reksas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  even though there are enough signatures now, they still need more to be sure. Some percentage of the signatures will be invalid(people unable to spell their own names and fakes for example) so there has to be big enough safetymargin. Ross made video about it too.

  So until the time runs out, everyone should make sure the safetymargin is as big as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i just want a service that i dont have to hassle with, so this would definitely not be good for me 😅 Also i dont think many places even accept self hosted email as “real”, at least some places dont accept alias addresses.

  its so annoying when any decent alternative costs money, which isnt very good thing for my “official” email which i need for important things. Dont want to end up in situation where i get locked out of it because i didnt or couldnt pay for some reason. Though i constantly have to slightly fear that with google too since they can lock anyone’s account for any reason they see fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  just dont use google? I havent used google search for years now and there hasnt been single time where i would have needed to use google search even once. Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  says some rich asshole who probably hasn’t worked a day in his life, living off dividends and bribe money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe blocking it is the wrong way to go about though. Instead there should be some way to make the fingerprinting data worthless by having everyones browser constantly change things in the background so the fingerprint changes too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, but medium is the absolute best they can manage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  anything ubisoft makes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i lived my early childhood at 90s and i kind of have same. Though i also have it about 80s or almost any decade before this current shitshow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  citizens are the government though. if they are not, its not democratic country.

  Still, there should be no need to even threaten citizens with violence and if there is, it should be resolved mutually instead of just oppressing the people into submission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as it is defined in the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this genocide denial?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what the hell is wrong with people, first they claim holocaust never happened and now they deny what is literally happening right now. Or at least try to downplay it which is ultimately same in today’s world of not caring about anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  does ANY model reason at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just having such wealth and thus power in hands of singular humans is risk to all of humanity. In this instance you are but big enough drug fueled temper tantrum away from pretty important infrastructure coming crashing down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They added spyware.

  Here is excerpt from the tos, shared by user in steam reviews of the game.

  important Info in Terms of Service:

  • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

  I wouldnt touch anything this company has produced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have no guilt. They likely see rest of us as weak and stupid, worthy only of being exploited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uploading The Human Mind Could Become a Reality, Expert Says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how morally bankrupt humanity still is, this is terrifying possible technology. Imagine people being condemned to “hell” or broken, copied and used as enslaved mind for some robot shell.

  If even death couldn’t bring release from this world, this would be ultimate chain authoritarians could use to permanently control anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that gets reduced, banned, restricted or anything like that, will be available for the rich as it always has been. So most definitely the rich will be eating beef and endangered species like before. You can get anything with money and influence in this world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would opting out actually do anything here except keep you from using the feature? Pretty certainly they will still let the ai read your emails if there is any benefit to google in it, but you just wont be seeing the summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  so in a way, ai makes lazy teaching methods more clearly useless since you can just generate essays

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont know about other models but I think I have managed to limit how much my phone (fairphone) spies on me quite decently.

  I installed application called ReThink, which is basically a firewall and I can block even google services with it. I know it works because its really pain in the ass when I want to use their services like calendar and i have to temporarily unblock it. It can also block ads by completely blocking internet for programs that dont really need it. I have also removed/disabled anything extra and removed permissions to anything that absolutely doesn’t need it. It also alerted me to that stupid google safetycore spyware being installed (by blocking and informing about newly installed program) so i managed to remove that immediately.

  At least according to the logs the phone seems secure, since nothing is being allowed to connect anywhere that shouldn’t be allowed. Can’t do much to occasional breaches due to restarts or temporary allowings, but I dont think such sparse information is much use or it might require more effort to utilise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its like if there was no law prohibiting stealing if you just do it in certain way, or arson. I wish there was something one would do about it, but its so damn difficult to resist even by saying something should be done about it since vast majority of people simply dont care or dont want to say too much if they do. I wonder if it has always been like this even in the past or if it turned like this at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its easy, people simply dont even think that it could be used to spy on them. Its just handy and funny tool. There is HUGE problem in the world with majority still naively trusting corporations to such extent saying anything to contrary seems like you are some conspiracy nut. Or if they don’t trust them naively, they are so apathetic that they just think their information leaking doesnt matter, it can’t be stopped anyway and that they just dont care about it.

  Something really should be done to start having people care about things again, otherwise everyone will lose all rights to privacy eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is that even legal? It doesnt benefit society in anyway, just hurts it by removing work places. I dont know how it works finically but at least it sounds like it could also be used to evade taxes with that debt bullshit. Is this using some loophole in existing law or is it something that doesnt have anything restricting it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Presence-sensing Drive For Securely Storing Secrets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well, isn’t security mostly about setting the “filter” for potential attackers. You can break a padlock with hammer, but it will keep out random people from wandering in. Having to rewire and program stuff to access this would keep many types of away. The kind of attacker who would want to go through all that trouble wouldn’t be kept away even with more secure methods most likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  then have them study ai and be even more fucked when it potentially fails

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are some reasons:

  • exclusivity deals, forcing them to drop from steam even after they first announced release on there. They also target crowdfunded games like phoenixpoint.

  • The launcher is spyware

  resetera.com/…/developing-epic-games-launcher-app…

  forums.unrealengine.com/t/…/123592

  • and epic is owned by tencent 40%

  • They not really trying to improve their launcher but instead focus on hurting steam and by extension the users.

  Its like some shady guy trying to lure kids to a van by offering free candy.

  The launcher is security risk for your system reddit.com/…/epic_games_launcher_had_a_serious_se…

  first comment on the reddit thread

  >thlm 5mo ago Epic Games Launcher Incorrect Default Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVSS SCORE 7.8 This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Epic Games Launcher. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the product installer. The product applies incorrect default permissions to a sensitive folder. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE 2024-07-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2024-12-04 - Coordinated public release of advisory 2024-12-06 - Advisory Updated That timeline is disgusting

  So in essence, its not bad because it trys to compete with steam. Its bad because they really dont try to compete and just do anti-user things. And people dont care because “yay free games I’m never going to look at again”.

  If you want to see what actual competition looks like at the moment, take a look at GOG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe they just wanted to take their free shot. Its not like there are any real consequences for corporations nowdays

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they say unauthorised because they got caught

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  there is really grim intent going on with targetting ads like this for kids