it’ll lead to less games integrating loot boxes, so that people of all ages can play games with neither loot boxes, nor the age verification that comes with it.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
I’m happy with loot boxes being categorized as gambling when money is involved, and regulated as gambling.
By “cool with this” are you refering to age verification? That wasn’t a comment on age verification. You’re putting words in my mouth, or I was ambiguous in the above comment, or both.
Online age verification is tricky to do right, balance effectiveness and privacy. That’s true of any age restriction, whether it’s loot booxes, other kind of gamblings. Existing age verification has bad effectiveness, privacy, or both. That doesn’t gambling shouldn’t be regulated, or that age verification can’t improve.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 months ago:
Good move. Loot box is gambling. Most have learned gambling is dangerous, especially for minors.
- Comment on A firewall for science: AI tool identifies 1,000 'questionable' journals 5 months ago:
The AI made mistakes, according to the humans, flagging an estimated 350 publications as questionable when they were likely legitimate. That still left more than 1,000 journals that the researchers identified as questionable.
That’s quite a large error rate.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 months ago:
Everyone hate quacks.
- Comment on irl shiny 5 months ago:
#NotAllCockroaches
- Comment on Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones 5 months ago:
state media says it is not a spying app
State media has very specifically denied it. That’s quite suspicious.