jherazob
@jherazob@beehaw.org
- Comment on Signal calls out Microsoft for poor implementation of Windows 11 Recall, blocks it by default 2 days ago:
Then the corpo lawyer teams say “This is a major legal liability” and say no
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
Here’s a mirror of the old, old OKCupid blogpost against paid dating apps, some dynamic bits didn’t get properly archived but the info is still there, giving a very strong argument that paid dating apps are by definition bad to find a partner. Then they got bought and the blogpost was deleted literally the next day.
And this is long, LONG before everything started enshittifying, and dating apps went all in on this. By now the odds are very much against you if you wanna find someone on those apps.
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, did the same, you just couldn’t avoid it, it’s the thing you just GOTTA do…
And here you go
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 2 weeks ago:
The whole of the True Ending of Hollow Knight, from before even reaching the final final boss
- Comment on Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users 2 weeks ago:
Feels extremely weird to be on the same side as whatsapp on a privacy issue…
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 2 weeks ago:
hunter2?
- Comment on Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
And the Internet Archive too
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 month ago:
It 100% will, it has already started
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 month ago:
Nah, there’s always going to be bots in any public network, it’s normal, should be fought and all but there’s always adversarial individuals, we definitely should find who’s this Nicole person and get them to stop this crap, but you’d be surprised how NORMAL it is to have anything on the public internet under constant, 24/7 attack
- Comment on I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet 1 month ago:
Wrong use case, the expected one is friends and family watching stuff on your Jellyfin server from different homes, potentially through mobile, all with dynamic IPs
- Comment on Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir 2 months ago:
Heh, saw it already in some places 🏴☠️ so Streisand effect is in full force, good!
- Comment on How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content 3 months ago:
- Comment on India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
The smart thing to do following this announcement would be to replicate it locally and use that from then on, they gave all the info on how to do it after all
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 3 months ago:
I think many of them already do, i know Iocaine uses Markov chain text generation to spit out nonsense to poison the LLMs, do check it, at the bottom of the project page it links to others
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 3 months ago:
By now i’ve seen like 6 or 7 projects on either trapping or outright poison content for LLM bots, and yesterday i saw this one which outright modifies the HTML of your page making it harder to steal and instead replaces it with a random prompt, someone asks it to summarize a blogpost and instead the thing starts talking about poodles or something, while normal browser users notice nothing
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 4 months ago:
No, no, it does work, but it depends on the size of your library
- Comment on Diamond market 4 months ago:
Ah, i misunderstood, yeah, there’s got to be some rigging in that demo pic now that you mention it, however if Moissanite is essentially a drop-in replacement for diamonds in jewelry that is cheaper and looks even slightly nicer, which seems to be the case, then all should be well, doubly so if it kills the profits of De Beers. I’d ask to see the contrast IN PERSON if i was shopping for rings today though, nothing beats that.
- Comment on Diamond market 4 months ago:
Moissanite is a completely different substance than diamond, it’s a silicon carbide crystal, and it’s also made synthetically so no worries about exploitation mining, it’s also cheaper
- Comment on Diamond market 4 months ago:
For a few years I’ve saved this pic from previous similar posts in various places, no need even for freaking diamonds
- Comment on Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon 4 months ago:
Had typed a long response and it went away, let’s try again… 😅
So, been lately in a Castlevania binge (Metroidvanias only, I’ve always sucked at the platforming ones) and there’s a nice group of games there, you beat Aria, now try Dawn which happens a year later, a very rare direct sequel among these. Then there’s Harmony of Dissonance, Circle of the Moon if you’re into that one (I’m lukewarm on this one), Dawn as mentioned, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclessia, and of course the grandaddy of them all, Symphony of the Night. All these are FREAKING FULL of achievements on Retroachievements, unlike the officially released versions on Steam with the Advance and Dominus collections, which only have a tiny handful for each game. Retroachievements has like 5 to 10 times the achievements for games, every achievement on the official releases is in Retroachievements, along with A LOT of ones not covered. Even tiny little missable details like this one on Symphony which I’ve always loved. It also has achievements for the nutcases like speedrunning ones or the “Defeat X with no damage and without using so and so item”.
Just make sure the emulator and retroachievements recognize it, i’ll have to redo Portrait at some point because it never recognized it as Portrait for some reason (ROM issues or something?)
And of course, once you’re done with these, there’s Bloodstained, the Castlevaina not Castlevania, quite fun and with the right vibe!
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 5 months ago:
36%
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 6 months ago:
Tha’s been my beef with GOG for years now, their utterly stubborn stance of ignoring anything besides Windows even when it’s common sense to do so
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 6 months ago:
Two words: Steam Deck.
- Comment on Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web 6 months ago:
Person uninformed about these things here with an uninformed question: What are the chances that the Mozilla Foundation itself can be forked like the code can be?
- Comment on Ubisoft Just Quietly Launched a Full-Blown NFT Game - IGN 6 months ago:
Likely pivot-to-ai.com
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 6 months ago:
The only correction i’d do to this message is to stop calling this person “Zuck”, Mark Zuckerberg IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, stop calling these fucking bastards cutesy friend names or on a first name basis (like “Elon”, Zuck" and others like this) , they DO NOT deserve them and they WANT to be called that
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 6 months ago:
And that’s one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 6 months ago:
It’s not gone, it has gone underground, i like this model to describe the current internet
- Comment on Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information [Aftermath] 7 months ago:
MANY of the old places of the internet are still active, heavily overshadowed by the current centralized feudal web of 5 websites all with screenshots of each other but STILL alive. Hell, even IRC is still running, and i understand so does Usenet!
- Comment on Substack wants to do more than just newsletters 7 months ago:
So, appealing to actual fucking nazis isn’t actually profitable? Oh noes!
