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Arkthos

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • It's some kids making a video that pokes fun of their would-be conquerors. Yeah it's distasteful, I agree. It's also hilarious to start tone policing scared kids facing threats of invasion for insulting those who want to attack them.

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • Apparently insulting is a step too far for American sensibilities.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • Might sound cold, but this is really just a Darwin award. Yeah, the guardrails also suck, but what a dumbass.

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia Wikipedia disagrees with you, although I do think it depends a lot on the level of education you're at. In academia you rarely want tertiary sources if primary sources are available.

    It turns into a game of telephone where you're forth in line when you could just as well be second in line, since Wikipedia recommends using secondary sources for its articles.

  • bad bitch

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  • Started out meaning that someone is actively doing something for the purpose of looking cool. Here it's just used as a synonym for cool.

  • How the ‘Brussels effect’ backfired

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  • Good read. The Brussels effect seems to be facing the same problems the rest of the EU is facing - increased pressure from the outside.

    On the tech side I think it's mostly that tech giants can now use the US as an instrument to apply pressure more than it is EU regulatory overreach on AI. Yeah, the EU has failed to manifest their own tech giants, but I'd argue this is a good thing because holy shit the tech giants are a cancerous blob on society.

  • Europe's EV sector warns about 'efforts to dilute' EU emissions targets

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  • Electric car industry wants more electric cars. Not a huge surprise. Good point though, investments have been made on the background of the EU not backing out.

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  • Yeah, there's an analysis by an expert on the article. Says the mention is remarkable, but to be expected. I mean, it would be a statement in itself to not mention the giant pink elephant in the room.

  • Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

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  • Fuuck this shit and my piece of shit country for supporting this idiocy.

    All the more reason to use a VPN. We'll see what measures various apps will end up implementing.

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • Paradox owns the world of darkness ip entirely right now. I wonder if this call to refocus their efforts on their core competencies will mean selling it off.

    They haven't done too well with it. They've released several games and I think some solo dev interactive fiction have been the only ones getting positive reviews: Earthblood, Swansong, Bloodhunt, and now Bloodlines 2 have all done pretty poorly. Even the tabletop RPG has seen better days, with 5th edition causing quite the controversy, mostly with Werewolf. Hell they closed White Wolf down for a while because the books caused controversy.

    Paradox have done a terrible job with the IP.

  • What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

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  • I played pretty much the same way De_Narm did. I tried caring less, though because I had no idea what would come next, it inevitably descended into spaghetti. I am stressed out about technical debt enough at work to be playing a technical debt simulator lol.

    Dedicating the space needed to expand, ensuring everything you build is scalable, inevitably requires you to know a lot about what's coming.

    Yeah, if you know what you're doing you can avoid these issues. I did not enjoy myself in the slightest, so after some hours of giving it a chance I decided that learning how to avoid these issues was not worth the pain. I'll just stick to work instead.

  • What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

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  • I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

    I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what's coming. I don't have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don't even enjoy the game.

  • Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn

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  • Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise.... Less so.

  • Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation

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  • Nice. Hope they can keep it up, even if the new oil drilling going on makes one sceptical. Of course while there is a demand for oil there'll be a big incentive to drill, we really need to wean ourselves off the dead dino goop soon.

  • Inspired by coversation I saw in WoD subreddit

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  • I mean, yeah. The splats are not made to be balanced between each other. The themes that each splat is about are wildly different as well.

    It's neat the mechanics allow cross play between the games though. The world would strangely feel smaller if they normalized the power scale across every game line.

  • Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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  • Oh. Yeah most bands used by satellites are also regulated.

  • Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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  • You can do this same attack on any antenna, noise can't be protocolled away. Repeating both signal and noise is a downside to bent-pipe setups.

    Input frequencies are regulated via band-pass filters.

  • Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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  • Typically satellites have beams they turn on and off to service different areas, with one beam pointing towards the RAN that receives the data rather than just repeating a broadcast out to everywhere the satellite can theoretically reach. For mobile telecom backhaul via satellite it is standardized that the data should be encrypted for untrusted transport links so this seems to me like an issue of not following specs.

  • California signs first US law regulating AI chatbots, defying White House stance

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  • I feel these kinds of protection, against suicidal language etc, will just lead to even further self-censorship to avoid triggering safeguards, similar to how terms like unalive gained traction.

    AI should be regulated, but forcing them to do corpospeech and be 'safe' even harder than they already do in order to protect vulnerable children is not the way. I don't like that being the way any tech moves and is a part of why I'm on Lemmy in the first place.

    The character.ai case the article mentioned already was the ai failing to 'pick up on' (yes I know that is anthropomorphizing an algorithm) a euphemism for suicide. Filters would need to be ridiculous to catch every suicidal euphemism possible and lead to a tonne of false positives.