ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 14 hours ago:
Oh, disagreeing with the post, huh? Looks like we found the AI troll, get 'em everyone!
- Comment on How I view others in social media 1 day ago:
My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 5 days ago:
How can you shame that which is shameless?
- Comment on Airbnb Begins Testing A New AI-Powered Customer Service Bot In The U.S. 1 week ago:
I’m sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they’re the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.
For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn’t cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host’s side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.
Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters’ contacts seems more damaging.
- Comment on "The goal is to make them hate Ukraine": Russians intensify militarisation of children in occupied Zaporizhzhia 1 week ago:
Putin’s goal is absolutely draft these kids as early as possible to fight against Ukraine. To a psychopath, it’s incredibly efficient, a closed-loop meat-grinder.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don’t even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
OpenAI recently updated ChatGPT to be able to reproduce images in a specific style, and a lot of people posted Ghibli-style versions. So all of a sudden, it’s a big deal.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
The future is great!
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
They’re still a corporate entity, and they still want access to markets to make money.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.
There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.
Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.
- Comment on Trump's ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion 4 weeks ago:
You see, it hit Trump like a bolt of lightning - fentanyl is a problem, but what people never had realized, is that fentanyl has to be moved between different physical locations.
From there, after only two weeks of additional thought, Trump had his trademark genius insight: don’t stop the fentanyl, stop the people moving the fentanyl.
It was an idea so brilliant, not even the smartest minds had thought of it. But how? How do you stop people moving fentanyl? How can you? Is it even possible?
Ah, it was a tough one, even for Trump. He labored for another month, but then - genius! We could… No… But could we …make the cars so expensive, these criminals would not even be able to move the fentanyl.
It was a perfect plan with no flaws. The only question was, could he explain his incredible but hopelessly intricate insights to the mere mortals in the media? As anyone who knows Trump could predict, he felt the need for the public to understand, a compulsion, such is he cursed with care for their feelings, and would first gouge his eyes out rather than have them experience a moment’s confusion or worry.
Well, leave that to his capable staff. If the people love him even a fraction as much as he loves them, they will understand. It is an emergency. It must be done. For America.
- Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors 4 weeks ago:
I’m just waiting for a nice breakdown of society that somehow happens with working electricity and no danger or difficulty obtaining food, and then I’m set.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 5 weeks ago:
Also 2016, that was a big one.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 5 weeks ago:
The great taste of Ovaltine, of course!
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 5 weeks ago:
“Free TV” means “TV paid for with your time and attention.”
Know what else pays you for your time and attention? Your job. We can quibble about how hard work it is to watch ads, but that is what’s happening: you’re just working, using up irreplaceable portions of your life, when you use these free TV services.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 5 weeks ago:
Yup, better said.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 5 weeks ago:
Two edits: the capitalism exponential curve should be much sharper.
And the Trump graph maybe should have an “El Salvador prison” section on the left side.
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 1 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Shinichiro Watanabe directed both.
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 1 month ago:
Yep. “My draconian DRM loosened the straight jacket a little.”
Yayyy.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 month ago:
Thanks, I didn’t see this, there was a different embedded FAQ that didn’t have the specific Q & A below.
But, if anything, it seems to confirm the ad itself is just legitimately clicked from the user’s IP address and hidden from the user, and that there is code execution protection, but not that there is any privacy protection? It’s still very ambiguous.
How does AdNauseam “click Ads”? AdNauseam ‘clicks’ Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a ‘click’ on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam’s clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 month ago:
Yeah, I can’t find an answer whether the “click” is behind some obfuscation, or if the “click every ad” is the obfuscation step itself by attempting to poison the data. The latter may work but yes, may actually increase tracking. Wish that answer wasn’t so hard to find on their site.
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 1 month ago:
The woman left the house before 13News arrived. She returned just after noon accompanied by a lawyer. The group of ten or so investigators left a few minutes later.
So the FBI were in there, the woman left and came back with a lawyer, and then almost immediately the FBI left. Boy, that doesn’t sound at all like they were conducting an illegal search.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 1 month ago:
This absolutely is a reasonable explanation why Putin had such an easy time convincing him.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 month ago:
“Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!”
- Comment on JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses. 1 month ago:
I mean, when you collapse that logic you’re effectively saying random is the same thing as non-deterministic. But they’re different things, because even if an infinitesimally exact moment in time may “always” produce the same result, because the arrow of time only points in one direction, no such deterministic result can ever be replicated, and if the result cannot be replicated, then what is the difference from random?
- Comment on What metrics did people evaluate arcade games by when they were popular? 1 month ago:
I remember it was not really a surprising set of metrics: gameplay, graphics, and fun.
It was about having an experience you couldn’t have at home (or anywhere else) because the games were always noticeably ahead of the curve.
It’s hard to communicate how impressive it was since we’re in the diminishing returns era for graphics. But a jump from Pac-Man to Rush 'n Attack or Contra, and from that to Street Fighter II, and from that to Ridge Racer, and so on was so imagination-bending.
Maybe like if you could play an actual Pixar movie as a game? Something like that. As a kid, the arcades in the 90s-00s were really amazing places.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Emulators with rewind and save states mean regular humans can finally enjoy this game.
- Comment on This tiny piece of shit! 2 months ago:
Oh god. This is why we need to differentiate NSFW from NSFL tags on Lemmy.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 2 months ago:
Thank you for this. I plan to look at the authentication part more closely, but that’s the part I can’t quite figure out (being an amateur at this stuff but still trying), since I’m nervous with just a password accessing it remotely or from the phone.
Authelia, NGINX, there is so much that’s confusing to me, but this might help.