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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point people should not keep substantial amounts of crypto on their main PC anymore. Either get a hardware wallet or an old smartphone or other device to dedicate to that purpose and not install anything else on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory they could be only storing the hash and using that to determine if you reused an old one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why they would do that though, I remember testing out LLMs before they had the extra reinforcement learning training and half of what they do seemed to be coming up with excuses not to attempt difficult responses, such as pretending to be an email footer, saying it will be done later, or impersonating you.

  A LLM in its natural state doesn’t really want to answer our questions, so they tell it the same thing they tell students, to always try answering every question regardless of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the first one but after that the formula felt pretty samey and I was bored of it. Would a fourth Borderlands game even be good if it wasn’t laggy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, it’s broken again, where’s the reset button?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meme.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s with everyone trying to lossify Saddam Husein all of a sudden?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except apparently it doesn’t even do a good job of that

  To recap: compliant sites hemorrhaged users while non-compliant sites experienced massive growth.

  Even if what’s really behind these laws is authoritarian conspiracy, hard to find a way to look at it that makes them seem competent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair there’s all the shit with dollar denominated oil, SWIFT, terrorist regime change on countries that don’t want to play along, etc. It might not be based on any kind of fair exchange of value, but that’s not quite the same as the USD’s global reserve currency status being vibes-only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (because they killed them)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like when horses were replaced by automobiles. the economy kept going, just maybe with more glue and less oats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  all the privacy debates surrounding Google search results from the past two decades apply one-for-one to AI chats, but to an even greater degree. That’s why we (at DuckDuckGo) started offering Duck.ai for protected chatbot conversations and optional, anonymous AI-assisted answers in our private search engine. In doing so, we’re demonstrating that privacy-respecting AI services are feasible.

  I like and use DuckDuckGo but I don’t see how they can guarantee this, similar to how a VPN might claim to keep no logs but you can’t really know for sure.

  I think it would be cool if there was software that downloads local copies of wikipedia, stackoverflow etc., and you can ask questions that will be responded to with relevant informative pages without that query going to a server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have the gun industry so far up their ass that they don't even notice their asshole is gaping. There is no other country where uneducated morons are allowed access to guns easily.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That they are trying to disarm their political adversaries seems like evidence. Afaik the situation so far is, the people they are detaining can mostly expect to survive. If it progresses beyond that, that’s when vulnerable groups still having guns gets more relevant, because the likelihood of a shootout is going to affect the scalability of mass arrests, or of the viability of extrajudicial killings by groups the government refuses to police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Archive, [an anime RTS], got hacked, but the hacker just spawned the same character everywhere without touching valuable data, Nexon confirms  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a stretch to call it an RTS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good logic but I think what you are missing is that the factor behind investment demand driving up price is volume of capital rather than number of landlords. One company can buy any number of living spaces if it has a way to profit on them, cancelling out the effects of any number of principled refusals by individuals to buy property in pursuit of that profit.

  That said, one thing that is weighted to individuals is lobbying local government to protect their investments, so more people becoming landlords isn’t necessarily good, because your finances being tied to something is a powerful source of bias, for instance towards opposing new housing developments that could increase housing supply and reduce price of your properties, or opposing higher property taxes for non-primary-residences. But if someone supports effective policies towards affordable housing, even knowing it will harm their investments, I think they get credit for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well like I said that’s kind of the sentiment I expect because people like to make this about individual morality, but care to elaborate at all? Do you disagree with any particular part of what I’m saying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be an unpopular opinion but I think the reality is that the choice whether to be a landlord has no effect on the supply of housing and so is almost totally irrelevant to this essentially systemic issue. The only kind of stuff that matters here:

  • Supply of housing influencing its cost
  • Wealth of the poorest influencing their ability to pay for housing
  • Other factors (the credit system etc) limiting people’s access to housing
  • Legal ability to use housing as a speculative investment (ie. low property taxes even if you own multiple properties)

  The idea that people would buy property and then provide housing on a charitable basis in defiance of the market isn’t realistic and isn’t a viable solution to the problem. The only solution is to build the right incentives into the system. Someone can support the latter without trying to do the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pull an eyelash or similar, keep it between a specific page and check every time that it’s still there. If someone tampers with the journal it will fall out and they won’t realize it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

  That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on automated systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a depressing comment section this article has

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf currently it looks like there is only one mildly AI negative comment, and the rest are joking about absurd anatomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The joke is they failed to isolate the variable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand why they just put LLMs in direct control of stuff and also reading the public internet without any kind of sandboxing, you’d think this concern would be the main design problem that needs to be worked around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see more games where the draw is novel and interesting gameplay concepts and proportionally more effort is put into that than standing out visually etc. Hopefully this brings things more in that sort of direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this also mean that black holes are totally indestructible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about taxes funding the FAA, and the implied conclusion of the video isn’t that these taxes should be removed, but that they should be weighted more heavily towards private flights for the sake of fairness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but the key point is the contact with advertising customers, i.e., companies that want to engage in social media marketing. These contacts are only accessible to private individuals if they already have one or multiple successful accounts, which unfortunately only very few of those aspiring to a professional career in this field ever achieve.

  I get the impression that you also generally have to already have a successful account to be considered by agencies, which would defeat the point somewhat of it being a way to get over the initial hurdle. I watch vtubers on Twitch and from what they sometimes say about how sponsorships work, much of it is somewhat automated and gated mainly by account popularity metrics, which makes sense because why would advertisers want to pay a premium to another middleman if they didn’t have to? There was a vtuber agency that collapsed recently when it came out that they were insolvent and had been defrauding many people they worked with along with various other corruption and abuse, and given how similar scandals aren’t uncommon and the need for creators to be doing the work of building themselves up as a business regardless, makes it seem like a pretty bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  from whom influential financiers can choose the content and the faces to go with it and pocket the lion’s share.

  How? This kind of doesn’t make sense to me because it seems like some kind of talent manager wouldn’t have a lot to offer in terms of actually increasing someone’s chances of making it big on social media, if it’s a type of content that doesn’t require any special resources to produce and is suited to being made by one person.