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- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits 14 hours ago:
Does that mean you think there is no difference ethically? Have you thought about what corporations like Microsoft are going to do with the power they are accumulating here? Regardless, it’s worth considering that from the perspective of a programmer who is looking to incorporate AI into their work and learn to rely on it, there are risks with using these services that work against their interests, and that’s true independently of any ethical considerations.
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits 1 day ago:
If you’re not using local models these companies have got you by the balls
- Comment on I knew this all seemed a bit fishy 3 days ago:
Here, have some shitty fanart:
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 5 days ago:
It’s funny that instead of imagining finding people who are actually into that, anon defaults to the frog boiling manipulation approach
- Comment on [DCSS] At last, Pandemonium runes are mine 5 days ago:
Respect, that’s an accomplishment for sure. It’s been a while since I’ve played, but what I really like about DCSS is how it’s about exercising good probabilistic judgment under high stakes, it challenges you to manage your emotions and reflect on your biases in a way not a lot of games do.
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 1 week ago:
The show Pluribus had a cool scene about this
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there is empirical evidence that giving people money directly is effective, just denying it doesn’t refute that: ubiadvocates.org/9-successful-ubi-pilot-programs-…
As for why that is, poverty is partly about mindset and decision making, but all of that is strongly influenced by the effects of being in a financially precarious situation and being around others who are. Just knowing that you aren’t at risk of your life falling apart because of relatively minor problems makes an enormous difference and allows people practically and psychologically to think beyond the short term and not get taken advantage of financially. Fill a bucket with water, the crabs will get out.
- Comment on Normies 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense, I overall agree, I’m mostly just unsure about the idea of a “snap”, “break” or gaining self awareness, as opposed to something more passive. It’s been a while since I saw the movie though and I didn’t read the book so I can’t make much of an argument about it.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I have no idea where people share pirated mods, definitely would like to know, Beat Saber has something like this also with a different system (where somehow third party mod managers have ended up implementing this sort of check), and steam workshop as you mention. Anyway I do own Factorio (though not the expansion), it’s mostly just something that seems like a relevant factor.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 weeks ago:
UBI pilot programs give a lot of evidence to the contrary
- Comment on Normies 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I didn’t understand the scene, when I watched it I assumed he had planned to kill the guy all along and that was just stuff Bateman was saying to make him think everything was normal
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 weeks ago:
One area where Factorio is tough to pirate is, they actually locked their mods behind a sort of DRM scheme where you have to confirm having it on Steam to download them. It’s a great game as just vanilla but I’m not sure how to get around that if you want to use mods.
- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 3 weeks ago:
I think you are correct to identify it as a contradiction, and shouldn’t fight your feelings. For lots of people absence of durable connections inherently just hurts you and you can’t change that by pretending like it doesn’t. How you are treated is experienced as an opinion, and in a real sense it is one. Something that helps to cope with it though is realizing that the opinions about you that society expresses by being such an environment are disingenuous and deluded. So much about the way people think about and treat each other is wrong, both factually and in terms of whether it makes for a good way to live, but even if you can’t ignore it you can object to it through the way you treat others.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I only really get brown lentils, the two things I tend to use them for are the main ingredient in soup (along with carrots onions potatoes etc), and for fried lentils on rice.
- Comment on If you have a sibling that's hogging all the wifi bandwidth, what do you do about it without leading ot a confrontation? 3 weeks ago:
Ethernet cable
- Comment on What are some interesting and fun things to do while you are doing cannabis? 4 weeks ago:
Making food
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 4 weeks ago:
I don’t like the thought of first-party javascript being able to fingerprint me either though
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 4 weeks ago:
Afaik even Tor can be vulnerable to some kinds of fingerprinting, if javascript is turned on, which is required to use some websites, I’m thinking of this as something that could be used in conjunction with Tor
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 4 weeks ago:
The reasons they want to do this sound horrible, and I wouldn’t want to use any such thing Google puts out, but I was thinking the other day about how something like this might be useful for enhancing privacy by preventing websites fingerprinting you. Think something like an Invidious server, except for any arbitrary website instead of only youtube; you can indirectly interact with javascript features, maximize the browser to fill your whole monitor revealing its resolution, but the end server will never know you are doing this stuff because all they see is the way your middleman server is configured (which will be as generic as possible).
- Comment on Crimson Desert Players Think They've Found AI-Generated Art In-Game 4 weeks ago:
Using it like that for in-game paintings kind of sucks, wasted worldbuilding opportunity. If a game has details that imply you should spend time looking at them, they should have content that has to do with the game and isn’t arbitrary filler.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 4 weeks ago:
They’d rather spend hundreds of dollars on skins that’ll give them a sense of identity than $70 on a one-time experience.
ugh
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 5 weeks ago:
If you are in the US, and the risk you’re concerned about is getting in trouble, yes it is enough, provided you use it correctly. The only real risk is that copyright trolls will scrape your IP while you are torrenting along with the rest of a big list and then automatically send complaints to your ISP, which may then send you a threatening email, or shut off your internet if it happens enough times. The fact that this is the only action they are taking against consumer level pirates means that if your home IP is not itself available to torrent peers, you are entirely immune from anything happening.
Just make sure to bind your torrent client to your VPN, this is the accepted way of safely ensuring your IP cannot leak due to your VPN losing connection.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 5 weeks ago:
Afaik it is anonymous (to other users if not to the devs), though not entirely public as there’s some opaque mechanism determining what you see or don’t see, and content isn’t visible to people who don’t have the game. Have you thought about strategies for sibyl resistance? This is a big thing I think it gets right, there is a built in filter, and simultaneously little incentive to maliciously bypass it.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 5 weeks ago:
Check out the “game” Kind Words, kind of a similar concept.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 1 month ago:
It’s funny, since what they are actually selling (cosmetic items) is basically free and any scarcity of those is entirely artificial, even if the cost of actually running the servers is not. The only factor that makes sense for determining the price is what prices will translate into the most revenue. I guess before they were setting prices lower than the maximum they think people will be willing to pay? Or that somehow people are willing to pay more now?
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
Well ok, I guess it eventually got there, but at the time Flash was getting shut down there wasn’t any equivalent self contained game engine IDE that compared, it was a big setback.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
The people mistakenly claiming html5 was going to be the next Flash, I guess
- Comment on Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments 1 month ago:
I think part of it is just that websites use more ram now
- Comment on If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms 1 month ago:
a huge swath of the animosity is being driven by historic and justified anger at the extraction class.
I just wish this anger was kept focused at the corporations and the way regular people are being treated as disposable resources to be shut off from the wealth/output of our society so the rich can have it all, rather than people with inherent worth that should be supported because we are people.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 1 month ago:
Damn those are some long and wordy sentences
