CoderKat

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's not a good example. Courts move slow and that just barely happened and AFAIK is still being investigated (plus searching, the participants signed wavers -- though wavers don't give immunity legal negligence).

There's plenty of examples of companies being punished for negligence. It happens all the time when, say, their poorly constructed building collapses, cutting corners causes an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, they falsified their vehicle emissions reports, or when they abuse their market dominance.

Corporations totally do get away with a lot, but I don't see why you'd expect self driving cars to be a place where that would happen, especially since manually driven cars are already so regulated and require insurance. And everyone knows that driving is dangerous. Nobody is under any false impressions that self driving cars don't have at least some of that same danger. I mean, even if the AI was utterly perfect, they'd still need insurance to protect against cases that aren't the AI's fault.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, why shouldn't it? Is a programming glitch in a self driving all that different from a mechanical issue in a manually driven car?

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Just when I think he can't be any dumber, he surprises me. My days of not taking Musk seriously are coming to a middle.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Bots have never been discouraged by anti-bot measures. I mean, just look at all the anti spam measures modern email providers have, any yet email spam is super common. All we've done is just notice a blatantly suspicious spike in account creations. It's not gonna be so easy when a spammer puts even a little effort in.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AFAIK, there is no current recourse except defederation and defederation would be very slow and depend on every individual instance defederating. As well, there's plenty of instances that haven't defederated from the literal nazi instance, so who's to say that they'd defederate from a bot heavy instance, either? Especially if the spammer would to invest even the slightest effort in appearing like there's at least some legitimate users or a "friendly" admin. And even when defederation is fast, spammers could turn up an instance in mere minutes. It's a big issue with the federation model.

Let's contrast with email, since email is a popular example people use for how federation works. Unlike Lemmy (at least AFAIK), all major email providers have strict automated spam filtering that is extremely skeptical of unfamiliar domains. Those filters are basically what keep email usable. I think we're gonna have to develop aggressive spam filters soon enough. Spam filters will also help with spammers that create accounts on trusted domains (since that's always possible -- there's no perfect way to stop them).

I'm of the opinion that decentralization does not require us to allow just anyone to join by default (or at least to interact with by default). We could maintain decentralized lists of trustworthy servers (or inversely, lists of servers to defederate with). A simple way to do so is to just start with a handful of popular, well run instances and consider them trustworthy. Then they can vouch for any other instances being trustworthy and if people agree, the instance is considered trustworthy. It would eventually build up a network of trusted instances. It's still decentralized. Sure, it's not as open as before, but what good is being open if bots and trolls can ruin things for good as soon as someone wants to badly enough?

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

BTW, you might like https://catbox.moe for images. Much easier to use than imgur, cause it doesn't make you jump through hoops. No account needed and straight up gives you a direct link.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I personally use both completely inconsistently. I'm sure if I searched my commit history I'd be pretty close to uniformly random lol.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Same, my entire work uses it, with software that primarily targets Linux and coworkers that are as nerdy as it gets. Never heard anyone ever complain about calling folders a folder.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 52 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It's such bullshit that you can just claim you feared for your life (because gasp, your neighbor knocks on your door) and it gets charges reduced.

US stand your ground laws are barbaric and insane. Most of the world knows it, but a significant number of Americans still stand by them.

Also, I don't get why they have to reduce the charges before the trial? Can't they charge both manslaughter and murder and let the jury figure it out?

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Dishonored was the first thing that came to mind when I read the title, too. OP, if you haven't played it, check it out!

As for others...

  1. Skyrim and Fallout aren't exactly deep stealth games, but stealth is hands down the most popular and arguably most fun way to play. Sneaky archer is a freaking meme.
  2. Far Cry games all favour stealth as well. While you're totally allowed to go in guns a blazing and it's frankly more effective sometimes, the game does reward stealth and is clearly designed with it in mind. Silencers are magic, you can distract enemies, can lure wildlife to attack, smoke bombs, knife combos, "death from above", etc.
  3. The Metro series isn't entirely stealth, but a lot of human enemy sections are meant to be done with stealth and I recall it being actually very difficult if you're not stealthy (you die fast). I also recall the stealth feeling more realistic in terms of detection time. Finally, there's something extra fun about being stealthy in a very dark post apocalyptic subway tunnel. Much better atmosphere for it!

As a final side note, the way OP described assassin's Creed sounds like the older games. They might like some of the "middle" games like Unity more. The games that came just before Origins (Origins and later are very fun games, but the stealth is no longer the focus).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, not seeing any results was the big downside. I remember being so excited to participate in SETI. Only for nothing to ever come from it. Admittedly, SETI may have been overly ambitious and that set it up for failure.

But I'm also a bit skeptical of how effective home computers can be for a lot of these projects, considering how unfathomably massive data centers are these days. Not saying they aren't impactful, but rather that any really compelling study is likely to get a grant or corporate sponsorship that can pay for a bonkers amount of computational power.

Consumer hardware is relatively inefficient by comparison and requires doing redundant extra work to prevent fake results (because trolls will troll anything). Plus it's not considered acceptable to run at 100% on people's home PCs. If I remember correctly, they usually throttled the work so that it wouldn't be so noticeable.

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