parpol

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[–] parpol@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to convince me that trump is a horrible person.

However the words used in OPs title are misleading and bad faith. As for who saw trump's post, sure it matters morally, but it isn't what I'm trying to point out here.

"Trump posted Nazi era symbols" is disingenuous and doesn't help our side.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I meant the thumbnail appeared after he pressed "post", not that the article was edited. I say likely because as a software engineer I know how thumbnails generally are loaded on sites like these. They're not part of the "post" data, and appear a short while afterwards as the site fetches metadata from the linked site and creates the thumbnail in the background so it doesn't force the user to wait.

I would say maybe snopes can't tell the difference between posting an image vs posting an article and have an automatic system generate the image, but what actually is going to happen is the maga people are going to say "see, I knew the fact checkers were biased. They intentionally make bad faith articles like these"

[–] parpol@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (9 children)

The platform automatically adds the thumbnail, so it was the platform that posted the symbol, and it was likely added after he posted.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Requiring you to register with a real phone number, bothering you with logging in globally, linking your minecraft account to your entire windows PC (thank God for Linux), and introducing special features in a microtransaction-riddled version of the game is just the early middle stage of enshittification. Next comes removal of old features as more players switch to bedrock to enjoy the new special features.

The Java edition is in the middle of being phased out. They've only kept it for this long because bedrock is inferior and unplayable on most devices. It may look like Microsoft kept it out of kindness, but I assure you it will be gone soon.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I lost my minecraft account when I refused to migrate from mojang to Microsoft. I should own a copy, therefore piracy is morally justified. Minecraft overall was supposed to be an indie game with self-hosted servers, but it gradually became enshittified when Microsoft bought it.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Should have used Rust.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

We're in the ai-ren timeline.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Opinion:

Bluesky is American with the vast majority of users on one single instance based in Seattle, so I wouldn't recommend it over mastodon which truly is decentralized.

Also revanced is old and overly complicated in comparison to freetube and Grayjay. While Grayjay is American, it is ran by Louis Rossman, and is consumer rights friendly on a level higher than many European alternatives.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Looks like a lot of chinese people will be getting their organ transfers after all after mystery donations from 40 anonymous individuals.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

The freer the movement, the harder it is for AI to predict moves.

The smaller the field of vision is compared to the entire world, the more scouting is needed before the AI can build a large enough picture to start planning ahead, and the more it needs to rely on the ability to predict.

Chess has a 100% visibility and very limited movement, so it makes sense for it to be easy for AI.

But in shooters, both of these limitations are devastating. The only advantage left after this is the instant reaction time, but this feels cheap and isn't fun for the player, so instead bots get put on A* algorithms, flowfields, heatmaps, pretedermined tracks, and shallow neural networks to determine where to go and where to look, and finally their aim skills are just intentionally set to miss at certain rates.

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