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- Comment on Alpha males 1 hour ago:
Almost none of the things I listed could or have existed without cities, historically, anthropologically.
Civilization brings technologies and living standard improvements, and the price that is paid for these is a symmetrically increasing body of rules and norms… which definitionally restrict autonomy.
I am not complaining that a public library has segregated bathrooms and that this is objectively worse in every way possible than being pounced by a leopard while trying to shit in the jungle.
You are shifting the conversation to ‘what is generally better’… when the original issue was ‘civilization requires following rules that restrict freedom and autonomy.’
I am not an anarcho primitivist, I do not think ‘return to the wild’ is any kind of a good idea.
But, when I say that civilization roughly is domestication, is captivity… it is pertinent to fully compare and contrast all the actual differences, so that you can actually see, understand, and appreciate them.
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Maybe a more simple example would work.
Your pet cat probably can’t actually hunt for shit.
It has been domesticated, learned how to scream when its food bowl isn’t full, not how to actually hunt that well.
Ok, now, humans, also, even pretending we haven’t largely destroyed the biosphere for the sake of an easier comparison…
We generally also can’t hunt for shit, because what we do when we are hungry is drive to the grocery store.
But, 100k years ago, no such thing as a grocery store existed, you more or less needed to be part of a small band capable of hunting and gathering and cooking their own food.
This is a rather straightforward example of how civilization roughly is equivalent (from the point of view of a wild animal, or pre-civilized human) to us domesticating ourselves.
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Obviously civilization is far more complex than just domestication, but domestication is a pretty fundamental part of civilization.
Why did we domesticate dogs and cats?
Well, it was mutually beneficial.
We got uh… well I guess Gods and rodent control from cats, we got loyal hunting partners that are also goofy and doofy from dogs… and they got a lot closer to the grocery store paradigm, pretty quickly.
I am guessing you live in a home of some kind, probably?
Congrats, you are domesticated, don’t piss off your HOA, don’t forget to pay your mortgage, rent, don’t annoy the neighbors, don’t start an industrial machine workshop in your backyard, check your local ordinances before you set up a rain catcher, etc.
- Comment on Alpha males 2 hours ago:
You aren’t constrained geographically or denied personal autonomy.
Nation-State Borders.
Sorry, you can’t leave Gaza, you’re not allowed to.
You need a ticket to attend this concert.
You will be arrested or shot on sight if you enter this facility without authorization.
Sure, you can download a movie, but thats a crime.
Sure, you can hack into a Tesla and drive off with it, but thats also a crime.
Whites Bathroom on the Left, Negroes on the Right.
Only the Preist may enter the Holy of Holies.
And even less overt things than that:
You can’t go to this club, this bar, this concert dressed like that, talking like that.
No, you cannot go outside nude, thats generally a crime.
You can’t say those words, love that person, speak that language, not without social ostricisization or even incarceration.
In fact, you have significantly more freedom and autonomy precisely because you’re at the hub of a large, well-developed collection of infrastructure and accumulated resources.
Sure, if you’re in the global top 1% to 5 % of people wealthy enough to afford all those things that you can now do via the exploitation and reduction of freedom built off of the other 99% to 95%.
Everyone else has to go back to work, or they get evicted, starve and die.
The duck can fly away and never return, if it wants to.
A human can only do that to the extent it has money.
… We just live in a more complicated Zoo with more rules, that we built for ourselves, compared to ourselves 100,000 years ago.
I am not saying there are no upsides to civilization.
I am just saying you maybe need a different frame of reference to see the differences, the downsides.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
Over and over, no matter the specific focus of a study, the authors would reiterate that no matter the quality of the information produced by the decision support system, decision makers were more likely to go with solutions supported by people the decision makers considered to be peers, even when the hard data showed that the opposite course was more justified.
In short, CEOs and similar almost always care more about the opinions of other CEOs than being true to the scientific ideal.
Extremely ironically, what this means is that the actual prime candidate for a job to replace with AI…
Is CEOs, C Suite.
