pupbiru
@pupbiru@aussie.zone
- Comment on Now I finally get it 4 days ago:
that tracks with my lived experience
- Comment on It's on your blood! 6 days ago:
ie if you already have a teflon thing, that teflon is non-toxic and there’s no point to just throw it out… avoid new things if possible because they byproducts are harmful, but disposing of existing product is unhelpful
- Comment on It's on your blood! 6 days ago:
ie if you already have a teflon thing, that teflon is non-toxic and there’s no point to just throw it out… avoid new things if possible because they byproducts are harmful, but disposing of existing product is unhelpful
- Comment on It's on your blood! 6 days ago:
add from crayfish
- Comment on Zero stars for the Young Liberals 6 days ago:
But by American standards, they’re the equivalent of the Democrats
on the economy alone… they’re definitely more like the republicans on things like minority rights, climate, etc
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
that is wildly inaccurate. do you have a source?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
“needs” might be debatable… i’m just don’t think the trade-off is worth it (and thus don’t play games that require kernel-level access)
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
code running in kernel space is hugely privileged… it can open up enormous security vulnerabilities because when you’re in the kernel you can bypass a LOT of security checks and restrictions… windows code is generally pretty well tested, so is unlikely to have particularly bad bugs like RCEs etc… but these kernel mode apps aren’t nearly as rigorously tested - things like this is what lead to the crowdstrike outage
things running in the kernel can also cause a lot more damage than user space apps, because the kernel doesn’t do a lot of the error checking and validation that stops things like kernel panics
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
load on boot INTO THE KERNEL is the main issue… this isn’t “just another executable”
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
things like the “patch x out of an image” allows people to express themselves with their own creative works more fully
text-based genai has myriad purposes that don’t involve wholesale generation of entirely new creative works:
using it as a natural language parser in low-stakes situation (think like you’re browsing a webpage and want to add an event to the calendar but it just has a paragraph of text that says “next wednesday at xyz”)
the generative part makes it generically more useful that specialist models (and certainly less accurate most of the time), and people can use them to build novel things on top of rather than be limited to the original intent of the model creator
everything genai should be used for should be low-stakes: things that humans can check quickly, or doesn’t matter if it’s wrong… because it will be wrong some of the time
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
i’m pro-AI (with huuuuge caveats) but i disagree with this… AI reduces certain jobs in a similar way, but it also enables large scale manipulation and fucks with our thought processes on a large scale
i’d say it’s like if a mechanised weaving loom also invented the concept of disinformation and propaganda
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
you’re absolutely right!
the ban on guns in australia has been disastrous! the number of good guys with guns has dropped dramatically and … well, so has the number of bad guys … but that’s a mirage! ignore our near 0 gun deaths… that’s a statistical anomaly!
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
as an aussie, yeah, then you should stop people from having guns
i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the total number of gun deaths in australia since we banned guns (1996) was less than the number of gun deaths in the US THIS WEEK
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
then you have little understanding of how genai works… the social impact of genai is horrific, but to argue the tool is wholly bad conveys a complete or purposeful misunderstanding of context
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 week ago:
yeah! animal testing only exists to cause harm! outcomes are irrelevant - science gets off on beating up animals and THATS why animal testing exists… those sadistic pricks
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
the restaurant pays for their staff… should you pay for having a table and chair too? staff is a basic requirement of a restaurant
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 weeks ago:
cc companies
best to say card networks, as cc companies both include a lot of other things (like issuers), and doesn’t include some things (like debit cards, which still use the card networks)
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
that’s absolutely the main thing yup… in almost every circumstance where people implement blockchain, a trusted entity is involved so there’s no point to the blockchain
almost always there’s a single entity issuing a thing, and then that same entity also consuming that thing
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
it does still hold value, but the value is super niche and generally shouldn’t be exposed to the user… it’s an implementation detail
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 3 weeks ago:
i’d imagine the company would make 2, 4, 6, 10 drink dispensing machines… having commodity hardware makes it super cheap to just have different shells and a power bus that you bolt electronics and mechanics onto in discrete parts
heck each individual controller could read an RFID tag embedded in the syrup and update its display automatically just from the inserted cartridge
adding all the sensors for each, a display out for each… it’s really just way simpler to duplicate the hardware… honestly, good engineering
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 weeks ago:
or i share similar concerns with the person from the quote in the final part of the article…
i’m not sure how bringing up something in the article makes it “clear” that i didn’t read said article
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 weeks ago:
next they’ll probably want to ban LGBT content since it’s “clearly pornographic”
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 3 weeks ago:
the card NETWORK is the part at issue; not the type of payment
the same is roughly true for europe and the rest of the world too: payment processors facilitate transactions over various card networks which communicate between banks
a single payment probably involves at least 6 different business facilitating the transaction, and only a couple of them are your bank, and the business you’re paying
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 3 weeks ago:
who would sue who? who is being harmed? the crazies sure can’t: what harm have they suffered by mastercard facilitating transactions between 2 unrelated parties?
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
visa have similar restrictions… the issue is that payment processor, merchant, card network, issuing bank, and acquiring bank (and a few more) are all different layers to facilitating a transaction… there are very few card networks in the world, and essentially people pay online using mostly either just visa or mastercard
technically you could probably run a site that only accepts amex, diners club, jcb, discover, etc but it really wouldn’t go well: people want to whip out their card (often their only method of online payment) and just pay and go
you’d also need to find a payment processor that would be comfortable taking on the risk of facilitating transactions around mastercard and visa… they might just cut them off from access to their network
making things even more difficult is that by law in the US payment processors must offer at least 3 (i think? it might be 2?) “routes”, so you probably have to have a pretty mature payment processor because they’d have to accept several of the alternative card networks
oh and you have to push various stats to the federal reserve which is a massive back and forth bureaucratic challenge even above the technical challenge of interfacing with some pretty awful systems
there are a buuuuunch of other spanners that get thrown into the works, but i’m not sure where the NDA line hits so i’m gonna just leave it there and say trust me, payment processing is an absolute nightmare mess
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 4 weeks ago:
medium maccas coke here … that i randomly had laying around <_<
there’s a large which is marginally bigger, but no super size or anything
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 4 weeks ago:
that cup seems pretty regular sized to me, as aussie…?
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 1 month ago:
yes but there’s still a EULA you agree to about redistribution and how you’re allowed to use the software etc… if there’s terms in there about being able to back out of the agreement, i’d imagine there would be a clause about destroying copies of the software
that all seems very reasonable
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 1 month ago:
nobody can say that for sure… republicans still support him, people protest voted, kamala was unexciting… there are so many reasons that probably contributed
i’d guess his campaign probably got some people to vote when they otherwise wouldn’t have, but i’m not sure it would’ve changed anyone’s vote
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 1 month ago:
we can’t really know that… musk paid people to vote, but we and he have no idea if people actually voted how he wanted
i’d say selection bias (people willing to engage) played more of a part than actually telling people how to vote
