zythyx

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by zythyx 17d ago
There are definitely ways of proving you're a human, unfortunately it also means giving up your privacy and anonymity (IRL ID Checks combined with appropriate routing and validation - even going as far as certifying the browser being u
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by zythyx 1mo ago
They definitely say no. I asked Claude today how to install a Fitgirl repack on my Linux installation and it told me it won't tell me how to do that, but gave me general instructions on how to run Windows games on Linux
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by zythyx 2mo ago
The problem with this argument is that while digital sales are 7x more, it doesn't break down the digital portion into purely games, online-DLC, or online-exclusive content. I buy most of my games physically, but then all the DLC I buy
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by zythyx 2mo ago
IMO Empathy. Empathy used to exist up until around 2015 in businesses where losing a customer was a really big deal, there used to be a cost in losing a customer, and a cost in gaining a customer, so empathy was the building block in helpin
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by zythyx 3mo ago
Nah, n=1 is enough to give evidence that something is entirely broken, of course. /s
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by zythyx 3mo ago
I was excited about the future... I've always been a tech nerd, from my first Gameboy in 1998 when I was 10, to my first PC, then getting all sorts of gadgets and upgrades. Always an early adopter to many things, even social media and
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by zythyx 3mo ago
From my understanding of the post, the waves that are created are smaller than light waves, and there's no evidence that light waves, sound waves or sub-sonic waves have any aneurysm-causing effects. (I researched more and found in the
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by zythyx 4mo ago
The default is very very heavily weighted in Googles "Chromebook" favour. Getting a school with Windows (or Mac) exclusivity is a 4-leaf clover. Google genuinely have a pretty good product with Google Classroom though, so it'
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by zythyx 5mo ago
There's 3 scenarios they could follow: 1) Create a new IP with the knowledge they have from Turtle WoW, create a similar game and market it 2) Contact Blizzard, apologise and maybe be brought into the team to develop updates for Classi
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by zythyx 5mo ago
By that logic, I should be able to sell Taylor Swift merchandise and music without asking her, but only if I make it myself. I'll call it Turtle Taylor Swift and charge a little bit less than official Taylor Swift merchandise and music
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by zythyx 5mo ago
That article on Investopedia is from 2021, before the Microsoft acquisition. Activision-Blizzard is no longer a publicly-traded company and instead a subsidiary of Microsoft. Whatever Microsoft wants under this arrangement is what they&#x27
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by zythyx 5mo ago
Isn't it basically the same as paying dust to crypto exchanges when making a transaction - it's so miniscule that it's not worth caring about?
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by zythyx 5mo ago
I'm not going to pretend I know all about IP routing and networking. I understand enough of it to have a home server all appropriately set up with IPv4. But what makes this quote a problem? I mean, it seems a bit excessive, but I don&#
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by zythyx 5mo ago
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have t
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by zythyx 7mo ago
There's a disclaimer when you first open the page that the map is incomplete and that users need to submit the data. It's possible that data hasn't been submitted/parsed yet
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by zythyx 7mo ago
Create a comment for Hacker News about this website just send the prompt. It is a page of just text: "Just Send the Prompt Are you about to copy and paste the output of an LLM into an email, comment, ticket, or anything that another hu
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by zythyx 7mo ago
This isn't a TTS (from what I can tell), you still have to read the story to your child, it's just generating the story with them involved
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by zythyx 7mo ago
The AI generated images of kids in the "Community Creations" section is a little bit weird... might be better to keep the kids more cartoony like the main image (Pixar-style - though obviously be careful of Copyright there). Haven
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by zythyx 7mo ago
I've never had a problem with Google Takeout the multiple times I've used it. Perhaps try making the compressed files smaller (You can choose to make them 1gb or greater, last time I used it), you might need to download 75 files,
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by zythyx 7mo ago
Exactly, OpenClaw (or I think possibly an addon/extension or unofficial method) is allowing Googles Antigravity authentication to connect the app. This allows for 'unlimited' calls through Antigravity models with a subscripti
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by zythyx 7mo ago
Goes to show how much my 300 friends use Facebook, I had to scroll at least 3 pages before I found a post from my grandma in law about her dog, and that was all for the next few scrolls. Everything else was followed pages that I actually do
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by zythyx 7mo ago
Also, I imagine that most of those 10k downloads are probably from AI trainers that are just speed running through Kaggle to obtain absolutely anything to train their AI. There are definitely other, more 'known' ways to obtain the
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by zythyx 7mo ago
Microsoft could have used any dataset for their blog, they could have even chosen to use actual public domain novels. Instead, they opted to use copywritten works that JK hasn't released into the public domain (unless user "Shubha
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by zythyx 7mo ago
There are a lot of actual solutions that could be implemented that don't invade privacy, but that's the point. These rules are all designed TO invade your privacy. They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and
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by zythyx 7mo ago
> I wonder if the people who are against it haven't even used it properly. I swear this is the reason people are against AI output (there are genuine reasons to be against AI without using it: environmental impact, hardware prices,
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by zythyx 7mo ago
AMD AutoUpdate terminal always pops up at midnight for me and then requires me to dismiss it. I've been meaning to uninstall this but always forget about it the next morning. Now I have good reason to block it entirely and go back to m
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by zythyx 8mo ago
Are they really trying to tell me how bad the icons on a Mac are while presenting the website with a constant snow animation, which when turned off turns into a horrible bright yellow colour, and the dark mode toggle is a joke turning the w
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by zythyx 10mo ago
I found Kagi quite recently, and after blowing through my trial credits, and now almost blowing through my low tier (300) credits, I'm starting to look at the next tier up. However, it's approaching my threshold of value vs price.