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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They could require age verification or even special licensing to use any sort of internet server architecture. That’s what I would do if that was my goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They can also be a usable outdoor space just to hang out on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Snow itself can get pretty heavy, but more risky I think is repeated melting and refreezing. You can wind up with a large mass of ice that can really fuck up a roof or overhang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really more concerned about what the US will do with it than what Russia might do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.

  They have said that Bloomburg footage of trump talking about GPUs was the claim. They probably did play a little too fast and loose with copyrighted footage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Office365 works fine. You can even run it in MS Edge if you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if being made aware of the extensive NSA spying actually had a suppressing effect on taking action itself. It was kinda scary. Overwhelming. “Best not to think about it” kind of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if Piefed users have pie days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough! I do with that invidious had the “full window” option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just use the invidious instance directly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. Guess it’s hopeless?

  To be honest I haven’t thought about this much because playing online games with strangers is not something I enjoy in the first place. I’m sure others have good ideas, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel I would rather just opt out of playing these games. It ain’t worth it.

  I feel like they should just host the entire game and stream it to players if they want to eliminate cheating, but that’s probably the most anti-SKG way to publish a game possible. Oh well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ok, imagine a gun."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They both put staples into things but they aren’t really interchangeable functionally. It makes sense to distinguish them depending on the context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how the power usage of running an LLM locally compares to playing a modern game at high settings. Can they be very different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just ordered a shitload of little soldering projects for $1-4 to practice soldering and have been quite satisfied. The instructions are only in Chinese and minimal, but easy enough to translate with a phone camera and the lack of hand holding sorta encourages learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I’m imagining it as a service set up to be used if wanted/needed with no broad mandate. There are people running NSFW sites and channels that genuinely do not want minors interacting or accessing, and many would integrate this type of verification voluntarily if there was trust that it worked correctly and did not collect and distribute data about individuals. But I agree, that’s not what is on offer. So far from the UK it seems like they are letting private businesses figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that kinda sucks, because that could actually be useful. For instance, you could set up a forum for people above the age of 40 or whatever while still letting everyone post pseudonymousy. A third party public service that can blindly attest that a person is over a certain age could be a great and convenient thing. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing happening, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Illegal content is already illegal.

  I think it actually is more complicated. There are anti obscenity laws in the United States where these companies (Steam and Itch.io, but also Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal) are based. The way those laws have been applied have been mostly permissive in the recent past, but I think there’s reason to believe that this could change quickly. We may find ourselves in a situation where the highest court decides that this has all been illegal this whole time. Procedural and legal norms are feeling a bit shaky these days. People, including myself, wonder why payment processors would bend over backwards on behalf of some group of weirdos, but maybe being on their good side isn’t the concern at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aircraft carriers don’t let me travel to my destinations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not develop their own hardware, but contract an established manufacturer to do it for them. Which is good, they have no business doing hardware!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA is full of shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And/or Intel. (I can dream, right?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ross is not my dad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about 1 standard stint in rehab where I’m from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a vexingly pedantic point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its what made me buy a pixel phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A Pretty Big Company? I think they are beyond that classification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only drink Brawndo, so I’m good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clair Obscur is running more smoothly for me on Linux than Windows. That doesn’t always happen, but it’s always satisfying when it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like my Epson perfection scanner, it let’s me scan my photographic film. That’s kinda the opposite of a printer though.