snickerbockers

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by snickerbockers 11d ago
Did you find the hidden adults-only setting on Steam? I'm not making this up, it's fairly well-hidden but there's an option on steam that filters out the porn games and racist meme-games by default. The games that it gates a
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by snickerbockers 12d ago
nah missile command is the one where you're shooting down the missiles, despite its misleading name you're not actually in command of the missiles. Fishing boats would be one of those old vertical-scrolling shoot-em-ups like 1942
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by snickerbockers 12d ago
I'm disappointed they don't have a missile command clone where you have to shoot down the shaheds with your ever-dwindling stockpile of patriots before you lose every base in the Persian gulf.
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by snickerbockers 12d ago
i doubt it, there are quite a few low-quality asset-flip games build around politically-incorrect memes on steam.
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by snickerbockers 12d ago
Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!? EDIT: good lord this is cringe, it doesn't even clear lines when you complete them. It's impossible to not get a game-over because the screen fills up regardless of whethe
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by snickerbockers 12d ago
After what we've learned about Billy gates in the last year im not certain that's such a good deal.
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by snickerbockers 13d ago
Are you saying OP is Donald Trump!?
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by snickerbockers 27d ago
I think it hits different when you're buying large quantities of used books with an eye towards ones which aren't readily available online, and with the specific intention of destroying them. If all these companies were doing was
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by snickerbockers 27d ago
>Why are so many people assuming there is exactly one copy of all of these important books available, and that Anthropic is destroying the lone copy? Why are you assuming that each book gets scanned exactly one time and then never again?
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
So what happened to the sloth??? Don't bury the lead, man!
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
What is even the point of watermarking AI slop supposed to be? All it does is provide people with the false implication that anything which is not watermarked must not be AI-generated. I struggle to see how this could possibly be useful un
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
Im fairly certain that the knowledge necessary to build a nuclear bomb is far less well-protected than the general public is led to believe. The only part that is actually difficult is obtaining a sufficient quantity of enriched uranium wi
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
Microsoft is one of them too and they've been one of the primary funders of OpenAI. And that's to say nothing of the many recent mergers between software corporations and film studios.
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
Its obviously impractical for a number of reasons, I just find it frustrating because based on the last century of IP law that should be what's happening. The big corporations won the fight on file-sharing so they ought to at least be
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
>worker-owned means of production On a similar note I keep thinking that having your "content" used as training material for a model ought to entitle you to a proportional stake.
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
>If coding is easy, was Carmack just at the right place at the right time? Yes, it's fairly axiomic that he was "just at the right place at the right time" because there are dozens of modern "boomer shooters" on
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by snickerbockers 1mo ago
Im pretty sure I've only ever seen people read usa today when hotels give it away for free with the continental breakfast.
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
There have been cases of tor exit node operators being investigated for CSAM. Im not aware of any charges but that's the sort of thing where being in the vicinity of the investigation can be almost as bad.
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
Probably, but in the worst-case scenario you could unwittingly become an accessory to a felony if the proxy is used to access CSAM. Especially if the proxy ends up caching files.
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
If all they did was shove banner ads for boner-pills in my face like they used to 25 years ago I wouldn't mind and I might even turn off adblock. The problem is that modern advertisements on the internet are spyware at best and a malw
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
You are drastically over-estimating how much fondness I have had for the web ever since social media companies and search providers colluded to drive everybody into their walled-off fiefdoms.
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
I'm imaging a largescale distributed project like folding@home except instead of doing scientific research everybody is working together to fuck with advertisers, tracking cookies, etc.
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
Theres the question of whether or not the fraudulent advertisement clicking is using enough traffic to inconvenience or impose fees upon the user but otherwise I agree with you and am tempted to buy one just to fuck with advertisers. Backdo
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
We've had about a century now of science-fiction literature hyping up AI as a higher intelligence that is based solely on some ill-defined yet universal system of "logic" and is therefore not prone to human flaws such as prid
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
Ancient literature is so fucking wild because the value systems were unlike anything that exists today. My favorite example is in the old testament when God sends a couple angels to Lot and a large mob of sodomites (people from the city of
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by snickerbockers 2mo ago
You need to take error into account, too. Can atmospheric conditions corrupt the transmission (this is not a rhetorical question, I actually don't know)? If so then your latency and bandwidth will both suffer. EDIT: also, in the very
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by snickerbockers 3mo ago
>since discredited LMAO what are you even talking about? MKULTRA is a historical fact. The CIA even admits it was real. You can't just handwave something away by calling it "discredited". There have been congressional he
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by snickerbockers 3mo ago
Nice fedslop but teddy k was never given any drugs. Im glad you agree with me on the stuff about Facebook being evil. im not sure i understand why you said this was not a conspiracy immediately after describing a series of events perpetrat
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by snickerbockers 3mo ago
This actualy came up in yesterday's congressional MKULTRA hearing. Somebody at the hearing pointed out the absurdity of the CIA claiming that MKULTRA was a dead end when we have 20 years of social media scandals and lawsuits showing t
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by snickerbockers 3mo ago
Wait, is this not how things are now? Do students do exams at home now? I guess it has been 14 years since I graduated but I didnt expect it to change that much.

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