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- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 16 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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] 2 weeks ago:
Damn those are some long and wordy sentences
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
What a waste, make all these people spend years of their lives building a whole videogame and then immediately make it impossible for anyone to ever play it again. A company shouldn’t have the right to erase a game from existence, even if it is a bad one.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
The headline says “roguelite”, the Berlin Interpretation is safe for now
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 4 weeks ago:
I like that they’re also banning anyone not doing a similar ban
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 5 weeks ago:
Would if I could but they banned me recently
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 5 weeks ago:
The truth is we don’t actually know because the zebras don’t want us to:
So, the question why zebras have stripes have proven very difficult and not without risks – Stephen Cobb has been bitten in the arm and admitted to hospital twice. Despite the extra vigour of recent work, the answer remains inconclusive.
- Comment on Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime? 5 weeks ago:
Characters don’t talk or hint about sex at all
This is sort of true and the relative lack of traditional fanservice type stuff is refreshing, but I don’t think it would be fair to say Dungeon Meshi isn’t horny, because a lot of its thematic focus is indirect, allegorical commentary on sexuality, even if it is generally very tasteful about it.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 5 weeks ago:
A consumer incentive to use cash seems like a good thing. It’s not like there’s ever a scenario where credit card companies aren’t taking a fee to use their cards.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 5 weeks ago:
Like, how does that even happen?
Poorly designed journalism-bot it sounds like. Ethics of not writing this yourself aside, it should be trivial to check that whatever is in quotes is at least a substring in the source text. If the LLM is the top layer, and any research it does is a tool call that is purely at its discretion, it’s going to end up failing silently like this.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 5 weeks ago:
The date on this blog post:
13 February 2026
- Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ 5 weeks ago:
If their reason for getting rid of it is lawsuits about harm it caused, my guess is that giving all the details of how the system is designed would be something the prosecution could use to strengthen their cases.
- Comment on Not that limit 1 month ago:
There’s no way ChatGPT would be creative enough to put a number on its side
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 month ago:
Really hate this, the article focused on other platforms but I want to call out the stuff Reddit and many of its moderators did to actively prevent debate from happening, like generally regarding disagreement as something to be moderated away, the way the updated block feature works, and locking any thread with a contentious topic that people wanted to argue about.
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 month ago:
IMO verbal debate is a poor substitute for writing, where you can take more time to consider what is being said and look up or cite information. Anonymity also helps a lot in various ways, when in person social considerations normally trump the interest of crafting good argument.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 month ago:
The video gets into this a bit; what the workers are threatened with for not working is stuff like being put in a more dangerous environment and not being able to see their families.
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 1 month ago:
Most likely. Being able to figure out that shitting in your neighbor’s yard will make people mad at you is pretty basic stuff.