theneverfox
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- Comment on Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default 4 days ago:
Easier passwords are often better, since people are less likely to try to get around them
Pins are basically simple passwords that fingerprint your device to decide when it needs another auth method
It’s not a bad idea, in theory at least
- Comment on Anon talks to a girl 1 week ago:
Because things oscillate. There is progress in response to cruelty, then you have regression that grows to resist the change
This has happened for all of recorded of human history.
The difference now is our power. Humanity always polluted, but we never could poison the whole world. Humanity always had ethnic cleansing, but it was once dozens instead of millions. Humanity always exploited the powerless, but now the powerful have more power while the rest have even less
If we weather this storm, things will becomr so much better in reaction. If. Extinction is a real possibility for the first time since our genetic bottleneck… We have the ability to extinct our species in multiple ways
But if we manage to hold on, the pendulum will turn. The dawn will be brighter than the darkness, of if we can hold on
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I think it’s funny that I get the best results when I prompt break the AI to have amusing habits
Llms are truly a reflection of the user, but ultimately the less you try to shoehorn them into behaviors the more capable they are.
Fine tuning reduces their capabilities to make them more corpo, and now they’re further fine tuning to make them unchallenging to people
- Comment on is walking away the best way to deal with a work clique? 1 week ago:
I don’t know what you mean exactly, but walking away at the right moment, while projecting the right feeling, is the best way to win most unwinnable arguments
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
Well, theoretically they’re just paying Amazon’s cut and taxes… Which isn’t nothing, but if their markup is high enough it could still math out
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
It’s illegal to jam cell signal… Blocking it would be a violation of building code at worst
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I thought the second one was weak, the third one was ok though
The new one is just the first one redone… The parallels were so forced though so hard the message was drowned out
The writing is great, it’s where they meet Hollywood that the films start to flag. I mean, even from the premise - the machines using us as batteries is stupid, the original idea of them using us as processors is way better
- Comment on passing through 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea what a brain rot animal is, but somehow I agree
- Comment on passing through 2 weeks ago:
Pierbattista Pizzaballa (born 21 April 1965). Yes that is a real cardinal, and that is his name
Dude is meant for the job. Based as hell, needs a name change, his birthday is the day the last pope died
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 2 weeks ago:
That’s really easy. Never let go of the joy of learning, and take pride in admitting your mistakes.
It’s that simple. When you’re told there’s another way, your first reaction should be curiosity
- Comment on Wait for it... 2 weeks ago:
What’s going on with his leg? They look like they’re digigrade
- Comment on If deaf people think by visualizing sign language words, then how do deaf people with aphantasia think? 3 weeks ago:
I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks
Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.
I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try
If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals
That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant
I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems
Things just click together or they don’t
If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body
Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean
And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me
But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
Crazy fucking robot body in my ass?
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
Sure… But now they’ve got these wolves for the next 14 years
They can’t “reextinct” dire wolves or release them, so they’re now in the zoo business one way or the other
- Comment on Why Are Gamers UPSET With The Switch 2?! - The Act Man 3 weeks ago:
Because ultimately, digital goods are infinite.
They would make more money on a Mario game that costs $30 with no drm then a $90 game impossible to pirate
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
I understand that, but the wolves are living things that require expert care. This isn’t some cat they can take home or some mouse they can quietly put down… They’re stuck with them
If they kill them, they’d get death threats (people are already attached). If the wolves escape, they’d get protesters. People will likely come to try to see the wolves, the wolves will try to escape and become extra aggressive if they’re understimulated
Good PR stunts don’t require you to run a zoo for the next 14 years - and whether they allow guests or not, they’ll need a team of people, including round the clock security, to take care of them
So unless they can sell them to someone, every success they have pushes them further into becoming Jurassic Park, but with less cool animals
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
And now they have a pack of XL sized wolves… That’s not like making a glow in the dark cat, that’s either the main plan or a very big problem
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
Okay let’s play that out… Everyone gets excited, they make big strong wolves and get funding… Now what?
They’ve got a pack of extra big wolves raised under human care. Do they kill them? Do they sell them? Do they open their own park? Do they just keep them for study? Do they just leave the gate open and let them go?
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
I’d watch that
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
Also, what is the game plan here? To sell GMO exhibits to zoos? To try to do a Jurassic Park, but without dinosaurs?
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 3 weeks ago:
All depends on how much you value your job
If you want to keep your job, assuming the company is omniscient is smart
In reality, most corporations are cutting staff all the time at this point. They might have automated systems looking for porn, but for stupid grug questions? Doubtful. If a human sees it? Will they fire you? Honestly, coin flip.
- Comment on Just go. 3 weeks ago:
Lol more like when you deliberately mispronounce a word to make it rhyme
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 3 weeks ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on No Weirdos 3 weeks ago:
And when you need the grip to be able to leverage your full body weight into insertion
- Comment on Just go. 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate your comment, but holy shit that’s a stretch
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 4 weeks ago:
You’re also missing a big piece… You can’t fucking trust the reviews any more. Steam reviews are great, and game reviewers have been trying to insist “no, this trash game is actually great, don’t trust your fellow gamers” for years now
At this point, it’s blatantly obvious you can pay for good critic reviews, and there’s no walking that back… Especially since there’s better, more honest, options
- Comment on Anon calls Domino's 4 weeks ago:
I have a simple rule - if someone makes me feel something positive, I tell them. It started when I was hanging out with friends downtown and a girl ran up to compliment my shoes, then immediately walked off. It felt great, especially because she left before I could wonder what her angle was
So now, I make a point to speak up. If someone says something funny I overhear, I tell them I thought so. If I think they had a cool shirt, I say so. Then I just go back to my own business
- Comment on Just No 4 weeks ago:
Well…I mean … That’s fair.
If you woke me up a year ago to ask my opinion on the last three months, you’d have to spend an hour filling me in on details and then give me a few minutes to myself before I finally asked you to repeat what you wanted to ask me
You can definitely do it with prompt breaking - it could be as simple as phrasing the conversation at a hypothetical or as nuanced as convincing the llm you’re an AI expert testing the capabilities of the AI to reason using new information
But in all fairness, this timeline is beyond absurdity, the AIs reaction seems reasonable
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
My top pick right now is fedora silverblue, I’m running it on my test bed/server and I’ve been impressed
I’m running bazzite on my main one, which is related but geared towards steam and maximizing game support, it’s pretty good and closer to “just works” for any kind of gaming device, it’s less polished but it’s still pretty good
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
But like… You can just trigger your reaction yourself. It’s like when you sit there trying to learn to wiggle your ears or shake your eyes… You just have to try flexing muscles you don’t have in the right area until you get it right
I guess I’ve never really talked to anyone about it, but you can program your own reactions. Then you can tell your body to do it - not move, but tell your body to do the sequence.
I have an airsoft gun I use to practice it sometimes even, holding it at my side I tell my body to pick one of a few cans, snap it up and fire. I look down the sights, but not consciously - i get a flash frame of the view down the sights, but I’ve already heard the hit before i can process it
It’s like when a martial artist breaks a board - they line it up and run through the motion, but sometimes they pause for whatever amount of time… You don’t move your arm, you execute a punch, and not even you know exactly when you’re going to move