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  1. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    Brand new Nostrum pserver shots down after case and desist: https://old.reddit.com/r/wowservers/s/q0k5CNUeLY (according to them).

    Brand new Nostrum pserver shots down after case and desist: https://old.reddit.com/r/wowservers/s/q0k5CNUeLY (according to them).

    1 vote

  2. Comment on How much of an echo chamber is Reddit/the internet, really? in ~tech

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    Since every group is founded on some kind of implicit understanding of reality, "Echo chambers" predate the internet. Reddit is perhaps one of the most vivid and abundant collections of echo...

    Since every group is founded on some kind of implicit understanding of reality, "Echo chambers" predate the internet. Reddit is perhaps one of the most vivid and abundant collections of echo chambers one can easily access today.

    The sense of urgency in some groups is a consequence of their shared belief that they are in immediate danger. Whether that belief is justified may or may not be confirmed by subsequent events.

    If your day-to-day experiences do not confirm those fears, it is important to understand that violent upheavals are not always predictable or gradual. So even if your impression of daily life contradicts these concerns, it is still possible that their fears are warranted.

    12 votes

  3. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    That said, OctoWoW is reportedly Turtle WoW revived in a way that makes it less likely to be taken down (but certainly not impossible). From Reddit: click to view

    That said, OctoWoW is reportedly Turtle WoW revived in a way that makes it less likely to be taken down (but certainly not impossible).

    From Reddit:

    click to view

    1. The Elephant in the Room: Is this server actually safe from takedown?

    Let’s be real for a second: nothing is 100% certain in the private server community. If a corporate legal team wants to hunt down a project, they will try.

    However, when you compare OctoWoW to the servers that just went down or are actively being sued, the difference in basic operational security (OpSec) is night and day.

    Part of why Turtle and Ascension got hit so hard came down to mind-bogglingly exposed leadership. You had Akalix literally living in the US and putting on his public LinkedIn profile that he worked for Turtle WoW, and Dutch (the owner of Ascension) literally living out in Tennessee. They were practically handing over their real-world identities on a silver platter.

    OctoWoW is taking a radically different approach based on a "Zero-Trust" architecture. According to their open letter to the community, they're structured to survive exactly because they don't rely on centralized figureheads:

    • Anonymous, Disconnected Contributors: The team operates on a strict zero-trust principle. No individual working on OctoWoW knows the real-world identity of any other contributor. They are united solely by their passion for Classic WoW. Every dev participates at their own risk, and no single person has the power or administrative control to take down the project.

    • The 8 Knowledge Keepers: Creating a character is an act of trust. To protect player time, OctoWoW utilizes a model of decentralized redundancy. All character and account information is securely preserved across at least eight independent and anonymous "Knowledge Keepers." (This is where "octo" comes form btw, "octo", eight KPs, get it? XD)

    • Near-Instant Recovery: If the primary server or database faces any technical or legal issues, the remaining Knowledge Keepers possess everything required to restore the community and resume operations within days.

    While no server is bulletproof, this decentralized setup makes them a hell of a lot safer. Ofc, this is all based on claims by the OctoWoW team, we have no way of verifying if they are actually doing all this, but I hope they are ahah...

    5 votes

  4. Comment on What’s something that didn’t work for you? in ~talk

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    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I think it would be great for me but my brain is not wired that way. I can only understand punching and kicking.

    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I think it would be great for me but my brain is not wired that way. I can only understand punching and kicking.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    It's a bad time for pservers overall. My guess is that people will hesitate to start a new character anywhere right now.

    It's a bad time for pservers overall. My guess is that people will hesitate to start a new character anywhere right now.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    I guess Star Citizen but it's not a scam and it actually delivers.

    I guess Star Citizen but it's not a scam and it actually delivers.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic in ~life

  9. Comment on The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic in ~life

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    Hopefully this is not too off topic. I become a smoker after being interned in a mental hospital where smoking was nearly impossible to avoid under an otherwise tedious and oppressive environment....