They are the most expensive employees, after all.
Maybe not replace them with LLMs as we currently have them, beyond possibly being used to generate a narrative, human readable explanation of their decision making process and policies…
Where the actual decision making and policy determinations would themselves be decided by basically a much more specialized algorithm, that is made out of code a human can actually read.
Like, we’ve already got Zoom entirely seriously trying to get AI-LLMs that train themselves on your work emails and chats, then make an avatar emulation of ‘you’, then send that to digital meetings, then output the chat log ‘results’ of this ‘meeting’.
So, there you go.
C Suite doesn’t really do anything beyond networking and corpo politics, this can simulate that, minus the off the record corruption, which shouldn’t be a problem, right?
… Its always been about power and social status.
If otherwise, they’d all be developing something along the lines of what I just described.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
You have to use parables to teach moral concepts to most people.
This one weird fact drives nerds crazy, but for newer, better ideas to take hold in society they have to be translated into simple stories.
As a person with a career in data analytics…
You are completely correct.
When talking to non nerds, non autists, non data wonks…
Yep, 100% you absolutely must be able to present your data as a narrative of some kind if you want to have any hope of most people having any reaction other than confusion or their eyes glossing over.
I have learned this the hardway in my own life, and its why people like Sagan and Nye and Tyson were/are science communicators, which is a different skillset from being an actual scientist in whatever field.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
Counterpoint:
Humans in a civilized (meaning urbanized) society… are domesticated, are basically in captivity.
CounterCounterpoint:
Using studies on captive wolves as a fundamental basis for how human societies do or should work…
… Is maybe really stupid compared to, I don’t know, using Sociology as a basis to understand human societies.
Sociology being the field that focuses on the social dynamics of uh, humans, which are markedly different from wolves, and other distinct, largely non sapient animals.
Its uh, kinda in our name, homo sapiens sapiens.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
Ah, ok, thanks for providing the source, I genuinely appreciate that.
So, now, I’ll break my safety rule, to prove a point.
If any mods are reading this, I totally understand if you remove these links
www.faceit-cheats.com techbullion.com/cs2-faceit-cheats-the-hidden-thre…
So yep, again, Kernel level AC, routinely defeated, all the time, with such regularity that it is a viable business model.
Almost like Kernel AC doesn’t do what people seem to think it does, it isn’t a panacea, and the tradeoff is that you lose all your computer security… for nothing, really.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
So, again, Kernel level AC can, and routinely is defeated, all the time.
This is easy to verify with a simple websearch and maybe 30 minutes of time, I don’t want to directly link to where you can purchase working cheats/hacks/methods that can defeat Kernel AC, because I do not want such things to proliferate.
But you appear to be claiming the competetive scene for CS has introduced a Kernel level AC.
I cannot find this, this does not appear to be true, but I could be wrong, could you please source this claim?
I cannot find a competetive CS community or league or tournament that has… somehow rolled their own custom version of CS, overlayed with some other AC, on top of VAC.
Frankly, I don’t see how this would be possible without somehow forking CS, as … two AC systems working at the same time are nearly 100% guaranteed to fight each other, and class the actions of the other AC… as cheats and hacks.
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All I can find is CS communities discussing the problem broadly, mixed with a lot of speculation that a recent VAC overhaul now does include Kernel AC… despite there being no actual evidence for this, beyond the collective bias and fallacious logic that if an AC becomes more effective, the only possible explanation is that it must be because of Kernel access.
What Valve actually did, was hook up AI to greatly enhance its serverside cheat detection capabilities and accuracy… one of the rare actually good use cases of AI as it relates to cybersec.
It seems to have improved their, again, server side heuristic detection abilities… without needing Kernel level access.
