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- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 week ago:
Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.
Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)
Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 1 month ago:
Its a narrative consulting company based in Canada that right wing chuds think is ruining games by forcing wokeism into games because Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a bad game.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 1 month ago:
Nah you’re good, I have a feeling there is significant overlap between “unsolicited advice dudes” and chuds who screech about Sweet Baby.
- Comment on Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer's Butt Was Never "Nerfed" 2 months ago:
Not really even that, they just changed her from a classic femme fatale pose to a literal pinup pose.
- Comment on I can SHOW you the WORLD 2 months ago:
Not quite. Mickey Mouse is still a trademark of Disney, but the actual animation of Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, so using the mouse in a way that promotes brand confusion is a no go but using Steamboat Willie is perfectly fine.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 2 months ago:
You mean the one that is already in use?
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 2 months ago:
Sometimes you plug a new device into the TV that you got after you mounted a TV.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re not alone! I’ll gladly listen to him explain the refrigeration cycle again and again and again and how everything is just a worse heart pump.
- Comment on Tune a fish 3 months ago:
People usually use tunafish to refer to tuna salad, which is mainly canned tuna, mayonnaise, and a few seasonings, typically served on a sandwich.
- Comment on Tune a fish 3 months ago:
It’s a heater to make hot water. As opposed to a space heater, which is a heater used to heat a space and a food heater that is a heater used to heat food to serving temps and a floor heater which is a heater to warm up a floor.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 4 months ago:
A super computer isn’t just a single computer, it’s a lot of them networked together to greatly expand the calculation scaling. If you can imagine a huge data center, with thousands of racks of hardware, CPUs, GPUs and RAM chips all dedicated to the tasks of managing network traffic for major websites, its very similar to that but instead of being built to handle all the ins and outs and complexities of managing network traffic, it’s purely dedicated to doing as many calculations for a specific task, such as protein folding as someone else mentioned, or something like Pixar’s Render Farm, which is hundreds of GPUs all networked together dedicated solely to the task of rendering frames.
With how big and complex any given 3d scenes are in any given Pixar film one single GPU might take 10 hours to calculate the light bounces in a scene to render a single frame, assuming a 90 minute run time, that ~130,000 frames, which is potentially 1,300,000 hours (or about 150 years) to complete just 1 full movie render on a single GPU. If you have 2 GPUs working on rendering frames, you’ve now cut that time down to 650,000 hours. Throw 100 GPUs at the render, we’ve cut time to 13,000 hours, or about a year and a half. Pixar is pretty quiet about their numbers but at least according to the Science of Pixar traveling exhibit during the time of Monster University in 2013, their render farm had about 2000 machines with 24,000 processing cores, and it took 2 years worth of rendering time to render that movie out, and I can only imagine how much bigger their render farm has gotten since then.
Source: sciencebehindpixar.org/pipeline/rendering
You’re not building a super computer to be able to play Crysis, you’re building a super computer to do lots and lots and lots of math that might take centuries of calculation to do on a single 16 core machine.
- Comment on It's the truth! 5 months ago:
If I pickle them in vinegar, they turn bright pink, if I alkalize them in baking soda, they turn blue, if I cook them slowly in butter they turn a deep brown color.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 6 months ago:
It depends but technically yes. American cheese is pretty simple, one or multiple cheeses blended with sodium citrate and some milk to create a very smoothly melting cheese. I actually made some myself last night by melting a bunch of very sharp cheddar cheese into some milk and adding a few slices of a decent American cheese to get the sodium citrate. I basically made a really good borderline cheese whiz for the sandwiches I made.
Kraft Singles, (which is what everyone likely has in mind for plastic fake cheese) however don’t contain enough cheese as an ingredient to call the final product an actual cheese, there is a lot of milk powder added in that tips the ratios into cheese product territory.
- Comment on A place for conservatives 7 months ago:
Stats don’t lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 11 months ago:
He will take accountability at the same moment the Austrian mustache man too accountability for the holocaust. That is, he will go to the grave never taking accountability.
- Comment on Sign me up 11 months ago:
I gotta agree with Samus12345 on this one. This really does look like something conservatives would post unironically kinda like that pride month = demon meme with an ai generated rainbow Satan goat head that makes pride month look so much more badass than they were trying to show.
- Comment on Bingo 1 year ago:
2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there’s no enforcement of 2 parties, it’s simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.
And they also weren’t one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn’t have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 1 year ago:
2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There’s a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 1 year ago:
Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.
I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 1 year ago:
Holds up spork
- Comment on Meep 1 year ago:
AI bs aside, Teslas actually do fall for the roadrunner gag because they use cameras instead of lidar for navigation.
Mark Rober actually put it to the test and… well… it failed horribly.
youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ The big moment is at about 15 min into the video.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 year ago:
Oh yeah I’m saying it’s technically viable, not that it’s actually any good.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 year ago:
If it’s held at a slightly lower temp for longer it can achieve the same bacterial reduction the 145F the usda recommends, its the instant bacterial death time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 year ago:
Fun bit of additional trivia about him, he was injured, shot in the leg while serving on the American side. After his defection, there is a likely apocryphal tale where he captured some Americans and asked what would happen if the situation were reversed. He was told his leg would get full burial honors and the rest of him would be hanged for treason. Funny enough there is a memorial of a leg at Saratoga for the injury he sustained and his importance at the battles in Saratoga but has nothing mentioning his name or the rest of his body. Which honestly is a level of pettiness to aspire to.
- Comment on Something something sexual tyrannosaurus 1 year ago:
Fuck me in the ass 'cuz I love Jesus!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Personal injury lawyers might not be as big as they are, but lawsuits in the US are kind of important for more than just monetary compensation, it’s to have case law and in essence introduce new regulations. McDonalds didn’t just have to pay medical bills for the Hot Coffee lawsuit, but McDonalds also had to change how they serve their coffee. Its part compensation and part making sure it doesn’t happen again or if it does, there is a clear path for what needs to happen. As awful as it is to have something bad happen, it’s worse if we don’t learn and change from it and our system of incorporating case law is pretty decent at that, if imperfect. No legal system can cover every scenario, but if it can adapt as new scenarios arise then it is all the more resilient (although that does kinda assume our Judiciary is truly impartial and there are no cronies trained by think tanks to give the illusion of impartiality)
- Comment on I also fell for it 1 year ago:
Gura Gwar, a shark themed VTuber.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 year ago:
Yeah, I suppose when I try to address all of OP’s bot bait lines like I did, it sounds like a disjointed AI generation. I suppose we’re in a day and age where AI generation really is that nearly indistinguishable from real people to the average person. I’m sure there’s plenty of times I’ve been duped by AI generated text.
Still if it was a bot, it probably would have been an immediate response instead of something that showed up an hour after OP posted. And this comment wouldn’t have been posted almost 30 min after your response to me.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 year ago:
Every social media is a vehicle for propaganda.
As much as I want to agree, not really, straight up racism and sexism drove racist and sexisf rural white voters to the polls and a failure to adequately address the genocide in Gaza dissuaded more progressive voters from turning out.
Authoritarian governments are never good
Again authoritarian governments are never good.
Once again, authoritarian governments are never good.