wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 1 day ago:
Colleges too. Ever wanted to hide behind the projector screen of a 300 seat lecture hall? None of the doors are locked. Found an old rotary telephone and a real film reel projector back there.
Had some wonderful desk chair races around the professor offices floor in one building at nearly midnight.
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 1 day ago:
The tough part is when you no longer have that access after you’re used to it when you get a new job.
No! Don’t call security! I swear I worked here a decade ago, I’m just absentminded.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 day ago:
I think it’s less likely this has anything to do with skill, and more likely this is a company looking for an excuse to cut a highly paid position.
- Comment on Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 6 days ago:
Just be careful. If a quest giver gives you a time limit, like a letter saying “get here in one month”, they mean it. It’s possible to silently fail the main quest this way, but it’s also possible to get back into the main quest line via some other quest paths into it.
It’s all fairly complicated. Thankfully failing doesn’t stop you from exploring the world, interacting with NPCs, or doing other quests. You can always use the console to restart the main quest line quests when you’re ready.
- Comment on Pope Joan 6 days ago:
Fuckin pansy ass participation trophy snowflakes think they’re too good for phrenology /s
- Comment on Or a shrimp 1 week ago:
My wife and I used IVF, so our first picture of our daughter is a clump of cells (I think the term is blastocyst).
It looked like kind of potato shaped. She was dubbed our little spud by one of her uncles, and that stuck until maybe two months before birth.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Lol, clearly you haven’t been shopping at budget places in the US. The competition is Land O Lakes, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, or store brand.
Where are you buying your butter, and what brand?
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
I’ve used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 1 week ago:
Nice shitpost. Got me for a moment, then I remembered how math worked.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).
If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Unfortunately there is a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation here. Put overly simply: If we start enforcing copyright in training AI models now, do you really believe that any companies who have already trained their models are really going to just toss them? I’m afraid that it’s going to just be regulatory capture where the existing big names just pull the ladder up behind them while still making money off of their stolen content fueled plagiarism machines.
We’ll ignore that OpenAI isn’t actually profitable for the sake of the argument.
That said, abolishing copyright is quite possibly the stupidest solution I’ve ever heard for this issue.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a turn based mode you can enable from the options menu. I know there was one for 15.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 2 weeks ago:
They’re already abducting and deporting academics on the flimsiest justifications based off social media posts disparaging Trump and/or Elon. We’re past the point that they need to label people something as heavy as gun nut to justify their actions.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 2 weeks ago:
If you’re worried that posting more than “nuh uh” publicly would negatively impact your ability to take action, then you’re in a position where you aren’t safe posting anything about it. Not even your little “nuh uh”.
Either stop LARPing (because you aren’t part of any organizing), stop making yourself more vulnerable by posting shit like this (because you are part of something and being stupid posting this shit), or just save some time and turn yourself in because you’ve already fucked up.
I have too much to lose to do anything drastic, but you all would be well served to do some serious learning about how criminals and hackers get caught, and how to protect yourself with proper opsec.
- Comment on Zen 3 weeks ago:
Ahh, the good old “shit yourself” diet
- Comment on Same as it ever was 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Same as it ever was 3 weeks ago:
Time isn’t holding up. Time isn’t after us.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 4 weeks ago:
The remake is being handled by a third party, and it’s unclear so far what they’ve been allowed to do besides replace the graphics rendering with Unreal Engine 5. It’s all reportedly still Creation Engine under the hood.
Considering that Bethesda refused to roll in the community bug fixes with their rereleases of Skyrim, it’s likely that it will have all the bugs of the original.
- Comment on Found out about this modding recently for Half Life 1 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunate to see that they haven’t tested with xash3d or the like. I’d be especially interested in the ray tracing fork of xash being supported.
Improved lighting does wonders for old games, imo.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 weeks ago:
Then who was phone?
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 4 weeks ago:
And is now illegal, thankfully.
- Comment on Regarding the Sudden Increase in User Sign-ups from a Specific Region 4 weeks ago:
Might help you to know that lemmy.dbzer0.com is run by the former head mod of /r/piracy who left reddit a few years ago, and it has the most active piracy community I’ve found anywhere on lemmy.
- Comment on Kanyes new album 4 weeks ago:
I really enjoy interpreting the Jesus Christ at the end not as a quote attribution, but as a frustrated epithet thrown in at the end.
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 4 weeks ago:
And with how much companies like Microsoft are shoving AI features into everything, it’s a constant battle for well meaning sysadmins to keep busybody management types from getting enough force together to push through enabling this shit.
They all see it as a “no manpower required” thing that can just be switched on and used as a feather in their cap. “Look! I did a thing! For free!”
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 4 weeks ago:
Is joke.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 4 weeks ago:
The point being made is that it isn’t very different. Focusing on the technicalities ignores the broad strokes of it. Missing the forest for the trees and all that.
The discussion of Bluesky’s flaws, drawbacks, misleading claims of “federation”, etc… has already been done to death.
This also isn’t debate club. “What I’d like OP to address” good god.
But in the interest of good faith, here’s the cliff notes: It’s run by a corporation headed by one of Twitter’s original founders, and there’s not significant evidence it will not fall to the same path to shittiness that Twitter did. It is only technically federated, not actually in practice. It is not fully open source, as key portions of the infrastructure code have not been released. Of the portions that have been released, it is nearly impossible to run your own node due to the major amount of storage space required. Beyond that, all communications must ultimately go through BlueSky’s centralized infrastructure. There’s no point to running your own node because their centralized infrastructure won’t talk with it. No one has actually been able to do anything more than host their own profile in regards to federation. At this point there is no financial incentive for them to invest money in solving the issues preventing it from being able to be truly federated.
Most of all, mastodon already exists as a mature system for federated microblogging without the major drawbacks of bluesky.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 5 weeks ago:
He’s comin’ out again with a good one. Place your bets now ladies and gentleman.
- Comment on light pollution 5 weeks ago:
Don’t need an algorithm at all. Just needs what is effectively a lampshade cut to direct the light at the sidewalk and street instead of the houses.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 1 month ago:
I’m fairly sure the update cadence is set by the game dev/publisher, not GoG.
- Comment on yum yum 1 month ago:
Ara ara?