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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Great, now anything that worries advertisers will be considered "political and sensitive". Surely nothing can go wrong with that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago

I've got some bad news for you about ActivityPub then.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Contact wearer of 20 years here. It can't get behind the eye, that part's a myth; there's connective tissue surrounding the entire eyeball along the backside, so nothing's getting through there without tearing through, and it'll take more than a contact lens to do that.

It can get stuck along the sides, though, but usually only if it's folded or creased somehow when you put it in. It's not painful, necessarily, but it is a very uncomfortable feeling; it almost feels like choking, but through your eyeballs. It triggers a gag reflex for me. But you can usually fix it by closing your eyes and gently rolling your eyes around a bit.

It's pretty much impossible for a lens to get stuck or "lost" in the eye. If it's in your eye but not in the right spot, you'll know it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're perfectly horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing this out. I'd never heard of this site before. From their front page: https://fedia.io/media/dd/05/dd05739fe84d5754670a5985712d74afa8a49f6dae81a8afa01e460ff04ccf11.png

That should tell you a lot about whether or not to invest any energy into reading stories from there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, I dunno what the facepalm is supposed to be about. 99% of the rest of the world has about 1% of the tech knowledge that the average Lemmy user is going to have. These scams are wildly effective, and it's not really a matter of general intelligence as far as who falls victim to them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Terms of service/privacy policies would be on a per-instance basis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

better noise cancellation on the mic (though I doubt anyone uses that)

Oh brother, do people ever use the controller mic. They especially love to do it when they play music from their phone speaker on their lap. And they never use headphones, so when you unmute yourself to say "Hey, can you turn your mic down a bit? I can't hear the game," you end up blowing out your own eardrums hearing yourself through their TV at full volume.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That frog was the only thing that kept me going some days. Like... yeah, the rain is pretty nice, ain't it, lil guy?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They still do, what are you talking about? This is an FBI case, so the attacker is most certainly in serious federal trouble.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This has to be illegal. I feel like you can't just ship people across state lines for a job you misled them about.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One of my biggest regrets in life was passing on an opportunity to see him perform. A friend had some tickets and invited me, but I wasn't able to get the day off work. "I'll catch him when he tours again next year", I thought. He died later that year.

 

😇👋A MONTH OF NO GODS🧳⛩️

There is a quaint belief that in the 10th month the gods of Japan congregate for a great gathering to discuss matchmaking at Izumo-taisha (出雲大社) in Shimane Prefecture.

Only hard-of-hearing Ebisu and the Sun Goddess miss this annual pilgrimage.

Further reading:

In the tenth month of the traditional lunar calendar, a festival is held to welcome all the gods to Izumo Grand Shrine. It is believed that the gods convene at Izumo Shrine in October to discuss the coming year's marriages, deaths, and births. For this reason, people around the Izumo area call October kamiarizuki ("the month with gods"), but the rest of Japan calls October Kannazuki ("the month without gods").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-taisha

@camelliakyoto is a great account to follow on Mastodon for historical Japanese culture.

 

Just stop it, It's annoying. Use your hands for something else. I'm not looking for a fight. Just bringing you the truth.

 

Valve has updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement. The updates affect your legal rights, including how disputes and claims between you and Valve are resolved. Among other things, the new dispute resolution provisions in Section 10 require that all disputes and claims proceed in court and not in arbitration. Please review carefully.

For comparison, here is a Wayback Machine snapshot from yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20240925000911/https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

 

This 16 year old video randomly showed up in my recommendations tonight. This is one of the coolest juggling routines I've ever seen.

 

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare.

While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager.

Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".

 

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at an individual known as Techlead once again. This creator has had an incredibly controversial history but it's in the last few days he's decided to take advantage of the YouTube copyright system to gain information on his critics and unlawfully remove their content. YouTube needs to step in. Thanks for watching!

Added some clarification to the original title as it's a bit clickbaity.

tl;dw: A YouTuber by the name of "TechLead" has openly admitted to using the DMCA process to file illegitimate takedown requests against people who use any footage of him while making exposé videos.

The way it works is by filing a DMCA request against the video, which then forces the creator to respond to the complaint or have the video permanently deleted. Because DMCA complaints are a legal process, responding to the complaint entails supplying a lot of your personal information, which TechLead has been accused of leaking in the past. This forces creators to either expose their personal information to a person who has already had credible doxxing allegations made against them, or have their video removed and their channel permanently stricken.

This process is not only a violation of YouTube's ToS, but also several US laws; depending on what he does with the information he gets from the complaint response, it may fall under doxxing laws, but also knowingly submitting a frivolous DMCA request is considered perjury.

 
 

From the upcoming album “Cellophane Memories”by Chrystabell and David Lynch out on Sacred Bones Records on August 2, 2024.

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