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So yeah, please source your claim.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
Not sure how you could read this and come away with the idea that I do believe that…
I am talking about the subset of gamers that go on internet forums and discord servers and make false, unsupported claims, argue that Kernel AC is necessary, tell people this just is how it is now, get with the program,
eat the bugs, play the spyware game, its fine, everyone is doing it. - Comment on Anon did philosophy 3 days ago:
I’m just trying to be punny and lewd at the same time =P
But yes, I do agree that a third limb with grasping abilities would be useful in general, in many situations.
Oh wait… oh no. That means…
Catgirl has entered the chat
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 3 days ago:
I mean, I’d say two hands and one mouth, hahahah!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
Yep.
I would argue those people are extremely silly, but apparently some people just literally do not value privacy, data security, at all.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
To the first chunk:
I mean yeah, thats why I said longest lived, not ‘most popular’.
But I am glad you agree that… VAC is reasonable, and works pretty darn well.
But this leads into Part 2…
Why does VAC work pretty darn well?
Beyond the technicals of the methods of AC…
Because if you fuckup bad enough, your entire Steam Library can be deleted.
Steam is a platform.
Every single other major company that is trying to force Kernel AC on the PC market is acting as if they do, or should just also be the de facto platform, as they are on consoles.
Yep, cheat on Xbox or PS and your account can get banned there too… but a PC is more than a gaming console, has a lot more private stuff on it than one, typically.
Valve are PC natives so they never pushed for Kernel AC.
They just allow, and now warn you about Kernel AC from other mega publishers on their platform, and these other game publishers.
Their whole thing is that they want you to use their platform instead of Steam. They’ve pretty much all done it at this point, at least tried… Ubisoft, Rockstar, MSFT/GFWL, etc etc etc
And they want to force Kernel AC down your throat on your PC as well as consoles… because it gives them more data, which they can use themselves, and sell to data brokers.
… Anyway, the funniest part?
EAC and BattleEye have offered full support to game devs to get their AC working on linux via Proton… for 3 to 4 years now.
It comes with their licensing agreements.
But management almost never cares to tell development to actually use this support thst they are already paying for!
… Because they get lots of money from MSFT, and MSFT hates Linux.
Also, if you go on areweanticheatyet … you can see that almost every single AC system of any kind, in the last 10 years… has at least one game that showcases it working on Linux.
This means that it is provably, entirely possible to get nearly all AC systems working on Linux, as some game dev team has done this.
Its just that most game dev teams, under most management… are not directed to.
There is no real technical reason why AC cannot be made to work in a satisfactory way on Linux.
At best, it is dev/management laziness/nonprioritization, at worst, it is publishers not wanting to upset MSFT.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 4 days ago:
Yeah I mean its not like Valve has been using a combination of server side and client side game file only validation to do AC for Counter Strike for 20 years or anything.
Yep yep yep, the whole industry uses Kernel AC, other than the devs of the longest running comoetetive FPS genre ever, yep yep yep!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 4 days ago:
I offer:
0.2% more effective detection of cheaters (theoretical)
You offer:
Full and total access to every single file on your computer, all of its hardware, and all connected devices, via kernel level access.
Do you accept?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 4 days ago:
Yep.
Things were better when private servers had actual mods and admins, they acted more like pubs where you could go see the regulars, actually form a community.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 4 days ago:
I am still baffled that anyone thinks that Kernel AC is any kind of effective at stopping hacks, people have been literally making a living off of defeating it, and selling those hacks, for almost a decade now…
But nope, still got hordes of idiot gamers who think they work, think they’re necessary, think they can’t be spoofed.
- Comment on You have one job. 4 days ago:
Minor nitpick:
It’s just onus, no h. English is inconsistent.
Herb, lol.
But anyway… so, this has yet to go to court.
If Valve just… does their own intepretation, unbans some games, Visa and MC can just say welp you violated the partner rules, no more payments for you.
Now, Valve has to do a prolonged legal battle to prove wrongful termination of contract … while also having their money printing machine offline.
And also, all that would do is possibly award them compensatory damages.
A court cannot compel a business transaction (an ongoing partnership) or partnership anywhere near as much as it can compel people, corporations have more rights than people.
