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- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 2 days ago:
we’d better be careful to make sure that we aren’t simply giving the federal government (and the shitheads who run it) even more power and control over everything
You do realize that copyright is solely a function of the federal government, right? There is no state or municipal copyright, it’s already the federal government who decides whether your copyright as a creator is valid or enforceable, or whether to just hand it over to another company/ billionaire.
- Comment on Be Wary of Digital Deskilling 1 week ago:
The real means to prevent this is unionizing, which is really the answer to most other techbro-hellscape problems too. Just like Hollywood is putting anti-ai clauses in their contracts, so too will tech workers need to. Unfortunately, given that the end goal is to remove the IT workers entirely, this is still only a delay if companies push ahead, since just like scabs, there will always be people willing to sell their fellow workers down the river for their own enrichment.
The real question is what has to happen to end this horrible capitalist nightmare in general.
- Comment on The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain 1 week ago:
independent has always meant the freedom to create whatever you want without input from anyone else.
Yes, and if a publisher is present, you cannot as a consumer ensure this is the case. No publisher actually puts their contracts with dev studios public for review, or allows people to review their internal communication.
- Comment on The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain 1 week ago:
No, this distinction prevents large studios from co-opting “indie” as a label, which people support because of that artistic discretion, and hiding it behind their opaque promises of such independence that no one can verify. You cannot trust a dev hasn’t been influenced by a publisher when they’re present, so the only way to ensure that is to not have a publisher present.
I don’t know that movie, but I do know actual indie devs who use e.g. Patreon for funding. It’s not about not having money, it’s about who your money comes from, and whether there can be hidden stipulations on it. With publishers, there always are.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 1 week ago:
This is great to see, and as long as it’s up to companies whether to do this, we need to encourage that behavior… but it also shouldn’t be up to companies’ whims whether to do this or not, it should be legally required for end-of-support devices and software to release whatever source code or changes are necessary to either operate the device/software independent of a server, or run the server ourselves.
- Comment on How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, operating a private streaming site is much ‘safer’ than pirate VHF/ UHF broadcasts, both in terms of what you’ll get charged with, and how long you’ll remain undetected. VHF and UHF broadcasts are literal homing beacons (and without something to bounce the signal off, very limited in what you’d reach).
Jellyfin on an offshore VPS, with invite-only accounts otoh…
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 2 weeks ago:
I mean… You can. You can train and run models yourself. Lots of people and orgs do.
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 2 weeks ago:
American == Fascistic == “Make America Great Again”/ Manifest Destiny == Settler Colonialist… viewpoints
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
immoral people existing is not the problem here
True. The profit motive is. People pushing harmful content are doing it because it makes them money, not because they’re twirling their moustaches as they relish their evil deeds. You remove the profit motive, you remove the motivation to harm people for profit.
the difference is that there isn’t an algorithm that acts as a vector for harmful bullshit
The algorithms boost engagement according to 1) what people engage with, and 2) what companies assess to be appealing. Facebook took the lead in having the social media platform own the engagement algorithms, but the companies and people pushing the content can and do also have their own algorithmic targeting. Just as Joe Camel existed before social media and still got to kids (and not just on TV), harmful actors will find and join discords. All that Facebook and Twitter did was handle the targeting for them, but it’s not like the targeting doesn’t exist without the platforms’ assistance.
Said bad actors do not exist in anywhere near the same capacity. Imo the harm of public chat rooms falls under the “parents can handle this” umbrella. Public rooms are still an issue, but from experience being a tween/teen on those platforms, it’s not even close to being as bad.
It wasn’t as bad on those… back when we were teens. It absolutely is now. If anything, you’ll usually find that a lot of the most harmful groups (red-pill/ manosphere, body-image- especially based around inducing EDs- influencers) actually operate their own discords that they steer/ capture kids into. They make contact elsewhere, then get them into a more insular space where they can be more extreme and forceful in pushing their products, out of public view.
If it was the case that it was just individual actors on the platform causing the harm and not the structure of the platforms incentivizing said harm, then we would see more of this type of thing in real life as well.
I’m not saying it’s all individuals, I’m saying the opposite; it’s companies. Just not social media companies. Social media companies are the convenient access vector for the companies actually selling and pushing the harmful products and corollary ideas that drive kids to them.
I struggle to think of a more complete solution to the harm caused by social media to children than just banning them.
Given that your immediate solution was to regulate kids instead of regulating companies, I don’t think you’re going to be interested in my solutions.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
despite how harmful it is for society as a whole, and especially children
If you don’t understand what the motivation is to target kids with ads and influencer content designed to push products is, you’re not going to solve anything. Kids have to have spaces to communicate with each other in order to develop healthy socialization skills. Locking them in a proverbial box is not healthy, and guess what, we killed off 99% of third spaces that welcome kids.
If social media is banned for under 16’s, then children would have to communicate with normal chat apps.
