wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 2 days ago:
I would look at mod collections on nexus or wabbajack. Beyond that, there are mods that allow you to have a different start to the game than “so you’re finally awake”, which delay the main quest until you effectively start it yourself.
- Comment on Me when I installed a game on Steam with only 150 downloads 2 days ago:
Likely Yakuza members, or people imitating the style (which is a dangerous game to play).
- Comment on I know an invitation when I see one 3 days ago:
Legs up to where?
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 5 days ago:
You liked Wisdom Teeth, have you tried Wisdom Teeth 2?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.
Thanks for laying it out for me!
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.
Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.
They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.
I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.
OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 week ago:
While I’m glad they’re drawing a line, they’re only splitting hairs. Anthropic is already deeply working with the US gov.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 week ago:
You’re spot-on. As some additional context, Anthropic is already working tightly with the US government. Until the recent announcement regarding Grok, Anthropic was the only approved AI for US government work, as it is/was the only one certified for safely woeking with classified data.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What are you doing, leaking the next Gray Leno guest like that?
- Comment on The State of the Union 1 week ago:
I get you, but the fediverse is small enough that you can get by with just blocking accounts that do stuff like this. Complaining about it is just pissing into the wind, unless you want to start another resistance movement spamming corn. Probably overdue for it again.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 1 week ago:
Do your part! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 1 week ago:
You mean HUNK-ules
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.
It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 2 weeks ago:
Just another trillion dollars guys! Just another year and a half! I swear!
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 2 weeks ago:
While technically true, you have to be kidding me if you think there aren’t relevant laws for a situation like this.
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 2 weeks ago:
Does a shocking and infuriating result of a court case really qualify as a “You Should Know”?
On top of the outrageous hyperbole going on here. Just because someone got away with something heinous doesn’t mean the laws have changed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I know you didn’t ask for commentary on your friend, but I’d be concerned that he’s convinced he’s going to “win” you over through just spending tons of time with you. Wearing you down. Probably not how he thinks about it explicitly, but that definitely appears to be his strategy.
Asking you out to dinner after a rejection, and not at least distancing himself from you for a while after it (still just following you around constantly and the other codependent behavior) is a little concerning. Also, your phrasing of “first confession”. He’s told you, you know. It sounds like he doesn’t respect your decision enough to let it lie. It raises some serious red “nice guy” flags.
If he can’t get over it and handle you as just a friend, it’s not your responsibility to cut ties (it’s his feelings after all, not yours), but it might be in your best interest to enforce some distance. He’s not going to get over his feelings if he’s spending every free moment with you.
It sounds like you have some absolutely shit (but not particularly uncommon) professors. Quizzes and tests on programming concepts you haven’t gotten to yet? Fuckers.
I also totally get the struggle of not being given enough time to get the concepts because you have to implement them in an assignment ASAP. It’s one of my biggest complaints (of very many) about how programming is taught at universities. While your approach shouldn’t be necessary, it absolutely will give you a leg up.
I dropped out of a “New Ivy” university BS in Computer Science, then eventually went back and got an Associates degree in Computer Information Systems (bit more broad with hardware, sysadmin, IT troubleshooting, and project management courses on top of a lighter programming course load). I used to think I’d kill myself if I had to program 8 hours a day. Now I’m the lead scripting and automation monkey on a sysadmin/sysengineering/infra architecture/infra ops team and for the most part I enjoy it, including days with 8hrs of scripting.
My advice to learners is to focus on the concepts and problem solving aspects of it as much as your courses will allow you to. Eventually you’ll reach a point with your experience coding, develop your toolkit and skills so that the focus will be “How do I break down this big problem into smaller and smaller chunks, then how do I accomplish those” rather than “how do I do if statements in this language?”.
At a job, you can always look up language specific syntax as long as you have the right terms to look for it online. I spend more time thinking over how I’m going to solve the problem than what specifically I’m typing for code.
And as far as your main point goes about short form content?
Lazy students have existed for far earlier than your generation, and will continue to for long after. While there are far more easily available dopamine injection addictive things now, lazy and unmotivated students find a way. Tiktok wasn’t a thing until after I was out, but by god I wasted entire semesters modding Smash Bros Brawl and playing shit on Steam, hanging out with friends instead of studying and doing assignments.
