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  • Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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  • every wired connection is exclusive to the device and full duplex.

    That doesn't seem quite right in reality, since the moment you have multiple devices connected to one switch and both sending data to the router, they're sharing the connection. Switches can handle multiple connections at the same time way better than an AP, being able to receive from multiple devices at once, but the bandwidth will ultimately still be shared between the devices.

  • Web principles

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  • I think an even more important aspect to me is something I don't have a good term for, but something like honesty/intrusiveness. The key issue is that advertisement should be an honest, truthful, non-deceitful representation of a good/service. But instead ads are designed to catch your eye, insert themselves into your thoughts with catchy music, play on your emotions even using kids, all while avoiding really telling you what they're about.

    On the note of consent, it reminds me of a certain website for webnovels, which hosts ads submitted by users, for their own novels. It's been kind of ruined by GenAI, but it feels very different when the ads are often badly made memes about the premise of the story, since that's what you're already on the site for and it's the actual authors wanting to share their stories.

  • Little Surprise 🎥

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  • How about I reach out to the editors and offer them 80% of that money to not play any sound effects? Though the interpretation of the editors in question being humans implies they will still know everything about my life in realtime, and I'm not sure I'd take that kind of sacrifice

  • What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others?

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  • But, a more practical and effectice way to address those things is to attempt to provide an alternate, more equitable, more transparent paradigm for its use.

    Yeah, the issue is that I simply disagree, and consider the usage of models trained on data obtained without permission to be immoral, and thus unless the model is trained entirely on data supplied with consent (which is supposedly implausible), and thus people facilitating and/or promoting the usage of such to be... ethically unaligned me, and thus I don't want to associate with them

    All that said, I also don't want to argue or try to convince you here, and want to thank you for being civil in the discussion

  • What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others?

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  • I've also seen a bit of this, and I also find it annoying... though 99% of the time that I see something like this, its some kind of like cryptobro, when lambo, diamond hands, type person.

    I'm pretty sure some of the most popular communities on db0 use GenAI art for banner and icon - checking now, the banner art for piracy, ADHD memes, anarchism, yepowertrippingbastards appear to be GenAI (admittedly fewer than I expected), and the icon for the instance itself is suspicious.

    Unfortunately though, that's also not a problem exclusive to db0, and with the nature of federation it's kinda inescapable when most people don't care, unless I want to lock myself to niche communities.

    I will also note, I believe db0 is hosting or participating in some kind of distributed GenAI network called The Horde, so it's not just individual community members' opinions, it's an organizational endorsement of GenAI.

  • DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors

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  • IIRC people were testing cybertrucks for some auto-closing functionality, and if they encountered resistance, they would back off... Then try harder, slicing through hotdogs

  • What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others?

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  • At the risk of starting an argument (sorry)... I see any use of GenAI as support and endorsement of the technology, and I see the technology as a systemic attack on creative work by real people. It's stealing the results of hard work of people to produce derivative work with the intent of replacing those same people. Thus, while self-hosting does remove some concerns related to big corporations, I think it still empowers them by supporting the tech they deal in.

    I do block dedicated GenAI communities, but it's more widespread than that, showing up in unrelated comms, being used to generate community icons and banners.

    And of course an instance isn't homogenous with regard to its users, and I don't condemn people for using db0, but IIRC the host of db0 is supportive of GenAI, which is what I primarily referred to, and what steers the direction the instance is taking.

  • What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others?

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  • db0 is also pro-GenAI, which seems unfortunate to me.

  • A handy reference guide

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  • let's be honest

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  • I only have a basic stereo setup, so I don't know how bad it might be, but depending on how long ago that was, it could be a pulseaudio issue that was fixed by pipewire. I also know that if the issue is with the channels being hooked up incorrectly, that you can change how they're connected in pipewire (in the worst case, using a virtual device that takes in the correct layout and adapts to the incorrect one to output to the sound card)

    But I also understand that it might be a lot of tinkering to make it work, so no judgement here, hopefully the software situation improves.

  • Which is the better perspective?

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  • One thought I'd like to add is, not all art is meant to be "enjoyed", and there's value in art that invokes unpleasant, even painful experiences.

    In a way, it's the opposite of the meme, something that can be worthwhile yet painful if it "lands", and boring/tedious and bland otherwise. Though I also know some songs that cover bleak topics that hit me personally, but are also absolute bangers, so those aren't mutually exclusive either.

  • How accurate is this?

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  • Reminded me of What Remains Of Edith Finch, it has a segment working on a line cutting fish heads off. Grab fish, put in guillotine, cut, next, over and over. The monotony and pointlessness of it, and what it does to the psyche.

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    Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead

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  • Yes, the publishers have control over that, which is why I'm saying it doesn't make sense to praise Steam over games on it going on sale.

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    Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead

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  • That's just the thing - the publicly visible rules are about the keys, but the email that's part of evidence isn't about the keys. (Also, steam isn't just distributing the game, but providing other services for workshop, cloud saves, multiplayer, forums)

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  • Valve gives you free steam keys for your game on request, which you can sell off steam, without paying Valve a cut. This has a specific rule that disallows selling those keys for a lower price. However, not sure if it's this case, there was an email from a Valve employee submitted as evidence telling a game developer that selling their game for less in general would be undercutting steam, and something they wouldn't want. If the email is real and not a misinterpretation, Valve indeed was/is pressuring developers to not sell games cheaper elsewhere.

    Also, sales and giveaways are exempt from the steam key price parity rule, which I would assume epic's free games would fall under, if you applied the rule to that despite not involving steam keys.

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  • I don't think the example at the end of your comment is relevant, since to my knowledge it's the publisher deciding on pricing and doing sales, and steam is still taking the same cut.

    I also think it's generally not a great thing, since it basically puts the value of the game at $5, making it not worth getting off-sale, while also creating urgency to do so during a sale. I respect Factorio developers' choice to just not do sales at all, and state so, so that buyers know exactly what the price is.

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    If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • One point on perception - doesn't the sun appear somewhat yellow because the blue light has a stronger tendency to scatter, meaning that the roughly white light of the sun is less blue, with all the blue color of the sky being taken away from the color of the sun?

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I've gotten such symptoms before when running out of RAM - I'm on Arch and never bothered setting anything up for that instance and I'm not sure what's going on, but I think the system is struggling to recover memory or something before it resorts to killing processes, and would sometimes freeze for a minute like that.

    That said, yeah... Kernel modules (which device drivers often are) are allowed to run at a higher level of privilege, with less oversight, more access to hardware and better performance, so if they misuse that privilege they can break things badly. And with proprietary drivers, you have no idea or control of what it's actually doing, so you can only try to downgrade or wait and hope the company fixes it.

  • mistakes rule

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  • ALL VERSIONS OF SKYBLOCK I’VE PLAYED HAVE HAD A WAY TO GET LAVA FROM NOTHING BUT THE STARTING TREE, SO IT’S NOT A SOFTLOCK JUST POTENTIALLY TEDIOUS TO GET BACK TO THAT POINT.