I’ve seen some links posted to sites that somehow manage to show comment history even for accounts with it hidden as well. Apparently the feature is pretty half baked.

And with how small lemmy still is, it has a noticable effect for the better.

Might be able to starve it further with Windows 10 Ameliorated. It’s got a fancy UI now, but under the hood it’s a bunch of Powershell scripts to disable a lot of the bullshit (or at least it used to be).

Using IoT LTSC install media is good too, doesn’t include a lot of the BS to begin with.

Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.

Thanks for laying it out for me!

I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.

Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.

Would love to be pointed in the right direction. I’ve had lower back issues since my early 20s.

While I’m glad they’re drawing a line, they’re only splitting hairs. Anthropic is already deeply working with the US gov.

You’re spot-on. As some additional context, Anthropic is already working tightly with the US government. Until the recent announcement regarding Grok, Anthropic was the only approved AI for US government work, as it is/was the only one certified for safely woeking with classified data.

Frieren: Journey’s End

Definitely one of the best animes I’ve seen in years. Follows a near immortal elf retracing the steps of her previous journey to defeat the demon king, decades later.

For Notepad++, make sure you’ve installed the latest version using a download from the official website. Their automatic update feature got hijacked to package in malware within the past few months and the only way to shift to the newer secure update “source” is a reinstall from the site, as far as I’m aware.

Had a relatively quick morning with my toddler on Monday, so decided I could afford to be 10 minutes late getting into work and had a special breakfast with her at a new little bakery/deli/breakfast-and-lunch spot that opened up nearby.

No idea if she’ll remember it, but I know I cherish little moments like that from my childhood so I do what I can to make them for her.

One of the things I didn’t really expect with having a kid is that even without going out of my way to make special memories there are small wonderful moments almost every day.

Holy shit this is some primo conspiracy shit. You’re reading meanings from character encoding quirks?

Is that really necessary given everything that’s just in plain text? Is there any evidence that this is actually encrypted Chinese text at all? Do you have any understanding of Chinese or are you just trying to find meaning character by character?

Have you checked your technique against random chunks of other text data to ensure it’s not just a coincidence?

And most of all, why the fuck are you doing this work and sharing it through google if you think there’s even the most remote chance you’re actually onto anything?

I honestly don’t have anywhere near the kind of knowledge in encrytion and character encoding to even begin to say if you’re on to anything or not. I doubt you do either, or else you wouldn’t be asking here.

Considering there were csam images as unencrypted images in the files, I find it hard to believe they even cared to try and hide anything. Especially not under a reversible encrytion with some character encoding shaningans. More likely they would have used one of the many standard methods that rely on secure key exchange through a separate channel and asymmetry.

What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.

It’s spicy but not tremendously so on the way in, which just makes it easier to have enough to set your o ring on fire when it’s time for round two.

The way some of you talk about mainland Chinese people(like we’re brainwashed bugs, NPCs, or extensions of the state) is dehumanizing. Full stop. You don’t speak this way about Americans living under mass surveillance, police violence, and corporate rule.

I’ve definitely seen this type of rhetoric being directed at Americans more and more as our current president continues to fuck up everything.

Surprised that no one has suggested the .hack (dot Hack) game series. They were PS2 era single player RPG games, set in a virtual reality MMO. So it really tries to simulate the MMO experience of that era. There’s even an entire fake computer OS you can explore with news articles, forum posts, email, etc that all contributes to the world building and sometimes unlocks stuff in the “MMO” as you learn stuff ourside of it.

The plot is… ok. Kind of a tired one now and quite trope-y. Mostly because it came first and a ton of anime since “copied its homework”. The series is one of the first instances of the now semi-common plot of “players get stuck in VR MMO”.

The first group of games in the series is pretty easily emulatable, and carrying your save across the games lets you keep your progress and unlocks some extra stuff in subsequent games of the first batch.

The second batch of games in the series (widely believed to be considerably better in gameplay) got an official PC remaster with additional QoL and what amounts to a free story DLC. Probably better to start there, just know there’s some weird plot stuff with a semi-prequel anime. It was the style of the time to make these multimedia projects to try and cross market shit.

They just announced that the series is going to get a reboot/continuation too.

It’s also worth noting that there are some “pay once” MMOs like Guild Wars out there which have been running for a decade or more.

I would start with making scripts to reproduce your current customizations on a fresh install, personally.

I was in first year of college, but my birthday falls during winter break. So instead of being able to celebrate with all my awesome new college friends, I was stuck with like one good high school friend, two barely-friends (one was an ex, and their parents were friends with mine), and my gf.

It was… ok. Pretty underwhelming. Pizza and cake, got to watch a movie I had been interested in, and played some multiplayer game.

For some reason my gf decided she needed to hang all over me. Think she was trying to make the ex jealous, which is hilarious because there had been zero chemistry with the ex, I think we kissed once maybe. It did make the ex jealous, and my high school friend got to enjoy more attention from her than I ever got. Cuddling, holding hands, hugs, nothing further than that but it really highlights how little had been there with me and the ex. Still makes me laugh thinking about it.

I remember a bunch of private jokes before and after between me and my gf about me finally being legal, because we’d been fucking like the horny teenagers we were for around a year and a half.

Overall, not anywhere close to the big deal people tend to make it. I honestly didn’t remember any details until I sat and thought about it, and my memory was somewhat stirred by interacting with that high school friend again through work yesterday (ended up working for different sub-companies of the same org, doing similar work).

Plenty of more memorable times in my life. Only one birthday is particularly memorable now in my mid 30s. My 21st is memorable less for the birthday itself and more for everything around it, but the birthday is still memorable.

The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.

It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.