Quexotic
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- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 6 days ago:
I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.
- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 6 days ago:
Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.
- Comment on Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance 1 week ago:
They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.
This article is from 2019 archive.today/kYbQV
…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
- Comment on Do you think its worth while to put tape on back of battery banks to protect watt hr/mah info due to recent airplane regulation? 1 week ago:
Worst case, see if you can have a product listing with specs so they can visually confirm. Pretty easy solution
- Comment on Do you think its worth while to put tape on back of battery banks to protect watt hr/mah info due to recent airplane regulation? 1 week ago:
This has been the same in the US for some time. They don’t generally give you any funny looks unless you’re walking through with a 30 lb battery with an inverter attached to it or something.
I wouldn’t worry too much but your mileage may vary. Pun intended.
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 1 week ago:
That’s so disappointing. I loved their games. 🥺
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 1 week ago:
I appreciate your efforts and good on you for doing this but I don’t have time to do that with hundreds of people.
It’s just not ready for production yet.
I actually just went and checked to see if I had any messages and element x was complaining that I didn’t have a separate app that I needed to use to get push notifications which one would think element x would do on its own but it does not.
Once I installed it apparently there’s some extra shit that I’ve got to do to make that work too and it’s just stuff like that that’s just user hostile and not good.
I do like element and I love the idea of it but it’s just not compatible with most humans, apparently even myself, though I’d thought I had it all ironed out.
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 1 week ago:
Yeah, it really is. I feel like if I have trouble getting it to work, my friends have no hope.
… I mean, I did get it to work but the struggle was real.
- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 1 week ago:
For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.
So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.
I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 2 weeks ago:
The best part is if the third happens it doesn’t necessarily happen immediately. It might just happen while you’re sleeping.
Wheeeeeeee!
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 2 weeks ago:
I believe it, most especially in your specific case.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.
- Comment on Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 3 weeks ago:
This is not enshittification. This is a calculated attack. It’s class warfare.
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- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 4 weeks ago:
Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.
It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.
Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.
This is bad all around.
At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.
Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.
Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 4 weeks ago:
Anyone that’s pasting shit like
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))
Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 4 weeks ago:
On Windows, all you have to do is open PowerShell as administrator and copy-paste this command:
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))
…said the Nigerian prince. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I’ve read enough.
No.
- Comment on Need help choosing a NAS. 5 weeks ago:
I went with qnap. Synology, I think, can’t be trusted to stick with that policy reversal.
- Comment on How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026 1 month ago:
Converter box? I literally checked the date on the article, I figured OP was confused.
Why would I pay money for something I don’t use anyway? Lol.
I feel they’ve vastly overestimated the market here.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 month ago:
I was hoping it would be more obvious what I was getting at, but apparently the flu is hitting me harder than I thought.
I’m suggesting that the existing Automobile industry will not welcome their efforts.
I hope they succeed.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 month ago:
Look at the frame under the hood. 100% not safe for impact.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 month ago:
This reminds me of a guy that used a portion of the energy generated by his car’s alternator to generate hydrogen and oxygen and feed it into the air intake, achieving over 100mpg efficiency in a stock vehicle.
He died mysteriously shortly after that.
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 1 month ago:
If they have our rights, they should be subject to the same laws, including whatever incarceration or capital punishment exists in that state.
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 1 month ago:
Fantastic. They’ll make US pay for it. There’s no way they don’t turn this into something more evil.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 1 month ago:
Nothing easy is worth having.
We might not get there… But we might!
- Comment on Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign 1 month ago:
I’ve actually made this mistake. If the article doesn’t load the thumbnail and you try to be nice and load it manually, and you do it just wrong enough, you will turn your link post into an image post. With certain clients, it’s fairly visually confusing.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 1 month ago:
Not at all. In fact fuck AI. What I’m saying is that the owners and runners of xai are being actively hostile and reckless whereas chat gpt, Claude and a host of other AI runners are at least trying and I think that distinction is important.
Frankly I think that the whole deal is a scheme to create a new techno feifdom that will make all of us slaves. At best it’s a huge cash grab.
My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.
Obviously chat GPT, despite their efforts, is also driving people to suicide and murder suicide and all sorts of AI psychosis and that’s with them actually making some kind of effort.
I’m not sure if it’s a good faith effort but they’re making some kind of effort…