If it could, well then we have turned the economy on its head, now judges run businesses, not CEOs.
Maybe there is some kind of wrongful termination / non renewal of contract clause, but:
1 - I doubt it
2 - Well you’d be having lawyers argue the validity of that anyway.
Valve and MC + Visa both currently do not want to take this to an actual lawsuit because it would be extremely costly in financial / reputational terms for each of them.
Visa and MC and Valve would all massively lose financially if their agreements fell apart, Visa and MC and Valve as well could also suffer massive reputational damage depending on how exactly the public narrative forms around the lawsuit… and lawyers are quite expensive.
That is why we are getting this weird tap unfolding basically PR war, where both sides are angling snd making essentislly veiled threats… but not **actually**seemingnto do much.
This kind of shit happens all the time between corporations, its usually just thst it stays internal to the involved companies, you read about it two decades later in an autobiography named ‘My life as a corporate big shot’ or whatever.
- Comment on You have one job. 4 days ago:
And it is the legal system that determines whether or not a contract has or has not been breached.
Just like it is also the legal system that determines whether or not a company is a harfmul monopoly.
Your opinion is one I agree with, but that isn’t how things work, therr has to be an official arbiter that agrees with or disagrees with that, and those arbiters are called courts, which are full of lawyers making arguments, and the best lawyers tend to cost the most money.
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Also… what, is Valve going to sue Visa and MC for… Visa and MC choosing not to do business with them?
There is no legal mechanism that forces Visa and MC to do business with Valve, that punishes Visa and MC should they choose not to.
This is like suing a person at a farmer’s market for not buying an apple.
Or, that is roughly what Visa and MC’s lawyers would argue.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 5 days ago:
Yes!
- Comment on You have one job. 5 days ago:
I hear you, but I wouldn’t go that far.
You think Steam is a money printing machine?
MC and Visa are payment processors.
Literally every credit or debit transaction that involves them? Oh yeah, they shave a penny or two or sometimes more off of that transaction.
Thats a fucking money printing machine, they unironically have at least 10,000x more money to throw at lawyers than Valve does.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 5 days ago:
I mean, its all perfomative at that point, right?
Unless there is some lore I am unaware of… isn’t a slimegirl basically a Ditto?
- Comment on beaver girls rise 5 days ago:
Yep, instant recall of… apparently a core memory.
You can touch my hair, undress me everywhere~!
Come on Barbie lets go party.
I wanted to attempt to somehow rewrite it to be fungal themed, but … I don’t know enough fungal vocab, and every bit I do know has way too many syllables.
- Comment on You have one job. 5 days ago:
Are they in breach right now?
Evidently no…
But the entire problem at this point is that no one actually knows what the actual, specific guidelines even are.
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MC + Visa get pressured from Aussie Puritans.
MC + Visa basically have a Zoom call with Steam and Itch, and tap on the gigantic sign in the backdrop, at one specific rule.
Steam and Itch then do their best to interperet that as broadly as possible, update their own policies.
Gamers revolt, blow up MC + Visas phones and emails.
MC and Visa backpedal, claim that well actually, Step 2 didn’t go down like that, they were actually pressured by… all their other partner client banks, whom they also largely lord over with an extreme power imbalance?
New local laws, which are not specified at all?
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The entire problem is that MC and Visa just thought they could swing their dick around, make vague threats, leave Steam and Itch to … figure out all the details… and then that blew up in their faces.
Had they actually done a legitimate amount of research, such that they could actually give much more specific guidelines, you know maybe involving Steam and Itch in the process, in a mutually collaborative way, instead of an authoritarian way?
Well then this mess would not have happened.
And now, actually doing this is the only way to fix the situation.
… They could have just done this from the get go, and not have caused mass confusion and a huge consumer revolt.
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So this all isn’t me disagreeing with you, its basically me agreeing, yes-anding, just expanding on how the entire fucking problem didn’t even need to exist, the problem is the utter lack of clarity and specificity, was borne out of total hubris on the part of MC + Visa.
