wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 hours ago:
Don’t forget “styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels”
- Comment on Senators Call for The FTC to Launch an Investigation into Spotify for Forcing Subscribers into Higher-Priced Subscriptions Without Their Consent. 6 hours ago:
Most still are/can be. Enough that I find it hard to believe people are missing out without podcasts through these paid services.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 16 hours ago:
Education would be more effective than complaining.
As a straight, isn’t all this is missing for “topping” a strap-on? As in the “top” is usually doing the penetrating?
- Comment on Oh to go back... 1 day ago:
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 2 days ago:
What? That’s explicitly false. Grab nearly any instruction booklet for physical media, at least for any from 1990 or later. There are explicit sections laying out that you have licensed the content. 35 years ago.
In another comment on this post, someone pointed out that IBM began software licensing in the 50s. So… 75 years ago.
How far back are you going here?
For stuff like game carts/discs, VHS, and DVDs they simply had no way of enforcing the license terms, and the terms much more often included clauses for transference (lending, resale).
By law, it was almost always a license. That was the entire push behind the old attempts to criminalize backup devices and emulation (the bleem! case is good to read up on).
No arguments about how things worked out in day to day life, but a lot of shit was far more of a legal grey area that no one cared to persue. It wasn’t as much of a difference of legal rights.
- Comment on Be warned. 3 days ago:
🚨🚨 !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org 🚨🚨
- Comment on McPenis 4 days ago:
McDickin’
- Comment on Just curious 4 days ago:
Got that DSN (dick sucking nostril)
- Comment on After shuttering Shadow of Mordor and MultiVersus studios, Warner Bros. Games confirm rearrangement into four bits 5 days ago:
Wasn’t it also used in the sequel, Shadow of War?
Still bullshit that something like that can be patented.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 6 days ago:
It also tracks what you’ve downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.
It’s not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 6 days ago:
The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Thanks! That’s damn good for “best effort”! A convincing lead on what company it may be.
Personally, I still don’t think it’s time for immediate red alert, but I’ll have to keep an eye on things. Hopefully we’ll see some competitors like GameBanana step up to the challenge.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Wait, was it confirmed sold? The news post on Nexus fron this morning indicated that the existing head admin and CEO (of 24 years) was just stepping back (and not even away entirely), and had already put the year+ in of identifying two successors from his existing team.
I didn’t see anything regarding a sale, and the existing admin said quite a bit about taking this seriously from a standpoint of “best for mod makers and users” to the exclusion of focusing on “best for business profits”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.
And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.
As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.
- Comment on BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money 1 week ago:
Why does this description sound entirely like someone trying to sell me something?
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 1 week ago:
What? Corded phones exist, and most schools and offices have at least one in each room. Dumb phones exist. Pagers exist.
Smart phones are not the only singular solution for easy, quick contact.
- Comment on Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
The fluff text in the terminals is what really got me about the repetition. Like you couldn’t write a few more similar paragraphs and shuffle them?
- Comment on Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Enjoy while you can.
Don’t chase weapon upgrades and crafting research too hard. The minor stat upgrades don’t really effect much for the stupid amount of grinding required to get the exact right materials needed.
I found that the novelty of the game wore off pretty quick after I started finding what initially felt like handcrafted points of interest repeating for the third time. Apparently there’s a mod that tweaks the RNG to significantly reduce how often things repeat, because it’s really rough out of the box.
- Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore 1 week ago:
Win? Like a fucking gameshow? That’s absolutely fucked.
- Comment on I do, I do 1 week ago:
If Shrek’s gonna give me that face, my birthday won’t be the only thing that’s coming. Hubba hubba.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
Didn’t they just pass a site-wide decision on the use of LLMs in creating/editing otherwise “human made” text?
Why do they need to take the human element out? Why would anyone want them to?
God I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for Wikipedia. They live and die on the efforts of volunteer editors (like Reddit relied on volunteer mods and third party tool devs). The fastest way to tank themselves is by driving off their volunteers with shit like this.
And it’s absurdly easier to lose the good will they have than to rebuild it.
- 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:
Other studies (not all chess based or against this old chess AI) show similar lackluster results when using reasoning models.
- 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:
No, more like “Your marketing team, sales team, the news media at large, and random hype men all insist your orange machine works amazing on any fruit if you know how to use it right. It didn’t work my strawberries when I gave it all the help I could, and was outperformed by my 40 year old strawberry machine. Please stop selling the idea it works on all fruit.”
This study is specifically a counter to the constant hype that these LLMs will revolutionize absolutely everything, and the constant word choices used in discussion of LLMs that imply they have reasoning capabilities.
- Comment on Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google – elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing 2 weeks ago:
Hey @mirrorwitch@awful.systems, your blog post really seems to be making the rounds now!
- Comment on ‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data 2 weeks ago:
Yep, this discussion has been done to death decades ago when datacenters and other secure facilities started using iris scans.
Biometrics is the username, not the password.
- Comment on kwah 2 weeks ago:
Had this mixed in with the background music playlist at my wedding reception, and I got to witness an older gentleman sitting near the speaker look increasingly confused.
- Comment on Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service 2 weeks ago:
Why bother accepting fault and rolling back failed projects when you can use thr opportunity to turn what was previously standard into an upsell?
Fucking capitalism I swear to god.
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 2 weeks ago:
What? No. Just bring back Wordpad if people need formatting you fucks.
Seriously what the fuck is this?
Notepad is specifically for unformatted flat text files.
Adding tabs? Not needed, but OK. AI? Go fuck yourself, but no one is going to stop these people from bloating their CoPilot user numbers however they can.
But formatting? No one asked for this! Not even the stupid management structure at Microsoft. If I’m using Notepad it’s precisely because I don’t want or need formatting!
- Comment on Japan can't seem to catch a break 3 weeks ago:
If they get rid of the skirts, how are the police women supposed to stop everyone from seeing their underwear?
Does Japan’s perversion know no limits?
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but it still deserves the question to be asked explicitly. I don’t think most iPhone users looking for a music reccomendation app would assume they’d need to selfhost in order to use an app.
And again, if as the dev he’s not prepared to set up his own server for use to pass basic testing, it begs the question of what exactly he’s expecting out of his end users and if it’s truly a reasonable ask.