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Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net
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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

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  • someone attempted a password reset on an account I had forgotten about.

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  • That sounds like an old problem that is not specific to Reddit. If your email is on any address leak from any website or is on a spammer's list, and a site allows people to request password resets by email rather than username, someone is going to do it.

    How they intend to read your email is anyone's guess, however. I've gotten a few requests like this from other websites, but of course, the sites are always like "if you didn't request this, please disregard this, and consider changing your password just in case".

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • A lot of people are filming in 6K or 8K, but only because it gives them more editing leeway when the final video is delivered in 4K.

  • Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Being a "thinker" isn't exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn't brag about it.

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that's floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it's based on romaticised fiction made in that era.

    For example, I knew most kids didn't hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn't have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.

    It's a thing that happened for some people but it's not the entire truth about the era. It's not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.

    There's a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day. Edit: Sorry if none of this makes sense, just ate something other than cheap potatoes for the first time in a week

  • Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

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  • Yup, Fallout Wiki has a pretty crazy history. I don't remember if they were originally a Fandom wiki, but at some point they definitely went "well, we don't want to go with Fandom, we'll go with Curse wiki host instead." Then Fandom bought Curse wikis and put all of them under Fandom banner anyway.

    The independent Fallout Wiki is basically where the actual community is right now, the Fandom wiki is just there to confuse passers-by with their high search engine rank. Fandom has the policy that the community can fork a wiki and go elsewhere, but they will not close down the Fandom wiki, so good luck with your search rankings.

  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • "Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I'm wondering what's next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That's got to be the answer. Screaming trees." - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer

    (OK, that's a fake quote. This one is real:)

    "Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I'm not drunk." - one of my computer science profs, on data structures

  • Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.

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  • The problem isn't that the data is already public.

    The problem is that the AI crawlers want to check on it every 5 minutes, even if you try to tell all crawlers that the file is updated daily, or that the file hasn't been updated in a month.

    AI crawlers don't care about robots.txt or other helpful hints about what's worth crawling or not, and hints on when it's good time to crawl again.

  • Change your profile to Clippy (call to action)

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  • Lemmy and Piefed support profile pictures. They show up in the web view. It's just that the mobile apps don't bother with them. (At least the good one doesn't. I'm talking about Voyager)

  • Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem

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  • Doom did have text chat, much in the same vein as Quake later on.

    However, Doom originally didn't have TCP/IP, it only supported IPX/SPX networking on LANs. (Though, why use chat when you can yell.) It also supported point to point modem connections, for which the text chat was probably useful. Later versions of Doom and all modern source ports support TCP/IP though.

  • Removed

    Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue

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  • US Copyright Office ruled that AI generated content is not eligible for copyright.

    Therefore, AI generated beer is actually Free Beer!

    This is an interesting legal strategy. Let's see how it goes.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

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  • Starting to think we just might need to reconsider the status of USA as a bastion of progress and democracy

    /understatement of the century

  • Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest

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  • Soup of the Day

    "It's the same soup every day, through the eternity! That's how we Conservatives roll! Don't ask what's in it, though!"

  • AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

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  • AOL Shield Browser is some absolute Wack Crap.

    Remember how AOL bought Netscape and open-sourced it, leading to the Mozilla project?

    AOL Shield Browser is based on Chromium.

    ...I get it, Chromium is easier to use for developing custom browsers than Gecko. But, still... why?

  • I hope their life together is long and wonderful

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  • I keep babbling about turtles being shell-friends. But apparently some turtles are more than just friends!

  • Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center

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  • I hope the Alligator Alcatraz will meet the same fate as the Border Wall. As in doesn't look anything like what was promised and was a predictable colossal tax-dollar-pit failure from get-go.

  • Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

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  • Yeah. ...Maybe I should analyse a bit anyway, despite being tired...

    In the aforementioned media the premise is usually that someone has built this amazing new computer system! Too good to be true, right? It goes horribly wrong! All very dramatic!

    That never sat right with me, and was sad, because it was just placating boomer technophobia. Like, technological progress isn't necessarily bad, OK? That's the really sad part. I felt sad that good intentions remained unfulfilled.

    Now, this incident is just tragicomical. I'd have a lot better view of LLM business space if everyone with a bit of sense in their heads admitted they're quirky buggy unreliable side projects of tech companies and should not be used without serious supervision, as the state of the tech currently patently is at the moment, but very important people with big money bags say that they don't care if they'll destroy the planet to make everything wobble around in LLM control.

  • Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

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  • (Shedding a few tears)

    I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.

    But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.

    (sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • This makes about as much sense as calling Linux users "Windows vegans".

    Choosing to not use AI isn't some wacky contrarian position, it's a tame position that can easily be justified. (Don't want to use AI? Then don't.) If anything, trying to assert that constantly using AI for everything would be the new normal is the wacky position.

  • Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US

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  • Ooo, let's look at what the box says.

    Made in China
    Assembled in China
    Packaged in the sweet sunny California, United States 🇺🇸🦅🗽
    Packaging made in India

    ...I'm being facetious. Point is, they will have to find a loophole, or prices will be fucked, and there's nothing in the world can move the electronics supply chain to the US during this administration (or five).

  • Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing"

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  • The "full spectrum of pricing", from ludicrous to overpriced to straight up exorbitant.

    These guys have no idea how many bloody full price AAA games I have on my backlog and I have said, with considerable gravity, that I guess I'll get to them later. In a few years maybe. We'll see.

  • aww @lemmy.world
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    Peak kaiju cinema. The giant reptile saves the city from a giant bug invasion. But at what cost?

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    Rose @slrpnk.net

    PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film

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    Rose @slrpnk.net

    This is my favourite educational picture in Wikipedia! Turtles have this thing called the Turtle Mode.