I won’t deny that the more modern distractions are backed by an unimaginably large industry, with head-spinning amounts of psychological research put in towards keeping people hooked. It’s a problem, and it’s getting worse the more money they find they can make off it. But there have always been different levels of investment in studies and craft.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s disgusting! What are you, some kind of pervert?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Not a problem if you already walk around Costco full mast. Got some wondeful memories of many moments of passion in the Costco restrooms finding out just how many $1 hotdogs I could fit into my rectum. Just try going soft with half a dozen of those delicious meat tubes all up in you.
- Comment on PB&J 3 weeks ago:
Or that he approves. Don’t kink shame.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 3 weeks ago:
To be a bit more direct, you shouldn’t download “pre-cracked” isos. Just download the real install media and use mas-grave to spoof activation/licensing.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
There is an in-game map, but there’s no “magic quest destination arrow”.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network “meant to keep devices working during wifi outages” or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.
Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.
- Comment on I can't wait for 2016! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, pipes was awesome. The LTT shop has a button up with it as the pattern, but I can’t justify $50 + shipping for a single button up shirt. And the drama from years ago as reported by GamersNexus etc makes me hesitate to give them money anyway.
Another one I love is the old 3d maze from Windows 95 or 98. I swear I remember details about it that it doesn’t actually have though.
- Comment on I can't wait for 2016! 3 weeks ago:
What were your favorites? I feel like we lost an entire genre of art now that nobody uses screensavers anymore.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 3 weeks ago:
You can’t seriously be saying that in the comments of a post linking to leaked internal documents showing that one of these companies is aware of the dangers they pose and damage they are doing. Did nazis falsify internal documents and this leak?
Did you somehow miss the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook, where they manipulated the emotional content of users’ feeds and gathered scientifically significant measurable responses in the emotions of the manipulated users?
Have you missed where each of these companies has had many public job postings for positions requiring applicants have psychology degrees?
People like to think of 4chan as the website that drove people to suicide, but every single one of the major social media sites has a fucking body count at this point, and almost every one is in the double digits.
Beyond all that, lemmy’s userbase trends older. I saw the tail end of the satanic panic into the moral grandstanding about the dangers of violent video games. I’d wager most of the users here lived through it.
I know firsthand what a moral panic looks like. They didn’t have the amount of research papers (that hold up to peer review) and leaked internal documents we can point at. They didn’t have body counts even remotely similar.
Keep on fighting for opressed teens to have more ways to get away from opressive parents. To have access to factual information that their parents don’t want them to have. It’s a good cause with not many people fighting for it.
That doesn’t mean though that anything you think challenges or opposes it is a nazi plot.
Teens are resilient and have astounding amounts of time on their hands. They’ll find a way to communicate, ways to make their own underground social platforms if they need to. The cat’s out of the bag. It’s the fucking internet. Corpos, government boots, no one can truly stop the signal. They couldn’t back in the days of dial up BBS. Good fucking luck now that you can get a device orders of magnitude more powerful for $50.
Don’t bother replying for my sake. I’m blocking you so I don’t get increasingly shitty towards you. Your mind’s made up on this, and so is mine. No point going back and forth if we’re just going to get more frustrated and exasperated at each other. Best of luck in your endeavours.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 3 weeks ago:
Some important context on this user before anyone else gets dragged into a discussion: check their post history, multiple to a “Youth Liberation” community.
No shade meant by calling it out, but I think that makes it much more clear how strong your opinions are on this. There’s nothing to be gained in trying to talk to you about this when your opinions are set so strongly. You aren’t going to see the dangers that the rest of us see because your focus is on allowing freedom from oppresive parental figures.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 3 weeks ago:
Teens and children, and the pushback you’re seeing is because a lot of people, even terminally online people, believe that limiting or preventing children (and teens) from accessing social media as they currently exist is part of making that happen.
You have to slow the bleeding first. You can’t just ignore the broken leg and start physical therapy.
Teens vary wildly in maturity and are likely to be unfortunately caught up in rules for children. There’s no easy cutoff age before 18 for when one can be trusted to be online without guard rails. I can speak from experience that teens will find a way whether its legal or not, so I’m not really super concerned about the ones who need access. They’ll find a way.
And for every teen like you that says they are still alive because of unrestricted internet, there’s another one who is dead because of it. 4chan, tumblr, reddit even (remember when they “totally figured out the boston bomber”?), and more direct cyberbullying all claim lives. There were 3 suicides in my highschool growing up, two determined to be cyberbullying caused and the third just rumored. I almost lost one of my younger cousins to cyberbullying as well.