wizardbeard
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- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 22 hours ago:
This is a foundational restriction with how federation works and was discussed back during the exodus from reddit when they cut off their API. Votes can’t be federated without identity attached, or you’d end up with a single vote multiplied by however many instances federated it to yours.
This is the price of the fediverse being uncensorable. Everything you do on it is oublic, and norhing can be reliably deleted from the entire fediverse.
There was some efforts to obsfucate voting by one of the m/kbin lemmy alternatives, to have each account have an associated hidden account with a randomly generated name that would technically be the account used for voting, so only the admin of your own instance could connect between your public account identity and your voting identity, but that could also just be defeated by basic pattern identification.
As far as instance admins are concerned, this has been known from the start, and is completely outside of their control. That said, it could definitely use some more signposting for awareness. It’s shocking how often this entire discussion gets repeated by people who apparently never thought to look into how federation actually works.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia 1 day ago:
If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.
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- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 5 days ago:
This company has illegally installed their cameras in more than one town, then tried to sell the local police force on them.
They have lawyers on staff that they use to coach local politicians on how to hold the votes to establish contracts with them in ways that aren’t technically illegal, but ensure that no community opposition has a way to have their voices heard.
You can find a lot of these sprts of stories by searching online. In local subreddits, ones dedicated to talking about flock, and local news.
Benn Jordan has a good 40 minute video giving an overview of these systems, how they work, what they track, and why they are a problem. He highlights some cases where families were held at gunpoint by police due to failures of these systems. He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.
Louis Rossman is currently leading a campaign against their installation where he lives in Austin, Texas right now. Has a number of videos on it.
Overview before the Austin City Council vote: youtu.be/4RM09nKczVs
Call for people to show up at the Austin City Council session to discuss the potential contract with Flock, and showing how difficult it is to find this sort of stuff and be involved with your local government: youtu.be/g4vL1ERdZ9Y
Call to action 2: youtu.be/hDOmYqlwxD4
Austin City Council reschedules the vote (in a questionably illegal fashion) with less than 24 hours notice when they realize they kicked the hornet’s nest: youtu.be/iscDYp6dtl8
Minor followup during the wait for the revised time, at two of the three parks with 90% of reported car break ins these cameras are meant to serve: youtu.be/2QbtDWrlPpc
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 5 days ago:
No way that holds up when challenged. Gacha games alone prove existing work.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Climbing down from the trees was the begining of the end.
- Comment on Step 1: Delete 1 week ago:
Slap a fur shader on it and ship it!
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
I think part of the issue is that after winning on the platform of “change”, Democrats veered hard into “establishment status quo”. They won so hard that most people don’t even recall the bad parts of the Obama presidency at all (the point of my last comment, that it wasn’t all sunshine and roses), and then threw that lead in the trash.
They had a chance with Sanders, but threw away an absurd amount of public goodwill by very openly pushing him out of the running in favor of Clinton. That effectively left Trump as the only candidate carrying the “change” flag, and a lot of people were too dumb to see he was full of shit.
When Democrats had a chance again, they went with another “establishment safe” choice and only won with Biden due to an immense outcry against Trump. Then they lost again because they wouldn’t platform someone people were willing to get out to vote for.
If we get out of this shitshow, I’ll be very interested in what history says about the last few presidential races.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There’s more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Vampire Survivors’s Ode to Castlevania DLC
It’s so fun to see them actually get to use the IP VS was inspired from, and the DLC is absolutely a love letter to all of Castlevania, including some of the more obscure characters in the lore. The DLC has roughly double the content of the base game, with at least three big “unlock/events” locking more layers of content behind them. Tons of new playable characters, tons of new weapons, one new massive map with its own unique mechanics and progression, and so much classic Castlevania music and remixes. Totally worth it.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
Nope.
512+256=768, 768+64=832… minus 7 for system data and general overhead maybe? That’s my best guess, but that’s a really odd size.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
Sounds like a good time to download a local backup, before they inevitably pressure Wikipedia.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.
Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.
Anyway…
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.
- Comment on [OC] El Zappo & Mr. Quetsch [6/?] 2 weeks ago:
The fart rocket is an inspired touch.
- Comment on Schrödinger's Pedo 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately unlikely. This has happened before, where he’s abandoned commitments and not made any public appearances for days.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 2 weeks ago:
I feel you, but there’s some good news! There’s an indie games team working on a game that’s Air Ride combined with the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure.
Star Garden:
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
No man, you’ve got it backwards. Why are we growing our humans so small?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
Of course. Funnel all that info to Peter fucking Thiel’s Palantir surveillance company that also has contracts with international law enforcement.
There couldn’t possibly be any problems with funnelling every bit of panopticon into a single billionaire super lobbiest’s hands. Especially one that has openly stated that he doesn’t believe in the continuation of the human race. Who is the closest thing to a real life vampire, regularly getting blood transfusions from healthy young “blood boys” in a hare brained attempt to prolong his own life at all costs.
I find it a massive failure of society as a whole that this fucking charlatan wasn’t laughed out of society in the 2010s when he was doing interviews about the “blood boy” bullshit and all the other crackpot shit he was doing to prolong his life. Absolute fucking ghoul. The people in power value money more than sense.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Numbers is also part of the Torah! Christians don’t have a monopoly on this crazy. Good old Abrahamic religions.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 weeks ago:
Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.
Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 4 weeks ago:
Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.
DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they’re explicitly referred to as “free DLC”. Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 4 weeks ago:
We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.
We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.
Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches. Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last.
- Comment on I have hired this Byleth to stare at you 5 weeks ago:
You gotta diversify your Fire Emblem Husbandos. Hector from The Blazing Blade (first English Fire Emblem, I think 7th overall) is GOAT.
Whole great game series out there beyond the edges of Three Houses.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 5 weeks ago:
Louis Rossman (the guy pushing this) is also running the consumer rights wiki, has made countless videos on board level repair of Mac devices, and just recently offered a $5000 bounty for jailbreaking a smart thermostat that pushed out an update to lock out owners unless they agree to a $100+ subscription. He’s constantly pushing for self hosting and less big tech reliance, has released a number of guides.
This is just a small side piece in the overall strategy.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 weeks ago:
Yep! But Control is based off SCP, not the other way around.