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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Not to defend adding ads to chatgpt, but it’s quite different from an implant that turns people into walking ads.

    Also, they weren’t on the free tier, their subscription was already stretching their finances and then they added ads and a new even more expensive tier to avoid the ads.


  • I recently noticed that when a user gets banned, all of their posts and associated threads also get removed but with no notice.

    I’ve also seen entire discussions removed because they included some heated words, despite also including useful discussion or even one sided rebuttals. While I’m under no illusion that things can get solved here, it’s annoying to see shit get deleted just because someone got upset. Even if there isn’t anything useful in comments, it breaks up the discussion because any replies have lost context.

    IMO if it’s a disruptive user, ban them, but leave the evidence of their disruption up, unless it was spam or the kind of illegal shit that can get anyone who sees it in trouble.


  • Personally, I like my PS5 because I don’t really gaf what any games do with my PS5’s kernel. It’s my way to play games that I’d never touch on my PC (even before switching to Linux, kernel anti-cheat/DRM was a dealbreaker).

    Actually kinda ironic because Sony is the company that made me not trust shit companies install on PCs for security purposes after their rootkit (also stopped using autoplay because of that). But between the three console options, Sony is the least shitty today.

    That said, I’m not sure I’ll be ever getting another console because I still do most of my gaming on my PC while those games collect dust.






  • I stopped using it once I found out their entire business model was basically copyright trolling on a technicality that anyone who answers a question gives them the copyright to the answer, and using code audits to go after businesses that had copy/pasted code. Just left a bad taste in my mouth, even beside stopping using it for work even though I wasn’t copy/pasting code.

    And even before LLMs, I found ignoring stack exchange results for a search usually still got to the right information.

    But yeah, it also had a moderation problem. Give people a hammer of power and some will go searching for nails, and now you don’t have anywhere to hang things from because the mod was dumber than the user they thought they needed to moderate. And now google can figure out that my question is different from the supposed duplicate question that was closed because it sends me to the closed one, not the tangentially related question the dumbass mod thought was the same thing. Similar energy to people who go to help forums and reply useless shit like RTFM. They aren’t really upset at “having” to take time to respond, they are excited about a chance to act superior to someone.







  • You can get hardened steel chains at hardware stores, ones where the links are 1cm thick. My ex bought one and said it took forever to cut a length off. Got a hardened steel lock to go with it. The thing has notches about 1mm deep from where someone tried to use bolt cutters on it. Grinder would eventually get through it, but it’ll make a lot of noise doing so. And some of the kids that use the bike stands here don’t even bother locking their bikes and yet they are still there (oddly enough in the same town that lock got its notches), so I think the security of having much easier targets will keep my bike safe.



  • And then there’s movies like Dr Strangelove, where I had no idea that old movies could be that entertaining still. Though it has been at least a decade since I watched it, I bet it still stands, even if it invented the iconic “ride a nuke like a cowboy” image.

    Also the whole Soviets built a doomsday device but didn’t tell the world about it, which reality copied (eventually they told the world).