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- Comment on A factory sim in which every pixel has physics is the latest from Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse 1 hour ago:
Oh it’s like that Earthworm Jim level.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 23 hours ago:
go on then
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 day ago:
I thought they had already agreed the sale of the genetic data to another company?
- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 1 day ago:
The article: www.nexusmods.com/news/15301
Don’t read the comments.
- Comment on Bridge Mastodon to Bluesky 1 day ago:
remember Jabber?
- Comment on Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box 1 day ago:
is this news?
- Comment on matrix is cooked 1 day ago:
VC funding destroys everything it touches.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 1 day ago:
This attitude has worked so well for allowing the current crop of tech billionaires to grow and cement their influence over the entire world. If people would just stop using their platforms when they hear the CEO’s batshit views then they would be nobodies.
- Comment on Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says 3 days ago:
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since July 2024
also
By the age of 25, he was accepted on his third attempt to become a student at the University of Sussex, where he gained a degree in geography, international development, and environmental studies, and later a doctorate in community development.
🤡
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 3 days ago:
“Many of the participants expressed a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness. They showed particular sensitivity to situations they perceived as unjust or discriminatory. This extended to issues specifically concerning men.”
No shit.
It comes after rising violence against women and girls (VAWG) in England and Wales. Data published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in July 2024 found that about 3,000 VAWG offences a day were recorded by the police in 2022-23, an increase of 37% since 2018, with one in every 12 women a victim each year.
Separate expert studies have found some evidence that the language of the manosphere can escalate into physical violence. A submission to parliament by a group of UK academics cited cases in which incels had gone on to commit offline acts of violence, including Elliot Rodger in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and Jake Davison in Plymouth, England, in 2021.
The Ofcom study involved 38 men, and more misogynistic men may have declined to take part. Some potential recruits refused to take part, considering the government-appointed regulator to be part of the “mainstream”. Perhaps the most impressionable group, boys under 16, were also not included.
Oh so this study is completely worthless then.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 4 days ago:
I put on my robe and wizard hat
- Comment on Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion looks like a boomer shooter for the Newgrounds generation, and it's out next month 4 days ago:
- Comment on Reform plans risk destabilising markets, warns Bank of England 5 days ago:
There must be a better news source reporting on this.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 5 days ago:
People with low reading level deserve the same attention to detail and veracity as the rest of us.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 6 days ago:
Who at Wikimedia is so out of touch that they thought that this was a good idea? They need to be replaced.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 6 days ago:
“The proof is in the pudding” as they say.
- Comment on Open Source Paid Remote Desktop 6 days ago:
You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.
- Comment on All civil servants in England and Wales to get AI training 1 week ago:
🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦
- Comment on 4chan and porn site investigated by Ofcom over online safety 1 week ago:
New investigations
We have today opened formal investigations into online discussion board 4chan and seven file-sharing services – Im.ge, Krakenfiles, Nippybox, Nippydrive, Nippyshare, Nippyspace and Yolobit – having not received responses to our statutory information requests, to which services are legally required to respond.
We have received complaints about the potential for illegal content and activity on 4chan, and possible sharing of child sexual abuse material on the file-sharing services.
- Comment on An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers 1 week ago:
inb4 the logo looks like this:
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
It’s newsworthy when the sellers of squares are saying that nobody will ever need a triangle again, and the shape-sector of the stock market is hysterically pumping money into companies that make or use squares.
- Comment on lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance. 1 week ago:
What are the pros/cons of piefed for someone who has only used lemmy?
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo 1 week ago:
Rust bros are about to find out that security is about more than just memory safety.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 1 week ago:
It would probably give them the Screamies.
(Excellent 1960s sci-fi book, highly recommend)
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 1 week ago:
Alt text:
Slrpnk.net is currently offline due to an unforseen hardware failure in combination with the main system-administrators having no physical access to the server location until mid July due to work or summer-holiday related travels.
We are very sorry for this unforseen down-time, but slrpnk.net will return for sure and we already have some plans for a nice relaunch, so stay tuned!
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 2 weeks ago:
So they claim.
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 2 weeks ago:
Looking through the commit history there are numerous “Manually fixed…” commits, where the LLM doesn’t do what the programmer wants after repeated prompting, so they fix it themself.
And here is the problem. It required expert supervision for the prompts to be repeatedly refined, and the code manually fixed, until the code was correct. This doesn’t save any labour, it just changes the nature of programming into code review.
If this programmer wasn’t already an expert in this problem domain then I have no doubt that this component would be full of bugs and security issues.
- Comment on Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month. 2 weeks ago:
Meaning it’s really just running in their closet,
You think they’re lying about having their hardware in a colo?
- Comment on GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 2 weeks ago:
Wow that slashdot discussion is a train-wreck.
- Comment on Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree 2 weeks ago:
