It feels like torture, too. I gave it a quick watch and they’re just… rambling. There’s a laugh track sprinkled in here and there, but I promise you, it’s not funny.

If I tried LaMDA? No, truth be told, I only found out about it when ChatGPT blew up. The reason I said it’s not as good as ChatGPT is because that’s what most articles I find online are saying: ChatGPT delivers information in a plainer, clearer way than anything on the market right now.

That said, my original statement is misleading, sorry about that! I’ll make an edit immediately.

Oh, for sure. They even have their own chatbot called LaMDA. Trouble is, reports are saying that it’s not as good as ChatGPT and Google knows this. Right now they’re in panic mode.

Yeah, SoLita customers can keep this particular beer garden.

I’m glad this is getting more attention. I’ve recently tried joining a community for mental health only to find out they hang out on Telegram, which was alarming to me. I would hardly call a space owned by a company who sells data to government agencies a safe one. Regrettably, I wound up not joining because of this.

See, I don’t think it is. While Reddit has many, many problems, most users seem to be okay with it. Heck, until about year ago, there was a subreddit called WatchRedditDie which had ample proof of Reddit’s shortcomings. However, Reddit never really died, corporate interests just took over. After this revelation, the mods of the subreddit rightfully gave up and archived the subreddit. I believe Reddit will only die when a mass exodus of users takes place, which is just not happening right now.

Can’t speak for everyone, but I only connected a smart TV to my Wi-Fi network once and regretted it immmediately. Why? After that, it wouldn’t forget my wireless password and kept connecting to the internet, even though I didn’t want it to. That is why I’m never connecting another smart device to my network again, unless I’m double-dog sure I want to.

I am a former reddit user. Well okay, lurker. I liked the concept of reddit, but hated the issues that their team left unresolved: power tripping mods, censorship and later the whole Ellen Pao debacle and it just got worse from there. So I started looking for similar sites. I tried Aether, Tildes, I think I was also on Raddle at some point. Then I found Lemmy and here I am.

Well, how delightfully vague. A “sophisticated, encrypted communication device” could be just about anything that connects to the internet.

Everybody gangsta until their internet connection craps out.

I’m just now noticing that the handle retracted into the suitcase, trapping the “robber’s” hand. Pretty cool. On the other hand, those prongs look like a good way to poke someone’s eye out.

Don’t be sorry, you’re absolutely correct.

I’m a private person IRL, so I like to keep things as private as possible on the internet as well. I say “try to”, because heaven knows big tech isn’t making this easy for me.

Near as I can tell, this whole thing started with John Deere tractors. US farmers wanted to repair tractors themselves, because the alternative was calling up someone to have their tractor towed to an official John Deere™ repairshop, which was usually hundreds of miles away. The tow alone would cost them hundreds of dollars. So, they sought legal help, went to court and this is when other companies like Apple and Microsoft caught wind of this story and didn’t like the precedent one bit. After all, why let the users repair their own stuff, when the companies could be earning money on repairs? That’s why this outcome is so important.

Anyway, that’s the quick and dirty version. If you’d like to know more, Vice made a really good video about it two years back: https://youtu.be/EPYy_g8NzmI

There seem to be not one, but several piracy rooms on matrix.org. Maybe OP could try one of them?

Probably none, sorry. If you wanted to pirate something on Android, you would have to either download a closed-source piracy app, which you can only hope doesn’t have any malicious code inside, or download unverified .apk files from random websites, also a bad idea.

Fire OS, the operating system on Fire sticks, is essentially Android with Amazon’s stuff on top of it. If there is an app that enables piracy on it, I wouldn’t trust it.

And because of the whole karma-farming thing, the discussions on most subreddits are a joke. And I mean that literally, by the way. On like, 99% of all posts, instead of a discussion, everybody is trying to out-joke each other so they can get more imaginary internet points.

EDIT: A bad word.

Having read through the article, I still don’t know how to spot a toxic boss at the interview stage.

Just note that while the Humble Store does sells some games DRM-free, this isn’t their focus like it is over at GOG or itch.io and a lot of game keys sold there come with Steam’s DRM. On a related note, Steam actually does sell some DRM-free titles. A fairly comprehensive list of those can be found here.

Cool. Now if only they’d ditch Cloudflare.

I’ve never seen a company in such a hurry to lose more customers. Must be a new business strat.

That jacket was pretty cool, so I couldn’t blame you. I actually tried to walk around with a toothpick in my mouth, but started feeling self-conscious about it pretty darn quickly.

It’s also worth mentioning that of those systems listed, the WiiU can play WiiU, Wii and GC games natively, whereas the rest is emulation. I thought that was a pretty big deal.

Yeah, that admittedly makes more sense.

Not only are you breaking the law but stopping someone earning a living from their hard work.

Emotional manipulation, that’s what this is. I’m thinking they wouldn’t even need to resort to it, if their legal premise wasn’t so wobbly.

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I did once, a few years ago. In 2011 the movie Drive came out and I loved it. Two years later, another movie by the same team (Nicolas Winding Refn as director and Ryan Gosling as the main actor) came out called Only God Forgives. It had great reviews on RottenTomatoes and I downloaded it as soon as I could.

Unfortunately, I found it boring and had no idea what the plot was about. I tried to give it a chance, but after 30 minutes or so, I stopped watching. It felt like a waste of time.

Mmm, Felghana and Origins are the hardest entries in the franchise and as such are probably not a good entry point for beginners. Hard, as in, the first boss will kick your ass. That would probably just leave a bad taste in your mouth.

I would say good starting points are either Memories of Celceta or Lacrimosa of Dana. LoD is especially good. Monstrum Nox looks cool too, but I haven’t played that one yet, so I can’t say for sure.

That does make me feel a little bit better, yes :)

I don’t know how many Ys fans we have on here, but Felghana has to be one of my favourites, especially the PSP port. And it looks like the Switch version is that with vastly improved visuals and a revamped soundtrack, which already was killer. Hopefully Memoire comes out in the west, too. Platforms other than the Switch would be good too.

That didn’t seem to do much to deter the guy. Look at how many accounts he has:

https://grndcntrl.net/links/

He’s on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and… Truth Social?! Ew.

The narrator came to the same conclusion as me when they thought about people accomodating cars: they must be high.

Pull the trigger, EU.

Looks like it:

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/LICENSE

The more I read about this, the more insane it gets. I’m not familiar with the Indonesian president, but if he feels the need to put people in jail just for insulting him, then he seems incredibly thin-skinned. Then there’s the state trying to police when and how people have sex. That by itself is insane enough.

What floored me, though, is the mention of outlawing freaking black magic in the penal code (Source). How do you even define black magic? More to the point, why put something that cannot be clearly explained or defined in a legal document? Are we regressing back to medieval times or something? Because clearly, I missed the memo.

How is the interface in DF nowadays? Back when the game was just in ASCII, it was clunky as hell.

Nice! It kind of reminds me of Front Mission for the SNES.

Alright, who let Sony sniff the glue again?

No. Even if it weren’t for the whole Qatar kerfuffle, I still wouldn’t watch it, because I find watching soccer dreadfully boring.