wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 57 minutes 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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? 1 day 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! 2 days 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! 2 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 5 days ago:
While the ID shit is godawful, that’s not at all how it works in any implementation out there right now. There have even been multiple breaches of these systems, further demonstrating their issues, but you know what hasn’t been in any of the breaches/leaks?
Direct connection between ID and uniquely identifiable user information.
If I’m wrong about this I’d love to know, but as far as I am aware the ID leaks have not had shit like email address attached.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 5 days ago:
That’s the point, it doesn’t. Much like the argument about targeting marginalized people when you’re talking about children.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 5 days ago:
If you watch a decent amount of twitch streaming it’s pretty obvious. I’m sure there are a ton of whales out there willing to dump >$1000 in one go on a streamer, but just watch something like a “subathon”, or a “hype train”. You’ll see more dollars than viewers they have move around in the span of like 30 minutes.
Or when streamers “bet” each other large amounts of gift subscriptions. That’s explicitly money, and abstracting it behind subs only masks how damn much a lot of these “bets” are really for.
I’m not going to claim that anywhere near all of it is straight laundering, but it’s pretty damn obvious just how fucking easy it would be to use it all for washing/tumbling of dirty funds.
- Comment on i mean 5 days ago:
The left hand goes on the left or the middle depending on the game.
- Comment on Tri gun: Original or stampede? 6 days ago:
Looks like no official explanation, but the leading theories are relating to the main character’s three main weapons or the three major figures of the story (can’t be more specific than that without spoilers).
I definitely never picked up on a specific meaning myself though.
- Comment on YSK About Resilience Targeting 6 days ago:
Hey, it’s the reason I intentionally limit the amount of my news exposure. Efforts to overwhelm by those in power.
Feeling so overwhelmed in the face of all the horrors of the world that you’re frozen doesn’t help fix anything.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
What part did you miss about “off grid”?
- Comment on me n the homes not crossing streams cuz were not gay 1 week ago:
It already has the drain topper removed for easier log stomping. How considerate! Make sure to thank your host because that is some grade A hospitality.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
You can look this shit up you know. 3 yachts each retrofitted into marine research vessels and one under construction as another research vessel. The one under construction will house 75 scientists. His marine research company, inkfish, releases all findings publicly and for free.
But nobody knows this shit because he isn’t burning money on a fucking PR firm.
Look, he’s sitting upon an empire largely propped up by the fucking invention of lootboxes, the marketing of them to children and whales, and all the second and third hand markets and gambling sites that have sprung up around this shit. I’m not going to sit around and suck his dick.
But inkfish isn’t even the only “public good” organization he’s founded. And he’s also just directly donated money to existing things as well, such as considerable money into pediatric ICU in New Zealand.
On the scheme of ultra rich, he is one of the better ones.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
Re-read the title. Considering cancelling plans. They aren’t using them yet.
- Comment on Day 564 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
At the risk of sending you down a rabbit hole, there are some people who use Reshade on non-online games to do “game photography”. You could go as light as overlaying a grid, or more complicated stuff like simulating lens focal length, removing fog, adjusting colors, adding bloom, bokeh, etc.
It’s meant for overlaying complex graphical effects while you play, but there’s a small dedicated community of people using it to set up the perfect still shots. It’s definitely a deep rabbit hole.
- Comment on The perfect club! 2 weeks ago:
Hey, that’s I am a bunny! Didn’t know Nicholas went that hard.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
Huh? I’m having no issues with vsCode, and while I haven’t used Discord in ages I didn’t have problems with it either. Both are electron. Got any links about these issues handy?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.
Don’t rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you think that any nation-state with the money to implement this shit isn’t doing it already, I have a bridge to sell you.
Surveillance is a matter of power and maintaining it, far more than any ideological thing. There are already people being caught by this sort of shit in the UK and Europe as well.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 2 weeks ago:
While making this easier to access isn’t a positive, there are a ton of ways that this can, and already is, being done at companies that actually care about this shit.
Yeah you’re totally in the office, but your laptop just magically has an IP from the subnet for devices connected over VPN 🙄
Once again I must insist that people need to stop expecting any privacy on work devices. It is possible to find out anything on them, including location, it’s just a matter of how much effort your workplace is willing to expend on looking.
- Comment on OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem 2 weeks ago:
Altman realizes most people outside of third world countries aren’t ready to just hand over their biometrics for cash, so he’s come up with a new way to get people to give them to him. Hooray.
I don’t get how anyone can trust a fucking word out of this guy’s mouth.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences
Oh my god this. I’ve gotten some well natured teasing from co-workers about taking a while to type multiple sentence teams messages (they’ll see the typing icon in the full team group chat), but when the alternative is a back and forth that doesn’t need to happen, or them having to wait a few minutes from first message until the idea is complete, I think it’s the best approach.
- Comment on So, I'm kinda new at Kirby. What's this dark blue thing? 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, is Gooey, is friend.
Lorewise he’s made up of the same stuff as Dark Matter one of the big villians, but the power of friendship means he’s friend.
Mechanics wise, he’s player 2. If you don’t have a real player 2, he’ll be controlled by a basic CPU that mostly copies what you do.
I’ve heard there’s also some cheese you can do by spawning him when you only have one health (negating the one health cost to spawn him) and then eating him to restore up to two health, but imo Dreamland 3 is better without cheesing it.
Unasked for advice: In Dreamland 3, the game that screenshot is from, every level (except boss fights) have some sort of puzzle in the level you can complete to get a “heartstar” from whatever character is standing on the last screen of the level. You unlock the true final boss by collecting all the heartstars and beating each worlds boss while you have all of them for that world.
As is Kirby tradition, the true final boss is horrifying.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #12 2 weeks ago:
These are but short windows into a rich tapestry of lives. Of course we may find them confusing, lacking the proper context and life experiences that led to this specific moment. Truly, how can any person hope to bridge that chasm and truly understand another?
One thing I can say for certain though, is that a Dennys ought to have ham.