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- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 1 week ago:
Forcing everyone to use an approved OS is draconian.
I agree, but my point is that it wouldn’t be that easy to do either. I am hopeful that a system where servers take the OS’s word for it that you are in a certain age category would not smoothly transition into one where they also need proof that the owner of the hardware cannot decide that category, and that the system working this way would be accepted as a long-term status quo like those age selection menus were, because it would be actually a bit more effective at stopping kids who don’t know how to reinstall an OS so legislators could plausibly claim they did something.
- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 1 week ago:
At least there’s some nontrivial additional challenges to make the jump, such as authenticating the user is on an approved OS, and the infrastructure for identity verification itself. I like this better than other age verification mandates because those make the latter the first step, fueling the growth of surveillance tech and the companies providing it as a service.
- Comment on Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced 1 week ago:
Using authority for personal gratification
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 1 week ago:
Sometimes there’s something wrong with the way a website does login and the password manager options won’t trigger. In this case AI can be useful for telling you to install pwgen.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 2 weeks ago:
Weird way to pitch government mandated identity checks to use the internet. I guess that will really show those billionaires.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 1 month ago:
Yeah but they externalize it as an “addiction” and want to think of their actions as being someone else’s responsibility
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 month ago:
Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It’s kind of implied by the word ‘deepfake’ but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 1 month ago:
They’ve admitted what they really want is to outright ban porn, so it’s all just trying to push it as close to that as they can get to full censorship.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 month ago:
she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.
Do you really need AI for that
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 2 months ago:
“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it — but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” admits Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s head of product, in the PC Gamer interview. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”
They’re just going to try to market it a little differently
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 2 months ago:
Many are worried that the archives liberated by Anna’s will be used to train generative models
I hope so, unlike text and image gen, there are not really good publicly available music models, only proprietary services now owned by large music industry rightsholders due to lawsuits afaik. Like the article mentions, unethical corporations such as Spotify itself are already on it regardless.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 months ago:
Fair, I’m not sure what the solution would be though, even if you explicitly want to optimize for getting as many people as possible using decentralized social media regardless of their politics or cultural preference.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 months ago:
It’s a shame that Nostr’s brand is tainted by its community in a lot of people’s eyes, there’s a lot to like about it as a protocol and as a free software project that is independent from that stuff.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 2 months ago:
Oh right. So I guess that means the majority of stuff uploaded to Spotify never really gets listened to.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 2 months ago:
with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
I’m not sure exactly how “listens” maps on to total songs, but it sounds like they got almost all of them
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 months ago:
I don’t see how there’s really much room for improvement in terms of convenience. Buying things online is already very simple, typing in the thing you want to buy and sorting through some options. If you want to do it efficiently, it takes up very little time, although some people enjoy the process and choose to spend lots of time on it.
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 months ago:
I found this: lawfaremedia.org/…/has-tiktok-implemented-project…
USDS will house TikTok teams that access U.S. user data, access TikTok’s software code and back-end systems, or moderate content on the platform. By design, it will replicate several of the core functions of TikTok’s global business. For instance, it will have a separate human resources team that will be responsible for hiring and managing U.S. personnel. Additional teams housed in USDS will include engineering, user and product operations, privacy operations, trust and safety, legal, threat detection and response, and security risk and compliance.
Oracle Cloud will host the TikTok platform in the United States, including the algorithm and the content moderation functions. It will be responsible for monitoring data flowing into USDS and out of USDS to ensure that no data illicitly transits the USDS boundary. All U.S. data traffic will be routed through Oracle Cloud.
This was from 2023 but has something changed since then to mean it won’t be hosted or run from the US? Is there a reason to think these claims are false or misleading?
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 months ago:
Maybe I’m ootl, is it confirmed somewhere that will be the case?
