taladar
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- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 1 hour ago:
Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 1 day ago:
Hetzner support is usually quite good, something I can’t say of the (albeit much more limited) experiences with OVH.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
The difficulty is in getting people to agree not just to make a change, but on what that change should look like.
This is certainly a component in most political decisions favoring the status quo too, that is a good point. By definition there is only one status quo but many options for alternatives that might not each have a majority of its own even if the sum of their proponents might be larger than the people actually favoring the status quo itself.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, people who are unequivocally pro-X or “why are you always critizing Y” are much worse overall, especially when X and Y are governments, companies or otherwise groups that the person isn’t even really a part of.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
Monarchs are still popular enough to keep their symbolic role, otherwise they would have been disposed.
Not necessarily. This just means that the issue of the monarchy isn’t important enough to most people to start a violent revolution over it or make it their main issue to vote on (if there even are parties making it part of their agenda to remove the monarchy).
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
It can certainly be depressing at times but on the other hand not nearly as depressing as a complete disconnect between the bleak reality you observe yourself and overly positive portrayal in media (social or otherwise).
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
I think this shouldn’t underestimated. Even as someone fluent in English I am much more likely to criticize my own country and/or neighboring countries relevant to my own country’s politics in my country’s language than in English.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
Depending on age they might have aged out of the kind of relatively primitive games handhelds had back then by the time those were released.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
I also don’t find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they’re generally just not very good.
Luckily they seem to be required to warn about their status with that triple A warning label in most sources mentioning those games. I hear some major game studios have even updated to the quadruple A warning label because their games are so bad.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.
It is really just a sunk cost fallacy. The same applies to books, movies or any other media. If you don’t enjoy it don’t finish it. Doesn’t matter how much you spent on it or invested into it in other ways. Stopping right when you don’t get anything out of it is the best time to stop that is still available (given we can’t change the past).
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
OP seems to come from a console background, they have been indoctrinated with the “game goes with this console generation” thing a lot more deeply than PC gamers ever were.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 4 weeks ago:
I feel this is missing the methodology part where they describe how they evaluated a model that literally can’t do anything but read input and write output for actions like “copy itself over a newer version” or “its own goals”.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 5 weeks ago:
Imagine nonsense content on Instagram…
Isn’t that all Instagram ever was? Out of all the social media platforms it was the one that was essentially fake from the start, just fakes produced by the users.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 5 weeks ago:
Well, technically 100% employment wouldn’t be desirable, that would mean nobody can ever switch jobs or take some time off from working to deal with some personal issues or projects.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that essentially how that whole scam called advertising works in general?
- Comment on Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine's access to WordPress.org | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
LWN had a couple of articles about it
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2 months ago:
Just because he is an idiot who never worked a day in his life and so doesn’t know that your productivity goes down significantly without relaxation that doesn’t mean that anyone should listen to that drivel.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 months ago:
But that is boring, that might actually solve the problem and doesn’t have any hype keywords to get anyone to overvalue your company and buy it.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 months ago:
I guess the local sales organizations couldn’t let online stores have take over the entire dystopian market.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 months ago:
Because it is currently the most advanced way to pretend you are doing age verification when really you aren’t that is available on the market.
- Comment on Threads is testing custom feeds for your favorite topics 2 months ago:
Wait? Is that thing in the thumbnail their actual logo? That looks like something a child made in MS Paint.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
“Don’t be evil”…
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 2 months ago:
You are thinking too small. Even if only one of a thousand companies in one of dozens of third world nations develops an alternative that is enough.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
Most people have the concern that the Trump concept is being copied to their country’s politics now.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
Not while you are showing them you are still on there.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 2 months ago:
The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment.
More importantly it is better for the company if they use their software without payment instead of developing some sort of competitor (open source or proprietary).
- Comment on Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted? 2 months ago:
That is probably intentionally prevented by just soft-deleting the user so links from comments, posts,… to their author aren’t lost. Not to mention potential security issues if you could just make a user that previously belonged to someone else. Honestly just isn’t worth the headache to allow reuse of usernames.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 months ago:
Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 5 months ago:
Many might have also played Guild Wars 1 which had a lot of that content you could only access with a certain minimum party size from what I remember.