- Comment on JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip 5 days ago:
But he isn’t a dunce.
He is a fairly intelligent, highly manipulative sociopath.
Trump is an actual dunce, a brutish moron.
- Comment on You have one job. 6 days ago:
Yeah, hiring competent engineers is hard, yet you’ll still go out of business if you don’t. 😭
Oh yeah sure totally, not like 1/5 of the US tech sector just got laid off and their work handed to LLM AIs and a handful of vibe coders that literally are definitionally incompetent.
You completely do not understand how businesses work.
- Comment on You have one job. 6 days ago:
Ok, yeah, I can absolutely see at least some real, relative utility in Solana then, if it is basically the fastest transacting and also least energy intensive crypto…
Though yeah, being essentially monopolized in terms of governance is a pretty big flaw, in a lot of possible scenarios.
At this point, I just wanna genuinely thank you for being the least deluded and most reasonable crypto person I’ve talked to in a long while… you seem to have a much more realistic view on all this than the vast majority of others I encounter.
=D
Yeah I think we agree that XMR is currently the best option in terms of… actually private and secure transactions…
But of course, it is still fairly difficult to actually pull XMR out as a standard currency, or buy into it, in a way that is actually not traceable.
- Comment on You have one job. 6 days ago:
Every single large scale retailer I am aware of, that has attempted to offer an ability to buy at least some segment of its goods via a crypto coin, directly… has abandoned this attempt after a few years.
You just assert this problem is solved by hiring ‘competent engineers’, yet no one has actually figured out how to do this, beyond basically black/gray markets, and hyper niche privacy oriented digital services.
Again, the managers, the CEOs of this business… would still need some way of objectively assessing what is and is not ‘competent engineering’.
I… assume you are not familiar with modern software related hiring processes, where it has been a running joke for over a decade that HR has literally no comprehension of what they ask for in job postings, and thus has no real way to evaluate candidates by competency, they often cannot even come close to even describing the actual nature of the job.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 6 days ago:
I appreciate the encouragement, genuienly.
Its… been wild.
Kind of just ended up actually living through the uh Fight Club line: “It is only after you have lost everything, that you are free to do anything.”
Was quite a bit of a perspective shift… and I’d previously been working with serving the homeless at a shelter (ironic), but nope, even that was nowhere near sufficient to fully understand what its like.
But yeah, it did net result in me finally defeating my impostor syndrome… I actually have genuine self confidence now.
I have literally survived things that … I literally saw kill other people, directly in front of me.
Made my way for a good bit of it by basically being the only person around that had basic, functional first aid training, and I more or less traded that for food, cigs, ‘reputation points’.
More or less dumb fucking luck that I remembered some trauma oriented medical training I got at gun range years back, and that I was able to hold onto a good more or less medical bugout bag I’d put together in case of emergencies.
Local firefighters were a lot more helpful and trustworthy than local cops, in terms of actually helping out with dire medical situations…
So I am a bit pleasantly biased towards firefighters in that way too, haha.
Anyway yeah, one of these days, I’ll get to go on a hike again, and that’ll honestly be me being a happy and fully content man.
Lynrd Skynrd - Simple Kind of Man begins to play
- Comment on beaver girls rise 6 days ago:
well, I’m doing my part by feeding the roving hoarde of feral catgirls that show up every couple of nights.
oddly, they … don’t seem to really go for normal cat food.
I’ve found that a crushed up mix of ramen packets and pocky works well, mix it with either tuna or chicken.
Also, they scream at me now if I just give them water… I gave them some boba tea once, and noe it seems to be a requirement, they’ll start clawing each other if it isn’t present.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 6 days ago:
That does sound fun, honestly.
I’d been able to do things like that a decade ago, long term camping trips, multi day paintball excursions…
Unfortunately, later on, I ended up getting assaulted and crippled, so now my life is mostly full time PT, interspersed with shitposting on lemmy, lol.