- Comment on TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga 2 months ago:
- Comment on When The Internet Grew Up — And Locked Out Its Kids 2 months ago:
For many young people, social media platforms are not simply entertainment. They are places of learning, authorship, peer support, political awakening, and cultural participation. They are where teens practice argument, humor, creativity, solidarity, dissent — often more freely than in offline institutions that are tightly supervised, hierarchical, or unwelcoming.
Very much this, age gates are a horrible idea and this is one of the reasons. My biggest problems as a teenager were isolation and lack of agency and the internet was a small reprieve from that I really needed.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
I like the translate feature, just make all the AI stuff local and I’m fine with it, though if not I hope
AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.
is a commitment they take seriously.
- Comment on As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out 2 months ago:
If the main effect of allowing them nearby is your electric bill going up it seems reasonable to not want them.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
I feel bad that you think that’s what I’m getting at with this, arguments shouldn’t be about getting one over on someone, they should be about improving mutual understanding. I’m just not putting effort into finding and posting a link nobody wants to see or thinks they could benefit from, that’s really it.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
people in general don’t hate AI I swear guys
That’s not really the point, but whatever. Honestly this comment thread is exhausting, and I question whether anyone actually cares, which is why I don’t feel like taking the time to look up that information. But if you will tell me with full sincerity that you care whether it exists, I will try to find the link for you.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
so having rules against AI on a platform is “vigilante enforcement”
I feel like you’re dramatically misinterpreting my statements on purpose now, this one is more obvious. I’m on the fence about whether disclosure requirements are a good idea, but am not emphatically condemning it, it’s understandable that they have them. But I am emphatically condemning efforts to use AI disclosures to brigade and harass developers, and I think the existence of those efforts is the reason why requiring disclosure is questionable.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
I’m not going to dredge up the reddit threads providing evidence of it, but afaik there really are popular discord groups with the express purpose of brigading AI users, and I think the people here overtly defending the practice probably know it’s a real thing.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
I didn’t learn to program using AI, so I don’t know all the details of how it would go for an amateur in the process of learning, but I have incorporated it into my work, so I know it can be very useful and save a lot of time, and that isn’t just about generating code. If you want to plan out how to debug something, you can get solid guidance. If you want clarification on what an unclear part of a tutorial means, you can get that. The more introductory the topic, the better and more reliable the explanation. I remember when learning spending a lot of hours just staring at a screen being completely lost on what to do next to debug something. I’m assuming you haven’t used it for coding very much? How can you be so confident it would be useless for them, isn’t this just speculation?
Anyway, this is all kind of beside the point. If it’s not useful, people won’t use it, and there’s no need to be angry about its use. If it is useful, it can be used to assist making games that are worth playing.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
“illegal = unethical” is a fascist take
That is not why I’m mentioning it, I agree that legality and ethics are separate. The point is that regardless of who is right about the ethics of this, applying vigilante enforcement to this kind of situation is unhinged, and signals about whether something is ok to do like legality do matter for that. If such popular enforcement is ever justified, it’s in situations where people are getting hurt where there is little ambiguity and clear malice, that’s absolutely not the case here.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
I promise you, none of what I write here is AI, I’m against doing that
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 months ago:
You’re kind of right, in that it’s not a total solution right now and you probably won’t be able to vibe code a whole game (except a really simple one maybe) with no knowledge. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t lower the skill floor for someone. I’m assuming the person in my scenario would be also using an engine like Unity or Godot, maybe asking the AI to walk them through how to do what they want, write simple scripts and explain/suggest syntax. That shouldn’t have too much risk of generating inadvertent backdoors, and I think LLMs are pretty good at explaining basic code. Game engines already enforce the basic design structure, which will make it easier to avoid big unfixable mistakes and do everything in small pieces a LLM is less likely to fuck up.
The same is true with using it for art; you’re right that a lot of AI art on Steam is obvious and looks the same, but really good AI assisted art isn’t. The amount of skill and effort required for that is not zero, but is less than it might be otherwise. I’m assuming there are a lot of games out there where you just can’t tell, and because there’s so much fear of backlash it just isn’t disclosed.