I feel like you are envisioning “chat apps” to mean “text-only”, but chat apps have been multimedia/ multi-modal for a long time now, and can be just as easily infiltrated by the same actors targeting kids on social media.
at some point some systemic problems are better served by systemic solutions
This is not a solution, this is a band-aid that doesn’t attack the root cause whatsoever.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 3 weeks ago:
You can.
You just don’t want to either a) put in the legwork to do so, or b) be the ‘bad guy’ to your kids for doing it, so instead you just want the government to do it for you.
What’s stopping you from setting up pihole and blocking social media sites at home, or turning on parental controls on their phones and blocking the sites and apps?
- Comment on Chirp chirp chirp little chicken - interfacing Ace Combat 7 for some sweet telemetry for my VF-1 inspired home cockpit 3 weeks ago:
That is dope as shit. I love both Ace Combat (Shattered Skies especially! Woooo!) and Macross, this is such a cool simpit.
Absolutely badass!
- Comment on The Enshittifinancial Crisis 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s very well written and ‘easy to read’. I’ve seen his posts a couple of times on HackerNews, but I don’t think I ever read a long form blog post of his before. This was really good (even if I think a little naive).
- Comment on The Enshittifinancial Crisis 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism gonna Capitalism.
We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools, or create the means for the average person to accumulate wealth.
This could have been written about the War on Terror.
I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them, because this is the Rot Economy, and all that matters is number go up.
I’m not sure why he thinks morality is a factor in market movement. You’ll not find the stock market negatively reacting to money being spent on genocide in the Middle East or murders in the Caribbean, or to Palantir expanding into a mass-surveillance apparatus either.
Analysts that do not sing the same tune as everybody else are marginalized, mocked and aggressively policed… By not being skeptical or critical you are going to lead regular people into the jaws of another collapse.
Yes, market collapses are actually loved by large wealth holders, because unless the entire currency itself collapses, the people with the most currency are the ones best-positioned to benefit from the collapse. Investors will ride the economy off a cliff so they can salvage the scrap at the bottom. Sam Altman literally opined about ‘redefining’ the social contract when AI collapses the economy in his White House presser.
Analysts have, on some level, become the fractional marketing team for the stocks they’re investing in.
Because major news, analysis firms, and banks are all owned by the oligarchy, and no one is being punished for using that power to manipulate the market. They know that if they’re a big firm and they say, “this stock is amazing!” it will go up, and since they own that stock, they get richer.
When it happens, I promise I won’t be too insufferable, but I will be calling for accountability for anybody who boosted AI 2027, who sat in front of Sam Altman or Dario Amodei and refused to ask real questions, and for anyone who collected anything resembling “detailed notes” about me or any other AI skeptic.
It’s sad to me that Ed lived through 2008 and still thinks there will be accountability in this system. At some point you have to accept that the purpose of a system is what the system does. Our system cyclically collapses, economically, in order to enrich billionaires. It happened during the DotCom bubble, it happened in 2008, and it happened during COVID, and that’s just in my short lifespan.
I realize I’m pearl-clutching over the amoral status of capitalism and the stock market
I really don’t think you are. You haven’t even begun to reach the bare minimum level of disdain and disgust-inducing realism one should have about capitalism, nevermind anything being remotely close to pearl-clutching.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 3 weeks ago:
As someone who is not anti-tool just because big companies and capitalism are misusing said tool (that’s a ‘big companies’ and ‘capitalism’ issue that applies to far more than LLMs), this seems like a non-starter for any business use of the platform.
Enterprise tools definitely have an expectation of 1) not having ads placed in them, and 2) not having their users tracked for third-party data sale, not because they love their employees, but because they’re scared one could infer proprietary business information via user metadata correlation. No company wants their new product to be “blown” early because their devs’ internet activity was aggregated and the product inferred, or worse to have a competitor get the jump on them because of it. Most companies begrudgingly accept use of e.g. Google, but corporate policies will absolutely limit the kind of information you can put in a Google search. ChatGPT is just by its nature much more likely to end up getting proprietary data put in (because it’s a ‘conversation’).
The “promise” that OpenAI will only use said data to target ads is laughable, even if OpenAI believes it.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 3 weeks ago:
I guess for me I’d feel like I’ve read about all these cool events in HD2, and they’re gone and done and I can’t replay them, because they were live events only.
Compare that to something like Mabinogi (which is still an MMO, but doesn’t follow the same live-service philosophy), where you can start as a first-time player today, and still play through every campaign/ storyline since its ~2003 release (and there are a LOT of them).
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 3 weeks ago:
Using ‘casual’ and ‘hardcore’ in the traditional gatekeep-y, “filthy casuals” way that e.g. Dark Souls players often do, isn’t really what the article is talking about.
