Vodulas
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- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 4 days ago:
FWIW, TPMs are on the mobo, not on the CPU. Not to encourage you to install Wimdows, but you can get TPM chips that plug into the mobo.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I really enjoyed Lies of P. It is not as polished as Elden Ring, but still a great souls like. You could also play Dark souls 1. It is a little rough not having a dedicated jump button, but still one of the better souls games out there.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 6 days ago:
It’s not like there’s a line in the customer agreement when buying tickets that you allow your face to be featured (unless there is?).
It’s shitty, but there is. Hell, even at small venues there usually at least a line saying “By buying this ticket you agree to be recorded”
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 6 days ago:
Yeah, mine too
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 6 days ago:
I’m going to give coyotino the benefit of the doubt here and say that meant “Look at her, she already looks like Zelda” just based on the previous sentence
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 1 week ago:
Unless there is something inserted into the gcode, nozzles are a wear item. You would not be able to put a consistently identifiable mark on the nozzle
- Comment on Microsoft Soars as AI Cloud Boom Drives $595 Price Target 1 week ago:
Small savings =/= enough to gamble on stocks. At least if you want to keep that money.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
It can, and has helped people when their art is stolen by smaller entities. But for sure when it is the big companies doing the stealing it does not do a lot. I never said copyright is good, and abolishing it is better, but how far are we from doing that? This is US centric, but it would require our government to not be so heavily influenced by corporate money.
- Comment on Microsoft Soars as AI Cloud Boom Drives $595 Price Target 1 week ago:
All you have to do is already have money!
- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 2 weeks ago:
I use magic earth, and it is inaccurate with traffic most of the time. Still, it is accurate sometimes, and most of the time I just need the turn by turn because I already know where there will be traffic on most days.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 3 weeks ago:
You could get a phone mount for a PS controller. Just a warning though, my phone was way heavier than my Dualsense controller, so it was not comfortable to play lying down. Another benefit of using the Playstation controller is you can stream your Playstation games.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 3 weeks ago:
Oh, copyright is for sure fucked, but until we have UBI it is about all we have to potentially protect small artists
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 3 weeks ago:
That is true, and they may have been doing to cover their asses, but I would bet they did the destructive method because it was faster or cheaper (or both). We will probably never know the minutia of that decision though
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 3 weeks ago:
I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn’t excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 3 weeks ago:
Totally fair.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 4 weeks ago:
Paper is a natural resource, and this literally just wasted a fuck ton. There are non-destructive scanning methods.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 4 weeks ago:
The books were destroyed because duplicating a work without permission is illegal
It is not illegal if you don’t distribute, which the judge ruled meant this was fair use. They destroyed the books as part of the digitizing project because it is likely faster and cheaper than non-destructive methods.
but destroying the original means that there is only one copy in the end still.
That is not how this works at all. As long as you aren’t distributing, you are well within your rights to make copies of a book you purchase.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 4 weeks ago:
people got really upset with them throwing away books that had multiple reprintings and were in awful condition.
That is not what is going on here, though. They bought millions of dollars of new books in order to train AI and used destructive scanning instead of non-destructive methods. It is a huge waste of resources. They could have used a non-destructive method then donated the books. But like everything involved in current AI, they chose the most wasteful method
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 4 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t retract it. It is a bad way to indicate the solution since it requires the Foyer and to have finished the grid message accurately. IMO anything that can be foiled by RNG is a bad way to do it.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
lol, true. That is a rounding error though
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
It is only “hit” if you mean hit by a police car or bullet. There is zero accountability
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
Still very US centric, but guns are incredibly easy to get here. I live in a “progressive” state and I don’t even have to take a single class to get one, or get a concealed carry permit
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I know that one. Infuriating
Grid message spoiler
The hint is the count’s last name is Gates, and the grid says to count small gates, so only the little statues count.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
But an article about how guns are used and that they exist is not the same as selling them. I can see the argument that you should not even report on them because it makes them more popular, but at least in the US, guns are pretty permeated through society
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
A. No, this is an article talking about the tool. B. Cops are public figures. Name and badge number are public information. Hence why the first sentence in the article states it uses public records. It does not give their address and phone number. It is not doxxing
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 4 weeks ago:
I’m right there with ya on Blue Prince. The late game seems more like tricks than actual puzzles. That being said, it also makes it so I feel less bad about looking things up.
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 4 weeks ago:
Oh for sure that too. Also that was a great video.
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 4 weeks ago:
On the other hand, browsing ev charging forums reveals one melted socket after another
Often this is due to using portable chargers that someone is frequently plugging/unplugging in a socket designed for appliances that stay plugged in. You can’t cheap out on the 14-50 socket and sadly people often do
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I have a 2080 and have been running Pop_OS as my only OS for about 6 months now. It has been incredibly solid. I have also heard Bazzite is good, but have only tried it on an old MacBook with dual GPUs. It did not do great there, but I think that is an issue with the laptop, not bazzite
- Comment on How Relooted, A Game About Reclaiming African Artifacts From Western Museums, Ended Up Being Shown By A White Guy At Summer Game Fest 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.
If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture