socsa

It’s such a Rorschach test because it’s a deviation from the storytelling-first approach to game design which has dominated the AAA industry recently. It’s a return to the roots of the open world concept, where the player isn’t gently guided to the next cut scene, but is just plopped into the world and told to go out and do whatever, and maybe you’ll fine some lore.

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Radiative IR cooling is still orders of magnitude less efficient than convective cooling. There is precisely zero percent chance that orbital data centers will be less expensive than terrestrial ones.

This has been an extremely obvious flaw in the modlog concept from the very start, and has been discussed on and off for years. IMO, it exposes a much wider issue with federated forums as currently implemented, despite the aggressive defense of some vague concept of “openness.”

Blindly casting every user and mod action out into the universe in plaintext with no recall mechanism is problematic, and it will only get more problematic as the technical prowess of the average user drops. Doxxing is just the tip of the iceberg here, and I don’t think most people appreciate just how massive the social engineering attack surface actually is. Rogue instances could silently build engagement profiles on users, and then actually serve them targeted malicious content. This could be widespread, and almost impossible to detect.

Which is precisely why this will fail. Christians don’t actually believe anything they preach. They just want to be seen as pious, and a phone carrier doesn’t give them a visible virtue signal.

How can I see gen AI tags? Because there are admin posts on db0 which have genAI and no tags, unless I am missing something.

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It’s likely the cloud backups they can read. Encrypted archives are hard to sync across devices while still keeping the same level of security. I always advise against it if you don’t have a good reason to do it.

It’s also all but confirmed that they use on-device keyword recognition for targeted advertising. So if the app can phone home for some keywords, then it can phone home for anything.

LeWrongGeneration

Right, this clearly is not Mom’s spaghetti

The way they are doing it is kind of sketchy though. They are replacing the old search functionality with Gemini and now if you click the search icon in Google photos it immediately pops up asking you to pick your own face. There’s no option to skip this step, though you can still revert to the old search for now.

The creepy part is that when they ask you to select your face, it’s pretty clear they’ve already figured it out, because it’s the first face they show you.

Labour not burning piles of political capital on ridiculous pet issues challenge (impossible, any%):

Look, usually I am just as much “fuck trump” as anyone else l, but seriously, how many of you would honestly just let a perfectly good racoon penis go to waste?

It’s hilarious how every EV thread on the Internet always has one person who is like “well I can’t set a land speed record for my daily trip to the one taco bell I like which is 376 miles away because my chalupas will get cold if I have to charge for 20 minutes.”

Meanwhile everyone who actually owns an EV is like “yeah it really isn’t a big deal, I get 400 mile chalupas all the time”

It would be super easy to make it modular so the batteries can be swapped when they reach end of life. A well maintained lithium cell can last decades though if it is charged and discharged at relatively low rate.

Yeah we studied this exact literal scenario in the “renewable energy” engineering course I took in like 2007. The future of grid scale storage will basically be utilities giving out free or heavily subsidized battery packs to individual customers to form distributed micro-grids which can balance the renewable “duck curve,” and a major catalyst for this will be when EVs help establish a lithium battery recycling ecosystem.

Oh, we’re still talking about this?

Same. I spent easily 100 hours just doing paintball. It seemed like they had a cool thing going, sad to see it die.

Yeah I hated systemd since before it was cool to hate systemd again.

child predators are a real world problem

I cannot emphasize this enough - I absolutely do not care what your children do on the Internet.