Cethin
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- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 6 hours ago:
Based on what? Who have you seen be convicted of making deepfake porn? Under what law?
Then you’re provided a law where it’d be illegal:
Hmm, interesting, thanks. Has anyone been charged or convicted with this law yet?
This seems to heavily imply you don’t believe it’s illegal until someone’s been convicted.
- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 19 hours ago:
Definitely not convicted. That’d be some crazy speed.
However, your insistence that it hasn’t happened yet so can’t happen is insane. There has to be a first case in which it hadn’t happened before.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 days ago:
Lol. Almost no one who has an opinion on AI is a technophobe. I’d argue it’s the opposite. To be informed enough to have an opinion means you must like technology. However, LLMs have been proven to be confidently in a inaccurate and misleading, and it creates situations where people believe they’re correct when it just made shit up.
Sure, it help you get an answer pretty quickly, but then you have to check it for accuracy (if you aren’t a fucking idiot who just trusts the thing innately). It doesn’t actually save any time most of the time if you actually learn how to do it yourself. For example, I sometimes use a local model to write boilerplate code for me, but if I ask it to write anything that solves a problem it’s almost never correct. Then I have to parse it and figure out what it was doing to fix it, when I could have just written it myself and been done.
Yeah, it’s great if you’re an idiot and just want to sound smart. It’ll give you an answer that seems reasonable, and you can move on with your day. However, there’s very good odds it isn’t correct if it’s anything complex and/or niche. (I think I saw something not long ago saying 70% chance of being wrong.) If it isn’t complex or is common, you didn’t need a fucking LLM to solve it.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 days ago:
Cheating is when you skip a part of the process, and when the process is there to help you learn something then you’re cheating yourself. It is the same as math teachers enforcing no-calculator rules. They weren’t doing it to be pointlessly strict. They were doing it to force you to excersice your brain. You need to know the processes they’re asking you to do. Once you know how, then you can use a calculator without missing out. Knowing the process is incredibly helpful in higher math, or in practical applications when you need to think of how to get to a desired result from what you have.
It’s like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you. Sure, the reps got done but you didn’t actually get anything out of it. Is that useful or are you just wasting your time and money?
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 days ago:
That’s not really how that works. Sure, it isn’t liquid, but you can still borrow against it, and you don’t pay tax in this like you would if you sell. That’s how the wealthy can still buy things without having to pay any reasonable amount of tax.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 4 days ago:
A lot were, but not all. I believe Itch made the decision to allow this type of content only if it’s free for now though, so a lot has gone totally free (with the option to donate).
I’m not totally sure on any of this, because this content is not something I follow, but I think I heard this is the case somewhere here recently. I could be wrong.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 4 days ago:
Just a heads up, because of payment processor stuff, most are free on itch.io right now also.
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 5 days ago:
Hats are more commonly the subject of alien photos than aliens.
FTFY
If you can’t identify the object that’s flying, it’s a UFO. It doesn’t matter what it is. A flying hat that isn’t identified is still a UFO.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 5 days ago:
Is there anyone who sells games that aren’t bad in some way? You don’t become successful in capitalism by being altruistic. Any company successful enough to run a market probably has some skeletons in their closet.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 5 days ago:
I don’t know if it’s a slight against them. There’s a whole shit load of stuff not included. Just because something wasn’t doesn’t mean it was a choice. It would have been nice, but we can’t really know why there’s none here.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 5 days ago:
I have a suspicion $80 was made up to anchor the price, so when they drop it to $70 stupid people think they won and are getting a deal.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 5 days ago:
I agree with you that time isn’t the measure of value. That’s not what the person above said though. Honestly, I think it was a pretty bad game. The writting didn’t trust the player, instead they beat them over the head that it’s a goofy critique of capitalism. The characters were boring. The game in general just wasn’t very fun.
Honestly, it did fall into what you’re saying where it felt bloated. There was potentially a good game in there, but it was buried under everything that wasn’t interesting but they thought they needed.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 5 days ago:
Yeah, I have a theory that the absurd $80 price was to make as feel like we won when it drops to $70. This isn’t a win. Don’t celebrate it.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 5 days ago:
Throw the System Shock remakes into your replay. They’re Bioshock in all but name, except you get more freedom (that decreases steadily over time with each game in this “series”).
