ICastFist
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- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 day ago:
will require identification and photo validation
Straight from the book “How to kill your app before launch”, page 1.
data privacy at its core
Looks like they haven’t seen the obvious conflict with requiring id + photo, unless they plan on manually review every application.
After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it. Govts could just spin their own mastodon or similars for a similar effect.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 day ago:
Stupid name, vv, or vave would’ve been better. Besides, it’s not like they’ll register v.v as a domain, or even www.w.vv
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 1 day ago:
wish meta had torrented all the viruses, too, would be fun to read the news of “facebook and instagram are offline as meta suffers from cyberattack”
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Related: Gertrude Bell, mountain climber, archaeologist and overall badass british lady that helped shape the middle east post WW1. Despite being a woman, she managed to earn the respect of several nomad arab tribes, you know, those that see women as a man’s property? Those. To the point that, when she died, they all came to her burial and ensured she was treated like a queen.
A very good, 3h17m doc on her life - youtu.be/anjha4JNAWg
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 days ago:
Pictured: Nadella holding in his hands all the profit M$ can make in the next 30 years even if AI booms like he really really really wants it to.
artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.
Oh, you mean there is a risk it becomes the thing it already is? Boy, imagine that!
The really funny thing is how he says that “the benefits need to spread outside the tech sector”. Golly gee, I wonder why other sectors haven’t benefited yet! Could it be that it’s not worth the hype and it does not improve anything that typical computer systems are already working on, like managing electrical grids, keeping track of shipments, avionics, etc? Nah, it’s all the doomers’ fault
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 4 days ago:
The green thingy looks like toothpaste
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 4 days ago:
Blueberry lemon
- Comment on And then princess was the dragon 4 days ago:
Alexstrasza, my dear 😏
- Comment on channeling your sexual aggression 6 days ago:
- Comment on channeling your sexual aggression 6 days ago:
Orgasmically?
- Comment on How does that craft where you stab a ball of fluff with a needle until it looks like something work? 1 week ago:
By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales
TIL sheep are shitty dragons
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment
Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
But I don’t wanna grind the legendary, I want it whole!
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
Yeah, his whole idea of sending a submarine to rescue the kids, then going completely berserk with pedophile accusations was the wake up call for me. Before that, almost the entire coverage of him over Ars Technica was positive
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 1 week ago:
What’s the size difference when you remove the porn stuff from the torrent?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.
Even that is getting harder, thanks to google and micro$hit doing everything they can to lock down their respective OSs. Linux on a desktop, yadda yadda, but we’re ~12 years into the smartphone era and we still don’t fully own those electronic pieces of shit. Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.
- Comment on True evil 1 week ago:
Stickman, beheaded and with every limb removed. Please form an orderly line to appreciate my magnum opus
- Comment on Do you have any games on your phone? 1 week ago:
Could be worse, he could be the kind that only plays fifa/ea football
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Emotional support for the first spoon
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 week ago:
Rakuel’s post on steam is very interesting
I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.
Emphasis mine. Universities playing a role in this annoys me a lot.
Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.
I think this part alone is incredibly important and the real eye-opener for him.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 week ago:
I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
Those pesky nationalists thinking they could nationalize oil just because they fairly elected a president that wanted to do that!!!
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
For the Iranians, yeah, different asshole, same shit
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 1 week ago:
You mean it isn’t the folks at trap-o-mart?
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
Singled them out because they’re the most used to seeing “autoplayers”, aka bots
- Comment on How do you know he's... 1 week ago:
I so want this scene to show up impromptu in a random VN for no reason
- Comment on How do you know he's... 1 week ago:
He’s over there, swapping channels in Beakman’s World
- Comment on The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate 2 weeks ago:
When artists now are now asked, after years of being on social media platforms and these lackluster art sites, what their dream art website looks like.
They describe a store.
A store that is allowed to sell pornography also.Capitalism and the greater opportunity to live off your art are definitely one of the biggest death causes of most community oriented sites. The moment money enters the equation, fun gets kicked off. Why show off your art around if there’s no profit to be had and the clout can’t be transformed into money?
The author finding Artfight and mentioning how it has no monetization further drives this point.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 2 weeks ago:
Do not join any of the others. Join ME and together we can rule the galaxy!
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
Already previous gen if you look at the mobile landscape, Sony’s just getting on with the times