    Hopefully this is not too off topic.

    I become a smoker after being interned in a mental hospital where smoking was nearly impossible to avoid under an otherwise tedious and oppressive environment.

    I would like a way to not annoy my wife by smell of tobacco in my body.

    I never smoke at home.

    Yes I'm going to stop but even the doctors agre that we have other very serious things to fix right now and stop smoking would only cause unnecessary stress at this point.

    14 votes

  10. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Beating WW2 FPSs using only the weapons that would be actually available to that soldier.

    Beating WW2 FPSs using only the weapons that would be actually available to that soldier.

    18 votes

  11. Comment on Guild Wars 3 officially revealed in ~games

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    My main gripe with GW2 is that it feels too fluffy. Things don't feel like they have weight or impact. This doesn't seem to have that same issue.

    My main gripe with GW2 is that it feels too fluffy. Things don't feel like they have weight or impact. This doesn't seem to have that same issue.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk

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    Perhaps we are way more capable of space exporation than we ware allowed to known.

    Perhaps we are way more capable of space exporation than we ware allowed to known.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes Survey #7: What is your gender identity? (Results) in ~talk

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    It doesn't mean much for me it just felt like it was relevant information.

    It doesn't mean much for me it just felt like it was relevant information.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Tildes Survey #7: What is your gender identity? (Results) in ~talk

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    Idk it's just what people do.

    Idk it's just what people do.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Tildes Survey #7: What is your gender identity? (Results) in ~talk

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    Cis heterossexual male.

    Cis heterossexual male.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on I always knew I was different. I just didn’t know I was a sociopath. in ~health.mental

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    I should notice that the article is about a personality disorder and bipolar is a mood disorder. Mixing personality disorders and mood disorder in the same argument like that is not very sound....

    I should notice that the article is about a personality disorder and bipolar is a mood disorder. Mixing personality disorders and mood disorder in the same argument like that is not very sound. They are too dissimilar.

    This comment can be applied to the comment above yours as well in regards to depression.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on I always knew I was different. I just didn’t know I was a sociopath. in ~health.mental

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    Not who you asked, but I don't believe we do. Non-sociopaths are perfectly capable of making tough decisions and calculating the impact of their actions. The things we do need sociopaths for are...

    Not who you asked, but I don't believe we do. Non-sociopaths are perfectly capable of making tough decisions and calculating the impact of their actions. The things we do need sociopaths for are things of dubious utility that we probably shouldn't be doing, such as torture, execution, war, etc.

    A sociopath will default to whatever benefit them to the detriment of the collective.

    6 votes

  19. Comment on Single dose of clinical-grade LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, wins approval for phase III trials in ~health.mental

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    I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but I would like to say that, as is the case with any substance, contraindications to psychedelics do exist. Talk to your doctor.

    I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but I would like to say that, as is the case with any substance, contraindications to psychedelics do exist. Talk to your doctor.

    21 votes

  20. Comment on Research paper compares LLM responses based on politeness of requests and finds quality difference in ~tech

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    I would argue that the same guidelines we use to presume that living beings are capable of emotion will, at some point, attribute emotion to an AI. In my opinion, whatever leads us to believe that...

    I would argue that the same guidelines we use to presume that living beings are capable of emotion will, at some point, attribute emotion to an AI. In my opinion, whatever leads us to believe that others are capable of emotion will have to be applied to non-biological entities.

    Our understanding of human consciousness is primitive. We assume others have inner lives because their behavior and presentation are similar to ours. Mental shortcuts such as "he cries, therefore he suffers" allow us to ascribe personhood to others. The same shortcuts will inevitably be applied to AI. Especially when it provides responses that appeal to us like real people do. We won't ascribe personhood to AI out of our deep understanding of consciousness, but rather because we know so little about ourselves.

    1 vote