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- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
The study that they reference: arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911 [PDF]
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 1 week ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
¯_ (ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(
With modern face recognition, having your face in a video already deanonymizes you so there is no further deanonymization caused by authenticating your video cryptographically.
If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.
If you want attestation that a video is real and not generated then anyone who witnessed the scene depicted can sign the video to attest to it. Then we would need a web of trust to determine whose signatures are trustworthy.
- Comment on Debian my beloved :3 2 weeks ago:
What is the Wii U running?
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 3 weeks ago:
Since nobody has mentioned it yet: Have you never wondered how dumpster fires get started?
- Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 3 weeks ago:
Walkable? Gas giants?
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know they were already doing that. Thanks for the link!
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 3 weeks ago:
I thought that guardrails were implemented just through the initial prompt that would say something like “You are an AI assistant blah blah don’t say any of these things…” but by the sounds of it, DeepSeek has the guardrails literally trained into the net?
This must be the result of the reinforcement learning that they do. I haven’t read the paper yet, but I bet this extra reinforcement learning step was initially conceived to add these kind of censorship guardrails rather than making it “more inclined to use chain of thought” which is the way they’ve advertised it (at least in the articles I’ve read).
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Official Mod Support Confirmed For This Week 3 weeks ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe and a bigot.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy - a weird (90 hour) review *no spoilers 3 weeks ago:
J. K. Rowling is a fascist.
- Comment on Players Actually Sent Me 500 Word Essays For My Narrative Game (Full Story): 1 month ago:
Here, allow me: …steampowered.com/…/Do_Not_Press_The_Button_Or_Yo…
- Comment on Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
There’s a huge gap in the market for just decent quality dumb web search right now.
The problem is filtering out the garbage from the results.
- Comment on Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? 1 month ago:
You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description. I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.”
This works best for genre types.
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 1 month ago:
What will we do with all the copies of the books already in schools?
The English teachers will have to take them out the back and shoot them.
- Comment on Boomer shooter dev discovers his dogs have been barking on an "unbearable" loop for years 2 months ago:
Say “Boomer Shooter” again, I dare you! I double dare you, motherfucker! Say “Boomer Shooter” one more goddam time!
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 2 months ago:
Night Trap
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
I was hoping for a bit more of a review of the various options with pros and cons for each.
- Comment on Police officer who rammed cow with patrol car acted 'lawfully', force concludes 2 months ago:
Four legs good, two legs better 🐷 🐷
- Comment on Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Yes, I use a uBlock Origin filter that looks like this:
lemmy.ml##div.mt-2.post-listing:has(.d-sm-block.d-none>.post-container.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala/i))You’ll need to modify the domain at the start (replace
lemmy.mlwith your instance hostname) and then change the keywords at the end with whatever keywords you want to exclude.To use it:
- click the uBO icon and then the gear (settings) icon
- click on the My Filters tab
- make sure that “Enable My Custom Filters” is checked
- paste the filter into the text area below
- press the “Apply Changes” button
- Comment on OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval! 3 months ago:
This is so much better than a remake or remaster.
id Software led the way, decades ago, making Doom and then Quake engines open source. I wish more studios would donate their old software to the public domain.
Fingers crossed one day we will get Unreal source code. I wonder if it even still exists.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 3 months ago:
the lawsuit accuses Keighin of streaming leaked Switch games, including this month’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership, ahead of release using emulation software as many as 50 times in the last two years. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 in damages for each instance of alleged copyright infringement.
Hilarious that the screenshot Kotaku use in the article is his social media post with his recommendations of what sites to download the games from.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) 3 months ago:
You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]
Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅
You removed the emphasis on “You” from my quote which changes the meaning. I specifically meant that you, the person that I am replying to, don’t need to do anything, and there are people who will do something on your behalf.
Nothing that you’ve said changes my critique of your critique btw. You said:
he lives in absolute La La land
No, actually he presented a well thought out analysis of the way that the relationship between business and customer/user in our current system, along with the relationship between business and legislator, both entrenches monopolies and causes a pathological dependency whereby customers cannot exercise their right to freely choose with whom they do business, and so their rights are severely diminished.
the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.
The main point of my reply was that you are arguing against a straw-man here since the intended audience of the article is not “the people with power.”
like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.
A non-sequitur and then a baseless dismissal of the argument that suggests that you either didn’t read it, or didn’t understand it.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) 3 months ago:
Did you think this blog post was aimed at the people with power, to petition them to change the laws?
It’s aimed at us, the people getting fucked over, to point out what (among the many other things) we should be fighting for. Commentary like this is important to align the goals of the organizations, charities and lobby groups that defend YOUR civil rights by filing amicus briefs, publishing articles, encouraging activism and drives to get citizens to write to their representatives on the important matters that affect their rights. You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked by Big Tech and capitalism, on a volunteer basis.
It sounds to me like you’ve just given up hope that any progress can be made on this front, given the new status quo.
Never give up. Just because civil rights defenders will be on the defensive for a few years does not mean that discussions of what is worth defending no longer have value.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 3 months ago:
The past tense of the verb “to lead” is “led.”
“Lead” is a heavy metal.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 months ago:
I played Forza Horizon 4 and the Drivatars are pretty convincing. They make exactly the kind of mistakes on the track that I make and they can be challenging but beatable in a way that’s much more fun than any other racing game I had played before.
- Comment on Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition' 4 months ago:
He can sue for compensation under the Equality Act 2010, or probably even the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 4 months ago:
Then what you bought is not a mouse, it’s a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 4 months ago:
You clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I’m not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they’re showing banner ads on the page.
It worked using the
ismapattribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user’s click to the link when fetching the result. - Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 4 months ago:
Does anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:
I’m all in favor of going back to the old internet, but… not this.
