drspod
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- Comment on Xi and Putin overheard talking about organ transplants and immortality 1 hour ago:
We need better safeguards against the mentally ill taking and holding power in our countries.
These types of mental illness (addiction to power, money, status) naturally lead towards positions of power. If we don’t actively prevent it from happening, we will always be controlled by malignant megalomaniacs.
Bring back sortition.
- Comment on Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services. 2 days ago:
The solution proposed by the author is to host your own fediverse instance on a … wait for it … corporate VPS.
I don’t think it helps to gate-keep self-hosting as being only for local hardware. It’s also about managing your own software stack so you’re not reliant on Big Tech to provide services to you.
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 2 days ago:
Anyone with the ability to inject or modify packets in the network path between server and client can inject malicious javascript or browser exploits into an unencrypted HTTP TCP stream. The client’s User-Agent and other headers would allow the attacker to customize their attack to target that specific browser version, and compromise the client machine.
- Comment on Sorry, Oblivion Remastered: dabbing, twerking, and the griddy are now unleashable on command in you 2 days ago:
titlegore
- Comment on Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected" 3 days ago:
Should have made a new Gex game, then they wouldn’t be in this mess.
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
How much are the gas fees these days?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 weeks ago:
What’s best for the website owners is to have people actually visit and interact with their website. Blocking AI tools is consistent with that.
- Comment on Webcam-based 6DoF head & eye tracking app LookPilot released on Steam 3 weeks ago:
Direct link: store.steampowered.com/app/3326890/LookPilot/
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked in less than one minute 3 weeks ago:
You can get the URL of the thumbnail from the youtube page and then enter that URL in the “thumbnail URL” text-box when creating/editing your post.
- Comment on Google and IBM believe first workable quantum computer is in sight 3 weeks ago:
Please give more funding money, it’s only 10 years away UwU
- Comment on UK Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increeased rent by £700 a month 3 weeks ago:
She hadn’t read 1984 so she didn’t know that ministries are named opposite to the thing they are supposed to promote.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried flushing the DNS cache in the system that you’re testing on?
- Comment on Looking for a BMP picture that was common on Windows 3.1(1) (woman wearing hat) 4 weeks ago:
Was it Lenna?
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 5 weeks ago:
How is that legal?
- Comment on Peter Mandelson ‘called Jeffrey Epstein my best pal in birthday book message’ 5 weeks ago:
We all knew there was something sleazy and wrong about that guy, but now to find out he was friends with Peter Mandelson? That’s really the final nail in the coffin.
- Comment on Why does technology create new problems for each one it solves? 5 weeks ago:
Capitalism.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI 5 weeks ago:
🤡
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 1 month ago:
TD?
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 1 month ago:
Is it because the 1s get stuck in the bends in the pipe, but the nice round 0s can get around the corners more easily?
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 1 month ago:
“no file size limit” sounds like a challenge…
- Comment on Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support (But Still Bound By Slow Hardware) 1 month ago:
The supported hardware/targets with Debian 13.0 on RISC-V include the SiFive HiFive Unleashed, SiFive HiFive Unmatched, Microchip Polarfire, and the VisionFive 2 and other JH7110 SoC platforms. Plus QEMU can work with Debian RISC-V as an emulated/VM target. Other RISC-V single board computers may work fine with Debian 13.0 if resorting to using their vendor kernels. Support for additional boards in the future may come to Debian 13 via Trixie-Backports.
- Comment on Renovation was right—and we're ahead of schedule 1 month ago:
Dan is into shooters, and there are some pretty well known ones in that list.
I wasn’t into shooters in those days, but I’ve since become a fan of the genre and the Megadrive has some really good ones.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 month ago:
FIFO if you know what i mean 💩
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
How old is your account?
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 1 month ago:
no
- Comment on Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos 1 month ago:
She had sex with thousands of videos?
- Comment on ‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts 1 month ago:
At the root of the issue is land ownership. Most land within national parks is privately owned and, particularly in the uplands, used for grazing by farm animals. In Dartmoor, just 7.5% of land is publicly owned, and conservation is seen as secondary to economic interests.
Across UK upland national parks, overgrazing and moorland burning are driving these areas into poor ecological health, and a heating climate is heaping on the pressure. Conservation bodies and park authorities often have limited funding to monitor and restore ecosystems.
In 2024 the first full assessment of how national parks are supporting nature recovery found that just 6% of park land in England and Wales is being managed effectively for nature.
- Comment on Vernon Dursley, uncle of Harry Potter is just a normal bloke that loves his wife and gets roped into a paramilitary war for it. 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t waste too much energy thinking about the ravings of a deranged TERF billionaire transphobe.
- Comment on The Rise of Influencer Practices Among Psychologists: From Therapy Rooms to Instagram Reels 1 month ago:
Using a multi-method approach, we observed 100 Turkish psychologists’ Instagram practices over 6 months and conducted 20 semi-structured interviews. Findings reveal that Instagram has become an unexpected intermediary in the labor market for psychologists, intensifying to fulfill the three pillars of influencer creep: self-branding, optimization, and authenticity. Psychologists now strategically use the platform as a “visual curriculum vitae,” leveraging its affordances to craft micro-selling points for their self-brand. These efforts also involve negotiating with algorithms, constant optimization efforts, and projecting themselves authentically by trying not to compromise their professional demeanor. Based on these findings, we contend that influencer creep not only alters individual professional practices but also reconfigures the profession itself through four interrelated changes: (a) the expansion of audiences, shifting from small-scale, localized clients to large, mass followings; (b) the redefinition of traditional markers of expertise, where institutional credentials are increasingly replaced by platform-driven metrics; © the alteration of traditional gatekeeping structures, as algorithmic systems take on a more prominent role in determining professional recognition and influence; and (d) requiring a new set of skills such as content creation and algorithmic proficiency, often overshadowing conventional professional competencies.
