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  1. Comment on How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false in ~science

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    ...while hawking their own merch on their Peertube channel after reading a few sponsor spots :D

    ...while hawking their own merch on their Peertube channel after reading a few sponsor spots :D

    11 votes

  2. Comment on Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X in ~tech

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    Mastodon is a decent platform, but you need to go out and find people to follow yourself. There is no algorithm suggesting anyone to you.

    Mastodon is a decent platform, but you need to go out and find people to follow yourself. There is no algorithm suggesting anyone to you.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Sony backed down from the PSN requirement to play Helldivers 2. How will this change how the community reacts to game changes? in ~games

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    It is still possible to play, the switchover would've been on the 30th of this month IIRC. Why would've Valve jumped the gun and delist a game from a HUGE publisher a month in advance based on a...

    It is still possible to play, the switchover would've been on the 30th of this month IIRC.

    Why would've Valve jumped the gun and delist a game from a HUGE publisher a month in advance based on a possibility of some people not being able to play?

    1 vote

  4. Comment on AI, automation, and inequality — how do we reach utopia? in ~talk

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    Personalised, private AI assistants will be one advancement I'm looking forward to. Apple's Siri is like the v0.1 of that. It does all on device and "learns" that you go to this place at this time...

    Personalised, private AI assistants will be one advancement I'm looking forward to.

    Apple's Siri is like the v0.1 of that. It does all on device and "learns" that you go to this place at this time usually and when you go in your car it offers to navigate there for example.

    This but to a Nth degree. I could tell it (or it could learn) the things I'm interested in and it would scour the internet for related content and provide it to me on appropriate times.

    "I see you're doomscrolling Twitter/X/Mastodon/TikTok again, did you know that there's a new video by TechnologyConnections out, would you rather watch that?"

    "J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has a recipe that matches what you have in your fridge currently, would you want me to summarise the instructions from the video?"

    Stuff like that isn't impossible, it's perfectly doable today - but a bit too resource intensive for mass adoption. And way too many people want to sell that to you as a service, while using your personal data. I don't want some startup bros seeing my personal AI notifying me of a new ... erotic video by my favourite performer for example =)

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Sony backed down from the PSN requirement to play Helldivers 2. How will this change how the community reacts to game changes? in ~games

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    They had a second game that was supposed to be The Big Hit. It wasn't. Then HD2 skyrocketed and now some middle-manager's KPIs are determined by "PSN account number growth" and they had this great...

    They had a second game that was supposed to be The Big Hit. It wasn't.

    Then HD2 skyrocketed and now some middle-manager's KPIs are determined by "PSN account number growth" and they had this great growth hack idea of forcing people to make accounts with a stick.

    With a carrot approach this all would've been avoided.

    9 votes

  6. Comment on Sony backed down from the PSN requirement to play Helldivers 2. How will this change how the community reacts to game changes? in ~games

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    According to Arrowhead, Sony as the publisher made the call of releasing the game in non-PSN regions in the first place. I think they are the ones that made the call to delist. It's not up to...

    According to Arrowhead, Sony as the publisher made the call of releasing the game in non-PSN regions in the first place.

    I think they are the ones that made the call to delist. It's not up to Valve to enforce stuff like that.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes in ~enviro

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    And they'll get a fine based on a static amount, add it as "cost of doing business" and go on with their operations. All fines that need to make an impact MUST be a percentage of turnover. Case in...

    And they'll get a fine based on a static amount, add it as "cost of doing business" and go on with their operations.

    All fines that need to make an impact MUST be a percentage of turnover.

    Case in point: Finland and speeding tickets. They hurt everyone equally. A multimillionaire was fined 120k€ for going 30km/h over the limit, a person under the income limit would've had to pay around 100€.

    23 votes

  8. Comment on ‘The Fall Guy’ box office disappointment hurts more than opening weekend in ~movies

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    Fall Guy was a modern Hal Needham movie, and we need more of those in the world. But if the box office looks like this, the chances are slim to none =(

    Fall Guy was a modern Hal Needham movie, and we need more of those in the world.

    But if the box office looks like this, the chances are slim to none =(

  9. Comment on How do you take notes while reading? Do you have a “marginalia” process? What has helped you learn better and retain new knowledge? in ~creative

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    This is exactly why I started a "Second Brain" folder in my Obsidian. I've got a Keyboard Maestro hotkey that automatically opens Obsidian, brings it to the front and opens a fresh Second Brain...

    This is exactly why I started a "Second Brain" folder in my Obsidian.

    I've got a Keyboard Maestro hotkey that automatically opens Obsidian, brings it to the front and opens a fresh Second Brain template for me. I can just quickly type a few tags and insert the link / relevant snippet and go on with my day.

    I also sync my Omivore stuff to Obsidian to make it searchable from one place. And from this post I found the Kindle sync plugin so that now I can search all of that from one place too :)

    Plugging in an LLM and using RAG to teach it my Obsidian contents is on my todo-list, but I'm fine with Omnisearch for now.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on How do you take notes while reading? Do you have a “marginalia” process? What has helped you learn better and retain new knowledge? in ~creative

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    I like it because I own the data and there are ready-made solutions for most basic things I want/need. The only thing I regularly do is have a template for my "daily note" that I use for work /...

    I like it because I own the data and there are ready-made solutions for most basic things I want/need.

    The only thing I regularly do is have a template for my "daily note" that I use for work / personal things. Just a few bullet points on what happened and what did I do.

