FarceOfWill

@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK must 'actively prepare' for potential of war in the 'homeland', review warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very difficult to believe Russia could resupply an invasion force, even if it could technically manage the initial push. I’ll have to read the article properly but the sea and air logistics involved, without invading every cou try between the UK and Russia, seem insurmountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were specifically worried about race riots.

  Look at the London riots years ago, that was caused by going after a gang member and escalates by gangs.

  The police forces in these areas were absolutely right to worry, it wasn’t just about causing offence but the real threat of organised criminal members of a community mobilising that community against the police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of it still looks a little like corruption to me.

  There’s a huge report on this with more detail than anyone could reasonably read, somewhere way back in my comment history on Reddit. The way the problem was moved off to cross force specialised teams and then sat on is very odd, but could just be disorganisaton

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that I don’t believe them, but anything coming from spooks has to be looked at a little sideways.

  Thanks for the reply. I just couldn’t figure out how they had enough intelligence to find all these telegram groups, maybe that’s easier for a nation state than I thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were reports (claims I suppose) that the fsb were using telegram to organise the stochastic gig job sabotage across Europe.

  Joining a neo fash telegram group, pretending to be a rich neo fash who wants to help the cause but not risk themselves and paying people for putting up posters, damaging equipment etc.

  Does what has been found here shed any more light on that? I’d guess it would allow them to find these groups to target them very easily? That was the bit I couldn’t quite understand from the original report, if so this all makes more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dual immunity (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you shouldnt have eaten their porridge and slept in their bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has she never cooked anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except there are no kids, you did it all to yourself. Making us twice as crazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #16⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the section headlines are huge and that’s exactly right to make this readable while skipping past stuff that means nothing to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And by a modder turned dev, so, professionalisation? :)

  Though the way wube works the whole team will have been involved in some way. And they’re a student so it’s part of a fairly normal pipeline for gamedev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genshin Impact will require US players to verify their age to play⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t logged I to it in years but I’m still bitter MS took away my Minecraft account without me realising. I better log in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in a multiple choice test

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tempest Rising review (PC Gamer: 85/100)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He had a career spanning dozens of stone cold classic movies, incredible performances all.

  And I will always first remember him corpsing over SPAAACE!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Leamington UK, responsible for development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull & Bones, officially closed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadows is great tbh. Can’t speak about sales figures but it’s the most fun I’ve had with AC in ages. The jumps being ninja roll jumps is perfect.

  Valhalla was far too serious, a schlocky Japanese revenge flick is much more on target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a curved blade I think they’re all already banned, so this law does nothing to you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Collecting them isn’t much of a reason to be carrying them around.

  I don’t think the police would let you off if you claimed to have just bought it. I’d expect them to demand some kind of proof.

  The law is so when they raid a gang members home and find five swords they can do something other than compliment them on their awesome ninja sword collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But network rail don’t run any trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It peaked at 4 with the fall from heaven 2 mid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The draw from Skyrim and other ES games is wandering around and stumbling on cool stuff.

  They both removed wandering by having you fly your ship to a planet, and removed the cool stuff by making the planets procgen.

  It’s good fun exploring the cities and space stations but then that’s it. They designed out the entire game in favour of more procgen content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WWYD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a good virtue ethicist I walk away from the lever and live my virtuous life

  Probably by trying to beat up Persians. Or some other city state. Or slaves. You know, virtuously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from the unacceptable violence, the story here is far more complicated than that.
  They were just impossible to work with.

  I think PeopleMakeGames did a good YouTube video on it if you’ve not seen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do not stand at my grave and weep⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it’s just justified enough for a poem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?

  (I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.

  It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)

  At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.

  But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more of carbon than that generation released.

  As I understand it doesn’t at all. This is why it’s seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it’s an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.

  You could use solar if course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not any of those reasons, it’s because it can only exist by being trained on human authored art and in many cases you can extract a decentish copy of the original if you can specify enough tags that piece was labelled with.

  The ai model is a lossy database of art and using them to launder copyright violations should be illegal, is immorally stealing from the creator, and chills future artists by taking away the revenue they need while learning. This leads to ai model art having not enough future work to train on and the stagnation of the human experience as making beautiful things is not profitable enough, or doesn’t give the profit to those with power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.

  If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for writing this up, sounds even worse than I’d have guessed from the title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks I finally understood this thread, kept thinking people were viewing the crocodile/duck/whatever from above