CoD and other battlepass-ridden live-service games don’t actually require high skill levels, they require high time investment. Destiny 2 stopped being a casual game in this sense once they started removing content, because it now places demands on the players’ time, rather than allowing players to engage with it casually/ at their leisure. I don’t play Fortnite, which is why I asked whether they have time-limited events, and I don’t particularly care about where it falls versus others, I just tend to see most live-service games as inherently less casual due to this.
My ‘hardcore’ game for many many years was Eve Online, and let me tell you, there’s nothing casual about leaving work early or setting alarms for 4am and coordinating with several hundred people around the globe to all be online when a POS timer is finishing. It’s a hardcore game, but it’s not about twitch-aiming or dodge-timing gameplay.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 3 weeks ago:
Do you have to play it all the time in order to not miss out on tons of content (i.e. events)? Because that doesn’t feel ‘casual’ to me. My trough between games I cycle through is years, not months, so hearing that in the time I was gone there’s been n missed major events or ‘storylines’ definitely seems pretty hostile to a casual engagement.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 3 weeks ago:
ARC Raiders is definitely of the “life-consuming live-service” multiplayer games in my view, same as Helldivers 2. Basically anything that is live-service, since it demands you play continually or otherwise miss out on timed events.
I hope multiplayer non-live service games are the sort of casual FPS that is making a comeback, a la Space Marine 2.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know where the author got their information, but they name Minis as one company doing this, and it’s absolutely not the case. I just checked to be sure, and the 2026 minis have the same 5-button, one touchscreen setup as the 2025s. My 2020 mini has 15+ physical buttons and toggles.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 4 weeks ago:
I actually think it was. The 2026 mini is the same as the 2025 mini in having almost no physical buttons, and a giant touchscreen, yet they call minis out by name. Completely incorrect, but got published.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
Man, I’ve been a staunch defender of Mozilla for a long time, but they’re making it clearer and clearer that they just want to be Chrome. I think it’s time to start hunting for another, again.
Maybe I’ll give PaleMoon another go! I was surprised to see Maxthon and Midori were still alive, but they seem a little shady now?
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. 5 weeks ago:
That’s true, but EFF needs to speak using terms people are used to seeing in order to reach as many people as possible. They always discuss the de-anonymization aspect of these laws, just not usually in the headline.
- Comment on The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I refuse to call anything ‘indie’ that is not in fact “independent” of a publisher. We already A, AA, and AAA to denote budgets. Rebranding ‘indie’ to mean ‘A’ or ‘AA’ games from third-party studios is drinking the publisher kool-aid. Sony especially pushed this angle.
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 5 weeks ago:
I literally burned some DVDs last week…
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 month ago:
I’ve tried. SO many times. It’s just so damn clunky. I ended up using Krita (also FOSS) instead.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 month ago:
That’s why our instance has no downvote mechanism!
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 month ago:
From the blog post:
We made an unrelated change that caused a similar, longer availability incident two weeks ago on November 18, 2025. In both cases, a deployment to help mitigate a security issue for our customers propagated to our entire network and led to errors for nearly all of our customer base.
It seems that the method they have of specifically propagating new security configurations to their servers is not a gradual or group-based rollout, it pushes certain changes to all servers at once, so uncaught bugs end up hitting everything instead of just some initial test group.
In particular, the projects outlined below should help contain the impact of these kinds of changes:
Enhanced Rollouts & Versioning: Similar to how we slowly deploy software with strict health validation, data used for rapid threat response and general configuration needs to have the same safety and blast mitigation features. This includes health validation and quick rollback capabilities among other things.
“Fail-Open” Error Handling: As part of the resilience effort, we are replacing the incorrectly applied hard-fail logic across all critical Cloudflare data-plane components. If a configuration file is corrupt or out-of-range (e.g., exceeding feature caps), the system will log the error and default to a known-good state or pass traffic without scoring, rather than dropping requests. Some services will likely give the customer the option to fail open or closed in certain scenarios. This will include drift-prevention capabilities to ensure this is enforced continuously.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
Valve has hundreds if not thousands of highly and expressly pornographic games on its platform, so I don’t think this can be chalked up to the Collective Shout folks’ spectre somehow looming over Valve. As another commenter pointed out, according to the devs’ own timeline, Valve’s rejection happened prior to the recent successful Collective Should payment-processor targeting.
I suspect that EGS and Humble probably halted sale at the last minute due to the added press naming them as distributors prior to launch, often in articles that included Valve’s response asserting that it contained questionable content related to minors, and them going, “hey what? Hold on a sec, we don’t know anything about that.”
If you were about to sell a bunch of cars, and a major dealership announced they wouldn’t sell them because their trunks were all full of cocaine, a couple days before launch, you’d probably delay your launch to double-check as well.
Unfortunately, the developers’ own initial press statements where they sort of feigned innocence (after they had already changed the scene in question, meaning they at least had some idea that was likely the issue) probably didn’t help their credibility in other platforms’ eyes, as far as being business partners goes.
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