    Mostly because my temporal memory is utter crap and something I "just did" might be yesterday or a month ago. This way I can go check :)

    It has grown to other tasks since: Second Brain for stuff I have to search for often -> write a note in Obsidian so I can find a concise answer faster next time. I've also integrated Omnivore into Obsidian to store my read later content

  11. Comment on I made a mistake, I started using Reddit again in ~talk

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    Some people vaguepost purely for attention and enjoy the worried comments their post gets

    Some people vaguepost purely for attention and enjoy the worried comments their post gets

    5 votes

  12. Comment on ‘Red One’ down: How Dwayne Johnson’s tardiness led to a $250 million runaway production in ~movies

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    8 hours late and most likely without any notice. If he was doing one of his 42 side hustles, he might've called or have one of his henchmen call the production and say "Dwayne is promoting his...

    8 hours late and most likely without any notice.

    If he was doing one of his 42 side hustles, he might've called or have one of his henchmen call the production and say "Dwayne is promoting his tequila/sunscreen/protein drink and will be late for about 8 hours". Done. Drama averted.

    That way the 100 people waiting for him can adjust and prepare accordingly instead of just wondering where the F the star is so they can start doing their jobs.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on The "Great Games"- AAA titles, easy brand recognition- are what everyone pushes. But sometimes you need a "just average" game. in ~games

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    The ability to pick it up and continue where you left off at any time is priceless along with "pause + suspend" at any time. I've finished more games on the SD than any other platform in 10 years...

    The ability to pick it up and continue where you left off at any time is priceless along with "pause + suspend" at any time.

    I've finished more games on the SD than any other platform in 10 years just because of the convenience.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Instagram's Nudify [non-consensual fake nude photo generator] ads in ~tech

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    The quality is getting better and better. You can go on Instagram and find tons of completely AI-generated "influencers". Basically a generic female face either on an AI generated body or...

    The quality is getting better and better. You can go on Instagram and find tons of completely AI-generated "influencers". Basically a generic female face either on an AI generated body or AI-interposed on an existing body or even a video. Some of them are up front and have clear clues the images are AI-generated in the profile, but some aren't - and they have tens of thousands followers commenting on the pictures exactly like you'd imagine.

    This combined with the fact that we have normalised people plastering their face everywhere on the internet willingly, it's quite easy collect material to train an AI model to "know" a specific face. After that it's just prompt engineering custom pictures with a local LLM.

    And from there you can automate it and have a whole fake account of someone with quite believable looking pictures with their face on it. This is all doable today with a normal M-series MacBook.

    This is one account creating SFW fakes of celebrities: https://www.instagram.com/deca_ai

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Instagram's Nudify [non-consensual fake nude photo generator] ads in ~tech

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    People have already been convicted of this too pretty recently.

    People have already been convicted of this too pretty recently.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on I just installed a DNS based firewall (I think) for the first time in my life. Help me understand which addresses to block. in ~tech

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    Just because the domain says "amazon", it doesn't mean it has anything to do with shopping. AWS (an Amazon product) is THE biggest cloud computing platform in the world. That amazonaws.com url is...

    Just because the domain says "amazon", it doesn't mean it has anything to do with shopping. AWS (an Amazon product) is THE biggest cloud computing platform in the world. That amazonaws.com url is most likely some non-Amazon application contacting its cloud service. Could be Keybase based on a quick search.

    Your plan of blocking DNS addresses by ✨feel✨ is the same as my grandpa (RIP) making more space on his Windows computer by just deleting random files he didn't deem necessary inside C:\Windows. Please don't do that.

    Just keep the default Next DNS blocklists, there are actual people with actual skills keeping those lists updated. It's what I use too. (5,3 million queries, 253k blocked - 4.77% blocked). The only thing "broken" are mobile game ads with rewards, but I consider that a feature.

    If your goal is more privacy, you can look into Tor and maybe Mullvad VPN. But they won't help either unless you de-Google yourself, get off all Meta platforms and reduce your digital footprint. No VPN or DNS block will do anything if you willingly give away your data.

    24 votes

  17. Comment on I just switched to an iPhone, what should I do to make the most of this change? in ~tech

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    I have the same experience with Callsheet. It's good but not $1/month good.

    I have the same experience with Callsheet. It's good but not $1/month good.

  18. Comment on I just switched to an iPhone, what should I do to make the most of this change? in ~tech

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    Swiping sideways on the little bar on the screen switches apps. You don't need to do the "pull slightly up and then to the side" -thing. You can also swipe sideways on Safari profiles and the...

    Swiping sideways on the little bar on the screen switches apps. You don't need to do the "pull slightly up and then to the side" -thing.

    You can also swipe sideways on Safari profiles and the address bar.

    25 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Matrix 5’ in the works with Drew Goddard as director, Lana Wachowski as executive producer in ~movies

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    I've seen Resurrections and I remember none of it. There was a bit in a bathroom and a disjointed scene in a multi-level thingie. No idea what it was about or why. Good thing that "in the works"...

    I've seen Resurrections and I remember none of it.

    There was a bit in a bathroom and a disjointed scene in a multi-level thingie. No idea what it was about or why.

    Good thing that "in the works" means exactly shit in the age of David Zazlav and his type. I care about movies only when I can actually watch them, up until that point they are a Schrödinger's experiment that may or may not exist based on the whims of executives.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Will the Apple antitrust case affect your phone’s security? in ~tech

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    LG WebOS TV with no internet connection (or a regulated one) and Apple TV is the best combination I've found. Maybe NVidia Shield when they come up with a new version might be even better (the old...

    LG WebOS TV with no internet connection (or a regulated one) and Apple TV is the best combination I've found.

    Maybe NVidia Shield when they come up with a new version might be even better (the old one has pretty good upscaling).