jherazob
@jherazob@beehaw.org
- Comment on What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. 1 week ago:
You just have zero guarantee that the answers will be real
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 2 weeks ago:
And the Internet Archive too
- Comment on Dev Retires “Dual Snake” Online Service, Migrating Features Into Offline 3 weeks ago:
And this is the kind of things we wanted with the Stop Killing Games initiative, high respect for this dev
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a couple of years so don’t recall the details or the name of the thing, but it was something that went through every comment you ever posted and overwrote it, even past the 1000 messages limit, but got crippled after the API stuff actually got implemented, no idea if it still exists or if it’s usable
- Comment on Certain Android VPN apps are insecure, secretly tied to one Chinese company 4 weeks ago:
Never use free VPNs
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 4 weeks ago:
And i continue not regretting deleting everything i ever posted on Reddit for 17 years when i left them during the APIcalypse fiasco (yes, i imagine it’s all archived somewhere anyway, but at least it’s not there for them to use at this time)
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 weeks ago:
Checked, the ACTUAL paper does mention how to transmit it, as microwaves, haven’t read yet beyond the abstract (got some stuff pending to do) but at least it mentions a method
- Comment on [Lextorias] The Secret War To Censor The Internet 1 month ago:
Not much of a secret
- Comment on itch.io now seemingly affected by payment processor rules as Steam 1 month ago:
Been hearing rumors that the stuff didn’t just get delisted, some got removed entirely from the site, including from customer libraries that had paid for it with no refunds
And of course, there’s LGBTQ+ stuff getting flagged as porn because that’s the ultimate goal of each and every one of these attacks…
Itch.io had been very good for many, many years, and with their handling of this, in a single day they’re killing any good will they had accumulated all this time…
- Comment on Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy 2 months ago:
It is very possible to have a full smart home setup with zero dependence on Teh Cloudz, with fallback to physical dumb switches when something goes wrong, but from what I’ve seen it’s far less effort to have one that depends on external stuff
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 2 months ago:
We definitely are, Valve has single-handedly made Linux a viable gaming platform, but in the process became indispensable. Thanks to Gabe they’ve been rather good in that respect. However, whoever replaces him might not be as good as him.
- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 2 months ago:
After installing it, a tiny but relevant point is to get a nicer icon that “app name in a square”, Organic Maps had a nice, RECOGNIZABLE icon, CoMaps will be glossed over when looking for it a bunch of times because of it’s super generic one. I imagine it’s coming since they’re just starting but hope that someone does have it in mind.
- Comment on Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 3 months ago:
A study years ago found that the ideal time for copyrights to recover the investment and all that was something like 14 years or something like that (don’t recall exactly), can you imagine if anything older than like 20 years automatically fell into the Public Domain? The kind of wild crazy awesome shit that would be out there?
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 months ago:
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 months ago:
Holy shit someone else remembers this movie! Yes! Dunno if i’d defend it as it’s clearly a niche taste but hell, it deserved no hate!
- Comment on Signal calls out Microsoft for poor implementation of Windows 11 Recall, blocks it by default 3 months 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 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
hunter2?
- Comment on Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia 4 months ago:
And the Internet Archive too
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 6 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 7 months ago:
- Comment on India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers | TechCrunch 7 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 7 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 7 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