TehPers
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- Comment on America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle [404 Media] 18 hours ago:
The problem is not a lack of transparency, because being “transparent” doesn’t actually matter. The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a fuck about this.
Pretty much sums it up. Toxic social media platforms which rely solely on advertising are destroying society to make a couple people more money. Nobody seems to care.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
Nah they’re referring to a different Kevin Williams.
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 4 days ago:
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 4 days ago:
- Comment on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop 5 days ago:
I never need to send files or data from my phone to someone else’s phone. All the files I care about are on my PC.
I’m not saying AirDrop or Quick Share are useless. I’m saying I don’t use them, but do understand they’re used, and I’m glad the support exists now.
- Comment on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop 5 days ago:
For a feature I’ll likely never use, I couldn’t be happier this happened. Great job, EU!
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 6 days ago:
is Windows a drug?
No. Drugs can give you a good time. Windows can’t.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 1 week ago:
s/OpenBSD/TempleOS
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Cloudflare’s dominance is a huge problem exactly for this reason. Having a single point of failure is a huge risk, and it’s surprising that governments don’t view this as being a matter of national security.
As a side note, and not to “well ackshully”, but Cloudflare isn’t a backbone provider. But your point still stands lol.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns 1 week ago:
So he’s capable enough to add new islands and content, but not change a trigger on how to save. One button. Same logic…
Correct. The entire game state was not designed to be serialized. You can see this with how buggy multiplayer is. He could do saving mid-day, but I don’t think most players would want that over an entire new island worth of content, especially when the amount of work is comparable.
A buggy mod by someone who didn’t write it doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
I didn’t say it’s not possible. Anything’s possible when it’s your code. I said it would be hard to add now.
You can like a game and someone and still be able to be critical of a game design decision they make. Not everyone is good or bad. A hero or villain. No one is perfect.
This part, I don’t get. I maintained a mod with thousands of endorsements and over a hundred thousand unique downloads. I talked with modders even bigger than me regularly. Even the lead dev of SMAPI, who has some more insight into the codebase than anyone else in the modding community.
None of us succeeded in it.
At no point did I defend the game on its merits of being “good or bad”. I haven’t played it in years. All I did was explain that this is technically very difficult to do.
On the topic of dark patterns, many games have specific points where you can save. This is not unique to SDV. For example, some games only allow you to save at specific points to avoid save scumming and increase the difficulty.
What matters isn’t when you can save. It’s whether your inability to save at times is being exploited for their benefit.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns 1 week ago:
It’s not a dark pattern. It’s a technical limitation.
Concerned Ape wrote that game with very limited programming experience. Having significantly modded the game in the past, the code is a mess, but indicative of someone who is learning to program still.
While I haven’t played SDV in a long time, there was a mod when I played that allowed you to save at any time. It was buggy as hell.
It’s an indie game made by one dude. He got some help from CF for multiplayer and porting, but that was about it.
At this rate, all indie games have dark patterns lol.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 1 week ago:
Also, when it comes to mounting radiators, all that matters at the end is where the air collects, and as long as a vertically mounted radiator has one end above the pump, then air will naturally collect there. Tube orientation matters, but not a whole lot. Tubes on the bottom usually means that air collects on the side of the radiator where it’s less likely to recirculate back into the pump, but mounting it the other way doesn’t usually cause issues because the air can still collect and what few bubbles make it to the pump aren’t significant enough to damage it.
TL;DR: the goal is to not run the pump dry, which should never happen as long as the pump isn’t at the top of your water loop (radiator below pump).
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 1 week ago:
Eh the “radical left” is literally anyone opposed to fascism these days. “Left wing extremism” can’t be too far from that.
- Comment on Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset 1 week ago:
From what I’ve seen, the hard drive at least looks replaceable, so it should be possible to upgrade it I believe.
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 1 week ago:
Lemmy also benefits from not tracking total karma or whatever. Per-post or per-comment scores at most.
From my experience, Beehaw disabling downvotes furthers this even more. This means that people can either voice their disagreement, report the post/comment for violating the rules, or ignore it and move on. There’s no way to anonymously “punish” a post you disagree with (unless it violates the rules), and not as much incentive to stick to the echo chamber either.
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 1 week ago:
Well if you categorize everything that isn’t alt-right as hard left, it’s pretty believable. I mean hell, have you seen Wikipedia? Clearly hard left.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
If you’re seeing downvotes, it’s unlikely anyone on other instances can see them as well. Not sure how they federate, but Beehaw has them disabled, so they’re not on Beehaw.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
You also won’t see too much critical of Google on their channel despite it being one of the biggest threats to privacy and safety, for obvious reasons. Can’t hurt the hand that feeds I guess.
Well this is a load of nonsense. You can see where they got funding for that investigation here. It was crowdfunded, after all.
As for the rest of your comment, “everyone knows something at a high level” is the dumbest reason not to do an investigative piece. It’s exactly that people only know it at a high level that investigating is important.
It would be way more interesting to know if now after china said no more nvidia if the flow of chips is ongoing, but they probably won’t ever cover that.
If you’re looking for another investigative piece as a follow-up to their previous one, then why don’t you email them directly? If you’re just complaining that there isn’t one, then can’t really help you there. The story of the GPU black market has already been told though, so the most they could probably really do is a hardware news segment if I had to guess.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
GN’s last crowdfunded investigation into export-controlled GPU sales in China was a masterpiece of modern journalism. I have no doubt he would fail to deliver here.
- Comment on FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like an opportunity to follow 4chan (of all things) and politely tell them to fuck off.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you believe they violated Beehaw’s rules, report them.
If you want to be in a space without moderation, then Beehaw isn’t for you. Moderation isn’t only spam filtering. If you believe that’s what moderation should be, that’s okay. But that isn’t what it is here or in almost any space.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Beehaw’s only rule is to bee nice. Surely anything that violates that rule isn’t worth any of our time to read.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Government-backed email would also help solve the “is this a bot” problem by limiting the number of email addresses that can be used, though naturally you’d also lose anonymity using that email.
There’s also the issue that if the emails are predictable, spam and phishing become much easier.
I’m mixed on this one. If we could choose the username and there’s no API for anything other than “is this a person” and your classic IMAP/SMTP stuff, then I’d be a lot more on board I think.
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 2 weeks ago:
Surely agreeing to that contract was not part of the job description when they signed on. I’m curious if they could argue that the contract was signed under duress and have it voided, then sue the company for using their likeness without permission.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not really (which says more about corporations than anything).
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 3 weeks ago:
Yep! You would need not only an AI superintelligence capable of reflecting and adapting, but legislation which holds liable those superintelligences and grants them the rights and obligations of a human. Because there is no concept of reward of punishment to a LLM, they can never be replacements for people.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 3 weeks ago:
There is a fundamental limitation of all LLMs that prevents it from doing as much as you might think, regardless of how accurate they are (and they are not):
LLMs cannot take liability. When they make mistakes, they cannot take responsibility for those mistakes. The person who used the LLM will always be liable instead.
So any automation as a result of LLMs removing jobs will end up punting that liability to the next person up the chain. Management will literally have nobody to blame but themselves, and that’s their worst nightmare.
Anyway, this is of course assuming capabilities that don’t exist.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
Graham Platner isn’t an elected official, nor are any of the three legislators named Graham Platner, nor are any of Louis Rossman’s other names Graham Platner.
Please, if you’re going to troll, make a better attempt at it. Or even better, take it somewhere else.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
He literally put out a video not that long ago praising three democratic legislators for proposing a right to repair bill. Weird impression.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
By “crackers” I mean “black hat hackers”.
Ok I just misread it then, sorry!