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 5 days ago:
With the right team willing to take risks, I agree. There’s still so much it could explore. I doubt this is that though.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 5 days ago:
To be fair, they are largely anti-american and woke, but in a good way. Woke is good, and America has some fucking issues. If you’re choosing to be not woke or actively pro-america, then you might be doing something wrong.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 5 days ago:
🏴☠️
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 week ago:
I think I’ve heard putting a rock in your shoe is effective, though obviously not comfortable.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
Yeah, even though batteries have gotten smaller, and I’d prefer a larger one, mine still trivially lasts a day. I’ve got an inductive charger at my desk too, so it’s rarely drops below like 80% even. They easily last long enough that carrying extras to hot swap is not required and just a hassle. I guess if you’re going camping or something, it might be nice, but that’s about the only situation I could see being useful.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn’t check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn’t about legal content. That already wasn’t allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don’t know. I’m not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I’m only proving that it isn’t what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
We don’t know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not “no illegal content.” It’s “no content involving rape or incest” or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn’t what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that’s what their requirement would say, but it isn’t.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
We should, but also they aren’t the root cause. If they’re gone, there’s nothing stopping a different group from doing the same thing (except for fear of retaliation). The ideal solution is to force payment processors to process any payment for legal content.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s not what the payment processors are requesting. They aren’t saying they don’t want to be used to buy this content. They’re dating, if your platform hosts this content at all then they won’t process any payments. It doesn’t matter if the option is removed if the content is still there. They’re using their power of monopoly to police content.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
I’ve heard this reasoning a few times. I don’t buy it. Illegal content is already illegal. You aren’t allowed to sell it. Policing particular content beyond that doesn’t cover your ass. In fact, it implicates you if you do process payments for illegal content.
I’ve never seen any argument from them that this is the reasoning. The only rule they need is that you aren’t allowed to sell illegal content on your platform. That covers everything. Going beyond that implies there’s a different reason. They’re being influenced by something else other than the law.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
They have a risky move, which in 1/10000 cases leads to an illegal game being paid for through their payment platform.
And they have a safe move, where this never happens. Literally.
You’re not getting it. They’re the exact same risk. If it was illegal, it wasn’t allowed before. If you’re breaking the rules, you don’t care. Especially if you were breaking the law and the rule before, you don’t care that there’s a new rule that also applies. This doesn’t change risk at all.
The opposite could be true, if it were just against the rules but then is also made to be against the law. It might dissuade some people who were skirting the rules to reconsider. If they were breaking the law already, they don’t care that they’re breaking a new rule because they already were breaking the rules. It doesn’t make it any worse for them. It’s the exact same. If they’re discovered, they’re removed from the platform, exactly the same as before.
You must at least be able to understand this simple logic, right? Once you’re breaking the rules enough to be removed from the platform, why do you care if there are more rules that will remove you from the platform? You’re either stopped or you’re not, and the platform either stops them or it doesn’t. The risk to the payment processors is the same. You trust the moderation or you don’t. They aren’t going to do a better job because the illegal content is doubly not allowed. They’re either stopping content that isn’t allowed or they aren’t.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
I’m saying the possibility of there being illegal content only exists if they allow the reintroduction of those titles.
Again, no. If there were illegal content before then it’s already breaking the rules. If you’re breaking rules once, why would adding more rules change anything?
They’d need trust in the store moderation, in the lack of bad faith actors, in a lot of things.
What? Yeah, the store moderators have to enforce the rules. I don’t know what this has to do with anything. Illegal or just banned, they have to be removed by the moderators. What difference does it make? This doesn’t make any sense. Adding more rules doesn’t magically remove the content. Moderators still have to do it. If they weren’t doing it for illegal content, why would they do it for only banned but legal content?
The reason they did it is because they were pressured by a weird group who has a lot of influence. It wasn’t because they were worried about illegal content, which is obvious because that’s not the rule they applied. If the rule was “you’re not allowed to sell illegal content” (which is obviously always true) then it’d be fine. Instead they made a rule for not allowing specific types of legal content.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
Sued for what? They aren’t stopping illegal content from being sold. That, as is implied by the word “illegal”, was already not allowed on these stores. They’re stopping legal, but potentially (not my opinion) objectionable, content from being sold. There’s no legal risk for allowing it.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
For your question, no. There’s no way for an object to have an orbit that doesn’t intersect the same altitude where an impulse happened. They could be knocked into an eccentric orbit, but it at least has to have the lowest point at the highest point of the Starlink network.
This is not to say it can’t hit something else after that changes the perigee at a later point in it’s orbit, thus lifting it higher. For a single collusion though, no, at least with the collision alone.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
It’s be a step out of the relationship with me.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
As a fairly privacy conscious person, I also expect and accept that it’s happening too. I don’t think you can be privacy conscious and not accept that. You have to be ignorant to think you can hide it all. I do my best to keep as much data out of their hands as possible though. I don’t agree with it.